[单选题]They all agreed that the changes that have taken place are substantial.
A.significant
B.superficial
C.inadequate
D.inevitable

[单选题]They all agreed that the changes that have taken place are substantial.
A.significant
B.superficial
C.inadequate
D.inevitable

[不定项选择题]Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage. It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers. Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews. To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies. We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared． In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered．Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. These men believed in journalism as a calling, and were proud to be published in the daily press. "So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism," Newman wrote, "that I am tempted to define 'journalism' as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are." Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket. During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England's foremost classical-music critics, a stylist so widely admired that his Autobiography (1947) became a best-seller. He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored． Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists. Is there any chance that Cardus's criticism will enjoy a revival? The prospect seems remote. Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized． Moreover, the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat. What would be the best title for the text?
A.Newspapers of the Good Old Days
B.The Lost Horizon in Newspapers
C.Mournful Decline of Journalism
D.Prominent Critics in Memory

[单选题]Some desirable changes have taken place in this town.
A.identical
B.uncertain
C.frequent
D.satisfactory

[单选题]Some desirable changes have taken place in this town.
A.identical
B.uncertain
C.frequent
D.satisfactory

[不定项选择题]共用题干 Changes in Museums
Museums have changed.They are no longer places that one"should"visit;they are places to enjoy and learn.
At a science museum in Ontario,Canada,you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body.At the Metropolitan（大城市的）Museum of Art in New York City , you can look at the seventeenth century instruments while listening to their music.At New York's American Museum of Natural History recently,you can help make a bone-by- bone reproduction of the museum's dinosaur（恐 龙）,a beast that lived 200 million years ago.
More and more museum directors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.In many science museums,for example,there are no guided tours.The visitor is encouraged to touch,listen,operate,and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself. The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.The theory is that people who do not understand science will probably fear it,and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and leisure time.Another cause is the rising percentage of young people in the population.Many of these young people are college students or college graduates.Leon F.Twiggs,a young black professor of art once said,"They see things in a new and different way.They are not satisfied to stand and look at works of art;they want art they can participate（参加）in."The same is true of science and history. Young people who are well-educated like the art they can participate in.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned

[单选题]But not all pretended deeds have to fallshort of their normal function in order to ______ their communication purpose.
A.serve
B.succeed
C.complete
D.accomplish

[单选题]But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to ____________ their communication purpose.
A.serve
B.succeed
C.complete
D.accomplish

[单选题]People all over the country have made the greatest possible endeavor to help the people in the flood-stricken area.
A.debut
B.experiment
C.miracle
D.effort

[单选题]Please make sure all items have been __________ from the desks before the new employees arrive next week.
A.removed
B.remove
C.removes
D.removing

[不定项选择题]共用题干 Have You Filled up the Form?

Of all things in the world,I most dislike filling up forms;in fact,I have a______(51)horror of it. Applying for a living license,______(52)for an evening course,booking a holiday abroad一everything nowadays seem to involve______(53)information about one's personal life and habits that has little or nothing to do with the matter______(54)hand.When applying for a job,it may be______(55)some obscure interest to a______(56)employer to learn that I collect stamp or had measles as a child,but why should he conceivably want to know that my father was a tobacconist who died in 1988?
The authorities who______(57)one to fill up forms,frequently demand answers to questions that one would hesitate to put______(58)one's intimate friends.The worst of it is that, when______(59)with such questions,my mind goes blank.Have I ever suffered from a serious illness?My mother always assured me I was"delicate".Do I suffer from any personal defects? Well,I wear contact lenses and my upper teeth are not my own,but perhaps the word"defects"______(60)to my character. Am I supposed to______(61)that I like gambling,and find it difficult to get up in the morning? Both of them are true.
Of all,I think job applications are the worst,"education”一previous experience一post heldgive______(62）…Terrified by the awful warning about giving false______(63)which appear at the bottom of the form,I struggle to remember what exams I passed and how long I worked for what firms.______(64)hard I try,there always seems to be a year or two for which I cannot satisfactorily account and which I am certain,if left______(65),will give the impression that I was in prison or engaged in some occupation too dubious to mention. _________(53)
A.given
B.to give
C.giving
D.having given