[单项选择]One type of detective story features a brilliant amateur who, by perceptively analyzing motives and clues, solves crimes that are baffling to the police.
A. revealed by
B. predicated by
C. alarming to
D. perplexing to

[单项选择]One type of detective story features a brilliant amateur who, by perceptively analyzing motives and clues, solves crimes that are baffling to the police.
A. revealed by
B. predicated by
C. alarming to
D. perplexing to

[单项选择]To be a good short story writer one needs, ______, a very vivid imagination.
A. after all
B. above all
C. in all
D. at all

[单项选择]The story was told at one of Sir William's friends' home.

[单项选择]One interesting thing about the virus in the story was that it ______.
A. was especially weak
B. was similar to other viruses
C. could reproduce at great speed
D. had samples frozen and packed in dry ice

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Passage One
The humorous story may be told to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic (滑稽的) story and the witty (诙谐的) story must be brief and end with a point. The humorous story continues gently along, the other two burst.
The humorous story is strictly a work of art--high and delicate (精美的) art--and only an artist can tell it; But no art is necessary in telling the comic and witty stories; anybody can do it. The art of telling a humorous story--I mean by word of mouth, not print--was created in America, and has remained at home.
The humorous story is told seriously; the teller does his best to hide the fact that he himself even suspects that there is anything funny about it; but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh.
When he gets through,
A. The humorous story.
B. The witty story.
C. The comic story.
D. All three take the same amount of tim

[单项选择]One of the four unusual demographic features of Ireland is___________.
A. an early marriage age
B. an excess of males in the population
C. a low proportion of bachelors and spinsters of all ages
D. a high birthrate compounded by a century of emigration

[单项选择]One of the features of marketing in rural Europe was that ______.
A. customers could buy goods according to their particular needs or plan
B. customers could buy goods in good order
C. customers could hardly buy anything in their village
D. the itinerant merchant Could sell similar goods in the region

[单项选择]One of the attractive features of the courses is the way the theoretical aspects of the subject has been _________ with the practical work.


A. integrated
B. installed
C. imparted
D. induced

[单项选择]One of the attractive features of the course was the way the practical work had been （） with the theoretical aspects of the subject.
A. instructed
B. involved
C. interfered
D. integrated