[单项选择]A variety of games, role-plays, simulations, etc. are ______ communicative activities prepared to support the Communicative Language Teaching.
A. text-based
B. task-based
C. game-based
D. situation-based

[单项选择]A variety of games, role-plays, situations, etc. are ______ communicative activities prepared to support the Communicative Language Teaching.
A. text-based
B. task-based
C. game-based
D. situation-based

[填空题]Paragraph Seven New climate simulations from NASA show that under the warmer global temperatures of the 20th century, water vapor in the atmosphere took longer than normal to fall out of the sky as rain, snow and other precipitation. Generally speaking, the amount decreased over land but increased over oceans.

[名词解释]speech variety

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Americans are proud of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the (21) of an elevator operator or the uniform of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so (22) in the United States
Among the arguments (23) uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more (24) than civilian clothes. People have become conditioned to expect (25) quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform (26) to inspire more trust than one who appears in (27) clothes.
Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They (28) on laundry bills.
Uniforms also give (29) to some practical problems. Though they are long lasting, often their initial expense is (30) than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cl
A. favorite
B. popular
C. favorable
D. considerate

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An enormous variety of relationships between men and women, singly and in groups, meet the definition of marriage. Often the forms of marriage sanctioned by a society are related to the needs of that society. Marriage between two individuals, one male and one female, is known as monogamy. Marriage of three or more individuals is known as polygamy.
Polygyny is a form of polygamy in which one male is married to more than one female. Polyandry is a form of polygamy in which one female is married to more than one male. Still another form of polygamy is group marriage, in which two or more males are married to two or more females. In some societies a polyandrous marriage of two men with one woman may become a group marriage through the addition of a second woman. Not uncommonly in these marriages, the co-husbands are brothers and the added woman is the first wife’s sister.
In general, polygyny presupposes a considerable accumulation of wealth and is therefore rar
A. a form marriage in which at least three individuals are involved
B. a form of marriage in which two individuals are involved
C. a form of marriage in which one female is married to raore than one male
D. Both A and C

[单项选择]Scholastic thinkers held a wide variety of doctrines in both philosophy and theology, the study of religion. What gives unity to the whole Scholastic movement, the academic practice in Europe from the 9th to the 17th centuries, are the common aims, attitudes, and methods generally accepted by all its members. The chief concern of the Scholastics was net to discover new facts but to integrate the knowledge already acquired separately by Greek reasoning and Christian revelation. This concern is one of the most characteristic differences between Scholasticism and modern thought since the Renaissance.
The basic aim of the Scholastics determined certain common attitudes, the most important of which was their conviction of the fundamental harmony between reason and revelation. The Scholastics maintained that because the same God was the source of both types of knowledge and truth was one of his chief attributes, he could not contradict himself in these two ways of speaking. Any apparent
A. They are simply identical.
B. Revelation guides reason.
C. They are occasionally contradictory.
D. Reason is used to perfect revelation.