[单项选择]The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT________.
A. lexical.
B. syntactic.
C. phonological.
D. psycholinguistic.

[单项选择]The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT________.
A. lexical.
B. syntactic.
C. phonological.
D. psycholinguistic.

[单项选择]The constitutional guarantee of free speech may have been aimed at protecting native speakers of English from censorship, but it is not a great ______ to interpret it as protecting the right to express oneself in any natural language or dialect.
A. mystery
B. extension
C. sacrifice
D. condemnation

[单项选择]Perhaps the most distinctive (features) of sharks and (undoubtedly) one of the most important (reasons) for their success is their well-developed (sensory) system.
A. features
B. undoubtedly
C. reasons
D. sensory

[单项选择]With regard to speech variety, sociolinguists are particularly interested in all the following EXCEPT
A. regional dialects.
B. social dialects.
C. figures of speech.
D. registers.

[单项选择]An (enormous) (variety) of information may be (obtained from) a (largest) magazine.
A. enormous
B. variety
C. obtained from
D. largest

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Passage Four
Internet-addicted job seekers may be partly the cause of the fact that it is taking the unemployed 23 % longer to find a new position than it took during the last recession (经济萧条), when the "benefits" of online job searching were unavailable. "A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing (济览) the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, filling them with resumes, and then waiting for replies. It is common for long-time jobless ness," argues Professor John A. Challenger. Although the Internet has the potential to be very useful for job seekers and it has become the primary tool for many, Challenger believes that it should be considered secondary to the traditional technique of meeting would-be employers in person.
In addition to slowing job search efforts, the Internet is making the hiring process longer for the employer. In a survey of 5,000 hiring managers by an online resume site, 72 % said that a majorit
A. draw more job seekers to the websites
B. get rid of some unrelated resumes
C. serve as a bridge between the job seekers and the employers
D. provide the job seekers with more chances to visit the employers in person

[单项选择]The reason of the increasing university fees may be that ______.
A. universities have too many staff
B. universities, with heavy debt and too many staff, are keen on campus expansion
C. universities have borrowed heavy loans
D. universities have spent too much on their expansion

[单项选择]Any academic break through , brilliant as it may be, does not automatically ensure that it can be applied to.
A. 学科上的任何成果，除非它辉煌灿烂，否则不能自动用于实践。
B. 任何学科上的成就，尽管不能自动用于实践，但也可能是灿烂辉煌的。
C. 学术上的任何成就，无论杰出与否，都不能确保它可以自动地用于实践。
D. 任何学术上的突破，或许本身很卓越，也并非自然而然地就可用于实践。

[单项选择]From the information given in the passage it may be concluded that Calen ______.
A. taught and practiced medicine in Greece
B. shocked the medical men of his time with his research
C. made some incorrect statements about the human body
D. refused to let Roman religious beliefs interfere with his research