[填空题]In the passage, the author takes Michael Eisner and Steven Spielberg as examples to show that these people have achieved success without _______ .

[填空题]In the passage, the author takes Michael Eisner and Steven Spielberg as examples to show that these people have achieved success without______.

[单项选择]In the second paragraph of the passage the author’s attitude toward the literary critics cited can best be described as one of
A. irony
B. ambivalence
C. disparagement
D. receptiveness
E. awe

[单项选择]It was a day that Michael Eisner would undoubtedly like to forget. Sitting in a Los Angeles witness box for four hours last week, the usually unflappable chairman of the Walt Disney Co. struggled to maintain his composure. Eisner’ s protégé turned nemesis. Jeffrey Katzenberg, his former employee, was seeking $500 million in his breach-of-contract suit against Disney, and Eisner was trying to defend his--and his company’ s integrity. At one point Eisner became flustered when Katzenberg’ s attorney, Bertram Fields, asked if he recalled telling his biographer, Tony Schwartz," I think I hate the little midget." Later Eisner recalled that the same day, he had received a fax from Katzenberg meant for Fields, thanking the lawyer for "managing" a magazine story that praised Katzenberg at Eisner’ s expense: "I said to Schwartz, ’Screw that. If he is going to play this disingenuous game... I simply was not going to pay him his money.’"
Last week’ s revelations were the latest twist in a dis
A. Eisner
B. Fields
C. Schwatz
D. Katzenberg

[单项选择]Passage TwoA. Communication actually takes place when the message is received.
B. There are more means of receiving than of sending communications.
C. Reception of communication involves use of the senses.
D. It is hard to organize by typing the means of sending communication.

[单项选择]According to the passage, the author mentioned that "when once the staff of the Historic American Engineering Record wished to have drawings made of machines and isometric views of industrial processes for its historical record of American engineering" in order to ______.
A. point out the inability of engineering students.
B. point out the omission of conventional engineering lessons.
C. praise the architectural schools.
D. encourage contests of such kind.

[单项选择]In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with
A. chronicling the evolution of attitudes toward photography
B. explaining how photography emerged from the tradition of visual art and literature
C. exposing an unrecognized problem in the way photographs are perceived by the public
D. explaining why some critics have come to prefer photography over other artistic mediums
E. identifying the various solutions to critical problems in photography that have arisen since its invention

[填空题]In this passage, the author provides us with effective ways to cope with different types of lies.