What is true about the apartments Mies building Chicago's Lake Shore Drive?A.They ignored details and proportions.B.They were built with materials popular at that time.C.They were more spacious than neighboring buildings.D.They shared some characteristics

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What is true about the apartments Mies building Chicago's Lake Shore Drive?

A.They ignored details and proportions.

B.They were built with materials popular at that time.

C.They were more spacious than neighboring buildings.

D.They shared some characteristics of abstract art.


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  • 第1题:

    In Britain, prenuptial agreements were “just about ignored” by the courts.()


    参考答案:正确

  • 第2题:

    Ida:_______Where was I?

    Homer: You were talking about your trip to South Africa.

    A、What did I hear?

    B、Let's check in.

    C、Let's back up.

    D、What were you talking about?


    参考答案:C

  • 第3题:

    What do we know about the rich men in the 17th century?

    A.They tended to wear clothes without bottons.

    B.They were interested in historical matters.

    C.They were mostly dressed by servants.

    D.They drew their swords from the left.


    正确答案:D

  • 第4题:

    Offering expert advice
    B. Conducting research
    C. Managing property
    D. Building private homes
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    shown moments beforehand.
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    One of the study’s authors, Kimberly Fenn, said:” People who repeatedly get low amounts of sleep every night could be more prone in the long run to develop these forms of memory distortion. It’s not just a full night of sleep deprivation that puts them at risk.” Indeed, a preliminary study they carried out found that getting just five hours sleep was enough to cause people to start manufacturing false memories.

    What is the dependent variable in the study?

    A. Creation of false memories
    B. Crime being created
    C. Memory deprivation
    D. Different details shown

    答案:A
    解析:
    同上题所说,实验中,记忆力的好坏随着睡眠时间长短的变化而变化,所以记忆力的好坏在这里即为因变量,所以答案选A。

  • 第5题:

    Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
    The postwar American housing style largely reflected the Americans_____

    A.prosperity and growth
    B.efficiency and practicality
    C.restraint and confidence
    D.pride and faithfulness

    答案:C
    解析:
    细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题,需要根据题干关键词锁定文章的具体信息,从而得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息“The postwar American housing style”定位到第二段最后一句“…Americans had learned to live with less,…positively stylish.”根据这句话可知,战后美国的住房风格反映了美国人的“restraint”和“confidence”,故C项正确。【干扰排除】首段的“a time of prosperity and growth”指的是美国当时的时代背景,并不是指美国人的特征,A项属于偷换概念,故不选。第二段末句“…made small,efficient housing positively stylish.”中“efficient”指的是美国住房风格,故B项错误。文中并没有提及美国人的自豪及忠诚,故D项属于无中生有。

  • 第6题:

    Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
    Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about the Bauhaus?

    A.It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
    B.Its designing concept was affected by World War II.
    C.Most American architects used to be associated with it.
    D.It had a great influence upon American architecture.

    答案:D
    解析:
    推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题,需要对文章第三段的信息进行锁定,从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息“Bauhaus”定位到第三段。该段最后一句“These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.”可知These designers,即Ludwig Mies van der Rohe以及other people associated with the Bauhaus,对美国建筑有很大影响,故D项正确。【干扰排除】第三段第二句中who引导的定语从句只是说Ludwing Mies van der Rohe和Bauhaus有关联而非创建者,故排除A项。与Bauhaus有关联的Ludwig Mies van der Rohe是在二战前移民美国的,但文中并未提及它的设计理念受二战影响,故B项不选。原文中只提到Bauhaus与其他人有关联,但并未说明这些人大部分是美国人,因此C项属于过度推理。

  • 第7题:

    Text 1"The love of money",St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy,"is the root of all evil.""All"may be putting it a bit strongly,but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie,cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.Another well-known aphorism,ascribed to Benjamin Franklin,is"time is money".If true,that suggests a syllogism:that the love of time is a root of evil,too.But a paperjust published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania suggests precisely the opposite.Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner asked a group of volunteers to do a scries of what appeared to be aptitude tests.As is ofien the case in such experiments,though,what the voiunteers were told.and what the truth was,were rather different things.In the first test they were asked to make,within three minutes,as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set ofwords they had been presented with.What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups.Some volunteers'word sets were seeded with ones associated with money,such as"dollars","financing"and"spend".Some were seeded with words associated with time(eg,"clock",/'hours","moment").And some were seeded with neither.Thus unknowingly primed,the volunteers were ready for the second test.This was mathematical.They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers.two of which added up to ten(for example,3.81 and 6.19).They had to write down,on a separate answer sheet,how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes.They were also given a packet ofmoney and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.This led Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner to suspect that self-reflection played a part in controlling uncthical behaviour during the test.They therefore conducted a third test in which,for half the volunteers,there was a mirror in the cubicle they were sitting in when doing the experiment.Volunteers primed to think about money cheated 39%of the time when a mirror was present but 67%when it was not.Those primed to think about time cheated 32%of the time in the presence of the mirror and 36%in its absence-results that are statistically indistinguishable.Finally,a fourth experiment asked primed volunteers to fill in a questionnaire before tackling the matrix.In among"filler"questions intended to disguise what was happening this asked them to rate how they felt about self-reflective statements like,"Right now,1 am thinking about who I am as a person."As in the previous tests,those primed with money words cheated more ofien than those primed with neutral words and far more ofien than those primed with time words.But whether someone cheated was also related to how strongly he felt about the self-reflective statements presented to him in the questionnaire.It seems,then,that thinking about time has the opposite effect on people from thinking about money.It makes them more honest than normal,rather than less so.Moreover,the more reflective they are,the more honest they become.There must be an aphorism in that.
    It can be concluded from the text that——.

    A.people primed with neutral words cheated more than those primed with money words
    B.self-refiection plays a significant role in people's decision making
    C.volunteers cheated was also related with whether a mirror in the cubicle they were sitting
    D.people primed with time words cheated most among the subjects

    答案:B
    解析:
    推理判断题。题目没有体现具体的对应段落,但是conclude泽为“结论”,按照出题顺序的原则对应文章的第五段,其中In among“filler"questions intended to disguise what was happening this asked them to raic how they feh about self-reflective statements like(问卷上设有掩饰之前不光彩行为的“补充”问题,调查他们在看到门我反思表述语句时的感受)可以体现结论,B项self-refiection plays a significant roleIn people's decision making“自我反省在人们的决策中扮演着重要的角色”与此相对应。故B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项巾的比较与原文刚好相反,因此应当排除;c项在定位的段落中并没有体现,因此应当排除;D项在结论的段落中有体现,但是段落中说被灌输金钱词语的志愿者作弊倾向最大,因此该选项排除。

  • 第8题:

    Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
    What is true about the apartments Mies building Chicago's Lake Shore Drive?

    A.They ignored details and proportions.
    B.They were built with materials popular at that time.
    C.They were more spacious than neighboring buildings.
    D.They shared some characteristics of abstract art.

    答案:D
    解析:
    推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题,需要对文章第五段的信息进行锁定,从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到第五段第二句“But they…at the time.”。大意是“但它们非常流行,因为它们有轻薄的玻璃墙,美丽的景观以及高雅的建筑细节以及比例,而这些建筑特点等同于当时受欢迎的抽象艺术。”通过“这些建筑特点等同于当时受欢迎的抽象艺术”这句话可以判断出这些建筑和抽象艺术有相同的特征,D项正确。【干扰排除】由第五段第二句“the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions”可知“建筑的细节和比例的高雅”,A项中“ignore”与原文信息相反,故错误。B项将第五段第二句“the architectural equivalent…at the time.”中的“the architectural”偷换成了“materials”,故错误。由文章第五段首句“…were smallertwobedroom units…than those in their older neighbors…”,可知C项中的“more spacious”与原文“smaller”相反,故C项不选。

  • 第9题:

    共用题干
    Who Built Giza's Pyramids(金字塔)?
    1 .For centuries,the pyramids of Giza have been timeless symbols of Egyptian culture.But who actually built them? For years, we did not know for sure.But archeologists(考古学家)recently discovered an ancient village near the pyramids.Close by,there was also a ceme-tery(墓地)where pyramid builders were buried.From studying these places, archeologists can now confirm that the pyramids were not built by slaves or foreigners.Ordinary Egyptians built them.
    2 .It took about eighty years to build the pyramids.According to archeologists,about 20,000~30,000 people were involved in completing the task.The workers had different roles.Some dug up the rock,some moved it,and some shaped it into blocks.People also worked on different teams,each with its own name.On a wall in Khufu's Great Pyramid,for example,a group of workers wrote“Friends of Khufu.”Teams often competed to do a job faster.
    3.Life for these workers was hard.“We can see that in their skeletons(骨架),”says Azza Mohamed Sarry El-Din,a scientist studying bodies found in the cemetery.The bones show signs of arthritis(关节炎),which developed from carrying heavy things for a long time.Archeologists have also found many female skeletons in the village and cemetery.The damage to their bones is similar to the men's.Their lives may have been even tougher:male workers lived to age 40~45,but women to only 30~35.However,workers usually had enough food,and they also had medical care if they got sick or hurt.
    4 .The work was challenging,but laborers were proud of their work.“It's because they were not just building the tomb of their king,” says Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass.“They were building Egypt.It was a national project,and everyone was a participant.”

    The pyramids of Giza were built______.
    A:of their king
    B:from taking heavy things
    C:on different teams
    D:by foreigners
    E:of their work
    F:by ordinary Egyptians

    答案:F
    解析:
    该概括大意与完成句子所选的阅读材料为叙述性文字,段落主题相对于论述文而言较松散,因此叙述性短文中的段落大意往往需要考生自己根据对段落基本意义的理解而归纳概括出来。解答概括大意题的技巧往往派不上用场。

  • 第10题:

    单选题
    The skulls and pelvic bones of some species of dinosaur share characteristics with the skulls and pelvic bones of all modern birds. Even though not all dinosaurs have these characteristics, there are scientists who claim that all animals that do have these characteristics are dinosaurs.  If the statements above and the claim of the scientists are true, which of the following must also be true?
    A

    Birds share more characteristics with dinosaurs than they do with other animals.

    B

    Some ancient dinosaurs were indistinguishable from modern birds.

    C

    All animals whose skulls share the characteristics of those of modern birds also have pelvic bones that are similar to those of modern birds.

    D

    Modern birds are dinosaurs.

    E

    All dinosaurs are birds.


    正确答案: E
    解析:
    由文段可知,科学家根据一些恐龙的头盖骨和骨盆骨与所有现代鸟类的头盖骨和骨盆骨有许多相同特征,得出结论:所有具有这些特征的动物是恐龙,如果这个推理是正确的话,我们可以认为现代鸟类是恐龙,故本题选D项。

  • 第11题:

    单选题
    From the author’s comments and the example of the bulls (paragraph 4), what was the most likely reason for which Hemingway took care to include details of place?
    A

    He felt that geography in some way illuminated other, more important events.

    B

    He thought readers generally did not have enough imagination to visualize the scenes for themselves.

    C

    He thought that landscapes were more important than characters to convey “the way it was.”

    D

    He felt that without background information the readers would be unable to follow the story.


    正确答案: C
    解析:
    A选项说地理能够在某种程度上表现出更为重要的事件,但在文中并无此意,B选项和C选项在文中也没提到。文章想要着力说明的是写作中对地理环境的刻画能够引导读者进入故事情节,就像白纸上的第一道笔画一样,因此选D。

  • 第12题:

    单选题
    A

    They tried to collect more money than the ruler asked for.

    B

    They were given some silver and gold coins by the ruler.

    C

    They were excused from paying income tax.

    D

    They enjoyed being invited to dinner at the ruler’s palace.


    正确答案: C
    解析:
    细节题。录音提到“Of course the tax collector managed to collect more money than he paid to the ruler”,可知应选A项。
    【录音原文】
      A friend of mine told me that when he was a young man, he went to work as a teacher in one of the states of India. One day he received an invitation to dinner at the ruler’s palace. Very pleased, he went to tell his colleagues. They laughed and told him the meaning of the invitation. They had all been invited and each person who was invited has to bring with him a certain number of silver and gold coins. The number of coins varied according to the person’s position in the service of the government. My friend’s income was not high, so he did not have much to pay. Each person bound before the ruler, his gold went onto one heap, his silver went onto another heap, and in this way he paid his income tax for the year. This was a simple way of collecting income tax. The tax on property was also collected simply: The ruler gave a man the power to collect a tax from each owner of land or property in a certain area if this man promised to pay the ruler a certain amount of money. Of course the tax collector managed to collect more money than he paid to the ruler. The difference between the sum of money he collected and the sum of money he gave to the ruler was his profit.
    Questions 1 to 3 are based on the passage you have just heard.
    1. What do we know about the speaker’s friend?
    2. What was the real purpose of the ruler’s invitation?
    3. What does the passage say about the tax collectors?

  • 第13题:

    What can we learn about the design of the "Case Study House"?

    A.Mechanical devices were widely used.

    B.Natural scenes were taken into consideration.

    C.Details were sacrificed for the overall effect.

    D.Eco-friendly materials were employed.


    正确答案:B
    解析:细节题。题干中的“Case Study House”定位在最后一段,并且该词在最后一段重复出现,题干没有明确的定位。因此需要选项回原文一一对应。

  • 第14题:

    What can we learn about old women in terms of fashion?

    A.They are often ignored by fashion designers .

    B. They are now more easily influenced by stars .

    C. They are regarded as pioneers in the latest fashion .

    D. They are more interested in clothes because of their old age .


    正确答案:B

  • 第15题:

    The author easily built a team of his company because __________.

    A.they were underpaid at their previous jobs
    B.they were turned down by other companies
    C.they were confident of the author and his business
    D.they were satisfied with the salaries in his company

    答案:C
    解析:
    文章第三段“I started to build a team who trusted me even though I didn’t have money forpaychecks yet.”由此可见,团队成员对作者及其创办的公司很有信心,否则不会不计后果地给他做事。故选C项。

  • 第16题:

    Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
    Mies held that elegance of architectural design____

    A.was related to large space
    B.was identified with emptiness
    C.was not reliant on abundant decoration
    D.was not associated with efficiency

    答案:C
    解析:
    细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题。需要对文章第四段的信息进行锁定,从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到第四段第二句“Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.”这句话中“he believed”是题干中“Mies held”的同义置换。“derive from”为固定搭配,意为“源于”,C项中“reliant on”意为“依靠”,因此C项中的was not reliant on和原文中的did not derive from是同义置换。原文中的abundance就是指abundant decoration,故C项正确。

  • 第17题:

    Text 1"The love of money",St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy,"is the root of all evil.""All"may be putting it a bit strongly,but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie,cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.Another well-known aphorism,ascribed to Benjamin Franklin,is"time is money".If true,that suggests a syllogism:that the love of time is a root of evil,too.But a paperjust published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania suggests precisely the opposite.Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner asked a group of volunteers to do a scries of what appeared to be aptitude tests.As is ofien the case in such experiments,though,what the voiunteers were told.and what the truth was,were rather different things.In the first test they were asked to make,within three minutes,as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set ofwords they had been presented with.What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups.Some volunteers'word sets were seeded with ones associated with money,such as"dollars","financing"and"spend".Some were seeded with words associated with time(eg,"clock",/'hours","moment").And some were seeded with neither.Thus unknowingly primed,the volunteers were ready for the second test.This was mathematical.They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers.two of which added up to ten(for example,3.81 and 6.19).They had to write down,on a separate answer sheet,how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes.They were also given a packet ofmoney and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.This led Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner to suspect that self-reflection played a part in controlling uncthical behaviour during the test.They therefore conducted a third test in which,for half the volunteers,there was a mirror in the cubicle they were sitting in when doing the experiment.Volunteers primed to think about money cheated 39%of the time when a mirror was present but 67%when it was not.Those primed to think about time cheated 32%of the time in the presence of the mirror and 36%in its absence-results that are statistically indistinguishable.Finally,a fourth experiment asked primed volunteers to fill in a questionnaire before tackling the matrix.In among"filler"questions intended to disguise what was happening this asked them to rate how they felt about self-reflective statements like,"Right now,1 am thinking about who I am as a person."As in the previous tests,those primed with money words cheated more ofien than those primed with neutral words and far more ofien than those primed with time words.But whether someone cheated was also related to how strongly he felt about the self-reflective statements presented to him in the questionnaire.It seems,then,that thinking about time has the opposite effect on people from thinking about money.It makes them more honest than normal,rather than less so.Moreover,the more reflective they are,the more honest they become.There must be an aphorism in that.
    The word"unethical"(Para.4)is closest in meaning to_____

    A.informal
    B.nontraditional
    C.non-mainstream
    D.immoral

    答案:D
    解析:
    词汇理解题。解答此题目的关键是通读对应段落后仔细分析上下文,适当地找到同性词,该段落的上文是谈第一个测试的结果,都是与欺骗有关,而考查单词的段落则是进一步说明欺骗的内容,因此考查的词汇应当与欺骗有关,D项Immoral“不道德的”与此相对应,故D项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项informal“非正式的”、B项“非传统的”和C项non-mainstream“非主流的”,都与欺骗无关,因此应当排除。

  • 第18题:

    Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
    What can we learn about the design of the“Case Study House”?

    A.Mechanical devices were widely used.
    B.Natural scenes were taken into consideration.
    C.Details were sacrificed for the overall effect.
    D.Ecofriendly materials were employed.

    答案:B
    解析:
    推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题,需要对文章末段的信息进行锁定,从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息“the design of”和“Case Study House”定位到末段第二句“Aesthetic effect…detailing.”。意思是“美学效果来自自然景色、新材料的使用以及明了的细节设计”,由此可推断出设计“Case Study House”时考虑到了自然景观,故B项正确。【干扰排除】第三句“In his…everyday life…”提到Ralph Rapson在当时错误预测了机械革命如何给人们日常生活带来影响,但无法得知是否大量应用机械设施,故A项错误。由末段第二句中的“forthright detailing”(明了的细节设计)可知C项“sacrificed(牺牲)for the overall effect”与原文信息相反,故不选。末段第二句中提到了“materials”,但是原文中是“new materials”而非D项中的“Ecofriendly materials”,故D项错误。长难句解析

  • 第19题:

    Text 1"The love of money",St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy,"is the root of all evil.""All"may be putting it a bit strongly,but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie,cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.Another well-known aphorism,ascribed to Benjamin Franklin,is"time is money".If true,that suggests a syllogism:that the love of time is a root of evil,too.But a paperjust published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania suggests precisely the opposite.Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner asked a group of volunteers to do a scries of what appeared to be aptitude tests.As is ofien the case in such experiments,though,what the voiunteers were told.and what the truth was,were rather different things.In the first test they were asked to make,within three minutes,as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set ofwords they had been presented with.What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups.Some volunteers'word sets were seeded with ones associated with money,such as"dollars","financing"and"spend".Some were seeded with words associated with time(eg,"clock",/'hours","moment").And some were seeded with neither.Thus unknowingly primed,the volunteers were ready for the second test.This was mathematical.They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers.two of which added up to ten(for example,3.81 and 6.19).They had to write down,on a separate answer sheet,how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes.They were also given a packet ofmoney and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.This led Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner to suspect that self-reflection played a part in controlling uncthical behaviour during the test.They therefore conducted a third test in which,for half the volunteers,there was a mirror in the cubicle they were sitting in when doing the experiment.Volunteers primed to think about money cheated 39%of the time when a mirror was present but 67%when it was not.Those primed to think about time cheated 32%of the time in the presence of the mirror and 36%in its absence-results that are statistically indistinguishable.Finally,a fourth experiment asked primed volunteers to fill in a questionnaire before tackling the matrix.In among"filler"questions intended to disguise what was happening this asked them to rate how they felt about self-reflective statements like,"Right now,1 am thinking about who I am as a person."As in the previous tests,those primed with money words cheated more ofien than those primed with neutral words and far more ofien than those primed with time words.But whether someone cheated was also related to how strongly he felt about the self-reflective statements presented to him in the questionnaire.It seems,then,that thinking about time has the opposite effect on people from thinking about money.It makes them more honest than normal,rather than less so.Moreover,the more reflective they are,the more honest they become.There must be an aphorism in that.
    What can we infer from the tests?

    A.The subjects have been told their assignment
    B.Volunteers who had been primed with money ideas were more likely to cheat others.
    C.12%volunteers had been primed with time-related words.
    D.33%subjects had been primed with money-related words.

    答案:B
    解析:
    推理判断题。根据题干中的信息对应文章的第二段,文中介绍了他们喜欢用一些金钱相关的词语,而第四段说“被灌输金钱思想的志愿者在面对镜子时有39%的时间都在作弊,但是如果不面对镜子,志愿者有67%的时间都在作弊。”所以B项Volunteers who had been primed with money ideas were more likely to cheat others.与此对应。故B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项“受试者清楚自己的任务”,但是文中却说他们是被悄悄地安排,因此错误;c项与D项在段落的结尾处有对应,但是数字的运算是错误的,因此应当排除。

  • 第20题:

    Text 1"The love of money",St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy,"is the root of all evil.""All"may be putting it a bit strongly,but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie,cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.Another well-known aphorism,ascribed to Benjamin Franklin,is"time is money".If true,that suggests a syllogism:that the love of time is a root of evil,too.But a paperjust published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania suggests precisely the opposite.Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner asked a group of volunteers to do a scries of what appeared to be aptitude tests.As is ofien the case in such experiments,though,what the voiunteers were told.and what the truth was,were rather different things.In the first test they were asked to make,within three minutes,as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set ofwords they had been presented with.What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups.Some volunteers'word sets were seeded with ones associated with money,such as"dollars","financing"and"spend".Some were seeded with words associated with time(eg,"clock",/'hours","moment").And some were seeded with neither.Thus unknowingly primed,the volunteers were ready for the second test.This was mathematical.They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers.two of which added up to ten(for example,3.81 and 6.19).They had to write down,on a separate answer sheet,how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes.They were also given a packet ofmoney and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.This led Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner to suspect that self-reflection played a part in controlling uncthical behaviour during the test.They therefore conducted a third test in which,for half the volunteers,there was a mirror in the cubicle they were sitting in when doing the experiment.Volunteers primed to think about money cheated 39%of the time when a mirror was present but 67%when it was not.Those primed to think about time cheated 32%of the time in the presence of the mirror and 36%in its absence-results that are statistically indistinguishable.Finally,a fourth experiment asked primed volunteers to fill in a questionnaire before tackling the matrix.In among"filler"questions intended to disguise what was happening this asked them to rate how they felt about self-reflective statements like,"Right now,1 am thinking about who I am as a person."As in the previous tests,those primed with money words cheated more ofien than those primed with neutral words and far more ofien than those primed with time words.But whether someone cheated was also related to how strongly he felt about the self-reflective statements presented to him in the questionnaire.It seems,then,that thinking about time has the opposite effect on people from thinking about money.It makes them more honest than normal,rather than less so.Moreover,the more reflective they are,the more honest they become.There must be an aphorism in that.
    The author's attitude towards the conclusion of the experiment is——.

    A.disapproval
    B.suspicious
    C.supportive
    D.certain

    答案:C
    解析:
    态度方向题。解决该题目的关键是要找到段落中作者态度的标志,最后一段是作者的最终结论,该段落表明时间观念与金钱观念对人们所产生的影响是截然不同的。由此可见,作者的态度是积极的,故C项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项disapproval“反对”、B项suspicious“怀疑”、D项certain“确定”都不能体现出作者支持的态度。

  • 第21题:

    There are about 130 prison establishments in England and Wales and some 20 in Scotland,many of which were built in the()century.

    A16th

    B17th

    C18th

    D19th


    D

  • 第22题:

    单选题
    The structures designed by Ralph C. Harris were fifteen-and seventeen-story buildings, and for their time, were some of the larger and more luxurious hotels and residences in existence.
    A

    time, were some of the larger and more luxurious hotels and residences

    B

    era, they were some of the larger and more luxurious hotels and residences

    C

    era, were some of the largest and more luxurious hotels and residences

    D

    time, they were some of the largest and most luxurious hotels and residences

    E

    era, were some of the largely and more luxuriously hotels and residences


    正确答案: C
    解析:
    根据句意和语法可知,D项最符合。

  • 第23题:

    单选题
    We are told that in a family in about 1900_______.
    A

    seven or eight children lived to be more than ten

    B

    few children died before they were five

    C

    the youngest child would be fifteen

    D

    four or five children died when they were five


    正确答案: C
    解析: