问题 单项选择题

马克思主义的国家学说,不包括以下哪一点?()

A.国家是人类社会发展到一定历史阶段的产物

B.国家是阶级矛盾不可调和的产物和表现

C.阶级的存在是国家存在的基本条件

D.任何国家都可以自行消亡

答案

参考答案:D

阅读理解

“Old wives’ tales” are beliefs passed down from one generation to another. For example,most of us remember our parents’ telling us to eat more of certain foods or not to do certain things. Is there any truth in these teachings? Some of them agree with present medical thinking,but others have not passed the test of time.

Did your mother ever tell you to eat your carrots because they are good for your eyes? Scientists now report that eating carrots can help prevent a serious eye disease called macular degeneration. Eating just one carrot a day can reduce the possibility of getting this disease by 40%. Garlic is good for you,too. It can kill the type of virus that causes colds.

Unfortunately, not all of Mom’s advice passed the test of medical studies. For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating. But research suggests that there is no danger in doing so. Do sweets cause tooth problems?Well, yes and no. Sticky sweets made with grains(谷物) tend to cause more problems than sweets made with simple sugars.

Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don’t hold_water,_there is still a lot of truth in the old wives’ tales. After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated (积累) from thousands of years of experience in family health care. We should respect this body of knowledge even as we search for clear scientific support to prove it true or false.

小题1:Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A.Sticky sweets are damaging to our teeth.

B.Eating garlic is good for our eyes.

C.Swimming after a meal is dangerous.

D.Carrots prevent people from catching colds.小题2:The author develops the third paragraph mainly________.

A.by cause and effect

B.by order in space

C.by examples

D.by order in time小题3:The phrase“ hold water” in the last paragraph most probably means“________”.

A.to be valuable

B.to be believable

C.to be admirable

D.to be suitable小题4:What is the author’s attitude towards“old wives’ tales”in the text?

A.Subjective(主观的).

B.Objective(客观的).

C.Dissatisfied.

D.Curious.

问答题

In future, as newspaper fade and change, will politicians therefore burgle their opponents’ offices without punishment Journalism schools and think-tanks, especially in America, are worried about the effect of a collapsing journalism.
Nobody should enjoy the disappearance of once-great newspapers. But the decline of newspapers will not be as harmful to society as some fear. 46. Denmocracy, remember, has already survived the huge television-led decline in circulation since the 1950s. It has survived as readers have evaded papers and papers have evaded what was in conservative times thought of as serious news. And it will surely survive the decline to come.
47. A few papers that invest in investigative stories which often benefit society the inost are in a good position to survive, as long as their owners do a comnpetent job of adjusting to changing circumstances. Publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal should be able to put up the price of their journalism to compensate for advertising revenues lost to the internet—especially as they cater to a more global readership. 48. As with many industries, it is those in the middle—neither highbrow, nor entertainingly populist—that are likeliest to fall by the wayside.
49. The usefulness of the press goes much wider than investigating abuses or even spreading general news; it lies in holding governments to account--trying them in the court of public opinion. The internet has expanded this court. Anyone looking for information has never been better equipped. People no longer have to trust a handful of national papers or, worse, their local city paper. News-aggre-gation sites such as Google News draw together sources from around the world. The website of Britain’s Guardian now has nearly half as many readers in America as it does at home.
50. Furthermore, a new force of "citizen" journalists is itc.hing to hold politicians to account. The web has opened the closed world of professional editors and reporters to anyone with a keyboard and an internet connection. Several companies have been chastened by amateur postings—of flames erupting from Dell’s laptops or of cable TV repairmen asleep on the sofa. Each blogger is capable of bias and slander, but, taken as a group, bloggers offer the searcher after truth boundless material to chew over. Of course, the internet panders to closed minds; but so has much of the press.