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1、5. Bubble gum is not topic usually treated seriously, so it is appropriate that this new book that this new book tracing the cultural history of bubble gum has a -tone.（A） morbid （B） cathartic （C） pedantic（D） taciturn （E） reticent6. Jamake Highwater manages to touch on the arts of almost every Ameri

2、can Indian nation in one reasonably sized book that makes up for its occasional lack of -with its remarkable-.（A） specificitydetail（B） discontinuity-concreteness（C） loftinessinaccessibility（D） profundity.inclusively（E） uniquenessparability7. though judd is typically-and reserved in social gatherings

3、, at last nights reception he spoke and acted with uncharacteristic-.（A） loquaciousalacrity（B） querulous.languor（C） disaffected.resentment（D） diplomatic.decorum（E） diffident.aplomb8. Most politicians find television-to the -of their message: the medium plays an essential role in propagating their id

4、eas.（A） crucialrenunciation （B） indispensable.dissemination.（C） detrimental.interpretation（D） tangential.interpretation（E） relevant.legislation 1. Her political -came from her -vision of the nation, a vision that included and drew strength from every social constituency.（A） Autonomysweeping（B） Retic

5、encemystical（C） Triumphrestricted（D） Rebellionconventional（E） Successcomprehensive2. As one would expect, the reclusive poet-public appearances and invasions of privacy.（A） rewarded （B） endorsed （ C） neglect（D） invited （E）detested3. Turn-of-the-century actress Sarah Bernhard had so-a talent that she

6、-audiences with her diverse and utterly convincing characterizations（A） unrealized .enchanted（B） protean.badazzed（C） eclectic.wearied（D） quixotic.confounded（E） mediocrespellblundEach sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are

7、 five words or sets of words labeled A through E. choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best first the meaning of the sentence as a whole.Example: Hoping to-the dispute ,negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be -to both labor and management.（A） Enforce

8、.useful（B） End.divisive（C） Overcome.unattractive（D） Extend.satisfactory（E） Resolve. acceptable The passages below are followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related passages may also be based on the relationship between the paired passages. Answer the questions o

9、n the basis of what is stated or implied in the passages and in any introductory material that may be providedQuestions 9-10 are based on the following passage. David Stahle is an expert on the imprints that climate, fire, and pestilence leave in a trees growth tings. His pulse rises when he spots a

10、 stand of beat-up old trees because they have stories to tell. For reasons not only understood, such trees, growing under harsh to fluctuations in weather than healthier trees growing on better land. Recently, Stahle conducted from rings in ld cypress trees that a severe drought struck Roanoke islan

11、d, North Carolina, in the late sixteenth century. This might explain why the so-called lost colony of Roanoke died out by 1590.11. the reference to Stahles “pulse”（line3） serves to indicate his level of （A） Vitality（B） Frustration（C） Anger（D） Playfulness（E） Excitement12. The statement in lines 11-12

12、（“this1590”） serves primarily to （A） Advocate a cause （B） Offer a theory （C） Question s belief（D） Modify a claim （E） Predict an outcomeJazz musician Benny Carter, known for his sophisticated compositions and arrangements, was also a virtuoso alto saxophone player. Fellow musicians frequently cited c

13、arters groundbreaking improvisational style, which avoided the spread out phrase fragments over the chord progression. In 1934, just six years after his first recording, carter played at the opening of the Apollo Theater in Harlem and then led the first interracial big band to tour Europe. In the en

14、suing quarter century, carter wrote music for film and television in Hollywood, where he played a key role in the merger of the trade unions of black musicians and white musicians.9 The author suggested that Carter was not only an outstanding jazz composer but also（A） a talent composer of classical

15、music（B） a highly imitative performer（C） an opponent of organized labor（D） an effective participant in social change（E） an astute critic of other musicians work10. The passage supports which of the following statements about Carter as a saxophone player?（A） he impressed other musicians with his tech

16、nique.（B） he was less celebrated as an instrumentalist than as a bandleader.（C） He did not perform in public after the 1930s.（D） he confused critics with his unusual technique（E） he preferred to perform in local venues.vacant room and was amusing myself, I happened to glance toward the portrait and

17、saw, to my astonishment, that the eyes of the man were watching me. I turned away, and then looked up, and once more his eyes met mine. I got to my feet and, as I did so, those eyes turned to watch every movement I made. I backed toward the door and that look still followed me, half-mournful, half-a

18、ccusing. I did not tell anyone what had happened, but I did not venture into the room again for more than a few seconds at a time, except when I was with grown-ups. Emboldened by their company, I learned to play a fearful but exciting game, I moved slowly here and there about the room, knowing that

19、wherever I went, those eyes followed me. I pretended not to look; I talked with my elders, and then swung around sharply. I was still being watched. The searching gaze was always the same, so melancholy and accusing that I began to feel a sense of guilt, began to wonder what evil I could have commit

20、ted. Guilt and fear mingled in my mind and I was certain that the stranger was treacherous, that his anger could be terrible when it was aroused. Sometimes greatly daring, I crept up the stairs and opened the door very quietly, very quickly, and peeped in. Every time I did so, his eyes were looking

21、straight at me.13. Which of the following statements best characterizes the individual perspectives presented in the two passages? （A） The first passage presents a critical perspective, whereas the second presents the view of an uneducated art lover. （B） The first passage offers the perspective of a

22、rt historians, whereas the second offers that of an art student. （C） The first passage offers the perspective of adult art collectors, whereas the second contains the views of a child prodigy. （D） The first passage offers the views of two adults, whereas the second presents a childs perspective. （E）

23、 The first passage offers the views of two successful artists, whereas the second presents the view of a failed artist.Questions 1-24 are based on the following passages The first of the following expects is adopted from a 1996 essay about an exhibit of paintings by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer

24、 （1632-1675）; the second is from an autobiography written in 1962Passage 1Anyone who has read Edward Snows highly personal and poetic Study of Vermeer is unlikely to be able to meet the gaze of the young woman in The Girl with the Pearl Earring without feeling something of the confusion and complici

25、ty he so eloquently describes. To meet this young girls gaze is to be implicated in its urgency, Snow writes. It is me at whom she gazes, with real, unguarded human emotions, and with intensity that demands something just as real and human in return. Snow describes the girls gaze as a stew of unreso

26、lved contradictions, which only leaves the captivated viewer all the more guilty and confused. Surprise, bewilderment, yearning, acceptance, understanding-in sequence, or all at once-her glance seems to convey all of these. 66Suddenly: the most personal responses, drawn from the most private, well-p

27、rotected regions of the self, are required.My responses to this and other Vermeer paintings were rarely as personal and passionate as Snows. To his private test irony regarding The Girl with the Pearl Earring, I would only add that a great deal of whatever impact it has on the viewer seems to me to

28、derive from very specific, very visible painterly techniques. The light-colored spots that appear to round her lip; the shift from light paint to darker that forms the ridge below her nose; the dots of white on her pupils that make her eyeballs seem to bulge; the brusque, Cezanne-Iike rounding of he

29、r turban by shifting the blue strokes to black-all of these are as vivid as fingerprints, evidence of Vermeers presence, of his attempts （as Snow put it） to nurse this face into being.Today the entire painted surface of this work is spider-webbed with a fine network of cracks-what art critics call c

30、racquelure-which makes the ability of this imaginary girl to reach out and disturb us from her paint-created, 330-year-old flatness all the more astonishing.Passage 2There was an empty room at the top of our house and on the wall, between the fireplace and the window, almost hidden in the gloom, hung a small portrait in oils. Dim and yellowed by time, that picture showed the head of a man of strange appearance,