17、【
单选题
】 George Osborne’s scheme was intended to
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provide the unemployed with easier access to benefits.
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encourage jobseekers’ active engagement in job seeking.
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motivate the unemployed to report voluntarily.
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guarantee jobseekers’ legitimate right to benefits.
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18、【
单选题
】 The phrase “to sign on”(Line 3,Para.2) most probably means
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to check on the availability of jobs at the jobcentre.
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to accept the government’s restrictions on the allowance.
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to register for an allowance from the government.
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to attend a governmental job-training program.
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19、【
单选题
】 What promoted the chancellor to develop his scheme?
[2分]
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A desire to secure a better life for all.
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An eagerness to protect the unemployed.
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An urge to be generous to the claimants.
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A passion to ensure fairness for taxpayers.
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20、【
单选题
】 To which of the following would the author most probably agree?
[2分]
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The British welfare system indulges jobseekers’ laziness.
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Osborne’s reforms will reduce the risk of unemployment.
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The jobseekers’ allowance has met their actual needs.
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Unemployment benefits should not be made conditional.
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21、【
单选题
】 a lot of students take up law as their profession due to
[2分]
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the growing demand from clients.
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the increasing pressure of inflation.
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the prospect of working in big firms.
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the attraction of financial rewards.
答案:
22、【
单选题
】 The guild-like ownership structure is considered “restrictive” partly because it
[2分]
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bans outsiders’ involvement in the profession.
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keeps lawyers from holding law-firm shares.
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aggravates the ethical situation in the trade.
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prevents lawyers from gaining due profits.
答案:
23、【
单选题
】 In this text, the author mainly discusses
[2分]
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flawed ownership of America’s law firms and its causes.
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the factors that help make a successful lawyer in America.
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a problem in America’s legal profession and solutions to it.
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the role of undergraduate studies in America’s legal education.
答案:
24、【
单选题
】 The Fundamental Physical Prize is seen as
[2分]
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a symbol of the entrepreneurs’s wealth.
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a possible replacement of the Nobel Prize.
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an example of bankers’ investment.
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a handsome reward for researchers.
答案:
25、【
单选题
】 The phrase “to sign on”(Line 3,Para.2) most probably means
[2分]
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the profit-oriented scientists.
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the founders of the new award.
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the achievement-based system.
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peer-review-led research.
答案:
26、【
单选题
】 What promoted the chancellor to develop his scheme?
[2分]
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controversies over the recipients’ status.
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the joint effort of modern researchers.
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legitimate concerns over the new prize.
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the demonstration of research findings.
答案:
27、【
单选题
】 According to Paragraph 3, being unemployed makes one one feel
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Their endurance has done justice to them.
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Their legitimacy has long been in dispute.
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They are the most representative honor.
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History has never cast doubt on them.
答案:
28、【
单选题
】 To which of the following would the author most probably agree?
[2分]
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acceptable despite the criticism.
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harmful to the culture of research.
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subject to undesirable changes.
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unworthy of public attention.
答案:
29、【
单选题
】 According to Paragraph 1, what is the author’s attitude toward the AAAS’s report?
[2分]
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Critical
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Appreciative
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Contemptuous
、
Tolerant
答案:
30、【
单选题
】 Influential figures in the Congress required that the AAAS report on how to
[2分]
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retain people’s interest in liberal education
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define the government’s role in education
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keep a leading position in liberal education
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safeguard individuals rights to education
答案:
31、【
单选题
】 According to Paragraph 3, the report suggests
[2分]
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an exclusive study of American history
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a greater emphasis on theoretical subjects
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the application of emerging technologies
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funding for the study of foreign languages
答案:
32、【
单选题
】 The author implies in Paragraph S that professors are
[2分]
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supportive of free markets
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cautious about intellectual investigation
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conservative about public policy
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biased against classical liberal ideas
答案:
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37、【
简答题】 By all accounts he was a freethinking person, and a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.
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38、【
简答题】 Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.
[2分]
39、【
简答题】 Especially significant was his view of freedom, which, for him, was associated with the rights and responsibilities of the individual: he advocated freedom of thought and of personal expression.
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40、【
简答题】 One could interpret much of the work of Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable, but the courage to fight it renders life worth living.
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