[填空题]·has been well-known as a fishing center

[单项选择]（　） center has been set up to give （　） on scientific farming for the nearby farmers.
A. Information; advice
B. An information; advice
C. An information; advices
D. Information; advices

[单项选择]For many years the city has been a business center with hotel accomodation mainly for businessmen together with other ______ travellers and completely inadequate for the swarms of short-stay tourists landing in the city.
A. affluent
B. agonistic
C. afferent
D. amicable

[单项选择]The scientists say one effect of shark fishing has been an estimated ______ decrease in some shark populations.
A. 9% B. 19%
B. 90%
C. 99%

[单项选择]Who has been there
A. The woman.
B. The man.
C. Neither.

[单项选择]A. He has been shopping around.
B. He has been looking for a job.
C. He has been dining in a restaurant.
D. He has been driving the cab.

[单项选择]A. It has been put off. B. It has been cancelled.
C. It will be held in a different place. D. It will be rescheduled to attract more participants.

[填空题]The Chicago Cultural Center has one of the largest Tiffany designs in the world, whose height is about ______.

[单项选择]How long has the magazine been on saleHow long has the magazine been on sale
A. for one year
B. for eighteen months
C. for two years

[单项选择]As has always been the case when tragedy has struck our community, the people of our town feel the obligation, and rightly so, to ____ in support of the victim and his family.
A. entrench
B. rally
C. disseminate
D. apologize

[单项选择]While matter has been changed in form, none has been destroyed.
A. 当物质改变形式时，什么也没有破坏。
B. 虽然物质改变了形式，但任何东西也没有被破坏。
C. 当物体改变形式时，所有的东西都消灭了。
D. 虽然物质改变了形式，但什么东西也没有消灭。

[单项选择]A visit to the Computer Center has (aroused) the students interest in computer science.
A. alarmed
B. disturbed
C. stimulated
D. increased

[单项选择]She has been in Tianjin for ten years. Tianjin has become her second ______.
A. house
B. family
C. hometown

[单项选择] Extraordinary creative activity 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 of organization. However, the idea that extraordinary creativity transcends established limits is misleading when it is applied to the arts, even though it may be valid for the science; Differences between highly creative art and highly creative science arise in part from a difference in their goal. For the sciences, a new theory is the goal and 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. Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird are relegated to the role of date, serving as the means for formulating or testing a new theory. The goal of highly creative art is different: the phenomenon itself becomes the direct product of the creative act. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not a tract about the behavior of indecisive princes or the uses of political power, nor is Picasso’s painting Guernica primarily a prepositional statement about the Spanish Civil War or the evils of fascism. What ’highly creative activity produces is not a new generalization that ’transcends established limits, but rather an aesthetic particular. Aesthetic particulars produced by the highly creative artist extend or exploit, rather than transcend that form. This is not to deny that a highly creative artist sometimes establishes a new principle of organization in the history of an artistic field; the composer Monteverdi, who created music of the highest aesthetic value, comes to mind. More generally, however, whether or not a composition establishes a new principle in the history of music has no bearing on its aesthetic worth. Because they embody a new principle of organization, some musical works, such as the operas of the Florentine Camerata, are of signal historical importance, but few listeners or musicologists would include these among the great works of music. On the other hand, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro(费加罗的婚礼) is surely among the masterpiece of music even though its modest innovations are confined to extending existing means. It has been said of Beethoven that he toppled the rules and freed music from the stifling confines of convention. But a close study of his composition reveals that Beethoven overturned no fundamental rules. Rather, he was an incomparable strategist who exploited limits of the rules, forms, and conventions that he inherited from predecessors such as Haydn and Mozart, Handel and Bach—in strikingly original ways. Which of the following would most likely follow the final sentence of the passage（）
A. In the similar manner, several modern composers successfully established musical conventions
B. Similarly, the succeeding generation of composers manipulated accepted musical forms
C. In contrast to Beethoven, however, even great modern composers like Bela Bertok did not attempt to alter accepted musical conventions
D. Musicologists are continuing to study the compositional styles of composers in order to determine whether their contributions have been innovative