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（）view of the fact，I wish to submit this report.
A . In
B . On
C . To
D . For
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The more conservative your work place is, （）it is, in fact, to do this.
A . the risky
B . the more risky
C . the riskier
D . the more riskier
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The field coils（） and the armature is（）This is in fact the arrangement adopted for large, heavy duty alternators.
A . stationary；rotate
B . stationary；stationary
C . rotate；stationary
D . rotate；rotate
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In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts and checked against the observed facts.
A . 正确
B . 错误
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A legacy network that is prone to errors may have issues with services that use UDP. Which of the following services could have problems in this case, due to the fact that UDP is used?（）
A . DNS
B . Telnet
C . SMTP
D . SNMP
E . HTTP
F . TFTP
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Aunt Sally is a traditional English game usually played in pub and fairgrounds in the 17th Century. We can use this idiom to express the meaning that someone becomes the target of public criticism.
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The Temple of Heaven is situated in the southern part of Beijing, about ______ kilometers away from the center of the city. Traditionally, this temple was for imperial use only. It was built in _______, covering an area of _______ hectares.
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Traditionally partners shared directly in the profits of the firm after ( ).
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Aunt Sally is a traditional English game usually played in pub and fairgrounds in the 17th Century. We can use this idiom to express the meaning that someone becomes the target of public criticism.
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How do you interpret the tradition of foxhunting in the Great Britain?
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Ema is a traditional way of making a wish in ____, yet it can be found in a lot of tourist places
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“ China has larger population than any other country in the world.” This is a fact .
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What is not one of the four basic skills of performance in traditional Chinese operas?
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In fact, it was Professor Stevens’ personal relation with Ms. Smith that helped to convince her to change her mind about this project.
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In Thailand, the traditional way of greeting is ________.
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In this way facts lead to ideas, ideas to more facts, these to revised or new ideas and so on. The process never ends.
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—What do you think of the songs？—In fact ______of them sounds beautiful.
A．not all
B．no one
C．not everyone
D．not every one
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There are many traditions about getting married, which of the following is Not mentioned in this passage？
A．The engagement.
B．The wedding ceremony.
C．The bridal party.
D．The marriage application.
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Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this (1)_____, every group has a culture, however un-developed or uncivilized it may seem to us.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture (2)_____ another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic (3)_____ among the different languages.
People once (4)_____ the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped (5)_____ of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. (6)_____ it is possible that language (7)_____ began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages (8)_____ no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of (9)_____ groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely (10)_____, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They (11)_____ behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, (12)_____ only in their vocabularies, which reflect their speakers' social (13)_____.
Even in this department, (14)_____, two things are to be noted: 1) All languages seem to (15)_____ the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence (16)_____ by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2) The objects and activities requiring names and (17)_____ in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often (18)_____ numerous and complicated. A Western languages distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness ("this" and "that"); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker or to the person (19)_____ and what is removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
This study of language, in turn, (20)_____ a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank.
A．perspective
B．sense
C．dimension
D．manner
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Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and service that took place in eighteenth century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm's remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferations of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children's toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: Who were the consumers？ What were their motives？ And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries？
An answer to the flint of these has been difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We still need to know how large this consumer market was and how far clown the social scale the consumer demand for luxury goods penetrated. With regard to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people to the stage of eighteenth century.
English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general: for example, laboring people in eighteenth century England readily shifted from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.
To answer the question of why consumers became so eager to buy, some historians have pointed to the ability of manufacturers to advertise in a relatively uncensored press. This, however, hardly seems a sufficient answer. McKendrick favors a Veblen model of conspicuous consumptions stimulated by competition for status. The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich. Again, we may wonder whether this explanation is sufficient. Do not people enjoy buying things as a form. of self-gratification？ If so, consumerism could be seen as a product of the rise of new concepts of individualism and materialism, but not necessarily of the frenzy for conspicuous competition.
Finally, what were the consequences of this consumer demand for luxuries？ McKendrick claims that it goes a long way toward explaining the coming of the Industrial Revolution. But does it？ What for example does the production of high-quality pottery and toys have to do with the development of iron manufacture or textile mills？ It is perfectly possible to have the psychology and reality of a consumer society without a heavy industrial sector.
That future exploration of these key questions is undoubtedly necessary should not, however, diminish the force of the conclusion of re cent studies: the insatiable demand in eighteenth century England for frivolous as well as useful goods and services foreshadows our own world.
In the first paragraph, the author mentions McKendrick and Plumb most probably in order to _______.
A．contrast their views on the subject of luxury consumerism in eighteenth century England
B．indicate the inadequacy of historiographical approaches to eighteenth century English history
C．give examples of historians who have helped to establish the fact of growing consumerism in eighteenth century England
D．support the contention that key questions about eighteenth century consumerism remain to be answered
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Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature—from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway—one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face—the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a drying up of the floodgates of religious intensity, the American avoids dwelling on death or even coming to terms with it; he finds it morbid and moves back from it, surrounding it with word avoidance (Americans never die; they "pass away") and various taboos of speech and practice. A "funeral parlor" is decorated to look like a bank; everything in a funeral ceremony is done in hushed tones, as if it were something secret, to be concealed from the world; there is so much emphasis on being dignified that the ceremony often loses its quality: of dignity. In some of the primitive cultures, there is difficulty in under-standing the causes of death; it seems puzzling and even unintelligible. Living in a scientific culture, Americans have a ready enough explanation of how it comes, yet they show little capacity to come to terms with the fact of death itself and with the grief that accompanies it.
"We jubilate over birth and dance at weddings," writes Margaret Mead, "but more and more deal with the death off the scene without ceremony, without an opportunity for young and old to realize that death is as much a fact of life as is birth." And one may add, even in its hurry and brevity, the last stage of an American's life m the last occasion of this relation to his society—is as standardized as the rest.
Unwillingness to face death is
A．a characteristic of American society.
B．a quality found in all civilizations.
C．a quality inherited from our Latin ancestors.
D．a quality of the American character.
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Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importance. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior. at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other way around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is a mass of detailed behavior. more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matte. The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief and the very great varieties it may manifest.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine(未受外界影响的) eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind these stereotypes(固定的模式); his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior. of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the language of his family. When one seriously studies social orders that have had the opportunity to develop independently, the figure(这种比喻) becomes no more than an exact and matter-of- fact observation. The life history of the individual is first and foremost an adjustment to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.
The author thinks the reason why custom has been ignored in the academic world is that______.
A．custom reveals only the superficial nature of human behavior
B．the study of social orders can replace the study of custom
C．people are still not aware of the important role that custom plays in forming our world outlook
D．custom has little to do with our ways of thinking
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In fact, the Great Wall of China today still plays an important role in protecting the north part of the country. ()
此题为判断题(对，错)。
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（） We subconsciously believe that we are the targets of this advertising, and that the high-cost products and lifestyles portrayed are our birthright as Americans. This leads us to spend well beyond our means. In fact, during the near-peak of the recent economic boom, the personal savings rate was in negative territory. 题目: What is the meaning of “ spend well beyond our means ” ？
A．They spend more money than they have
B．They try to save as much money as they can．
C．They do not spend money．
D．They have a lower incom
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