[单项选择]The passage suggests that the author's heat-pump system absorbs heat from ______
A. soil in a nearby field
B. sun panels at ground level
C. a pipe buried next to the walls
D. a tank of propylene-glycol

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the author' s heat-pump system absorbs heat from ______.
A. soil in a nearby field
B. sun panels at ground level
C. a pipe buried next to the walls
D. a tank of propylene glycol

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the author would most probably agree with which of the following assessments of optical computing in its present form
A. (A) Although the future of optical computing is impressive, its applications are too limited in scope to justify much optimism.
B. (B) The outlook of its development is positive on the surface, but many claims made about it are misleading.
C. (C) Efforts to develop the technology have been sufficiently positive to maintain the interest of electrical engineers and physicists.
D. (D) Because of design flaws, the task of developing optical computing will require greater resources than are presently available.
E. (E) The state of development of optical computing is too contradictory to allow for an easy assessment of its future.

[单项选择]In the passage the author suggests that the counterculture__________.
A. destroyed the United States
B. changed some American values
C. was not important in the United States
D. brought people more leisure time with their families

[单项选择]At the end of the passage the author suggests that
A. it is impossible for life to exist on other planets.
B. earthlike life could only exist on a few planets.
C. life could exist on only one planet in a million.
D. life could exist on a great number of planets.

[单项选择]The author of the passage suggests that historiographers should view history primarily as
A. (A) a political conflict over spatial boundaries which can only be resolved through the input of historiographers
B. (B) a chorus of conflicting voices whose dissonances cannot be resolved, but to which historiographers must listen
C. (C) a field that complicates the assignment of geographic boundaries to the extent that such boundaries can never be resolved
D. (D) a conflict between nations whose sovereignty historiographers have the duty to assess
E. (E) a history of conflicts over spatial demarcation which are ultimately irrelevant to the truth of history

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the author _________.
A. is familiar with the problem
B. is impatient with justice
C. sides with those who favor leniency for juvenile offenders
D. regards all offenses an equally important

[单项选择]The author of the passage suggests that all of the following may be consequences of applying a pathological taxonomy to a diseased person EXCEPT

[单项选择]The author of the passage suggests that which of the following is tru e of the practice of establishing the "Eisenstein standard" as a model of modernist films

[单项选择]The author of the passage suggests that it is a disadvantage of the strategy employed in the experimental scholarly methods course ______.
A. that students were not given an opportunity to study women writers outside the canon
B. that little scholarly work has been done on the work of Elizabeth Griffith
C. that most of the students in the course had had little opportunity to study eighteenth-century literature
D. that students were not given an opportunity to encounter certain sources of information that could prove useful in their future studies

[单项选择]The passage suggests that Quine's theory differs from that of linguistic expressivism in that Quine's theory does NOT
A. (A) emphasize the importance of so-called "constitutive activities"
B. (B) reject the notion that labor is the primary source of the category of meaning
C. (C) question that the products of labor are intelligible prior to the acquisition of language
D. (D) encourage the claim that outsiders, including researchers and laymen, can understand foreign cultures
E. (E) embrace certain basic premises of dialectical materialism

[单项选择]The author suggests in the passage that _________.
A. there will certainly not be enough raw materials for the world economy in the year 2008.
B. world petrol supplies will have been exhausted by 1985
C. we need to use natural resources carefully and divide them up equally
D. to show down the economic growth in developed countries might be a possible solution to the problem

[单项选择]In the passage the author's attitude towards "mixed-ability teaching" is_______.


A. approving
B. critical
C. interested
D. objective