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[单项选择]Because modern art is neither completely accepted nor rejected by critics, their ultimate evaluations of it remain ______ .
A. (A) unrelenting
B. (B) arbitrary
C. (C) diminished
D. (D) equivocal
E. (E) passive
[单项选择]No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death and the ______ with which he sustained the cruelest afflication.
A. assent
B. fortitude
C. concern
D. reverance
[单项选择]Because of the complexity of the modern machine, most offices require secretaries ______.
A. to have specified training
B. specified in training
C. to train specifiedly
D. training specified
[单项选择]Because of the complexity of our modern machine, we need our workers ______.
A. to train special
B. specified in training
C. to have specified training
D. training specially
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翻译题：Modern chickens fight more because they need more food and water to lay more eggs. About 35 percent of them die because of fights. As a result, many farmers are forced to cut the beaks(鸟嘴，喙) of their chickens to prevent them from harming each others.
[单项选择]The modern people like travelling now because ______.
A. it can bring us more knowledge
B. it can make us rich
C. they have too much money
D. it is a good idea
[单项选择]Even though we had been to her house several times before we did not remember ______.
A. what street it was on
B. what the street it was on
C. what street was it on
D. what a street it was on
[单项选择]Even before modern {{U}}notions{{/U}} of friction, it was known that greased surfaces move over one another more easily than dry ones.
A. concepts
B. tricks
C. benefits
D. techniques
[单项选择]Even after reading it for three times he couldn't ______ the meaning of that letter.
A. conceive
B. consult
C. contrast
D. concern
[单项选择]The development of modern communications technology in developing countries may ______.
A. force them to reduce their share of exports
B. cost them their economic independence
C. hinder their industrial production
D. cause them to lose control of their trade
[单项选择]Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly
A. prescriptive.
B. descriptive.
C. subjective.
D. analytic.
[单项选择]The modern society requires that young people solve the problems ______ their own.
A. of
B. for
C. on
D. to
[单项选择]According to the author, modern popular songs and published music are not considered folk music because ______.
[单项选择]Modern linguistics, as against traditional grammar, is ______.
A. descriptive and synchronic
B. descriptive and diachronic
C. prescriptive and synchronic
D. prescriptive and diachronic
[单项选择]Many modern photographers attempt to manipulate elements of photography other ______ in their photographs.
A. than light is
B. than light
C. being light
D. light
[单项选择]Modern linguistics attempts to describe and analyse the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behaviour, so it is supposed to be
A. descriptive.
B. prescriptive.
C. communicative.
D. predictive.
