The driver was asked to show his car registration at a police .
(A)officer
(B)checkpoint
(C)sidewalk
(D)stop
When she came in from the rainstorm, Mary looked as if she a shower with her clothes on.
(A)was taken
(B)takes
(C)has taken
(D)had taken
Since I intend to stay here for one year only, it is a waste of money to purchase any furniture. So a apartmentis an ideal option for me.
(A)furnished
(B)modified
(C)pendulous
(D)spacious
Some people worried that an increased use of iris-scanning at ATM machines would to a dangerous loss ofprivacy.
(A)give
(B)lead
(C)tend
(D)rise
The monks were called up to indoctrinate the people, on the ultimate goals of life but on the political aimsof the new government.
(A)more than
(B)as much as
(C)not so much
(D)on the one hand
My director Frank is beloved of people in every walk of life. There are few but think him companionable.
(A)Frank loves every kind of people.
(B)People of all professions love Frank.
(C)Frank loves people on our street and likes to keep company with them.
(D)Few people in the job market really love Frank; they just regard him as a colleague not a real friend.
Dr. Wu is an intelligent, conscientious, and inspiring teacher; , she is interested in her students.
(A)however
(B)otherwise
(C)moreover
(D)instead
The division of the world into heroes and villains is a habit he regards with suspicion.
(A)He doubts the division of the world into heroes and villains.
(B)He hates the division of the world into heroes and villains.
(C)He favors the division of the world into heroes and villains.
(D)He proposes the division of the world into heroes and villains.
The chances are good that you will win the tournament.
(A)It is definite that you will win the tournament.
(B)It is unlikely that you will win the tournament.
(C)It is quite probable that you will win the tournament.
(D)It is unclear whether you will win the tournament or not.
A: “Do you need a ride?”B: “Thanks, but Mike home.”
(A)gives a ride
(B)is giving me a ride
(C)give a ride to me
(D)rides meStudies have reported that women are more likely to use standard, prestige linguistic forms than are men of the samesocial class. One account for this phenomenon is the so-called “linguistic insecurity.” The explanation claims that women41 the prestigious and more standardized language of the social classes immediately above their own in order to becomemore prestigious and powerful themselves. This account was 42 advanced as a way of explaining not only women’susage patterns but also the usage patterns in these same studies of the lower middle class, which “hypercorrected” its language,emulating linguistic features of the middle class in order to gain social prestige. In this way the language of men was linkedto a working-class orientation seeking 43 prestige and local affiliation, while the language of women, reaching upwardacross sociolinguistic class strata, was held to reflect their social and linguistic insecurity. One problem with this accountis that it takes our social stereotypes and reifies them into scientific explanation. We might easily understand the situationas working in the opposite direction, with local, vernacular 44 to sound like “one of the guys” as a kind of linguisticinsecurity. This account is therefore unsatisfactory because it tries to forge a simple link between language use and genderacross a wide variety of situations, while 45 the possibility that other social factors, such as ethnic identity and workplaceinteractions, might play a crucial role.
(A)accepting
(B)exploring
(C)ignoring
(D)unveilingSometime around the seventh grade, many American students are introduced to the tale of 10 blind men inspecting anelephant. When each blind man reaches different conclusions about the creature, the students are invited to consider whethertruth is absolute or lies in the eye of the beholder. College professors and administrators might want to remember that fablewhen they take the measure of American higher education. Many of them, who tend to see only what they stand to lose,perceive the beast as wounded, suffering from the shocks of rising costs, dwindling resources and life-draining cutbacks.But foreigners, who compare America’s universities with their own, often reach very different conclusions about the natureof the beast.If sheer numbers provide any proof, America’s universities and colleges are the envy of the world. For all their abidingtroubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with 407,530 students from 193 different countries last year.Asia led the way with 39,600 students from China and 36,610 from Japan, followed by India and Canada. Many of theforeigners entered graduate and undergraduate programs in roughly equal numbers….Most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small and privileged clientele. While fully 60% of allU.S. high school graduates attend college at some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% ofthe French, 20% of the British and 37% of the Japanese proceed beyond high school. German students who survive the Abituror Britons who pass their A levels may still not qualify for a top university at home, but find American universities far morewelcoming. Some U.S. schools acknowledge the rigor of European secondary training and will give up to a year’s creditto foreigners who have passed their high school exams.
What do American college professors and administrators believe about American universities?
(A)American universities are better than foreign universities.
(B)There is a financial crisis in American universities.
(C)American universities are well-equipped.
(D)The students in American universities are not as good as those in foreign universities.
“Asia led the way with 39,600 students from China and 36,610 from Japan, followed by India and Canada.” Thisstatement means _____.
(A)Asian students arrived first
(B)Chinese students were in front of Japanese students
(C)more students came from Asia than from anywhere else
(D)Indian students followed Japanese students
The phrase “at some point in their life” in the third paragraph means that most U.S. high school graduates _____.
(A)enter college at the same age
(B)enter college before they get married
(C)enter college at different times
(D)seldom enter college
According to this passage, which of the following statements is true?
(A)More U.S. high school graduates go to college than their European counterparts.
(B)More foreign students enter undergraduate schools than graduate schools.
(C)Most foreign students in American universities come from Canada.
(D)Secondary training in the U.S. is more difficult than that in Europe.
Why does the author begin the passage with the fable of the elephant?
(A)The author thinks it is meaningless to define an elephant.
(B)The author wants to emphasize that a blind man can never know what an elephant is like.
(C)The author is especially interested in elephants.
(D)The author wants to demonstrate that it is not easy to see the whole truth.