[填空题]Useful is one of the basic elements of patentability.

[填空题]Useful is one of the basic elements of patentability.

[单项选择]CONTENTS Chapter One Basic elements: Principles and general framework of German development policy 1 Domestic conditions and development: Basic criteria for German development policy 6 Chapter Two Priority concerns of German development policy: Poverty, education, environmental protection 9 Poverty 11 Strategies for reducing poverty 13 Education 18 Environmental protection and resource conservation 33 Chapter Three Implementation of German development policy: Organization, instruments and procedures 50 Bilateral Germa
A. German development policy.
B. German rural development.
C. German development assistance.
D. German development agencies.

[单项选择]Through communication, some elements of one culture may enter another culture and become part of that culture. This phenomenon is called （　）.
A. cultural overlap
B. cultural imperialism
C. cultural diffusion
D. cultural expansion

[简答题]Is the Communicative Approach a useful one for all proficiency levels, particularly for beginners

[单项选择]Rainfall is one of the primary elements in climate and a factor of tremendous importance in the distribution of plant and animal life. Clouds contain huge numbers of tiny drops of moisture. Raindrops are formed when these tiny drops are enlarged, first by moisture from the surrounding air condensing on them and then by combining with other drops during their falling down. Raindrops vary in size from about 0.02 inches to as much as 0.33 inches in thunderstorms. From the time they leave the bottom of the cloud, they change into vapor and, if the cloud is high, the air warm and dry, and the raindrops small, so that they fall slowly, they may become vapor completely before they reach the earth.
There are thousands of stations throughout the world where rainfall observations and records are made. Included in such records is the fall of snow, reduced to its equivalent in rain. Rainfall is measured in terms of (按照……) inches, by means of a simple instrument or by more complex electrical o
A. they leave the cloud
B. they fall slowly
C. there is a thunderstorm
D. there is warm air

[单项选择]One of the most significant elements of age stratification in all cultures is the pattern of experiences connected to marriage and parenting--a pattern that sociologists call the family life cycle. In North America, about 90 percent of adults marry, and the great majority of them have children and thus a family life cycle related to family experiences. When the family’s first child is born, the parents embark on a sequence of experiences linked to the child’s development--from infancy and toddlerhood, through school age and adolescence, and eventually, to departure from the nest. Each of these periods in the child’s life makes a different set of demands on the parents.

The phrase embark on in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. ttempt
B. begin
C. iscuss
D. avoid

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One of the basic characteristics of capitalism is the private ownership of the major means of production— capital. The ownership of large amounts of capital can bring (1) profits, as well as economic and political power. Some recent theorists, (2) , have argued that our society has moved to a new stage of (3) that they call "postindustrial" society. One important change in such a society is that the ownership of (4) amounts of capital is no longer the only or even the most important (5) of profits and influence; knowledge as well as (6) capital brings profits and influence.
There arc many (7) with the thesis above, not the least of (8) is that wealthy capitalists can buy the experts and knowledge they need to keep their profits and influence. But this does not (9) the importance of knowledge in an advanced industrial society, as the (10) of some new industries indicates. (11) ,
A. aggression
B. proficiency
C. productivity
D. evolution

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