[单项选择]A. Jim has been president before.
B. Jim often changes his mind.
C. Jim was just joking about running for president.
D. Jim rarely tells jokes.

[单项选择]

Extraordinary creativity has been characterized as revolutionary, flying in the face of what is established and producing not what is acceptable but what will become accepted. According to this formulation highly creative activity transcends the limits of an existing form and establishes a new principle. However, the idea that extraordinary creativity transcends established limits is misleading when it is applied to the arts, even though it maybe valid for the sciences. For the sciences, a new theory is the goal and the end result of the creative act. Innovative science produces new propositions in terms of which diverse phenomena can be related to one another in more coherent ways. The goat of highly creative art is very different; the phenomenon itself becomes the direct product of the creative act. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not a piece of writing about the indecisive princes or the uses of political power; not is Pic
A. explore the source of scientific creativity
B. illustrate the importance of creativity in scientific and artistic activities
C. prove that highly creative artistic activity is not always a revolutionary act
D. disprove that a political revolution is essential for the release of people’s creative power

[填空题]When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim______.

[单项选择]As a gardener, Jim has to water the flowers and （） the grass in the garden every morning.
A. trim
B. improve
C. refine
D. repair

[单项选择]Jim has some new pencils. They are red, black, blue, white and green. Jim likes them very much. He draws (画画) with them. Now he is drawing a house. The door is green. The walls are white. The windows are big. How nice it is! In front(前面)of the house he draws some red flowers. There is a black and white sheep(羊) behind the house. We all like the picture. We say we will put it on(贴)the wall of our classroom.
There are some flowers behind the house.
[A] True
[B] False