[单选题]
Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language.It is also the variety which is normally 1______ by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other 2______ situations.The difference between standard and nonstandard，it should be noted，has 3______ in principle to do with differences between formal and colloquial 4______;standard English has colloquial as well as formal variants.
5______，the standard variety of English is based on the London 6______ of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted from the removal of the Court from Winchester to London.This dialect became the one 7______ by the educated，and it was developed and 8______ as a model，or norm，for wider and wider segments of society.It was also the 9______ that was carried overseas，but not one unaffected by such export.Today，10______ English is 11______ to the extent that the grammar and vocabulary of English are much the same everywhere in the world where English is used;12______ among local standards is really quite minor，13______ the Singapore，South Africa，and Irish varieties are really very 14______ different from one another so far as grammar and vocabulary are 15______.Indeed，Standard English is so powerful that it exerts a tremendous 16______ on all local varieties，to the extent that many of long 17______ dialects of England have lost much of their vigor and there is considerable pressure on them to be 18______.This latter situation is not 19______ to English ：it is also true in other countries where processes of standardization are 20______ .But it sometimes creates problems for speakers who try to strike some kind of compromise between local norms and national，even supranational (跨国的) ones.
by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other 2______ situations
Asame
Bsimilar
Cequal
Didentical
参考答案：B
[单选题]
College sports in the United States are a huge deal.Almost all major American universities have football，baseball，basketball and hockey programs，1______ and millions of dollars each year to sports.Most of them earn millions 2______ as well，in television revenues，sponsorships.They also benefit 3______ from the added publicity they get via their teams.Big-name universities 4______ against each other in the most popular sports.Football games at Michigan regularly 5______ crowds of over 90，000.Basketball’s national collegiate championship game is a TV 6______ on a par with (与……相同或相似) any other sporting event in the United States，7______ perhaps the Super Bowl itself.At any given time during fall or winter one can 8______ one’s TV set and see the top athletic programs from schools like Michigan，UCLA，Duke and Stanford 9______ in front of packed houses and national TV audiences.
The athletes themselves are 10______ and provided with scholarships.College coaches identify 11______ teenagers and then go into high schools to 12______ the country’s best players to attend their universities.There are strict rules about 13______ coaches can recruit-no recruiting calls after 9 p.m.，only one official visit to a campus-but they are often bent and sometimes 14______. Top college football programs 15______ scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year，and those student athletes，when they arrive at campus，16______ free housing，tuition，meals，books，etc.
In return，the players 17______ themselves to the program in their sport.Football players at top colleges work out two hours a day，four days a week from January to April.summer，it’s back to 18______ and agility training four days a week until mid-August，when camp 19______ and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins 20______.During the season，practices last two or three hours a day from Tuesday to Friday.Saturday is game day.Mondays are an officially mandated day of rest.
only one official visit to a campus-but they are often bent and sometimes 14______.
Anoticed
Bneglected
Cremembered
Dignored
参考答案：D
[单选题]
When people grow old，they become quite different from the young on thoughts.It is often observed that the aged spend much time thinking and talking about their past lives，1______ about the future.These reminiscences are not simply random or trivial memories，2______ is their purpose merely to make conversation.The old person’s recollections of the past help to 3______ an identity that is becoming increasingly fragile ：4______ any role that brings respect or any goal that might provide 5______ to the future，the individual mentions their past as a reminder to listeners，that here was a life 6______ everyone to have a good living.7______，the memories form part of a continuing life 8______，in which the old person 9______ the events and experiences of the years gone by and 10______ on the overall meaning of his or her own almost completed life.
As the life cycle 11______ to its close，the aged must also learn to accept the reality of their own impending ( 即将发生的) death.Yet this task is made 12______ by the fact that death is almost a 13______ subject in the United States.The mere discussion of death is often regarded as 14______.As adults many of us find the topic frightening and are 15______ to think about it-and certainly not to talk about it in the 16______ of someone who is dying.Death has achieved this taboo 17______only in the modem industrial societies.There seems to be an important reason for our reluctance to 18______ the idea of death.It is the very fact that death remains 19______ our control;it is almost the only one of the natural 20______ that is so.
it is almost the only one of the natural 20______ that is so.
Ameasures
Bpunishments
Cbehaviors
Dprocesses
参考答案：D
[单选题]
Read the following text.Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A， B， C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
The steady quest for knowledge gives scientists the exceptional privilege of being able to answer “I do not know” when asked a difficult question.They do not need to pretend knowing more than they 1 do， and their success is not 2 by the number of likes they get on social media.Other professional disciplines， such as business，politics or religion， do not 3 an empty answer and do not allow frank transactions of this type.
But scientists can 4 a full salary while admitting that they do not know what most of the universe is made of， 5 they have no 6 about the nature of dark matter and dark energy.In the commercial or political world， they would have been denied pay 7 they projected an image of at least pretending to know 8 they are talking about.
This unusual privilege 9 the understanding that science is work in progress，in which our understanding is 10 .Research into the unknown 11 involves careless mistakes.
We educate ourselves by finding 12 between our preconceptions and experimental data.
13 ， the humility accompanying our never-ending learning experience is sometimes forgotten 14 arrogance by scientists who 15 about preliminary accomplishments and promote their egos by declaring victory 16 while assuming the end of inquiry.
Nature is under no obligation to adhere to the 17 of our imagination.There is no end to our 18 of knowledge.And like Maui， which is situated in the Pacific Ocean，the body of our scientific knowledge is 19 a small island in a vast ocean of ignorance.Scientific research aims to expand the landmass of that island 20 the unlimited horizon which lies ahead.
以下选项7题答案为()。
Aif
Buntil
Calthough
Dbecause
参考答案：B
[单选题]
When people grow old，they become quite different from the young on thoughts.It is often observed that the aged spend much time thinking and talking about their past lives，1______ about the future.These reminiscences are not simply random or trivial memories，2______ is their purpose merely to make conversation.The old person’s recollections of the past help to 3______ an identity that is becoming increasingly fragile ：4______ any role that brings respect or any goal that might provide 5______ to the future，the individual mentions their past as a reminder to listeners，that here was a life 6______ everyone to have a good living.7______，the memories form part of a continuing life 8______，in which the old person 9______ the events and experiences of the years gone by and 10______ on the overall meaning of his or her own almost completed life.
As the life cycle 11______ to its close，the aged must also learn to accept the reality of their own impending ( 即将发生的) death.Yet this task is made 12______ by the fact that death is almost a 13______ subject in the United States.The mere discussion of death is often regarded as 14______.As adults many of us find the topic frightening and are 15______ to think about it-and certainly not to talk about it in the 16______ of someone who is dying.Death has achieved this taboo 17______only in the modem industrial societies.There seems to be an important reason for our reluctance to 18______ the idea of death.It is the very fact that death remains 19______ our control;it is almost the only one of the natural 20______ that is so.
4______ any role
Aperforming
Bplaying
Cundertaking
Dlacking
参考答案：D
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