I realize the library is having budget problems, but many students rely on it for a place to study in the evening. It would be pity if the library hours were cut.
A.is having budget problems B.rely on it for a place to study C.would be pity D.hours were cut. E.沒有問題
It’s nice to have close friends and family you can （ ）， but it lifts a huge weight off your shoulders when you know that you could survive on your own if you had to.
A.cope with B.count on C.conform to D.commit to
His time at university was the most （ ）period of her life.
A.eventual B.enduring C.eventually D.eventful
2.The reason some children are backward in speaking is most likely that （ ）.3.What is particularly remarkable about a child is that（ ） .4.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?5.If a child starts to speak later than others, he will in future（ ）.
'>Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly.If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1, 000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.Recent evidence suggests that an infant is bom with the capacity to speak. What is special about man's brain, compared with that of the monkey, if the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern ’’toy-bear”. And even more incredible is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.But speech has to be induced, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child , where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling （呼呀學語）, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.1.The purpose of Frederick II’s experiment was（ ） .
2.The reason some children are backward in speaking is most likely that （ ）.3.What is particularly remarkable about a child is that（ ） .4.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage
Huangshan Mountain is eminent for its natural scenery and deserves a visit.
A.renowned B.notorious C.popular D.mysterious
If not （ ）with the respect be feels due to him, Jack gets very ill-tempered andgrumbles all the time.
A.being treated B.be treated C.treated D.having been treated
Americans began to search for some moral principles and justification for their increasingly interventionist conduct of international affairs. Psychologically, it was impossible for them to perceive a role without “good” aims and ideals. Politically, the stone had already been reached in which American was involved in international affairs simply because of the reality of its increasing power politics base and expanding economic system. Subsequently, the net effect of Theodore Roosevelt’s interventionist and aggressive diplomacy around the world was the maintenance of ii strung United States position in Latin America and its monitoring of the continuance of the precarious balance of power among the nations in the Far East and East and Europe. But Americans maintained that all such foreign policies were conducted in the cause of peace and democracy.The rapid changes in the international environment, however, presented a paradox. Along with the pursuit of peace and democracy, for example, went peripheral involvement in war and power politics and the paradox of a growing peace movement in the midst of mounting appropriations for armaments and battleship. For virtually the first time in its history, except in war, the United States began to take very seriously the establishment of a strong military force.But the moral rhetoric of American foreign policy continued (o be the underlying basis of its aims. Exercising its new-found powers, America moved toward world leadership, intervening in the cause of peace and democracy and urging the view that peace must be enforced, if necessary ---through what was certainly the ultimate paradox--- by war. Without yielding their faith in the goals of peace and democracy as mainsprings of that policy, the American people became more willing lo accept new means lo accomplish the ends. The methods of peace through power, and of democracy by intervention and force rather than by example, though not without precedent in American history, came to achieve nevertheless a new degree of official sanction and popular support.Therefore, peace and democracy were linked as related goals in American foreign policy - and the hint of America’s need lo intervene in the international affairs of other nations became a latent tenet of U.S foreign policy.1.According to Paragraph 1, what justifies the American foreign policy?2.Theodore Roosevelt’s diplomatic policies were mainly intended to（ ）. 3.The result of the paradox as discussed in Paragraph 2 is that （ ） .4.Which of the following could replace “appropriations” in Paragraph 2?5.The last two paragraphs seem to suggest that （ ）.6.The tone of the writing is mostly （ ）.
A.Maintenance of an internationally leading position B.The cause of peace and democracy C.The desire lo get involved in international affairs D.The wish lo keep balance among nation
問題2：
A.impose the US influence on much of the world Normal 0 7.8 磅 0 2 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE B.achieve friendship with other nations C.solve the European problems D.promote regional democracy
問題3：
A.the conflicts between nations became more intense B.every nation was taking part in the military armaments C.the United States was involved in several major wars D.developing military power became clearly important to the US
問題4：
A.Scisures B.Allocations C.Supports D.Possessions
問題5：
A.the warlike nature of the United Stales is reflected adequately in its foreign policy B.the intention was good but it ends up with the all-round intervention of international affairs C.both the US government and the public feel the need for intervention in the international affairs D.The United Slates has drifted away from its original goals and are deeply involved in power politics
問題6：
A.factual B.humorous C.hostile D.contemptuous
New research by Hillary Pennell and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz at the University of Missouri suggests that, at least for women, the influence of superheroes is not always positive. Although women play a variety of roles in the superhero genre, including helpless maiden and powerful heroine, the female characters all tend to be hypersexualized, from their perfect, seducing figures to their sexy, revealing costumes. Exposure to this, they show, can impact beliefs about gender roles, body esteem, and self-objectification.Consider, for example, superhero movies like Spider-man or Superman. These action-packed films typically feature a strong, capable, intelligent man fighting a villainous force. The goal of course is to save humanity, but more often than not there is also an immediate need to rescue a fair lady in distress. The female victim is typically delicate, naive, and defenseless, but at the same time sexy and beautiful. What she lacks in strength and cunning she makes up for in kindness and curves. It is not surprising (or insignificant) that she is often the object of the hero’s affections.Pennell and Behm-Morawitz argued that exposure to these stereotypic female victims, whose primary appeal is sexual, may lower women’s body esteem, heighten the value they place on body image, and result in less equal gender role beliefs and expectations. However, female characters have come a long way in the superhero genre, and it’s possible that the antidote to the helpless fair maiden is the competent, commanding superheroine.The X-Men films, for example, feature a number of empowering female characters like Storm, Jean Gray, and Dazzler, each of whom wields a unique special ability and displays impressive cognitive and physical competence. Perhaps exposure to this new generation of female heroines will result in more equal gender beliefs, higher body esteem, and greater prioritization of physical competence over appearance.Still, today’s superheroines, like their female victim counterparts, are often unrealistic, sexualized representations of female figures, with large chests, curvy backsides and unattainable hourglass dimensions. Their skin-tight outfits underline their sexuality with plunging necklines and bare skin, and many of their names (e. g. , Risque, Mystique, Ruby Summers) connote, shall we say, a slightly less respectable profession than superheroine.Pennell and Behm-Morawitz thus speculated that while today’s powerful superheroines might elevate equal beliefs about gender roles, their sexualized nature might simultaneously have destructive effects on body image and self-objectification.1.What’s the implied meaning of the first paragraph?2.Female victims in superhero movies tend to be（ ）.3.According to the author, the image of stereotypic female victims can be improved by （ ）.4.The film audience in Paragraph 4 will most probably support the idea that （ ）.5.What is the main idea of the fifth paragraph?6.What is Hilary Pennell and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz attitude towards today’s superheroines?
A.Women are either helpless or powerful in superhero movies. B.Superhero movies definitely inspire women to become stronger. C.Female characters are extremely sexy and appealing in superhero movies. D.Superhero movies make women objectify themselves and question their body shapes.
問題2：
A.formidable and quick-witted B.sophisticated and intimidating C.pretentious and loathsome D.amiable and seductively-shaped
問題3：
A.showing more competent and heroic female characters B.distinguishing them from the superheroines C.turning them into capable and powerful superheroines D.strengthening their image as innocent and alluring maidens
問題4：
A.men and women are equal B.special abilities are unrealistic for females C.women should always be on a diet to stay in good shape D.the importance of a strong body should be downplayed compared with that of appearance
問題5：
A.Female roles are dressed in revealing and inviting costumes. B.Leading female roles are still stereotyped by alluring bodies. C.Many of the superheroines’ names are related
Among all societies legal marriage is usually accompanied by some kind of ceremony that express group（ ）of the union.
A.opinion B.consistency C.insistence D.approval
My parents have been（1） me to （2）married for the last two years, but I still haven’t made up my （3）.句意: 在過去的兩年里，我的父母一直讓我結婚，但是我仍舊沒有做好決定。
Mark Kelly is originally from Lancashire in England. He has been living in Japan for six years and, at the weekend, he is a fake priest. “I was living in Sapporo, studying Japanese, and I needed the money. It’s far better paid than teaching in a language school,” he said. “Being a fake priest is big business in Japan—I’ve done a TV commercial for one company,” he added. “In Sapporo, there are five agencies employing about 20 fake priests. In a city like Tokyo, there must be hundreds. ”The fake Western priests are employed at Western-style wedding to give a performance and add to the atmosphere. These are not legal ceremonies—the couples also have to make a trip to the local registrar. “ In the past almost all weddings in Japan were Shinto, but in the last few years Western-style wedding have appeared and become very popular，” said one Japanese priest. “ Most couples are trying to re-create a European wedding, so they overwhelmingly ask for a foreign priest instead of a Japanese one，” he added.The fake priests in Japan sometimes have to deal with difficult situations. Mr. Kelly has often presided over ceremonies where the bride is pregnant. “It is common. Once, the bride vomited on me and then fainted. It wasn’t very romantic，” he said. “Another difficulty is meeting genuine Japanese priests to meet the demand，” he said.One Japanese Christian priest spoke out. “ It is a real problem for us. They are not genuine and they give us a bad name,’’ he said. “It is important for the bride and groom to have a proper wedding, and they are not getting it from these foreign priests. I have even heard of hotels using staff when they can’t find anyone else. ”But Mr. Kelly argues that the ceremony is not about religion, but about image. “I give a good performance. I use an Apache wedding prayer in my ceremony. It works very well, although I had to take out the part about the bear god in the sky，” he said. “If people are crying by the end of the wedding, I think I have done a good job.”1.What do we know about Mark Kelly?2.The fake Western priests are in great demand in Japan because of （ ）.3.Using a foreign priest at a wedding in Japan is（ ）.4.According to the passage, Mr. Kelly considers his job rather （ ）. 5.Japanese priest at a wedding in Japan is （ ）. 6.According to Mr. Kelly, what mostly interests a Japanese couple at the wedding is （ ）.
A.He’s a profession priest. B.He’s a language student. C.He’s working for a TV station. D.He’s earning a living in Japan.
問題2：
A.the popularity of Western-style weddings B.the bad reputation of Japanese priests C.the decline of the traditional religion, Shinto D.the low prices at which they are hired
問題3：
A.forbidden according to criminal law B.meant for having a Western atmosphere C.aimed to save a trip to a registrar D.deemed necessary to add to the solemnity
問題4：
A.demanding B.amusing C.sacred D.creative
問題5：
A.bringing an end to the occupation B.misleading the bride and groom C.damaging the image of the former D.corrupting the morals of weddings
問題6：
A.how well the priest can perform his role B.what religious rituals are being followed C.whether other participants can be moved D.who can make them burst into tears