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Aside from. perpetuating itself, the sole purpose of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters is to "foster, assist and sustain an interest" in literature, music, and art. This it does by enthusiastically handing out money. Annual cash awards axe given to deserving artists in various categories of creativity: architecture, musical composition, theater, novels, serious poetry, light verse, painting, and sculpture. One award subsidizes a promising American writer’s visit to Rome. There is even an award for a very good work of fiction that failed commercially—once won by kite young John.
Updike for The Poorhouse Fair and, more recently, by Alice Walker for In Love and Trouble The awards and prizes total about ＄750,000 a year, but most of them range in size from ＄5,000 to＄12,500, a welcome sum to many young practitioners whose work may not bring in that much money in a year. One of the advantages of the awards is that many go to the struggl
A. interested.
B. indifferent.
C. approval.
D. suspicious.

[单项选择]Aside from perpetuating itself, the sole purpose of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters is to "foster, assist and sustain an interest" in literature, music, and art.
A. grow
B. promote
C. maintain
D. survive

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Aside from. perpetuating itself, the sole purpose of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters is to "foster, assist and sustain an interest" in literature, music, and art. This it does by enthusiastically handing out money. Annual cash awards axe given to deserving artists in various categories of creativity: architecture, musical composition, theater, novels, serious poetry, light verse, painting, and sculpture. One award subsidizes a promising American writer’s visit to Rome. There is even an award for a very good work of fiction that failed commercially—once won by kite young John.
Updike for The Poorhouse Fair and, more recently, by Alice Walker for In Love and Trouble The awards and prizes total about ＄750,000 a year, but most of them range in size from ＄5,000 to＄12,500, a welcome sum to many young practitioners whose work may not bring in that much money in a year. One of the advantages of the awards is that many go to the struggl
A. Award -winning works of literature.
B. An organization that supports the arts.
C. Introduce some awards in literature and arts.
D. Public patrons of the arts.

[单项选择]The story was published with the sole purpose of selling newspapers
A. real
B. main
C. only
D. practical

[单项选择]Aside form the legal considerations, ethical principles will need revision if psychologists are granted ______.
A. nursing rights
B. visiting rights
C. descriptive privileges
D. prescription privileges

[单项选择]Light rays are turned aside by the intense gravitational field surrounding a black hole.
A. heightened
B. deflected
C. rotated
D. created

[单项选择]The committee tried to wave aside these problems as ______ side effects of the progress.


A. versatile
B. trivial
C. preliminary
D. alternate

[单项选择]The director tried to wave aside these issues as ______ details that would be settled later.


A. preliminary
B. primary
C. trivial
D. alternative

[单项选择]Clothes worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of the fashion.
A. 衣服因为穿过几次就变得不时髦了。
B. 因为气候的改变，衣服几乎没穿就送人了。
C. 因为款式改变，衣服没怎么穿就被放在一边了。
D. 因为流行款式的改变，仅穿过几次的衣服也只好搁置在一边了。

[单项选择]The purpose of this passage is

[单项选择]The manager tried to wave aside these issues as ______ details that would be settled later.
A. alternate
B. trivial
C. versatile
D. preliminary