The stone was so heavy that it was difficult for the old mail to__________it.
第1题
Allusion is not used in ________.
A、Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B、When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass deivesion?
C、When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?
D、… had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.
第2题
How did language arise in the first place? There are many theories about this, based on various types of indirect evidence, such as the language of children, the language of primitive societies, the kinds of changes
that have taken place in language in the course of recorded history, the behavior. of higher animals like chimpanzees, and the behavior. of people suffering from speech defects. These types of evidence may provide us with pointers, but they all suffer from limitations.
When we consider the language of children, we haw to remember that their situations are quite different from those of our earliest human ancestors because the child, growing up in an environment where there is al- ready a fully developed language, is surrounded by adults who use that language and are teaching it to him. For example, it has been shown that the earliest words used by children are mainly the names of things and people ("doll," "spoon," "Mummy"), but this fact does not prove that the earliest words of primitive man were also the names of things and people. When the child learns the name of an object, he may then use it to express his wishes or demands.
"Doll!" often means,. "Give me my doll!" or "I've dropped my doll. Pick it up for me!" The child is us- ing language to get things done, and it is almost an accident of adult teaching that the words used to formulate the child's demands are mainly nouns instead of words like "Bring!" "Pick Up!" and so on.
Theories of the origin of language include all of the following EXCEPT______.
A.communication among primitive men
B.the need to communicate
C.the language of children
D.the first man's extensive vocabulary
第5题
A.由卵巢生产的DHEA及DHEAS的量甚微
B.HEA是由肾上腺皮质,特别是皮质网状带生产的主要雄激素
C.HEA的半衰期较短,仅30分钟
D.HEAS半衰期较短,血液中含量较稳定
第6题
Like with anything new, you should your_________ physician before taking Colon Health Cleansing or any other vitamin.
A. discuss
B. consult
C. request
D. tell
第7题
The majority of our students ______the life of these native people.
A. have never heard of
B. has heard about
C. has never heard of
D. have never listened to
第8题
A.Animals have driven humanitys success.
B.Tool-making and language are uniquely human habits.
C.Employing wolves is uniquely human habit.
D.People live with animals everywhere.
第10题
Iron was rapidly adopted for the construction of bridges, because its strength was far greater than that of stone or timber, but its use in the architecture of buildings developed more slowly. By 1800 a complete internal iron skeleton for buildings had been developed in industrial architecture replacing traditional timber beams, but it generally remained concealed. Apart from its low cost, the appeal of iron as a building material lay in its strength, its resistance to fire, and its potential to span vast areas. As a result, iron became increasingly popular as a structural material for more traditional styles of architecture during the nineteenth century, but it was invariably concealed.
Significantly, the use of exposed iron occurred mainly in the new building types produced by the Industrial Revolution: in factories, warehouses, commercial offices, exhibition halls, and railroad stations, where its practical advantages far outweighed its lack of status. Designers of the railroad stations of the new age explored the potential of iron, covering huge areas with spans that surpassed the great vaults of medieval churches and cathedrals. Paxton's Crystal Palace, designed to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, covered an area of 1848 feet by 408 feet in assembled units of glass set in iron frames. The Paris Exhibition of 1889 included both the widest span and the greatest height achieved so far with the Halle des Machines, spanning 362 feet, and the Eiffel Tower 1,000 feet high. However, these achievements were mocked by the artists of Paris as expensive and ugly foolishness. Iron, despite its structural advantages, had little aesthetic(审美的)status. The use of an exposed iron structure in the more traditional styles of architecture was slower to develop.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.Advances in iron processing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
B.The effects of the Industrial Revolution on traditional architectural styles.
C.Advantages of stone and timber over steel as building materials.
D.The evolution of the use of iron in architecture.