China becomes the most desirable market for foreign cigarette manufacturers because ______
第1题
The negative effect of engineering solution is that ______.
A.it costs a large amount of money which is not affordable
B.the government worries about the quality of the water conservancy
C.it destroys the habitat of plants and animals of that area
D.the government becomes more and more ignorant
第2题
Myths and legends of the supernatural shroud the early history of writing,
as they do of speech. Archaeological discoveries provide charming pinholes of
illumination along with frustrated problems of interpretation. An account of the 【S1】______.
early history of writing has gradually emerged, but it keeps many gaps and 【S2】______.
ambiguities.
The matter is complicated by the fact that, in this early period, it is by
no means easy to decide whether a piece of graphic expression should be
counted as an artistic imagination or as a symbol of primitive writing. In 【S3】______.
principle, the difference is clear: the first conveys personal and subjective 【S4】______.
meanings, and does not combine into a system of recurring symbols with
accepted values; by contrast, the latter is conventional and institutionalized,
capable of been understood in the same way by all who are using the system. 【S5】______.
When the product is a rock carving or painting of an animal, there is a little 【S6】______.
doubt that its purpose is nonlinguistic (thought whether it has an aesthetic,
religious, or other function is debatable). However, when the product is a
series of apparent geometrical shapes or tiny characters, the distinction
between art and writing becomes more obvious. The language may even reflect 【S7】______.
the problem: in early Greek, and in Egyptian, the same word was used for
both "write" and "draw". One point, at least, is fairly clear. It now seems
most likely that writing system revolved independently of each other at 【S8】______.
different times in several parts of the world -- in Mesopotamia, China, Meso-
America, and elsewhere. There is anything to support a theory of common 【S9】______.
origin. There are of course similarities between these systems, but these are
not altogether surprising, giving the limited ways of devising a system of 【S10】______.
written communication.
【S1】
第3题
【C1】
A.potential
B.faculty
C.capability
D.capacity
第4题
The Li Yuchun phenomena, however, goes far beyond her 【S1】______
voice, which even if the most enthusiastic fans admit is pretty 【S2】______
weak. As a dancer, she's not much better. Hei Nan, one of the
event's judges, told the Guangzhou Daily that Li was "the worst
of the top six in terms of singing skills", so noted that she reaped 【S3】______
the most audience votes.
That Li did possess was attitude, originality and a proud 【S4】______
androgyny (双性性格) that challenged Chinese norms. During
the tryouts, Li wore loose jeans and a black button-down shirt,
with no make-up. She auditioned (预演) with In My Heart
There's Only You, Never Her, an oldie (老歌) made famously 【S5】______
by Liu Wenzheng a man. In the main competition she sang
other songs written for female performers and called herself "a 【S6】______
tomboy". For an ordinary Chinese audience, Li's disregard for
the rule book produced an unfamiliar knee-weakening. Her fans
wept openly and frantically shrieked when Li took the stage.
Li's victory was unusual in other. ways. "Super Girl's Voice"
is run democratically. Eight million of SMS votes flooded in 【S7】______
on the night of the finale. For a few weeks after, the mainland
press debated the relevance of this format. "Only something
that smashes social norms could elicit such a response," Yu
Guoming, a media expert at People's University, told the Beijng
News. "After all, the opportunities to use votes to choose in
such events are relative few." An editorial in the China Daily 【S8】______
wondered: "How come an imitation of a democratic system
ends up selecting the singer has the least ability to carry a me?" 【S9】______
But she is more: Li represents un-embarrassed individuality, and
that' s how she's a national icon. 【S10】______
【S1】
第5题
A.Many people will still regard sex education as embarrassing.
B.Proper sex education is mentally helpful for teenagers" growth.
C.Teenagers" chances to see psychological doctors have increased.
D.Without the proper guidance of the teachers, no teenagers will grow healthily.
第6题
Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on music and, when it becomes widespread, on the music culture as a whole.
One more important part of music's material culture should be singled out. the influence of the electronic media--radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the "information revolution", a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modem nations; they have affected music cultures all over the globe.
Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because ______.
A.it helps produce new cultural tools and technology
B.it can reflect the development of the nation
C.it helps understand the nation's past and present
D.it earl demonstrate the nation's civilization
第7题
"Sometimes I feel like I need a translator to understand my own language," says Yoke Fujimura with little anger, a 60-year-old Tokyo restaurant worker. "It's becoming incomprehensible."
It's not only Japan who is on the defensive. Countries around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English. Coca-Cola, for example, is one of the most recognized terms on Earth.
It is made worse for Japan, however, by its unique writing system. The country writes all imported utterances—except Chinese—in a different script. called katakana(片假名). It is the only country to maintain such a distinction. Katakana takes far more space to write than kanji—the core pictograph (象形文字) characters that the Japanese borrowed from China 1,500 years ago. Because it stands out, readers complain that sentences packed with foreign words start to resemble extended strings of lights. As if that weren' t enough, katakana terms tend to get confusing. For example, digital camera first appears as degitaru kamera. Then they became the more ear-pleasing digi kamey. But kamey is also the Japanese word for turtle. "It's very frustrating not knowing what young people are talking about," says humorously Minom Shiratori, a 53-year-old bus driver. "Sometimes I can't tell if they're discussing cameras or turtles."
In a hid to stop the flood of katakana, the government has formed a Foreign Words Committee to find suitable Japanese replacements. The committee is slightly different from French-style. language police, which try to support a law that forbids advertising in English. Rather, committee members and traditionalists hope a sustained campaign of persuasion, gentle criticism and leadership by example can turn the tide.
According to the author, the reason why the Japanese is infected greatly by English is ______.
A.that nothing can prevent it from entering into Japan
B.that English is the most recognized language in the world
C.that the government has not set up a special administration department to control this trend before it becomes popular in Japan
D.not clearly mentioned in this passage
第8题
A.It becomes bigger.
B.It becomes more expensive.
C.It becomes cheaper.
D.It becomes much safer.
第9题
One' s brain becomes blank when he or she doesn' t have a dream.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
第10题
A.number
B.mount
C.deal
D.amount