Although it claimed to be the most expensive movie ever made, it didn’tthe audience’s expectation.
(A)drop in on
(B)get along with
(C)cut down on
(D)live up to
John and I had a fight the other day, so he turned hison me and refused to talk to me anymore.
(A)back
(B)head
(C)face
(D)shoulder
The governmenttaxes to increase the salaries of government employees.
(A)rises
(B)is raised
(C)has raised
(D)has been rising
According to a local, the earthquake that rocked Clarion Island registered 7.9 on the Richter Scale.
(A)animist
(B)cardiologist
(C)otologist
(D)seismologist
It is difficult for poor language learners to organize their linguistic input into a coherent system;, they seethe input as an unconnected, untidy collection of individual items.
(A)on the one hand
(B)instead
(C)by and by
(D)furthermore
In the traditional domain of “hard” or military-based power, the United States is unequalledany othernation, including Russia and China.
(A)by
(B)to
(C)against
(D)with
On all these shores there are echoes of: of the flow of time, obliterating yet containing all that has gone before.
(A)here and there
(B)this and that
(C)past and future
(D)up and down
A group of scientists have warned the United States against weaponizing space, saying the move would beprohibitively expensive and could spark a new arms race in the cosmos.
(A)Scientists have been against the United States’weaponizing space because this move would cost a huge amountof money and could initiate a new arms race in space.
(B)Scientists have warned the United States not to travel into space because it could be extremely expensive anddangerous.
(C)Scientists have been against the United States to arm the moon with expensive weapons because it will destroythe space.
(D)Many scientists in the United States have warned the government not to weaponize the cosmos because it is tooexpensive.
For developing countries, migration eases the pressure to employ the poor.
(A)For developing countries, more poor people are employed because of foreign investment.
(B)Developing countries solve their migration problems by employing more poor people.
(C)Poor people’s working abroad eases the pressure of unemployment in developing countries.
(D)Migrating people to developing countries is a way to ease the pressure to employ the poor.
What is most obvious in this book are all those details of daily living which make Mrs. Smith anything butcommon.
(A)Mrs. Smith is quite an ordinary person as the book shows all the details of her daily living.
(B)The book’s detailed description of Mrs. Smith’s daily life shows that she is an unusual person.
(C)Mrs. Smith is obviously a common person because of the details of daily living shown in this book.
(D)The details of Mrs. Smith’s daily life in the book show what a common person she is.Art ultimately must be valued because of its capacity to improve the quality of life: by increasing
others and oursurroundings, by sharpening our perceptions, by reshaping our values so that moral and societal concerns
materialwell-being. Of all the arts, theater has perhaps the greatest potential as a humanizing force, for at its best it asks us toenter
into the lives of others so we may understand their aspirations and motivations. Through role-playing(either in daily life or in the theater) we come to understand who and what we are and to see ourselves in relation toothers. Perhaps most important, in a world given increasingly to violence, the value of being able to understand and feelfor others as human beings cannot be overestimated, because violence
most fully when we so dehumanize othersthat we
think of their hopes, aims, and sufferings but treat them as objects to be manipulated.41
(A)our sense about
(B)our sensation of
(C)our sensitivity to
(D)our sensibility into42
(A)take precedence over
(B)take pleasure in
(C)recede from
(D)proceed from43
(A)imaginatively
(B)realistically
(C)morally
(D)increasingly44
(A)crashes
(B)perishes
(C)vanishes
(D)flourishes45
(A)have to
(B)no longer
(C)would rather
(D)prefer toLong before Admiral Byrd’s well-publicized expeditions and the race to the South Pole by Scott and Amundsen,other, now long-forgotten explorers, adventurers and ordinary seal hunters made or tried to make their way to Antarctica.Today, scientists regularly bivouac for months on end in the vast frozen wastes of Antarctica, and adventurous travelerscan even find tours to take them to the bottom of the world. But it was not so long ago that a voyage to the South Polewas a perilous undertaking, one that required tremendous courage, stamina, and skill. Before explorers actually saw thisfrozen continent, its existence was posited by geographers, though 18th-century seafarers ventured no further than thering of cold air and icy water, the Antarctic Convergence, which surrounded it. The discovery and exploitation ofAntarctica is the subject of Alan Gurney’s book, Below the Convergence.Gurney, a Scots yacht designer and photographer, tells the story of some dozen of those men, beginning with theastronomer Halley (of comet fame) in 1699 and finishes with an 1839 whaling/sealing ship— the Eliza Scott— whosecrew discovered boulders imbedded in Antarctic ice, a geological mystery that caught Darwin’s interest. But to mentiononly the detailed accounts of these voyages— and they are very detailed— fails to give a sense of the treasure-trove qualityof this unusual book. Along the way are interesting discussions of the history of astronomy, geography, navigation(especially the problems of working out correct longitude), cartography and ornithology (how the penguin got its name),diet (the problem of scurvy) and the economics of the whale-oil trade. And how many of us have seriously considered thequestion “Is there indeed a ‘Southern Ocean’ below the Pacific?” Gurney’s somewhat dogged interest in describingexactly which routes various ships took to get from here to there is more than made up for by his curiosity about whatthey encountered along the way. This book, written for serious sailors, should entertain anyone curious about history’sbackwater.
This passage is most likely taken from _____.
(A)the atlas of the Antarctic Convergence
(B)the bibliography of a thesis on penguins
(C)the mechanical manual of the Eliza Scott
(D)the book review section of an online bookstore
According to the passage, which of the following statements about Antarctica is true?
(A)Antarctica and the South Pole do not belong to the same area on earth.
(B)By the 18th century geographers had already been to the ice world by sea.
(C)The Antarctic Convergence encircles the Antarctic continent.
(D)Nowadays tours will take travelers to places under the ice.
According to the passage, which of the following subjects is NOT mentioned in Below the Convergence?
(A)The discovery of ice rocks
(B)The discovery of a gold mine
(C)The linguistic origins of penguins
(D)The discussion of standardizing longitude
Which of the following words is closest in meaning to “bivouac” in the first paragraph?
(A)Inflame
(B)Observe
(C)Research
(D)Shelter
What does “history’s backwater” in the last paragraph refer to?
(A)Antarctica
(B)Alan Gurney’s book
(C)Water around the South Pole
(D)The history of Gurney’s journeys