Perhaps the most interesting thing about the
phenomenon of taboo behavior is how it can change (1) the
years within the same society, how certain behavior and attitudes (2)
considered taboo can become perfectly (3) and
natural (4) another point in time. Topics such as death, fro
example, were once considered so (5) and unpleasant that it
was a taboo to even talk about them. Now with the (6) of
important books such as On Death and Dying and Learning to Say Goodbye, people
have become more (7) of the importance of expressing
feelings about death and, (8) a result, are more willing to
talk about this taboo subject.
One of the newest tabo
A. of
B. /
C. about
D. for
[填空题]Not too many years ago my mother jogged in the alley behind our house because she was embarrassed to see jogging in public.
A. Not too many B. ago C. to see D. in public
[单项选择]Linda could not refuse, ______ she foresaw little pleasure in the visit.
A. since
B. for
C. though
D. when
[填空题]Never before I have seen anyone who has the skill John has when he repairs cars.
A. I have B. who has C. John has D. repairs
[填空题]The president devoted his energies to update the curricula, making the education offered at Washington College as meaningful and usual as possible.
A. energies B. update C. making D. as possible
[简答题]对某些人来说，克隆不克隆的问题在某种意义上可以比作是生还是死的问题。
[填空题]Failure to advertise could result in either reduced sales and less profit nor legal actions.
A. could B. reduced C. less D. nor
[单项选择]Consumer groups are protesting against higher prices in this city now.
A. clothing with
B. clinging to
C. complaining about
D. clutching with
[填空题]Although we had been present at roughly the same time, Mr. Brown saw the situation quite different from the way I saw it.
A. Although B. at C. different D. the way
[填空题]Usually you will be more likely to find insects if you examine finer twigs rather than the coarse parts of trees.
A. more likely B. if C. rather than D. coarse
[填空题]Office revolution not only has changed how work is done but redefined the function of everyone who works in an office.
A. not only B. how C. redefined D. works
[单项选择]A series of border incidents inevitably led the two countries to war.
A. distinctly
B. unavoidably
C. regularly
D. actually
[单项选择]Two substitutes were used during the basketball games.
A. players
B. centers
C. referees
D. replacements
[单项选择]The law prohibits occupancy by more than 250 persons in this area.
A. forbids
B. allows
C. promises
D. suggests
[单项选择]Being poorly dressed can ______ your chance of getting a job.
A. ruin
B. eliminate
C. reduce
D. endanger
[单项选择]My wife ______ an old dictionary last night.
A. came on
B. came off
C. came out
D. came up
[简答题]看在玛丽的份上，我可以把车借给你，以解决你的交通工具问题。
[简答题]理论上说，克隆一个孩子以获取器官是可行的，但实际这么做却可能对孩子的心理有害。
[填空题]It is the interaction between people, rather than the events that occur in their lives that are the main locus of social psychology.
A. between B. rather than C. are D. of
[简答题]正如这篇文章的作者所警告的，克隆人类可能是一件使人更加悲伤而非更加高兴的事。
[单项选择]Judgment was suspended till the following Monday because of the lack of evidence.
A. changed
B. discussed
C. postponed
D. informed
[填空题]It is very hard to believe that when Lincoln was born, communications were a little faster than in the days of Julius Caesar.
A. It is B. that when C. a little D. in the days
[单项选择]The accused man ______ his innocence by proving that he was aboard when the murder was committed.
A. found
B. founded
C. ignored
D. established
[单项选择]Everyone must have liked the cake because there wasn't even a ______ left.
A. crutch
B. chip
C. chop
D. clip
[单项选择]Mary ______ when she found her husband drunk again.
A. blew her top
B. became abnormal
C. was affected
D. in opposition
[单项选择]Tom is ordered to be present at the important meeting,______.
A. rain or shine
B. more or less
C. sooner or later
D. for good
[填空题]One expert remarks that a computer with so many tubes as the brain has neurons would require the Empire State Building to contain it.
A. remarks B. so C. has D. would require
[简答题]在一些西方国家，有些父母准备克隆孩子，目的是进行一些非致命器官的移植。
[填空题]Suddenly, Gallup’s name was on everyone’s lips; not only he was the prophet of the moment, but it was generally believed that he had founded a new and most important method of prediction.
A. on everyone’s lips B. he was C. but D. a new
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