[单项选择]According to a prominent philosopher, intolerance is a ______ to understanding.
A. barrier
B. improvement
C. foundation
D. approach

[单项选择]According to a prominent philosopher, intolerance is a ______ to understanding.
A. barrier
B. improvement
C. foundation
D. approach

[单项选择]According to the passage, British philosopher Bertrand Russell supported the idea that ________.


A. work is virtuous
B. people should work fourteen hours a day in most industrialized countries
C. people should work only four hours a day
D. people should set aside more time to develop personal relationships

[单项选择]The most prominent characteristics of handwriting are undoubtedly letter formation and slant.（）
A. presumably
B. in many cases
C. surely
D. without bias

[单项选择]The most prominent characteristic of handwriting is undoubtedly letter formation and slant.
A. presumably
B. in many cases
C. surely
D. without bias

[单项选择]By 1900 several prominent technical institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fashioned its own educational offerings to meet the industrial needs of the United States.

[单项选择]Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel ______.
A. The Rainbow
B. Women in Love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[单项选择]

A prominent group of British university teachers this week called on the funding councils to stop supporting low-quality research and put money into improving university teaching instead. The National Academic Policy Advisory Group, which includes members from the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Conference of Medical Colleges, insists that all re- search money should be spent on world- class work.
The funding councils’ Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) judges the quality of research carried out in individual university departments, and rates it on a scale of l to 5. In the last assessment, in 1992, departments ranked as low as 2 received funding. The group says this should not happen in this years exercise. Funding councils have not yet announced how they will distribute money from now on.
In a report called Research capability of the University System launched this week the group claims that funds are needed to pay for the “pr
A. Funding councils like to distribute the money the same way as usual.
B. Teachers engaged in research will be too powerful.
C. Top -grade teaching is already well under way.
D. More differences will not be appreciated between research and non- research universities.

[单项选择]In the words of a poet and philosopher, "As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives."（　）
A. 一位诗人和一位哲学家曾经说过：“一个人能讲多种语言，他就能更多针体验生活”。
B. 一位诗人哲学家曾经说过；“一个人能说多种语言，他就能过多种生活”。
C. 一位诗人和一位哲学家曾经说过：“一个人要能说许多种语言，他才能活得更丰富多彩”。
D. 一位诗人兼哲学家曾经说过：“一个人能说多少种语言，他就能体验到多种生活”。

[单项选择]A panel of prominent marine mammalogists will be {{U}}assembled{{/U}} to study Keiko's behavior.
A. converted
B. sponsored
C. conversed
D. convened

[单项选择]A) specialist C) superficial
B) prominent D) enlightened


A. specialist
B. prominent
C. superficial
D. enlightened

[单项选择]By saying" Every man is a philosopher" (Line 1, Paragraph 1), the author implies that


A. everybody can know and use philosophic theories well enough to deal with the world.
B. philosophy will help everybody to deal with the world though he is not a philosopher.
C. everybody has his own views of life and they will practice these views in the world.
D. it is important for everybody to know and use philosophy to deal with the world.

[单项选择]One of the prominent characteristics of a law is ______.

[单项选择]One of the prominent factors that has made CIs presence in South Korea particularly tougher because ______.
A. a few bad apples have dented the reputation of the American servicemen in South Korea
B. many Koreans have biased views against American servicemen
C. some foreign countries had their soldiers present in South Korea in the past
D. South Korea no longer needs U.S. economic aid