[单项选择]The Grenville Program refers to ______.

[单项选择]"Program assembly failures" (Para. 2) refers to the phenomenon that people ______


A. often fail to program their routines beforehand
B. tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurry
C. unconsciously change the sequence of doing things
D. are likely to mess things up ff riley are too tired

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Passage One
Generation gap refers to the difference in ideas, feelings, and interests between the older and younger people. It is especially considered as causing a lack of communication and understanding between the two generations.
There is apparent generation gap between the young and the old nowadays. The younger generation is essentially different from the older generation. The young people live in a new age completely different from the old. They have grown up more happily and are not so dependent on adults as their parents were. They are better educated and enjoy more freedom. They easily accept new things and new ideas. They are more concerned with the present and the future, whereas the world of the older people has vanished, and they do not understand all of the problems of the modern world. They grew up in a world which was different from today’s world. They often talk about "the good old days" and tend to assert old things and id
A. they live in different ages
B. they live in different countries
C. they live in separate planets
D. they hate each other

[单项选择]The problem mentioned in the last paragraph refers to ______.

[单项选择]refers to carrier picking up merchandise from the shipper's warehouse and delivering it to the consignee's warehouse.（）
A. Through transport
B. Combined transport
C. Container transport
D. Door-to-door

[单项选择]When the author refers to professions as no longer being "closed guilds", he means that______.


A. it is much easier to become a professional today than it was in the past
B. there is more social intercourse between professionals and others
C. popular science has told their secrets to the world
D. anyone can now understand anything in a profession

[单项选择]The author refers to Schubert and Brahms in order to suggest ______.


A. that their works are examples of great trash
B. that their works are examples of high art
C. that popular music could be employed in compositions intended as high art
D. that their achievements are no less substantial than those of Verdi

[单项选择]In Paragraph 2, "entrepreneurial" probably refers to______.

[单项选择]The author refers to the excessive intake by Americans of alcohol and tobacco and drug use in order to ______.
A. show that some health problems cannot be attacked by better medical care
B. demonstrate that use of tobacco and intoxicants is detrimental to health
C. cite examples of individual behavior that have adverse consequences for health status
D. illustrate ways in which excessive affluence may contribute to a poor health status

[单项选择]The "fact" in Paragraph 2 refers to

[单项选择]What does the word "synaesthesia" refers to
A. It means that people may appreciate two kinds of beauty at the same time.
B. It means that people may enjoy beauty with all senses at the same time.
C. It holds that different spheres of senses may overlap.
D. It is thoroughly studied by modern science.

[单项选择]The author refers to "external mechanisms" primarily in order to

[单项选择]The author refers to the illusion of seeing crowds primarily in order to
A. (A) illustrate that relativity theory remains a useful tool in determining the topology of the universe
B. (B) indicate a descriptive advantage that toruses might have over Euclidean or hyperbolic universes
C. (C) argue that empirical methods of determining the shape of the universe are invariably doomed to failure
D. (D) suggest that the common sense behind the notion that the universe is simply- connected may be misguided
E. (E) assert that two models of the geometry of the universe may vary in terms of observable predictions but be mathematically equivalent

[单项选择]In the first paragraph, the Netherlands refers to ______.
A. the land below sea level
B. the people of the nation
C. the nation of the Dutch
D. the land reclaimed from the sea

[单项选择]The author refers to the increase in animal bones in the fourth paragraph primarily in order to

[单项选择]The author refers to the Venus primarily in order to ______.

[单项选择]A (68) program is usually described as a program written in high-level language.
A. compiler
B. executable
C. source
D. object

[单项选择]In Paragraph 5, the author refers to a hypothesis as "a leap into the unknown" in order to show that hypotheses ______.


A. go beyond available facts
B. are sometimes ill-conceived
C. can lead to dangerous results
D. require efforts to formulate

[单项选择]In this passage, the success of English refers to the fact that ______.
A. it has become the most widely used language in the world
B. it has made a conquest in Japan and China, which were not colonized by Britain
C. it has beaten other languages such as French
D. each state or continent has its own version of English