1.
A.They want to eat in a fashionable way like young people |
B.They prefer to cat food that is tastier and more widely accepted |
C.They become aware of the ham processed foods do to health |
D.They try to change their way of processing foods little by little |
A.They contain not too many chemical additives |
B.They are cultivated in the soil rich in organic matters |
C.They produce as many calories as processed foods |
D.They are usually grown in commercial farming areas |
A.They are allowed to move about and eat freely |
B.They are tasty though kept in the crowded building |
C.They can hardly grow in a healthy way without good food |
D.They produce eggs which usually contain important vitamins |
A.Violence sports are the source of social instability. |
B.Violence sports are to blame for crime and school bullying. |
C.Violence sports serve as an escape for negative emotions. |
D.Violence sports won’t attract many people’s interest in the long run. |
A.The man bad poor imagination because of the car accident |
B.The man must have advised the woman to wear the seat belt |
C.The woman was likely to have got seriously injured in the car accident |
D.The woman wasn’t wearing the seat belt when the accident happened |
A.She can’t afford that much for a trip |
B.She is fortunate to have made a lot of money |
C.She doesn’t think 5, 000 dollars is enough for the rip |
D.She considers 5, 000 dollars only a small sum of money |
A.The woman didn't post any postcard from Egypt |
B.The man has never collected any postcards |
C.The woman will go to Egypt for her holiday |
D.The man begins to take up collecting postcards |
6 . Traditionally uniforms were manufactured to protect the worker. When they were first designed, it is also likely that all uniforms made symbolic sense---those for the military, for example, were at first
The last 30 years, however, have seen an increasing
“What they say, how they look, and how they behave is of vital importance.” From being a simple means of
Truly effective marketing through
But turning corporate philosophies into the right combination of colour, style, degree of branding and uniformity is not always
A successful uniform needs to
A.intended | B.pretended | C.extended | D.attended |
A.age | B.gender | C.education | D.status |
A.preference | B.argument | C.interest | D.emphasis |
A.educational | B.political | C.corporate | D.academic |
A.checking | B.identifying | C.operating | D.introducing |
A.studio | B.audio | C.visual | D.factual |
A.clarity | B.authority | C.responsibility | D.possibility |
A.kindness | B.safeness | C.quickness | D.openness |
A.ambitious | B.serious | C.creative | D.similar |
A.easy | B.wrong | C.difficult | D.tough |
A.exchange | B.call | C.stand | D.account |
A.establish | B.balance | C.neglect | D.quit |
A.pointless | B.important | C.useful | D.careless |
A.keep | B.shape | C.draw | D.value |
A.develop | B.take | C.cost | D.spend |
7 . This Is How Scandinavia Got Great
Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic productivity, high social equality, high social trust and high levels of personal happiness.
Nordic nations were ethnically homogeneous(同质的) in 1800, when they were dirt poor. Their economic growth took off just after 1870, way before their welfare states were established.
The 19th-century Nordic elites did something we haven’t been able to do in our country recently. They realized that if their countries were to prosper they had to create truly successful “folk schools” for the least educated among them. They realized that they were going to have to make lifelong learning a part of the natural fabric of society.
Today, Americans often think of schooling as the transmission of specialized skill sets — the student can read, do math and recite the facts of biology.
The Nordic educators worked hard to cultivate each student’s sense of connection to the nation. Before the 19th century, most Europeans identified themselves in local and not national terms.
That educational push seems to have had a lasting influence on the culture. Whether in Stockholm or Minneapolis, Scandinavians have a tendency to joke about the way their sense of responsibility is always nagging at them. They have the lowest rates of corruption in the world. They have a distinctive sense of the relationship between personal freedom and communal responsibility.
A.Bildung is the way that the individual matures and takes upon him or herself ever bigger academic responsibility. |
B.What really launched the Nordic nations was generations of phenomenal educational policy. |
C.Bildung is designed to change the way students see the world. |
D.But the Nordic curriculum conveyed to students a pride in, say, their Danish history, folklore and heritage. |
E.They look at education differently than we do. |
F.The Nordic educators also worked hard to develop the student’s internal awareness. |
8 . There was a time when we thought humans were special in so many ways. Now we know better. We are not the only species that feels emotions, or follows a moral code. Neither are we the only ones with personalities, cultures and the ability to design and use tools. Yet we have all agree that one thing, at least, makes us unique: we alone have the ability of language.
It turns out that we are not so special in this aspect either. Key to the revolutionary reassessment of our talent for communication is the way we think about language itself. Where once it was seen as an unusual object, today scientists find it is more productive to think of language as a group of abilities. Viewed this way, it becomes apparent that the component parts of language are not as unique as the whole.
Take gesture, arguably the starting point for language. Until recently, it was considered uniquely human - but not any more. Mike Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and others have collected a list of gestures observed in monkeys and some other animals, which reveals that gestures plays a large role in their communication. Ape(猿) gestures can involve touch, vocalising or eye movement, and individuals wait until they have another ape’s attention before making visual or auditory gestures. If their gestures go unacknowledged, they will often repeat them.
In an experiment carried out in 2006 by Erica Cartmill and Richard Byrne from the University of St Andrews in the UK, they got a person to sit on a chair with some highly desirable food such as banana to one side of apes and some undesirable food such as vegetables to the other. The apes, who could see the person and the food from their enclosures, gestured at their human partners to encourage them to push the desirable food their way. If the person showed incomprehension and offered the vegetables, the animals would change their gestures - just as a human would in a similar situation. If the human seemed to understand while being somewhat confused, giving only half the preferred food, the apes would repeat and exaggerate their gestures - again in exactly the same way a human would. Such findings highlight the fact that the gestures of the animals are not merely inborn but are learned, flexible and under voluntary control - all characteristics that are considered preconditions for human-like communication.
1. It is agreed that compared with all the other animals, only human beings ________.A.own the ability to show their personalities |
B.are capable of using language to communicate |
C.have moral standards and follow them in society |
D.are intelligent enough to release and control emotions |
A.involve some abilities that can be mastered by animals |
B.is a talent impossibly owned by other animals |
C.can be divided into different components |
D.are productive for some talented animals |
A.Apes can use language to communicate with the help of humans. |
B.Repeating and exaggerating gestures is vital in language communication. |
C.Some animals can learn to express and communicate through some trials. |
D.The preferred food stimulates some animals to use language to communicate. |
A.Language involves gestures! | B.Animals language - gestures! |
C.So you think humans are unique? | D.The similarity between humans and apes. |
9 . Never in recorded history has a language been as widely spoken as English is today. The reason why millions are learning it is simple: it is the language of international business and,
David Graddol, the author of English Next, says it is
An important question one might ask is: whose English will it be in the future? Non-native speakers now
Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, Professor of English and Applied Linguistic at the University of Vienna, records and transcribes spoken English interactions between speakers of the language around the world. She says her team has noticed that non-native speakers are
Those who insist on standard English grammar remain in a(n)
But spoken English is another matter. Why should non-native speakers bother with what native speakers regard as correct? Their main aim,
Professor Seidlhofer says, “I think that what we are looking at is the
A.however | B.therefore | C.otherwise | D.instead |
A.relieving | B.shocking | C.tempting | D.disappointing |
A.accept | B.oppose | C.mind | D.doubt |
A.outnumber | B.overlook | C.upgrade | D.underestimate |
A.attentive | B.agreeable | C.energetic | D.present |
A.diagnosis | B.comprehension | C.disturbance | D.concentration |
A.creating | B.improving | C.varying | D.obeying |
A.edited | B.neglected | C.avoided | D.required |
A.mistakes | B.coincidences | C.exceptions | D.excuses |
A.fear | B.object | C.agree | D.fight |
A.ignorance | B.evolution | C.correctness | D.guidance |
A.honored | B.mysterious | C.falling | D.powerful |
A.by comparison | B.after all | C.on purpose | D.in reality |
A.disappearance | B.emergence | C.criticism | D.evaluation |
A.less good | B.less lonely | C.more alive | D.more adapted |
A. broadcast B. estimates C. involves D. performing E. barriers F. themes G. amateur H. hire I. boost J. demanding K. proving |
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Long the stars of Chinese joke-making, men are unhappy about being the butt (笑柄) of it. Chizi, a popular male contestant on “Rock and Roast” with a special liking for boorish jokes, sniffed that Ms Yang was “not
Western-style stand-up comedy has taken off since it appeared in China a decade ago. It is
The show, which began in 2017, has been a(n)
Ms Yang has used the backlash against her gag to create a new one. It