专业八级-452

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专业八级-452
[单项选择]In the passage, the author includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A. a business principle
B. a definition of productivity ....
C. an example of a successful company
D. an illustration of a process technology
[单项选择]The Tower of London, a historical sight, located in the centre of London, was built by ______.

A. King Harold
B. William the Conqueror
C. Oliver Cromwell
D. Robin Hood
[单项选择]Which two words are NOT antonyms

A. Father and son.
B. Male and female.
C. Doctor and patient.
D. Wolf and fox.
[单项选择]If someone holds a book 6 feet directly in front of Denis and then moves it only 1 foot directly in front of him, what change in sound does. Dennis hear

A. A lover-pitched sound.
B. A higher-pitched sound.
C. A sharper sound.
D. A softer sound.
[单项选择]Which two speeches made Emerson famous

A. Nature and Essays.
B. Representative Men and English Traits.
C. Nature and English Traits.
D. The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address.
[单项选择]The ethnographer shows great interest in all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A. current conditions that exist with a culture
B. individual behavior as shaped by a custom
C. behavior patterns common among members of a culture
D. differences existing within a culture
[单项选择]Which of the following is the British oldest daily newspaper

A. The telegraph.
B. The Guardian.
C. The News of the World.
D. The Times.
[单项选择]The author asserts that scientists ______.
[单项选择]The capital city of Wales is ______.

A. Cardiff
B. Edinburgh
C. Glasgow
D. Manchester
[单项选择]Which of the following words is NOT the hyponym of the word "furniture"

A. Wardrobe.
B. Carnation.
C. Desk.
D. Dresser.
[单项选择]Which of the following is a compound word

A. Conversation.
B. Comparable.
C. Entertaining.
D. Sunflower.
[单项选择]Malinowski ______.

A. developed ethnography into anthropology
B. used tape recorders to record the desired information
C. studied such units as urban ghettos
D. is considered father of ethnography
[单项选择]The autor wants to prove with the example of Isaac Newton that ______.

A. inquiring minds are more important than scientific experiments
B. science advances when fruitful researches are conducted
C. scientists seldom forget the essential nature of research
D. unpredictability weighs less than prediction in scientific research
[单项选择]The writer says that a blind baby is doubly handicapped in comparison to a sighted child because ______.

A. his world is completely dark
B. he can never make eye contact with other people
C. he has no visual stimulation from his surroundings
D. he can not perceive the world with his eyes
[单项选择]Which of the following may NOT give biases to the ethnographer's study of culture

A. The people who answer his questions.
B. His own cultural background.
C. The kind of information he wants to get.
D. The changes made by his presence in the culture in question.
[单项选择]Which of the following is the most significant American poem of the 20th century by T.S. Eliot

A. The Sacred Wood.
B. Four Quartets.
C. The Waste Land.
D. Preludes.
[单项选择]The poem I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain was written by _____.

A. Walt Whitman
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. Mark Twain
[单项选择]The author implies that the results of scientific research ______.

A. may not be as profitable as they are expected
B. can be measured in dollars and cents
C. rely on conformity to a standard pattern
D. are mostly underestimated by management
[单项选择]How could Dennis distinguish between a small ball and a large ball from a distance of 3 feet The large ball would produce ______.

A. a sharper sound
B. a softer sound
C. a higher-pitched sound
D. a louder sound
[单项选择]The reason why the author says in the essay that the title of the movie This Land Is Mine is ironical was that the land is ______.

A. not really that of the native born black Americans
B. that of the Frenchmen; the land refers to France
C. mine; yet it was occupied by Germans
D. mine; the land is that of the Americans.
[单项选择]The word reputation in "my reputation in town enhanced my reputation at work" is used in a(n) ______ sense.

A. derogatory
B. ironical
C. appreciative
D. neutral
[单项选择]The author of the passage is primarily concerned with ______.

A. summarizing a thesis
B. recommending a different approach
C. comparing points of view
D. making a series of predictions
[单项选择]The author suggests that implementing manufacturing competitiveness is a strategy that is ______.

A. flawed and ruinous
B. shortsighted and difficult to sustain
C. popular and easily accomplished
D. useful but inadequate
[单项选择]The author's attitude toward the culture in most factories is best described as ______.

A. cautious
B. critical
C. disinterested
D. respeciful
[单项选择]How could Dennis distinguish between a book and a pillow of the same size and at an equal distance in front of him A book would produce ______.

A. a higher-pitched sound
B. a louder sound
C. a sharper sound
D. a fuzzier sound
[单项选择]It is implied in the last paragraph that the method used by earlier ethnographers was ______.

A. detailed note-taking
B. random selection
C. tape-recording
D. on-the-spot investigation
[单项选择]Bower believed Dennis would be the ideal subject for his experiment because ______.

A. Dennis was blind at birth
B. Dennis was younger than anyone else he could find
C. Dennis’s parents were quite worried about his future
D. Dennis always produced sharp clicking sounds with his tongue
[单项选择]The first settlers of New Zealand were ______.

A. Voyagers from East Polynesia
B. European navigators
C. Sealers and Whalers
D. Christian missionaries
[单项选择]"That year in New Jersey lives in my mind... ",as the author intended, means ______.

A. that was a year in which awful things happened to me
B. that was a year that I will never even forget
C. that was a year that only existed in my mind; but never happened to exist
D. that was a year when I lived in New Jersey
[单项选择]It seems that some young scientists ______.

A. have a keen interest in prediction
B. often speculate on the future
C. think highly of creative thinking
D. stick to "scientific method"