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1、A. DocumentB. paperC. Word5. Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various members of Congress rest on such divergent assumptions. AA. DifferentB. DeviateC. Branched6. Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present hers

2、elf as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having reconciled the conflicting elements of her life. BA.TogetherB. HarmonizeC. Bring7. The labor union and the companys management, despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic comment on nearly every issue, have nevertheless reached an unexpe

3、ctedly conclusive, albeit still tentative, agreement on next years contract. CA. AcidB. CorrosiveC. Acidulous8. Foucaults rejection of the concept of continuity in Western thought, though radical, was not unique; he had counterparts in the United States who, without knowledge of his work, developed

4、parallel ideas. CA.CorrespondenceB.OppositeC.Coordinate9. Old age, even in cultures where it is venerated, is often viewed with ambivalence. AA. RespectB. FearC. Revere10. This cometary train, glistening like a string of pearls, had been first glimpsed only a few months before its fateful impact wit

5、h Jupiter, and rather quickly scientists had predicted that the fragments were on a collision course with the giant planet. The impact caused an explosion clearly visible from Earth, a bright flaming fire that quickly expanded as each icy mass incinerated itself. AA. BurnB. Go upC. Incineration11. T

6、he residues from these explosions left huge black marks on the face of Jupiter, some of which have stretched out to form dark ribbons. AA. JupiterB. ExplosionC. Black mark12. This was possibly the most open scientific endeavor in history. The face of the largest planet in the solar system was change

7、d before our very eyes. And for the very first time, most of humanity came to fully appreciate the fact that we ourselves live on a similar target, a world subject to catastrophe by random assaults from celestial bodies. AA. PlaceB. AimC. Mark13. Carroll argues that the right-to-work laws “do matter

8、” in that such laws generate differences in real wages across states. Specifically, Carroll indicates that while right-to-work laws may not “destroy” unions by reducing the absolute number of unionized workers, they do impede the spread of unions and thereby reduce wages within right-to-work states.

9、 AA. PreventB. HinderC. Check14. No further attempt to formally organize the growing numbers of watercolor painters in New York City was made for more than a decade. During that decade, though, Henry Warrens Painting in Water Color was published in New York City in 1856-the book was a considerable i

10、mprovement over the only other manual of instruction existing at the time, Elements of Graphic Art, by Archibald Roberson, published in 1802 and by the 1850s long out of print. CA. MuchB. LargeC. Important15. In the 1960s, such programs were established to facilitate the learning of English so as to

11、 avoid disadvantaging children in their other subjects because of their limited English. CA. SpeedB. FavorC. promote16. As Pennsylvania added more links to its transportation system of roads, canals, and railroads, it became easier to ship parts made by Hopewell workers to sites all over the east co

12、ast. There they were assembled into stoves and sold from Rhode Island to Maryland as the Hopewell stove. BA. PennsylvaniaB. PartsC. Transportation17. Competition between ourselves, person against person, community against community, still persists, however; and it is as fierce as it ever was. AA. Co

13、mpetitionB. CommunityC. Person18. Imagine the effect on a reasonably advanced technological society, one that still does not possess the bomb, of making it aware of the possibility, of supplying sufficient details to enable the thing to be constructed. AA. SocietyB. ImagineC. Bomb19. No man ever loo

14、ks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. AA. WorldB. EyeC. Man20. Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that of gunners using science to shatter mens bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use

15、it to restore them ? AA. ScienceB. BodyC. Gunner21. When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isnt biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old manicurist isnt cutting, filing or polishing as many nails as shed like to, either. Most of her clients spend $12 to $50 weekly, but last month tw

16、o longtime customers suddenly stopped showing up. AA. Bad businessB. Cutting her nailsC. Polishing22. Even before Alan Greenspans admission that Americas red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves. From car dealerships to Gap outlets, sales ha

17、ve been lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending. AA. SaveB. MoodC. Nature23. Home prices are holding steady in most regions. In Manhattan, “theres a new gold rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses,” says broker Barbara Corcoran. A

18、A. High home pricesB. BonusesC. Regions24. Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown. Potential home buyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldnt mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. AA. Good newsB. FolksC. Slowdown25. That kind of electronic spying has been going on

19、 for decades. In the past three or four years, the world wide web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying. The spooks call it open source intelligence, and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. AA. SpyB. IndustryC. The world wide web26. Wild Bill Donovan wo

20、uld have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information. Donovan believed in using whatever tools came to hand in the “great game ”of espionage. AAspyingBequateC. discussio

21、n27. Among the firms making the biggest splash in the new world is Straitford, Inc, a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. Straitford makes money by selling the results of spying （covering nations from Chile to Russia） to corporations like energy-services firm McDermott Interna

22、tional. BA. splatterB. make moneyC. ripple28. Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. CA. altruismB. justiceC. unjust29. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the mo

23、st powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too. BAhappinessBdisappointmentCdelight30. In spite of “endless talk of difference,” Am

24、erican society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. AAmatchingBdifferentCmixing31. The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demand on the taker except that of putting up for a moment with disgusting taste. AA. the person who taking the medicineB. demandCmedicine32. By day

25、, bills contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina that even the image of a leave or the outline of a distant tree can be formed with a sharpness that surpasses that of conventional vision aids by half a diopter. AA. sharpnessB. imageC. outline33. When a new movement in art

26、attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal. CA. defendB. supportC. forced34. Nor, if regularity and conformity to a standard patt

27、ern are as desirable to the scientist as the writing of his papers would appear to reflect, is management to be blamed for discriminating against the odd balls among researchers in favor of more conventional thinkers who work well with the team.Aunusual personsBresearchersC thinkers35. The Plays com

28、plex view of Black self-esteem and human solidarity as compatible is no more contradictory than Du Bois famous, well-considered ideal of ethnic self-awareness coexisting with human unity, or Fanons emphasis on an ideal internationalism that also accommodates national identities and roles. BAdisagree

29、BconformCabuse36. That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will