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[单项选择]The five Great Lakes lie between the boundary of Canada and the U.S.. Among them,（ ）is the only one lying entirely within the U.S.
A. Lake Superior
B. Lake Michigan
C. Lake Huron
D. Lake Ontario
[单项选择]Among the Plains Indians, two separate strains of decorative art evolved, the figurative, representational art created by the men of the tribe, and the geometric, abstract art crafted by the women. According to Dunn and Highwater, the artist’s sex governed both the kind of article to be decorated and the style to be followed in its ornamentation. Thus, the decorative works created by tribesmen consistently depict living creatures (men, horses, buffalo) or magical beings (ghosts and other supernatural life-forms). Those created by women, however, are clearly nonrepresentational: no figures of men or animals appear in this classically geometric art.
Art historians theorize that this abstract, geometric art, traditionally the prerogative of the women, predates the figurative art of the men. Descending from those aspects of Woodland culture that gave rise to weaving, quillwork, and beadwork, it is a utilitarian art, intended for the embellishment of ordinary, serviceable objects su
A. men and women in tribal life
B. sex and the art
C. Indian decorative works
D. design specialization in indian art
[单项选择]At three thousand feet, wide plains begin to appear, and there is never a moment when some distant mountain is not ______.
A. on view
B. at a glance
C. on the scene
D. insight
[单项选择]At four thousand feet, wide plains begin to appear, and there is never a moment when some distant mountain is not（）
A. on view
B. at a glance
C. on the scene
D. in sight
[简答题]Settlers of the Plains also had to contend with social isolation. The European pattern, whereby farmers lived together in a village and traveled each day to their nearby fields, was rare in the American West. Instead, various peculiarities of land division compelled the rural dwellers to live apart from each other. The Homestead Act of 1862 and other measures adopted to facilitate western settlement offered free or cheap plots to people who would live on and improve their property. Because most homesteads and other plots acquired by small farmers were rectangular--usually encompassing 160 acres--at most four families could live near each other, but only if they congregated around the same four-corner boundary intersection. In practice, farmers usually lived back from their boundary lines, and at least a half-mile separated farmhouses. Often adjacent land was unoccupied, making neighbors even more distant.
Many observers wrote about the loneliness and monotony of life on the Plains. M
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Passage Three
Ethics Office Backs Interior Official
民族部支持内政部的官员
The Office of Government Ethics said the Interior Department’s No. 2 official, Steven Griles, did not appear to violate ethics rules by arranging meetings between Interior officials and his former lobbying clients and partners.
The office, after reviewing an 18-month investigation by the Interior Department’s inspector general, said it found no ethics violations by Griles in the department’s awarding of more than $1.6 million i contracts in 2001 and 2002 to Advanced Power Technologies Inc., a former client.
Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney said Griles’ behavior is the latest case of an Interior official falling to consider perceived impropriety in his actions. He also called the department’s underfunded ethics office "a train wreck waiting to happen. "
Interior S
A. Griles arranged for official from his office to meet his former clients.
B. Griles was investigated by Earl Devaney.
C. Griles’s Interior Department favored Advanced Power Technologies Inc.in big contracts.
D. Griles improperly violated ethic codes.
[填空题]The interior decoration of Oceanic was better than Titanic.
[单项选择]Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a specialized field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be (56) in a single large building.
The importance of interior design becomes (57) when we realize how much time we (58) surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be (59) attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect (60) place to be appropriate to its use. You would be (61) if the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look (62) the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn’t feel (63) in a business office that has the appearance of a school.
It soon becomes clear that the interior designer’s most important (64) is the function of the particular (65) . For example, a theater with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualitie
A. solutions
B. conclusions
C. decisions
D. determinations
