[单项选择](Despite) they are (small), the horses are (strong) and (have) great energy.
A. Despite
B. small
C. strong
D. have

[单项选择](Despite) they are (small), the horses are (strong) and (have) great energy.
A. Despite
B. small
C. strong
D. have

[单项选择]He has a strong______ sense. Even a small desk has some beautiful respects in his eyes.
A. erroneous
B. aesthetic
C. eternal
D. ethnic

[单项选择]What can be said about the varieties of horses
A. The early horse were larger than the more modem breeds.
B. The only true wild horses left in the 20th century are in the Middle East.
C. The oldest breed of the modem homes is said to be the Arabian.
D. Medieval Knights preferred fast, active horse.

[单项选择]Why are horses used to catch the electric eels
A. to frighten the eels.
B. to exhaust the eels.
C. to attract the eels.
D. to stir the water.

[单项选择]The statement," Horses and cows, for example, rarely close their eyes" aims to show that ______.
A. these animals rarely need any rest
B. they almost always keep alert to danger
C. they often stay awake
D. their eyes are rarely closed even when they are asleep

[单项选择]Race horses are hard to train because they are _____.
A. faster than other horses
B. smaller than other horses
C. more suspicious than other horses
D. more nervous than other horses

[单项选择]Be sure to tell Joe come too close to the horses.

[单项选择]Despite their varied designs, navigation computers used in cars ______.
A. are more or less the same price
B. provide directions in much the same way
C. work on more or less the same principles
D. receive instructions from the same satellites

[单项选择]Young horses may develop a ______ cough before and during exercise, particularly when cold air is breathed in during warming-up exercise or under dusty conditions.
A. perpetual
B. permanent
C. chronic
D. sustained

[单项选择]Despite the influence of western culture, orthodox ideas about love and marriage are still dominant.
A. religious
B. stereotyped
C. conventional
D. updated

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Text 4 Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman share certain beliefs. Common to all these writers is their humanistic perspective. Its basic premises are that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that in them alone is the clue to nature, history, and ultimately the cosmos itself. Without completely denying the existence either of a deity (the God) or of irrational matter, this perspective nevertheless rejects them as exclusive principles of interpretation and prefers to explain humans and the world in terms of humanity itself. This preference is expressed most clearly in the Transcendentalist principle that the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self; therefore, all knowledge begins with self-knowledge. This common perspective is almost always universalized. Its emphasis is not upon the individual as a particular European or Ameri
A. The spiritual and the material worlds are incompatible.
B. Humanity can scarcely account for humans and the world.
C. Self-knowledge stems partly from the perception of the universe.
D. The structure of the universe can be discovered through self-knowledge.