[单项选择]Pigeons are thought universally as a ______ of peace.
A. sign
B. symbol
C. symptom
D. signal

[单项选择]Pigeons are thought universally as a ______ of peace.
A. sign
B. symbol
C. symptom
D. signal

[单项选择]Pigeons are thought universally as a （　） of peace.
A. sign
B. symbol
C. symptom
D. signal

[简答题]Suppose your neighbor Uncle Li feeds many pigeons in the corridor, which interferes with your daily life quite a lot. You have communicated with him several times, but he refused to move away the pigeons. Write a letter of complaint to the Neighborhood Committee to state:
(1)a description of the situation,
(2) your complaint about the situation, and
(3) your request.
You should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Wang Lin" instead. You do not need to write the address.

[单项选择]It is universally acknowledged that Abraham Lincoln __________ the ideal of a great American president.


A. exemplified
B. traversed
C. reclaimed
D. necessitated

[简答题]It is universally acknowledged that nothing is more precious than time, ___________________ (但又没有什么比时间更不受珍惜).

[单项选择]It is universally acknowledged that self love keeps us from knowing our own ______ of mind and body.
A. shortcomings
B. disadvantages
C. demerits
D. defects

[单项选择]It is universally acknowledged that China has achieved tremendous successes in family planning（）
A. 人们普通知道中国在家庭计划方面达到了宏伟的目标。
B. 人们一致承认中国在家庭计划方面取得了巨大的成绩。
C. 人们一致公认中国的计划生育取得了极大的成绩。
D. 世界上流行着一种看法，中国政府对每个家庭的成功起到巨大的作用。

[单项选择]Pigeons have been used as messengers because ______.


A. they have a built-in compass
B. they can cover 500 miles in a single day
C. they have special ability to tell directions
D. they can find their way home

[单项选择]Robinson Crusoe by ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.
A. John Bunyan
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Daniel Defoe

[单项选择]During the famine of 1943, millions of Chinese peasants _______ to the cities because they could not survive in the rural areas.


A. migrated
B. mobilized
C. navigated
D. transferred

[单项选择]Braille, the universally accepted________ of writing used by blind persons, consists of sixty-three characters.


A. catalog
B. system
C. pattern
D. scheme

[单项选择]What principles most influenced scientific thought for two thousand years

[单项选择]Which of the following economic schools of thought suggests that the greatest good occurs to the greatest number of people when wealth is transferred from the rich to the poor（　）
A. Symmetry.
B. Utilitarianism.
C. Utopianism.

[单项选择]

There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels(coal and oil) is creating a "greenhouse effect"—conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the world’s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only a few degree, much of the popular ice cap will melt and
A. slip into
B. make up for
C. set up
D. catch up with