If you have any questions, please call me ormy office during my office hours.
(A)bring about
(B)drop by
(C)hang out
(D)turn in
Do you know how tobetween identical twins?
(A)distinguish
(B)extinguish
(C)distinct
(D)extinct
The poison seeping from the factory hasthe river which is the major source of the city’s drinking water.
(A)contaminated
(B)diluted
(C)purified
(D)swept
Water, soil, and the earth’s greenof plants make up the world that supports the animal life of the earth.
(A)bristle
(B)epistle
(C)kettle
(D)mantle
The film The Last Emperorthe leading actor international fame.
(A)earned
(B)framed
(C)ransacked
(D)infested
Simon felt terribly embarrassed when he accidentally _____ his cup of coffee and spilled it all over Mary’s dress.
(A)broke down
(B)turned off
(C)knocked over
(D)put aside
This yearwas the US drug-czar Barry McCaffery who came to celebrate America’s successful drug policy.
(A)when
(B)while
(C)which
(D)it
Doctors need years of trainingthey are ready to operate on their patients.
(A)before
(B)after
(C)as
(D)since
With the world’s populationto increase, we will soon face the problem of food shortages.
(A)continues
(B)continued
(C)continuing
(D)has continued
After the fight, the former champion lookedhe had been put through a meat grinder.
(A)how
(B)as if
(C)like
(D)as when
Quite a few doctors admit that they have been tempted to be less than perfectly honest with their patients.
(A)Most patients prefer doctors to be perfectly honest with them.
(B)The allure to tell lies to patients is irresistible to many doctors.
(C)Telling the truth is not always too difficult for many doctors.
(D)Complete honesty is highly recommendable in medical profession.
Studies indicate that hypnosis, used in conjunction with standard pharmacological techniques, is an effective way torelieve pain during invasive medical procedures.
(A)It is suggested that normal pharmacological techniques be used with hypnosis to induce pain in patients who areinjured during the invasion.
(B)Hypnosis has been proven to be a valid method to alleviate pain during surgeries if coupled with typical medicationand drug treatment.
(C)It has been shown that patients receiving surgeries feel less pain if they are hypnotized completely.
(D)Studies show that hypnosis can produce similar pain-reducing effects as drug does during major surgeries.For one hundred thousand years, humans had concerned themselves with the dead. For the most part, bodies werecarefully placed in graves cut out of rock, isolated from the community or near plain dwellings. Huge stones sometimesserved to seal off these recesses. The megalithic structures gave birth to an open-air architecture (some researchers seethis as an attempt to imitate grottoes), intended to hold the remains of ancestors, following complex, constantly renewedrituals. The spirits of the dead, and probably of the gods— necessary to any society that makes use of symbols, asresearcher Jacques Cauvin has said— thus inhabited the stones of which the vaults were built or the commemorativestanding stones.Megalithic graves were collective, and funerary rites called for a considerable expenditure of energy and a commitmentby the whole community. Examination of the tomb of Pontcharaud (before 4000 B.C.), near Clermont-Ferrand, France,demonstrates the amount of attention that was devoted to the dead as well as the fear the dead inspired. Feet and handssevered, the bodies were arranged in a prone position in which they could be imagined to move only in onedirection— toward the darkness of death. Moreover, heavy rocks were placed on top of them so that they could notescape toward the light. Amputation of the hands and feet must have occurred during secondary rites following death.These rites evoke the system of symbolism that transformed the corpse into a relic and made the departed an ancestor tobe propitiated.
According to the passage, one of the functions of huge stones was to be a.
(A)blockage
(B)totem
(C)landmark
(D)decoration
One conclusion from the examination of the Pontcharaud tomb was.
(A)people were afraid of the dead
(B)people were attracted by the dead
(C)the dead inspired people’s life
(D)the dead were devoted to people
Which of the following measures was NOT taken before the corpses were put to the tombs?
(A)Cutting off the hands and feet
(B)Putting bodies facing down
(C)Piling rocks on top of the bodies
(D)Placing heads toward the light
According to the passage, one of the purposes of the funeral rites in the megalithic cultures is tothe dead.
(A)appease
(B)invoke
(C)depart from
(D)cling toResearchers have found a clear relationship between the number of ideas produced and the quality of the ideas.
There are two reasons for this. The first is a matter of simple probability. Creative ideas are statisticallyuncommon. As Alfred North Whitehead explains, “The probability is that nine hundred and ninety-nine of our ideas willcome to nothing, either because they are worthless in themselves or because we shall not know how to elicit theirvalue.
The thousandth idea may be the one that will change the world.”The second reason is that initial ideas are usually poorer in quality than later ideas. Just as water must run from afaucet for a while to be clear and free of particles, so thought must flow before it becomes creative. Early ideas are notusually true ideas.
One very plausible hypothesis is that familiar and safe responses lie closest to the surface ofour consciousness and therefore are naturally thought of first.
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(A)In any case, success in creative thinking depends on continuing the flow of ideas long enough to purge thecommon, habitual ones and produce the unusual and imaginative.
(B)Not infrequently, the idea that provides a key to resolving an issue will seem, at first consideration, irrelevant.
(C)The more ideas produced, the better the chances of having one or more good ones.
(D)Exactly why this is so is not known.48
(A)But we had better entertain them all, however skeptically.
(B)The more ideas produced, the better the chances of having one or more good ones.
(C)Not infrequently, the idea that provides a key to resolving an issue will seem, at first consideration, irrelevant.
(D)In any case, success in creative thinking depends on continuing the flow of ideas long enough to purge the common,habitual ones and produce the unusual and imaginative.49
(A)In any case, success in creative thinking depends on continuing the flow of ideas long enough to purge thecommon, habitual ones and produce the unusual and imaginative.
(B)Producing a large quantity of ideas is one of the ways to produce creative solutions.
(C)But we had better entertain them all, however skeptically.
(D)Exactly why this is so is not known.50
(A)The more ideas produced, the better the chances of having one or more good ones.
(B)But we had better entertain them all, however skeptically.
(C)Not infrequently, the idea that provides a key to resolving an issue will seem, at first consideration, irrelevant.
(D)In any case, success in creative thinking depends on continuing the flow of ideas long enough to purge the common,habitual ones and produce the unusual and imaginative.