Which of the followings is highly sterile

Which of the following best states the author's main point about artists who have abandoned the hierarchical distinction between art and theory?

A．Theirs is a sterile, abstract practice, unlikely to produce few lasting works.

B．They have demonstrated that critics are less important to the art-making process than the public commonly believes.

C．They have laudably focused their energy on exposing the extent to which theory informs their own practice.

D．They have, to the detriment of their work, lost track of inner realm of the creator.

E．They have demonstrated a positive alternative to critics who have abandoned their field to become artists.

Which of the following best states the author's main point about artists who have abandoned the hierarchical distinction between art and theory?

A．Theirs is a sterile, abstract practice, unlikely to produce few lasting works.

B．They have demonstrated that critics are less important to the art-making process than the public commonly believes.

C．They have laudably focused their energy on exposing the extent to which theory informs their own practice.

D．They have, to the detriment of their work, lost track of inner realm of the creator.

E．They have demonstrated a positive alternative to critics who have abandoned their field to become artists.

A．The nurse keeps her hands from touching the patient at all times and her arms cross over the bowl that is on the table

B．The nurse keeps her hands above her waist at all times, always faces the sterile bowl, and does not allow her hands to touch the patient．

C．The nurse keeps her hands above her waist at all times, should face the patient and not the bowl, and does not allow her patient to touch her．

D．The nurse knows that her sterile gloves actually do not need to be kept sterile for this procedur

E．It’s just a clean procedur

E．

CAUSTIC:

A．innocuous

B．tortuous

C．inflexible

D．deadening

E．sterile

听力原文： In Chile, the military government held a rally today in support of President Augusto Pinochet, who escaped an assassination attempt two days ago. A crackdown on opponents of his government continued in response to that attack. A journalist for an opposition magazine was found dead. His family and colleagues charge he had been kidnapped yesterday by police. Tim Fosca reports now from Santiago.

Several thousand people gathered in front of La Moneda, the presidential palace, for a rally in support of General Augusto Pinochet this afternoon. Heavily armed soldiers were stationed along major downtown streets for the demonstration, which is celebrating the thirteenth anniversary this week of the military take- over. Hundreds of members of women's charity groups passed in review before General Pinochet and his wife Lucia. The head of state appeared physically unaffected by his close call Sunday when he narrowly escaped assassination. Hours before the rally, Jose Carrasco, a thirty-eight-year-old editor at the opposition magazine Analisis was found dead in a Santiago cemetery. He had been shot ten times. Carrasco's wife said he was roused from bed early Monday morning by men claiming to be police. But authorities officially denied his ar-rest. Carrasco, a member of MIR, the revolutionary left movement, had been back in Chile only two years after eight years in exile. The bodies of at least two more murdered victims were also found today, but their identities have not yet been established. Arrests continued in the second day of the state of siege. More leftist political figures were rounded up, bringing the total number of detentions to twenty. The government has issued arrest orders for a number of others, some of whom are in hiding. On the list is at least one member of the Chilean Human Rights Commission. A spokesman said the homes of Commission members in the provincial city of San Fernando were also raided, but no members were at home. All opposition magazines were ordered closed yesterday, including the Christian democratic weekly, Hoy. Under the last state of siege in 1984 and 85, Hoy was allowed to continue publishing. The situation of five foreign priests and one local lay worker detained yesterday remains unresolved. The clergymen were accused of attacking police officers and carrying instructions on how to make home-made bombs. General Pinochet warned yesterday that human rights advocates would have to be expelled. For National Public Radio, This is Tim Fosca in Santiago.

A demonstration was held to ______.

A．protest the government's crackdown on its opponents

B．defy the attempt to assassinate President Augusto Pinochet

C．celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of the military takeover

D．support the Chilean Human Rights Commission

In 1908, an object from outer space devastated2,000km2of forest in Siberia. The object was between10m and 100m in diameter and traveled at a maximumspeed of 15km/sec. It exploded at an altitude of 8km andreleased energy equivalent to 20million tons of TNT. Twoscientists discuss whether this object was a comet or anasteroid.

Scientist 1

The object was a comet, a body made of ices (such asfrozen water or methane) and dust. Most of this cometarymaterial is volatile(easily vaporized) and low in density.Friction in Earth’s atmosphere heated the comet to a tem-perature at which it exploded, high above the ground. Themajority of the ices and dust were vaporized in the explo-sion, which explains why no crater was formed at the siteand why no large, identifiable fragments of the object werefound. An asteroid would not have been completelydestroyed. Intact asteroid fragments that reached theground would have created one or more craters uponimpact and left behind recoverable pieces. Evidence showsthat the object decelerated rapidly before it exploded.Because of their low density, comets are capable of suchrapid deceleration, whereas high-density objects, such asasteroids, are not.

Scientist 2

The object was a stony asteroid. As it entered Earth’satmosphere, its high speed created a large air pressure dif-ference between the area just in front of the asteroid andthe area just behind the asteroid. The large pressure differ-ence eventually exceeded the structural strength of theasteroid. The asteroid flattened, decelerated rapidly due tothe dramatic increase in its surface area, and fragmentedbefore reaching the ground. This fragmentation would haveappeared like an explosion. Calculations show that a cometbetween 10m and 100m in diameter would explode at analtitude much higher than 8km, but a stony asteroid of thatsize would fragment at or near an altitude of 8km.Recovery of large asteroid fragments is difficult due to thearea’s boggy soil; however, small, glassy fragments wererecovered and are believed to be melted and resolidifiedpieces of the asteroid.

Which of the following phrases best describes the majorpoint of difference between the 2 scientists’ hypotheses?

A.The location of the event

B.The speed the object was traveling

C.The density of Earth’s atmosphere

D.The type of object that entered Earth’s atmosphere

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

Quietly, almost unnoticed by a world sunk into the Great Depression, Germany on Jan. 30, 1933, was handed to a monster. Adolf Hitler arrived, not in jackboots at the head of his Nazi legions but on cat paws, creeping in the side door.

The president, Field Marshal Paul yon Hindenburg, 85 and doddering, hated Hitler and all he represented. In 1931, after their first meeting, Hindenburg said Hitler "might become minister of posts but never chancellor." In 1932 Hitler challenged Hindenburg. The president—Protestant, Prussian, a conservative monarchist—won with the votes of Socialists, unions, centrist Catholics and liberal democrats. Hitler—Catholic, Austrian and a former tramp—carried upper class Protestants, Prussian landowners and monarchists.

Nearly senile(衰老的) and desperate for any way to establish order in the fractions environment, Hindenburg fell prey to intriguer. Papen began plotting to bring himself to power and his supposed friend Schleicher to the top of the army. Papen offered Hindenburg a government with Hitler's support but without Hitler in the cabinet. Hindenburg made Papen chancellor and Schleicher defense minister.

In the July 1932 parliamentary elections, the Nazi won 230 of 608 seats, and Hitler demanded the chancellorship; Hindenburg refused. Papen lost a confidence vote in August, and his government fell after using in the fourth election in a year in November. Schleicher, whose very name means "intriguer", turned on Papen, persuading Hindenburg to name him chancellor. Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels noted: "He won't last long."

To get revenge, Papen proposed sharing power with Hitler in January 1933; Hitler agreed, but with Papen as vice chancellor. Ever eager for order, Hindenburg shifted once again and fired Schleicher. "I am sure, "the president said, "I shall not regret this action in heaven." Schleicher replied bitterly, "After this breach of trust, sir, I am not sure you will go to heaven." Schleicher would later say: "I stayed in power only 57 days, and on each and every one of them I was betrayed 57 times. Don't ever speak to me of German loyalty!"

At noon on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as chancellor. Within one month the Reichstag(德国国会大厦) burned and civil liberties were suspended. Within two months, the Enabling Act stripped parliament of power and made Hitler dictator. On April 1, Hitler decreed a boycott of Jewish businesses. On April 4, he created the Reich Defense Council and began secretly rearming Germany. On April 14, Hitler made the Nazi Party "the only political party in Germany ".

The author says that Hitler came into power "on cat paws" because ______.

A．he seized power illegally

B．he seized power by military force

C．he quietly took advantage of the internal conflict

D．he cleverly took advantage of the Great Depression