正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*2、In his vivid representations of the African American experience, painter Romare Bearden often used colors so ------- that viewers couldnot take their eves off his works of art. (A) sensible (B) residual (C) vibrant (D) mannered (E) formulaic
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*3、By discovering how to ------- an affordable substitute for cortisone from soybeans, Percy Julian helped to make arthritis treatment -------large numbers of people. (A) eliminate .. superfluous for (B) synthesize .. prohibitive for (C) compromise .. feasible for (D) constitute .. irrelevant to (E) create .. accessible to
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
*4、Although the women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who undertook botanical illustration were primarily -------, theircontributions as naturalists and cataloguers actually helped ------- the field as an academic discipline. (A) researchers .. depreciate (B) amateurs .. legitimize (C) entrepreneurs .. subsidize (D) biologists .. eschew (E) historians .. chronicle
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
*5、To end his lecture on time, Professor Burke decided to ------- his final point and address it instead at the next class meeting. (A) improvise (B) amend (C) forgo (D) reiterate (E) promote
正确答案是 C ， 你的答案是 C 。回答正确
*6、Although A. S. Byatt`s stories are elaborate and sometimes contain supernatural elements, her characters do not seem -------; on thecontrary, they are quite -------. (A) simplistic .. eccentric (B) realistic .. memorable (C) abstruse .. incomprehensible (D) contrived .. plausible (E) intricate .. complex
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
*7、Dr. Allan was told informally of several intriguing cases that accorded with her theory, but this ------- evidence could not provide theconfirmation that a more ------- series of experiments would.
(A) anecdotal .. systematic (B) theoretical .. convoluted (C) impressionistic .. analogous (D) unsubstantiated .. dilatory (E) dogmatic .. rigorous
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
*8、Despite the ------- of books written about Greta Garbo, she ultimately remains -------, an inscrutable personality. (A) ardor .. a paragon (B) profusion .. an enigma (C) bounty .. an icon (D) obtuseness .. a paradox (E) dearth .. a mystery
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
*9、Knowing the rewards of -------. NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa encourages students to study hard if they wish to pursue careers in scienceand engineering. (A) generosity (B) serendipity (C) diligence (D) individuality (E) merriment
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*10、The editor did not wish to print an article based on mere -------: she therefore ordered the reporter to find convincing -------. (A) substantiation .. data (B) speculation .. guesswork (C conjecture .. proof
(D) amicability .. rationalization (E) explanation .. interpretation
正确答案是 C ， 你的答案是 C 。回答正确
*11、Linda is ------- in matters large and small: she is inflexible in her opinions and utterly resistant to persuasion. (A) facetious (B) avuncular (C) sanguine (D) obdurate (E) tractable
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
*12、Jason was truly -------, for he squandered a great deal of money with no thought for the future. (A) prescient (B) infallible (C) reticent (D) improvident (E) sedulous
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
*13、The 1990`s were ------- years for the organization: the staff seas happy, customers were
satisfied, and profits were excellent. (A) halcyon (B) notorious (C) somnolent (D) capricious (E) expedient
正确答案是 A ， 你的答案是 A 。回答正确
*14、Lumbee storyteller Barbara Braveboy-Locklear has performed in college theaters, powwows, and backyards, settings whose striking ------- highlights the ------- appeal that storytelling holds. (A) formality .. diminishing (B) variety .. insignificant (C) uniformity .. ubiquitous (D) diversity .. universal (E) incongruity .. trivial
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
*15、Thomas Edison, who found collaboration essential, never fit the popular stereotype of the -------- inventor, struggling alone in a garret. (A) surly (B) cowardly (C) solitary (D) weary (E) suspicious
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*16、Claudia is so adept at controlling her temper that she can seem quite ------- when she is actually -------.
(A) perturbed .. furious (B) placid .. outraged (C) serene .. tranquil (D) stoic .. ebullient (E) ambivalent .. reticent
正确答案是 B ， 你的答案是 B 。回答正确
*17、The young man possessed ------- disposition, abjectly submissive to the will of others. (A) an amiable
(B) an inscrutable (C) a servile (D) a jocular (E) a melancholy
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*18、Although other European states broke apart under the stresses of political upheaval, the seventeenth-century Dutch republic provedremarkably -------. (A) propitious (B) illusory (C) resilient (D) pertinent (E) poignant
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*19、It is her supremely skillful use of sophisticated laboratory instruments that makes Veronica the ------- research technician that she is. (A) susceptible (B) consummate (C) visionary (D) vitriolic (E) doctrinaire
正确答案是 B ， 你的答案是 B 。回答正确
*20、Most of the students found the lecturer`s speech -------; in fact, it was so dull that some even nodded off. (A) illuminating (B) cryptic (C) tedious (D) disjointed (E) unsettling
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*21、The award-winning novel is such ------- tale that its very intricacy has a daunting effect on readers.
(A) a convoluted (B) a culpable
(C) a succinct (D) an enthralling (E) a felicitous
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
*22、Women in the United States gained ------- long after Black American men did, but Black citizens had greater difficulty exercising theirnew voting rights. (A) restitution (B) suffrage (C) solace (D) initiatives (E) levies
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
*23、Marketing firms rely heavily on ------- information: statistical data about the size, growth, and distribution of human populations. (A) classified (B) demographic (C) conjectural (D) qualitative (E) anecdotal
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
Questions 9-10 are based on the following passage.
When we came home, Aunt Sylvie would certainly be home, too, enjoying the evening, for so she described her habit of sitting in the dark. Evening was her special time of day. She gave the word three syllables, and indeed I think 5 she liked it so well for its tendency to smooth, to soften. She seemed to dislike the disequilibrium of counterpoising a roomful of light against a worldful of darkness. Sylvie in a house was more or less like a mermaid in a ship`s cabin. She preferred it sunk in the very element it was meant to 10 exclude.
*24、The reference to Aunt Sylvie`s pronunciation in line 4 serves to (A) capture a distinctive regional dialect (B) highlight a double meaning of a word
(C) provide an ominous foreshadowing (D) underscore a particular misconception (E) give evidence of a contrary personality
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
*25、The last sentence of the passage suggests that Sylvie felt a house should be a (A) shelter from darkness and danger (B) defense against unwelcome visitors (C) mysterious and adventurous place (D) reminder of the cabin of a ship (E) part of the world outdoors
正确答案是 E ， 你的答案是 E 。回答正确
Questions 11-12 are based on the following passage.
Some people boast of having a sixth sense, professing to know or see things that others cannot Fortune-tellers, mind readers, and mystics all lay claim to this power, and, in so doing, elicit widespread fascination in others, especially 5 book publishers and television producers. The questionable field of parapsychology is of course founded on the belief that at least some people actually possess this mysterious power. But to me, the real mystery is why so many fortune- tellers choose to work the phones on television psychic
10 hotlines instead of becoming insanely wealthy stock traders on Wall Street.
*26、The author implies that the \"people\" (line 1) are (A) mavericks (B) dilettantes (C) oracles (D) charlatans (E) pragmatists
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
*27、The tone of the authors comment in the last sentence (\"But ... Street\") is most accurately described as (A) sardonic (B) baffled
(C) condescending (D) didactic (E) pensive
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
Questions 13-25 are based on the following passages.
These passages ore adopted from observations made by two twentieth-century historians on how nations-and people-make use of their sense of their own history.
Passage 1
Although when we use the word \"history\" we
instinctively think of the past, this is an error, for history is actually a bridge connecting the past with the present and pointing the road to the future. This fact Daniel Webster 5 expressed many years ago in memorable nautical terms: \"... when the mariner has tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glances of the sun, to take his latitude and ascertain how far the. 10 elements have driven him from his true course.\" Webster here indicates one of the cardinal utilities of history. Since humanity is always more or less storm-driven, history serves as a crucial navigational instrument for the nations which, tossed as they are by wind and current, would be 15 lost in confusion if they could not identify their position. History enables bewildered bodies of human beings to grasp their relationship with their past, and helps them chart their immediate forward course. And it does more than this. By giving people a sense of continuity in all their 20 efforts, red-flagging error, and chronicling immortal worth, it confers on them a consciousness of unity, a realization of the value of individual achievement, and a comprehension of the importance of planned effort, as contrasted with aimless drifting.
25 Modern people, especially when harried and perplexed by the sweep of events, peer earnestly into history for some illumination of their predicament and prospects, even though they may only read magazine articles or listen to
the radio or television. And when great events rouse people 30 to their most responsible temper, and fierce national ordeals awaken them to a new sense of their capacities, they turn readily to the writing of history, for they wish to instruct, and to its reading, for they want to learn. It was no accident that the First World War fostered such an interest in history 35 that for a time the number of books in English devoted to history exceeded the titles in fiction.
Passage 2
The historian has much to answer for. History-that is, written history and the examples it provides-has made and unmade nations, given courage to the oppressed and 40 undermined the oppressor, has justified aggression and overridden law. After Germany`s defeat of France in 1870, a French historian exclaimed with unwilling admiration that the nineteenth-century Germans used their history as a means toward unity and a weapon of war; but that 45 the story of his own country as written by his compatriots had taught the French people \"above all to hate one another.\" Past heroism breeds future heroism, past cowardice the cowardice of the future. History tends to repeat itself by a process of almost deliberate imitation. 50 We have been told what to expect of ourselves and, by expecting, we do it.
But what is this motivating force? What is written history? The nineteenth-century English historian Froude sonorously hailed it as \"a voice forever sounding across
55 the centuries the laws of right and wrong.\" Written history is, in fact, nothing of the kind; it is the fragmentary record of the often inexplicable actions of innumerable bewil- dered human beings set down and interpreted according to their own limitations by other human beings, equally 60 bewildered. The tribunal of history judges about as fairly as any random batch of court judges. But only a minority of people are able to recognize this fact, and, of that mi- nority, only a minority will act upon it. The rest of us will go through life with a silt of moral and political prejudice 65 washing about the brain-all derived directly and indirectly, by way of textbooks and propaganda and
theaters and the marketplace, from historical writings. It used to be said that history should be written without prejudice, that the historian must not step aside to draw 70 a moral. The first cannot be done; the second should not. Historians should always draw morals. If the accurate, judicious and highly trained scholars fail to do so the unscrupulous and unqualified will do it for them, and the deluded public will listen gaping to false but more 75 emphatic prophets. Historians who neglect the education of the public are responsible for the villainous stuff to which the public will go instead. A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
*28、The author of each passage argues that people use their nations` history as a way to (A) bring about harmony among disparate groups (B) settle disputes over important precedents (C) make decisions about future actions (D) influence citizens of other nations (E) create myths fostering patriotism
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*29、The primary purpose of Passage 1 is to
(A) define what is meant by the term \"history\" in Western culture (B) draw a parallel between collective and individual histories (C) describe the benefits of having a sense of history (D) clarify misconceptions about history (E) justify the public`s interest in history
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*30、The author of Passage 2 would most likely argue that a nation`s history differs from a \"crucial navigational instrument\" (line 13, Passage1) in that history (A) may offer flawed, even misleading, direction (B) is not easily understood by every head of state (C) helps to promote embarrassment, even shame (D) offers little guidance on certain national issues (E) must be studied in the context of a society`s values
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
*31、In line 26, \"the sweep of events\" most directly refers to events that happen (A) secretly and remain undisclosed (B) routinely and appear unimportant (C) swiftly and seem overwhelming (D) accidentally and inspire improvements (E) predictably and confirm expectations
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*32、The author of Passage 1 assumes that historians function as (A) wise and respected policy makers (B) strict and disciplined instructors (C adventurous and articulate explorers (D) knowledgeable and indispensable guides (E) carefree and impetuous speculators
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
*33、The author of Passage 2 would most likely consider the \"number\" (line 35, Passage 1) an example of the
(A) appetite for history that makes the public vulnerable to irresponsible historians (B) demand for history books that makes unscrupulous historians wealthy (C) interest in history that leads readers to overestimate their own expertise (D) need for heroic figures whose stories provide inspiration (E) tendency of history texts to proliferate during wartime
正确答案是 A ， 你的答案是 A 。回答正确
*34、The primary purpose of Passage 2 is to (A) present a strongly held opinion
(B) describe the methodology of a historian (C) analyze a famous historian`s work (D) defend a widely held point of view (E) discredit the validity of a project
正确答案是 A ， 你的答案是 A 。回答正确
*35、In line 54, \"sounding\" most nearly means (A) measuring (B) greeting (C) proclaiming (D) fathoming
(E) examining
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*36、The author of Passage 1 would most likely characterize the \"tribunal of history\" mentioned in line 60, Passage 2 as
(A)detached and uninformed (B) divisive and demanding (C) objective and illuminating (D) vast and mysterious (E) conventional and superficial
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
*37、In line 74, \"gaping\" most directly emphasizes the (A) public`s appetite for documented truths (B) audience`s susceptibility to persuasion (C) scholars` approach to conducting research (D) historians` desire to entertain readers (E) readers` preference for familiar explanations
正确答案是 B ， 你的答案是 B 。回答正确
*38、The author of Passage 2 argues that written history often functions as a (A) useful description of documented facts (B) glorious commemoration of past greatness (C) powerful motivation for future reforms (D) dubious training in scholarly detachment (E) questionable model for future conduct
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
*39、The \"minority\" (line 61, Passage 2) would most likely view the \"sense of continuity\" mentioned in line 19, Passage 1 with (A) disdain for its political implications (B) ambivalence about its popular appeal (C) curiosity about its future effects
(D) appreciation of its short-term advantages (E) skepticism about its accuracy
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
*40、The author of Passage 1 and the author of Passage 2 differ most strongly on which topic? (A) The appeal of history (B) The reliability of historians (C The impact of tumultuous events
(D) The dearth of accessible historical documents (E) The relevance of the past to the present
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
Questions 6-9 are based on the following passages.
Passage 1
It was time to visit some sweets factories. Would they be magical, unpredictable places, like those in the movies, with steaming and chugging machines? The reality was far better. I visited half a dozen factories, and every time I 5 entered one I was delirious with joy, ecstatic that the machines were exactly as I hoped they would be-long conveyor belts crammed with little sweets being prodded and poked, coated and dried, and extraordinary cauldrons and pipes and pushers and packers and printers and 10 stampers and choppers and scrapers, all working away to produce super-fresh examples of super sweets, which were left lying around in vast piles, trays and buckets-as if I had stumbled on a candy El Dorado.* Passage 2
The candy factory places all the foul props of the
15 modern age in the service of our most innocent desires. To watch huge, metal machines plink out delicate chocolate bunnies-what delicious irony! The bogeyman of technology tamed! Bunnies not bombs! This is a lot of nonsense, of course. Candy companies are servants of 20 global capitalism, just as surely as oil and plastics companies. They dehumanize workers, both here and abroad, pump out pollution, and provide an indulgence that is unconscionable, given the great many people on the planet who are starving.
* a legendary city of great wealth
*41、Both passages suggest that
(A) the candy manufacturing process has been patterned after processes used in other industries
(B) real candy factories are even more intriguing than the ones featured in films (C) candy companies produce a variety of candy for a global market (D) candy production is highly mechanized (E) candy production is extremely costly
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
*42、Compared with the tone of Passage 1, the tone of Passage 2 is more (A) ecstatic (B) sincere (C) pensive (D) evasive (E) indignant
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
*43、In Passage 2, the sentence \"This is a lot of nonsense, of course\" (lines 18-19) marks a shift from
(A) flowery description to unambiguous fact (B) facetious exclamation to earnest assertion (C) random description to concise prediction (D) a candid declaration to a somber apology (E) a historical recounting to a revisionist account
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
*44、The author of Passage 2 would most likely regard the view expressed in Passage 1 as (A) endearing (B) discerning (C) insincere (D) naive (E) pragmatic
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
Questions 10-15 are based on the following passage.
The following passage is adapted from a nineteenth-century short story. A group of men are in a small lifeboat after their ship has sunk during a storm.
The mind of the master of a vessel is rooted deep in the timbers of her, though he command for a day or a decade; and this captain had on him the stem impression of a scene in the greys of dawn of seven turned faces, and later a 5 stump of a topmast with a white ball on it, that slashed to and fro at the waves, went low and lower, and down. Thereafter there was something strange in his voice. Although steady, it was deep with mourning, and of a quality beyond oration or tears.
10 \"Keep `er a little more south, Billie,\" said he. \"A little more south, sir,\" said the oiler in the stern. A seat in this boat was not unlike a seat upon a bucking bronco, and by the same token a bronco is not much smaller. The craft pranced and reared and plunged like an 15 animal. As each wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like a horse making at a fence outrageously high. The manner of her scramble over these walls of water is a mystic thing, and, moreover, at the top of them were ordinarily these problems in white water, the foam racing 20 down from the summit of each wave requiring a new leap, and a leap from the air. Then, after scornfully bumping a crest, she would slide and race and splash down a long incline, and arrive bobbing and, nodding in front of the next menace.
25 A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of 30 the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy. As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final 35 outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water. There was a terrible grace in the move of the waves, and they came in silence, save for the snarling of the crests. In the wan light the faces of the men must have been grey. Their eyes must have glinted in strange ways as they
40 gazed steadily astern. Viewed from a balcony, the whole thing would doubtless have been weirdly picturesque. But the men in the boat had no time to see it, and if they had had leisure, there were outer things to occupy their minds. The sun swung steadily up the sky, and they knew it was 45 broad day because the colour of the sea changed from slate to emerald green streaked with amber lights, and the foam was like tumbling snow. The process of the breaking day was unknown to them. They were aware only of this effect upon the colour of the waves that rolled toward them.
45、Which of the following best describes the primary focus of the passage? (A) The character of the captain (B) The boating, skills of the men (C) The power of the sea (D) The fear of the men (E) The beauty of nature
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
46、The narrator`s characterization of the captain`s \"voice\" (line 7) suggests that the captain was (A) resolute and openly reckless
(B) distressed, yet determined to persevere (C) domineering, yet considerate of others (D) concerned, but also optimistic (E) anxious and obviously impatient
正确答案是 B ， 你的答案是 B 。回答正确
47、The \"singular disadvantage\" mentioned in line 25 is that
(A) it is difficult to tell where you are at sea because the view is always the same (B) sailors often misjudge the extent of their sailing skills when facing danger (C) every dangerous wave is followed by one that is equally dangerous (D) perilous situations at sea occur when sailors are least prepared for them (E) small boats are often swamped by rough seas during stormy weather
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
48、In line 25, \"lies\" most nearly means (A) reclines (B) resides (C) traces
(D) deceives (E) extends
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
49、The sentence in lines 40-41 (\"Viewed ... picturesque\") primarily indicates that (A) a detached observer might find the scene aesthetically intriguing (B) the men in the boat were not troubled by the sea`s turbulence
(C) the great distances involved at sea can make maintaining perspective difficult (D) only those with a keen sense of natural beauty can truly appreciate the sea (E) the best way to experience the sea`s vastness is from an elevated position
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
50、In the last paragraph, the \"men in the boat\" (line 42) are described as (A) almost paralyzed by a sense of the inevitable doom facing them (B) keenly aware that the sea is both beautiful and dangerous
(C) grateful to see daybreak because it signals a possibility of hope and rescue (D) oblivious to some aspects of the world around them
(E) so overcome by exhaustion that they have lost the ability to respond to danger
正确答案是 D ， 你的答案是 D 。回答正确
Questions 16-21 are based on the following passage.
In this selection from a 1995 work, the author discusses the role of photography in her own family and in African American culture as a whole.
Growing up in the 1950`s, I was somewhat awed and at times frightened by our extended family`s emphasis on picture taking. Every wall and comer of my grandparents` (and most everybody else`s) home was lined with 5 photographs. When I was young, I never linked this obsession with self-representation to our history as a subjugated people.
For a long time cameras remained mysterious and off limits to all of as but my father. As the only one in the 10 family who had access to the equipment, who could learn how to make the process work, my father exerted control over our images. In charge of capturing our family history with the camera, he called and took the shots. We were
constantly being lined up for picture taking, and it was 15 years before our household could experience this as an enjoyable activity, before any of the rest of us could be behind the camera. Until then, picture taking was serious business. I hated it. I hated posing. I hated cameras. I hated the images that cameras produced. I wanted to leave no 20 trace. I wanted there to be no walls in my life that would, like gigantic maps, chart my journey. I wanted to stand outside history.
That was twenty years ago. Now that I am passionately involved with thinking critically about Black people and 25 representation, I can confess that those walls of
photographs empowered me, and that I feel their absence in my life. Right now I long for those walls, those curatorial spaces in the home that express our will to make and display images.
30 My mothers mother was a keeper of walls. Throughout my childhood, visits to her house were like trips to a gallery or museum-experiences we did not have because of racial segregation. We would stand before the walls of images and learn the importance of the arrangement, why a certain 35 photograph was placed here and not there. The walls were fundamentally different from photo albums. Rather than shutting images away, where they could be seen only upon request, the walls were a public announcement of the primacy of the image, the joy of image making. To enter 40 Black homes in my childhood was to enter a world that valued the visual, that asserted our collective will to participate in a curatorial process.
Drawing from the past, from those walls of images I grew up with, I gather snapshots and lay them out to see 45 what narratives the images tell, what they say without words. I search these images to see if there are imprints waiting to be seen, recognized, and read. Together, a Black male friend and I lay out the snapshots of his boyhood to see when he began to lose a certain openness, to discern at 50 what age he began to shut down, to close himself away. Through these images, my friend hopes to find a way back. to the self he once was. We are awed by what our snapshots reveal, what they enable us to remember.
The word remember (re-member) evokes the coming 55 together of severed parts, fragments becoming a whole. Photography has been, and is, central to that aspect of racial empowerment that calls us back to the past and offers us a way to reclaim and renew life-affirming bonds. Using
images, we connect ourselves to a recuperative, redemptive 60 memory that enables us to construct identities, images of ourselves.
51、The author uses \"obsession\" in line 6 in order to (A) reveal her own strong interest in family history
(B) demonstrate the extent of her involvement with her parents (C) show her admiration for her family`s devotion to a hobby
(D) suggest that there was something extreme about the adults` behavior (E) deplore the effects of excessive picture taking on the community
正确答案是 D ， 你的答案是 D 。回答正确
52、The author`s attitude toward photography in lines 18-22 is best described as (A) mild impatience with a habitual activity (B) grudging approval of an unusual practice (C) intense resentment of an unwelcome intrusion (D) acute regret for a childhood misconception (E) growing ambivalence about a family tradition
正确答案是 C ， 你 未填写答案
53、In line 21, \"chart\" most nearly means (A) analyze statistically (B) present as a table (C) reward (D) predict (E) chronicle
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
54、In line 21, \"journey\" refers to the author`s (A) progress through life (B) development as a writer (C) travel to visit distant relatives (D) understanding of family history (E) exploration of the local community
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
55、In line 26, \"absence\" refers metaphorically to a lack of a (A) constraining force (B) cluttered space (C) negative influence (D) sustaining tradition (E) joyful occasion
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
56、The author mentions \"photo albums\" in line 36 in order to
(A) demonstrate the ease with which photographs can be assembled in an album (B) help point out the effect of having photographs continuously on display (C) illustrate her family`s preoccupation with commemorating important occasions (D) emphasize the variety in her grandmother`s collections of photographs (E) recall her childhood fascination with family photo albums
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
57、The friend`s goal in examining snapshots (lines 47-53) is most analogous to which of the following?
(A) A young man visits his father`s childhood home in a distant city. (B) A child interviews an older relative to record the family`s history.
(C) A woman reads her childhood diary in an effort to rekindle past goals and values. (D) Parents take annual photographs of their children to document the children`s growth. (E) A grandmother teaches her native language to her grandchildren.
正确答案是 C ， 你的答案是 C 。回答正确
58、The author uses the words \"recuperative\" and \"redemptive\" in line 59 to suggest that a memory can
(A) protect us from the damaging effects of history and time (B) play tricks on us by making the past seem better than it was (C) exaggerate the feelings we had in childhood
(D) prevent people from repeating the mistakes of the past (E) heal people by helping them determine who they are
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
59、The author uses \"construct\" in line 60 to make which point about a person`s sense of identity? (A) People begin building their identities at a remarkably early age.
(B) Individuals create their identities partly from awareness of their heritage. (C) Family members work together to perpetuate a single sense of identity. (D) Young adults work hard to balance childhood and adult moral values. (E) Photographers help their subjects determine appropriate social roles.
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
Questions 7-18 are based on the following passage.
The following excerpt is from a 1996 collection of essays written by a physicist.
I was somewhat embarrassed not so long ago when I opened a year-old physics journal and read that two Japanese fellows had attacked the same problem I was currently finishing up, obtaining an identical solution. 5 The problem, not so consequential now as I reflect sto- ically on my preempted calculations, concerned the spatial distribution that would eventually be achieved by a group of particles of different masses interacting with each other by gravity.
10 The underlying theories of gravity and thermodynamics necessary for solving such a problem are certainly well established, so I suppose I should not have been surprised to find that someone else had arrived at similar results. Still, my pulse raced as I sat with my notebook and checked off 15 each digit of their answers, in exact agreement with mine to four decimal places.
After doing science for a number of years, one has the overwhelming feeling that there exists some objective reality outside ourselves, that various discoveries are wait- 20 ins fully formed, like plums to be picked. If one scientist doesn`t pick a certain plum, the next one will. It is an eerie sensation.
This objective aspect of science is a pillar of strength and. at the same time, somewhat dehumanizing. The very useful- 25 ness of science is that individual accomplishments become calibrated, dry-cleaned, and standardized. Experimental results are considered valid only if they are reproducible; theoretical ideas are powerful only if they can be general- ized and distilled into abstract, disembodied equations.
30 That there are often several different routes to a particu- lar result is taken as an indication of the correctness of the result, rather than of the capacity for individual expression in science. And always there is the continual synthesis, the blending of successive results and ideas, in which individual 35 contributions dissolve into the whole. Such strength is awe- some and reassuring; it would be a tricky business to land a person on the Moon if the spaceship`s trajectory1 depended on the mood of the astronauts, or if the Moon were always hurrying off to unknown appointments.
40 For these same reasons. however, science offers little comfort to anyone who aches to leave behind a personal message in his or her work, his own little poem or her own haunting sonata. Einstein is attributed with the statement that even bad Newton or Leibniz never lived, the world 45 would have had calculus, but if Beethoven had never lived, we would never have had the C-minor Symphony.
Max Delbruck, the physicist-turned-biologist, said in his Nobel Prize address, \"A scientist`s message is not devoid of universality, but its universality is disembodied and 50 anonymous. While the artist`s communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modi- fied, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture.\" It seems to me that in both science and 55 art we are trying desperately to connect with something- this is how we achieve universality. in art, that something is people, their experiences and sensitivities. In science, that something is nature, the physical world and physical laws. Sometimes we dial the wrong number and are later 60 found out Ptolemy`s theory of the solar system, in which the Sun and planets revolve about Earth in cycles and cycles within cycles, is imaginative, ingenious, and even beautiful -but physically wrong. Virtually unquestioned for cen- mries, it was ungracefully detonated like a condemned 65 building after Copemicus2 came along.
Very well. Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal. But sci- entists want to be understood as people. Go to any of the numerous scientific conferences each year in biology or
70 chemistry or physics, and you will see a wonderful com- munity of people chitchatting in the hallways, holding forth delightedly at the blackboard, or loudly interrupting each other during lectures with relevant and irrelevant remarks. It can hardly be argued that such in-the-flesh gatherings are 75 necessary for communication of scientific knowledge these days, with the asphyxiating crush of academic journals and the push-button ease of telephone calls. But it is here, and not in equations, however correct, that we scientists can express our personalities to our colleagues and relish an 80 appreciative smile. Sometimes I enjoy this as much as the science.
1 path of a moving body through space 2 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) advanced the theory that Faith and other planets revolve around the Sun. From Dance for Two by Alan Lightman. Copyright © 1996 by Alan Lightman. Reprinted by permission of pantheon Books, a division of Random House. Inc.
60、In line 20, the author uses the word \"plums\" to refer to the (A) multitude of problems needing to be solved (B) existence of yet-to-be-discovered scientific truths (C) fascinating nature of scientific discoveries
(D) rewards of fame and prestige for veteran researchers
(E) maturation of scientific investigations over long periods of time
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
61、In the context of the passage, the author`s use of \"dry-cleaned\" (line 26) and \"distilled\" (line 29) most directly reflects the overall
(A) concern for maintaining a sterile environment in the laboratory (B) fear that experimental results will be inappropriately judged (C) pleasure in precise and accurate experimentation (D) unease with the impersonal nature of scientific work
(E) dissatisfaction with society`s attitude toward scientific research
正确答案是 D ， 你的答案是 D 。回答正确
62、In lines 35-39 (\"Such ... appointments\"), the author discusses space exploration primarily to explain bow
(A) certain areas of science can capture the public imagination (B) careful calculations affect space travel
(C) the individual scientist contributes to the study of astronomy
(D) space exploration is an expensive but necessary part of research in astronomy (E) the absence of subjectivity in the natural world has practical benefits
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
63、In line 53, \"melts\" most nearly means (A) liquefies (B) thaws (C) evaporates (D) merges (E) softens
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
64、The passage distinguishes between two types of \"universality\" (line 56) primarily by (A) comparing ways in which they are achieved (B) analyzing ways in which they have been interpreted (C) describing situations in which they contradict one another (D) providing famous examples of each from Nobel Prize winners (E) criticizing the notions they convey about worldly success
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
65、The author`s overall tone in the passage is best described as (A) self-congratulatory (B) wistful (C) restrained (D) irate (E) nostalgic
正确答案是 B ， 你 未填写答案
66、In discussing Ptolemy`s theory of the solar system (lines 60-65), the author suggests all of the following EXCEPT:
(A) Ptolemy`s work as a scientist suffered from a lack of creativity. (B) Copernicus` work eradicated the work of Ptolemy.
(C) The scientific value of a theory depends on whether it stands up to the challenges of other scientists.
(D) Scientific findings, even when based on inaccuracies, often are accepted as truth.
(E) Both Ptolemy and Copernicus made influential contributions to theories about the solar system.
正确答案是 A ， 你 未填写答案
67、The implication of the author`s statement \"Very well\" b(line 66) is that the author (A) is more than willing to take on a new challenge
(B) is concerned that scientists often make fundamental errors (C) is pleased with the accomplishments of other scientists (D) recognizes the need to accept an unpleasant fact (E) agrees with the most recent astronomical theories
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
68、The distinction between the \"communication\" mentioned in line 50 and the \"communication\" mentioned in line 75 most directly reflectsthe difference between (A) talking to oneself and listening to a knowledge- able instructor
(B) expressing one`s uniqueness and seeking friend- ship with an individual (C) sharing emotional experiences and analyzing past events (D) creating new objects and circulating existing relics
(E) conveying a personal vision and exchanging objective information
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
69、In line 76, \"crush\" most nearly means (A) compression (B) infatuation (C) stampede (D) suppression (E) overabundance
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
70、The author suggests that scientists attend conferences to (A) learn what research their colleagues are presently pursuing
(B) compare current lectures with the scientific knowledge already presented in journals (C) keep up with the most recent discoveries in their respective fields (D) participate in extensive personal interaction with colleagues (E) express orally their scientific disagreements with their colleagues
正确答案是 D ， 你 未填写答案
71、The author makes use of all of the following EXCEPT
(A) comparison and contrast (B) personal experience (C) citation (D) anecdote (E) accusation
正确答案是 E ， 你 未填写答案
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