题目内容
Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very , have certain characteristics in common.
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A．diverse |
B．relevant |
C．abstract |
D．consistent |
A
【解析】
试题分析：形容词辨析。A多种多样的；B有关的；C抽象的；D一致的；句意：当人们询问那个问题的时候，哲学的问题就出现了，虽然哲学的问题很多种多样，但是却有一些共同之处。根据句意说明A正确。
考点：形容词辨析
点评：形容词的词义辨析要放在上下文的语境中进行，要根据句意和形容词的固定搭配来选择具体的形容词。
Men can be beautiful too, right?
CHINA is going to host the 18th World University Student Beauty Contest in Guangzhou this December. This year for the first time the contest will include a male section. Students from over 130 countries will compete for Mr. and Miss Beauty. The contest is one of the most respected beauty contests in the world. It was copied by the United Nations University (an international university belonging to the United Nations) in 1986.
Stick to studying
LI Yining, an economics professor at Peking University, said that he would not encourage students to try their luck in the stock market (股市). “They should stress study,” Li said, in his speech at Beijing Foreign Studies University. When asked, the professor said he expected house prices in Beijing to continue to rise. Li thinks the government should provide more affordable houses for low-level income people.
Campus cinema
Students at over 100 universities will have a digital cinema on campus after the National Day holiday. The 21st Century Digital Film on Campus Project was launched at the end of September. The ticket will cost 3-8 yuan, rather than 30-40 yuan at cinemas in town. Students often download movies online or watch DVDs. Now they can enjoy original films in the digital cinema. The digital cinema will show a variety of films other than Hollywood blockbusters (好莱坞大片).
Getting practical
All 12,000 graduates from vocational school in Shanxi Province have landed a job, according to the provincial government. In the past five years, it is estimated that over 95 percent of the professional school graduates have found jobs. However, the number for university graduates is 70 percent. Some employers said that they prefer professional school graduates who learned something more practical in school and expected lower salaries than university students.
1. In the third part, the underlined word “launched” may mean ______.
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A．started |
B．ended |
C．told |
D．mentioned |
2. Where can the material be chosen from?
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A．A novel. |
B．A newspaper. |
C．An advertisement. |
D．A fashion magazine. |
3.. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
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A．More than 130 countries will take part in the 18th World University Student Beauty Contest. |
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B．The ticket for digital film will cost 3-8 yuan. |
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C．In the past five years, over 95 percent of the university graduates have found jobs in Shanxi. |
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D．Over 100 universities took part in the 21st Century Digital Film on Campus Project. |
4.. Professor Li thinks that ______.
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A．the house prices in Beijing will keep going up. |
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B．the students should try their luck in the stock market. |
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C．the government can do nothing about housing problem. |
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D．the students should not only pay attention to study. |
5.. What can we infer from the passage?
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A． In Shanxi, the professional school graduates are less popular with employers than university graduates recently. |
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B．The digital cinema will only show Hollywood blockbusters. |
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C．The graduates from universities can put what they learned into practice more easily. |
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D．No men competed in the World University Students Beauty Contest before this year. |
—We want someone to design the new art museum for us.
—______ the young fellow have a try?
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A．Shall |
B．May |
C．Will |
D．Need |
We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. Because of this, most people think that craft no longer exists.
One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability. “Homes in those days were well-built,” they say. No doubt these homes were well-built, but what these people have done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.
Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay the price. For example, most people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter to build the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to build them, they would probably do a better job than carpenters of old.
One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools. Such tools as laser beams and powerplanes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon say more to find carpenters with college degrees and carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult house designs.
The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper material.
1. Compared to the carpenters in the past, modern carpenters are .
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A．more successful |
B．more learned |
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C．more imaginative |
D．more hardworking |
2. What does the underlined work “they” (paragraph 2) refer to?
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A．Carpenters who are fond of oak stairways. |
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B．Carpenters who have college degrees. |
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C．People who think highly of carpenters of old. |
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D．People who think that modern material is of low quality. |
3.What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?
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A．People in the past preferred to use oak to build stairways. |
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B．It is now expensive to employ a carpenter. |
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C．Modern houses last as long as the old ones. |
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D．Good carpenters still exist in modern times. |
4. What would be the best title for the text?
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A．Is Craft Dead? |
B．Craft, Back to Life? |
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C．History of Craftsmanship |
D．Carpenters Today and Yesterday |
John went through the test paper once more carefully for fear that he would any essential detail.
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A．convince |
B．abandon |
C．overlook |
D．escape |
Motherhood may make women smarter and may help prevent dementia（痴呆） in old age by bathing the brain in protective hormones（荷尔蒙） , U．S．researchers reported on Thursday．
Tests on rats show that those who raise two or more litters of pups do considerably better in tests of memory and skills than rats who have no babies, and their brains show changes that suggest they may be protected against diseases such as Alzheimer’s（早老痴呆症）．University of Richmond psychology professor Craig Kinsley believes his findings will translate into humans．“Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy（怀孕） are protecting the brain, including estrogen（雌激素）, which we know has many neuroprotective （保护神经的） effects,” Kinsley said．
“It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals,” he added in a telephone interview．“They go through pregnancy and hormonal changes．” Kinsley said he hoped public health officials and researchers will look to see if having had children protects a woman from Alzheimer’s and other forms of age-related brain decline．
“When people think about pregnancy, they think about what happens to babies and the mother from the neck down,” said Kinsley, who presented his findings to the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in Orlando, Florida．
“They do not realize that hormones are washing on the brain．If you look at female animals that have never gone through pregnancy, they act differently toward young．But if she goes through pregnancy, she will sacrifice her life for her infant—that is a great change in her behavior that showed in genetic alterations（改变） to the brain．”
1.How do scientists know “Motherhood may make women smarter”?
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A．Some researchers have told them． |
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B．Many women say so． |
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C．They know it by experimenting on rats． |
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D．They know it through their own experience． |
2.What does the phrase “litters of pups” mean in the second paragraph?
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A．Baby rats． |
B．Animals． |
C．Old rats． |
D．Grown-up rats． |
3.What can protect the brain of a woman according to the passage?
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A．Estrogen． |
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B．The hormones of pregnancy． |
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C．More exercise． |
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D．Taking care of children． |
4.“It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals．” What does the sentence suggest?
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A．The experiments on the rats have nothing to do with humans． |
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B．The experiments on the rats are very important for animals． |
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C．The experiments on the rats are much the same on humans． |
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D．The experiments on the rats are much the same on other animals． |
5.Which title is the best for this passage?
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A．Do You Want to Be Smarter? |
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B．Motherhood Makes Women Smarter |
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C．Mysterious Hormones |
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D．An Important Study |