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[单项选择]The sentence needs （ ）
A. to improve
B. improve
C. improving
D. improved
[简答题]My garden has large trees. My garden has flower which smell lovely when in bloom. According to the two statements, which of the following options must be true ______
A. My garden doesn’t have any grass.
B. My garden has more trees than flowers.
C. My garden has scented flowers.
D. My garden has trees under which flowers are planted.
[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
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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
[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
[填空题]What does the last sentence imply
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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
[单项选择]Functional Sentence Perspective was put forward by
A. the London School.
B. the Prague School.
C. Boas and Sapir.
D. Post-Bloomfieldian linguists.
[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]Sentence Completion
To the embittered ex-philanthropist, all the former recipients of his charity were______ , as stingy with their thanks as they were wasteful of his largesse.
A. louts
B. misers
C. ingrates
D. prigs
E. (E) renegades
[单项选择]Sentence Completion
The epiphyte plants of the rain forest use trees for physical support but do not, like______ , sap nutrients from their hosts.
A. fauna
B. predators
C. parasites
D. insectivores
E. (E) stumps
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Although he did not consider himself______ he felt that the inconsistencies in her story ______ a certain degree of incredulity on his part.
A. an apostate...justified
B. an optimist...intimated
C. a hypocrite...demonstrated
D. a charlatan...dignified
E. (E) a skeptic...warranted
[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.
[简答题]a. The bees swarmed in the garden.
b. The garden swarmed with bees.
[单项选择]Sentence Completion
Perry’s critics in the scientific world ______ that many of the observations he has made during more than a decade of research in Costa Rica have been reported as ______ in popular magazines rather than as carefully documented case studies in technical journals.
A. intimate...hypotheses
B. charge...anecdotes
C. applaud...rumors
D. claim...scholarship
E. (E) apologize...fabrications
