[单项选择]Sentence Completion
Among contemporary writers of fiction, Virginia Woolf is ______ figure, in some ways as radical as James Joyce, in others no more modern than Jane Austen.
A. a doctrinaire
B. an introspective
C. a peripheral
D. a disinterested
E. (E) an anomalous

[单项选择]Sentence Completion

Among contemporary writers of fiction, Virginia Woolf is ______ figure, in some ways as radical as James Joyce, in others no more modern than Jane Austen.
A. a doctrinaire
B. an introspective
C. a peripheral
D. a disinterested
E. (E) an anomalous

[单项选择]Among contemporary writers of fiction, Virginia Woolf is ______ figure, in some ways as radical as James Joyce, in others no more modern than Jane Austen.
A. (A) a doctrinaire
B. (B) an introspective
C. (C) a peripheral
D. (D) a disinterested
E. (E) an anomalous

[简答题]sentence stress

[名词解释]garden path sentence

[单项选择]The sentence needs （　）
A. to improve
B. improve
C. improving
D. improved

[单项选择]Sentence Completion
Soap operas and situation comedies, though given to distortion, are so derivative of contemporary culture that they are inestimable ______ the attitudes and values of our society in any particular decade.
A. contraventions of
B. antidotes to
C. indices of
D. prerequisites for
E. (E) determinants of

[单项选择]Sentence Completion
According to one optimistic hypothesis, the dense concentration of entrepreneurs and services in the cities would incubate new functions, ______ them, and finally export them to other areas, and so the cities, forever breeding fresh ideas, would ______themselves repeatedly.
A. immunize...perpetuate
B. isolate...revitalize
C. foster...deplete
D. spawn...imitate
E. (E) nurture...renew

[填空题]What does the last sentence imply

[填空题]In an English paragraph the sentence representing the central idea is referred to as ______ and often located at the initial part of the paragraph.

[单项选择]Which sentence of the following is CORRECT
A. That fellow is clever, and he has brain.
B. That fellow is clever, and he has a brain.
C. That fellow is clever, and he has the brain.
D. That fellow is clever, and he has brains.

[单项选择]Which sentence of the following is correct
A. In this remote area can only a small farm be found with a limited number of sheep and cattle.
B. In this remote area a small farm can only be found with a limited number of sheep and cattle.
C. In this remote area only could a small farm found with a limited number of sheep and cattle.
D. In this remote area could only be found a small farm with a limited number of sheep and cattl

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Science writers must 21 information regarding scientific events. In this capacity, they make the information clearer and more understandable and help readers to coordinate fresh information 22 the knowledge they already have 23 they can relate it to personal circumstances. Science journalism also means making readers curious and entertaining them. Entertainment is the most successful didactic form. Journalists supply readers 24 material for further education and opinion-formation, because, in a society 25 terms like growth, market economy and full employment are filled with new meanings and basic technical innovations such as microelectronics and genetic engineering effect social changes, continuing education is a political necessity. The science journalist also makes 26 to the reader fields of knowledge hitherto 27 to him, conveys the fascination of science and 28 readers to follow discussions and controversies between exp
A. access
B. accessible
C. accessor
D. accessory

[单项选择]Many writers complain that their biggest difficulty is finding a subject. Sometimes that difficulty appears less complicated because the subject is identified in a writing assignment. But writing assignments vary in how they are worded, what they assume, and what they expect. For example, you may be asked to discuss two characters in a play you have read. This open assignment does not identify a subject; it merely identifies an area in which a subject needs to be developed. Another version of that same assignment might ask you to compare and contrast the way the two characters make compromises. This closed assignment identifies a subject, but it assumes you how to work with a specific form (comparison and contrast essay) and it expects you to produce specific information. In other words, although the second assignment restricts the subject, you must still select and arrange the subject matter of your essay.
When you have a free choice of subject ,your difficulties may appear mor
A. confine
B. control
C. migrate
D. extend

[单项选择]Sentence Completion
There are any number of theories to explain these events and, since even the experts disagree, it is ______ the rest of us in our role as responsible scholars to ______ dogmatic statements.
A. paradoxical for...abstain from
B. arrogant of...compensate with
C. incumbent on...refrain from
D. opportune for...quarrel over
E. (E) appropriate for...issue forth