[简答题]There is some impertinence as well as some foolhardiness in the way in which we buy animals for so much gold and silver and call them ours. One cannot help wondering what the silent critic on the hearthrug thinks of our strange conventions-the mystic. Persian, whose ancestors were worshipped as gods whilst we, their masters and mistresses, groveled in caves and painted our bodies blue. She has a vast heritage of experience, which seems to brood in her eyes, too solemn and too subtle for expression; she smiles, I often think, at our late-born civilization, and remembers the rise and fall of dynasties. There is something, too, profane in the familiarity, half contemptuous, with which we treat our animals. We deliberately transplant a little bit of simple wild life, and make it grow up beside ours, which is neither simple nor wild. You may often see in a dog’s eyes a sudden look of the primitive animal, as though he were once more a wild dog hunting in the solitary places of his youth. Ho

[简答题]There is some impertinence as well as some foolhardiness in the way in which we buy animals for so much gold and silver and call them ours. One cannot help wondering what the silent critic on the hearthrug thinks of our strange conventions--the mystic Persian, whose ancestors were worshipped as gods whilst we, their masters and mistresses, groveled in caves and painted our bodies blue. She has a vast heritage of experience, which seems to brood in her eyes, too solemn and too subtle for expression; she smiles, I often think, at our late-born civilization, and remembers the rise and fall of dynasties. There is something, too, profane in the familiarity, half contemptuous, with which we treat our animals. We deliberately transplant a little bit of simple wild life, and make it grow up beside ours, which is neither simple nor wild. You may often see in a dog’s eyes a sudden look of the primitive animal, as though he were once more a wild dog hunting in the solitary places of his youth. H

[单项选择] Some prominent environmentalists—as well as Senators McCain and Lieberman, who back legislation to reduce carbon dioxide (二氧化碳c) emissions (排放)—are supporting further development of nuclear power to serve as an emission-free bridge to an economy based entirely on renewable energy. "It’’s not that something new and important and good had happened with nuclear, it’’s mat something new and important and bad has happened with climate change," says environmentalist Stewart Brand, who recently authored a controversial article on the topic in the May issue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’’s Technology Review. Brand has joined a small but growing cadre of environmentalists, which includes Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies dean James Gustave Speth and World Resources Institute head Jonathan Lash, in promoting new, cleaner, safer nuclear technologies as a solution to the frustrating problem of how to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels (矿石燃料) before solar
A. Nuclear power is the only renewable energy for the time being.
B. Solar energy and wind energy are more expensive than nuclear energy.
C. The development of nuclear power will help with the alleviation of global warming.
D. The dependence on fossil fuels is risky for the nation.

[单项选择]He went to American （　） some English as well as （　）
A. learning, to travel
B. learning, traveling
C. to learn, travel
D. to learn, to travel

[单项选择]Some animals（）well enough in that country.
A. have not protected
B. is not being protected
C. are not being protected
D. are not protecting

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M: Would you like to try some fish
W: Well, I’d rather not. I don’t like seafood very much.

What can we learn from the conversation （）
A. The man likes seafood very much.
B. The woman likes seafood very much.
C. The man doesn’t like seafood very much.
D. The woman doesn’t like seafood very much.

[单项选择]The whole program is well designed, but some details need further ______ by some experts.
A. proofing B. modifying C. demonstrating D. polishing