Samuel Richardson is regarded as the greatest epistolary novel writer of 18th century Europe.

Called by many critics the greatest achievement of English lyrical poetry, this elegy was written upon the death of a fellow alumnus of Milton's, Edward King, who was drowned in the Irish Sea in 1637. A group of King's former schoolmates at Cambridge issued a commemorative volume titled Obsequies to the Memory of Mr. Edward King (1638). It was in this limited publication that Lycidas first appeared. Heretofore, of his great poems only Comus had been published, and that anonymously.

Lycidas is not an expression of personal grief ( personal grief was to be eloquent in Milton's next important poem, the Latin Epitaphium Damonis), but rather a record of the thoughts that King's death evoked in the poet. King had written verses himself and had prepared himself for the Church. These two facts of the dead man's career form. the basis for what Milton had to say. Outwardly the poem is written in the tradition of pastoral poetry, and more particularly in the tradition of the pastoral elegy as exhibited in the ancient Greek Lament for Bion by Moschus. The poet is spoken of as a shepherd. But Milton introduces the innovation of identifying the Christian idea of shepherd (pastor) as meaning priest. In a wonderful fusion of pagan and Christian tradition, Milton makes his elegy the occasion for a scathing attack on the corruptions of the clergy in his time, with parenthetical thrusts of scorn at his trivial contemporaries, the Cavalier poets.

Samuel Johnson, who disliked all pastoral poetry, made the one outstandingly foolish judgment of his career, in dismissing Lycidas as a work of an. He said its "diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing, "--a testimony of the fact that Johnson was deaf to the refinements of English poetry at its subtlest, for Lycidas is an exquisite piece of music from the first line through the last. Moreover, Johnson was upset at the mingling of "trifling fictions" with "the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverent combinations." That pronouncement can only mean that Johnson failed to grasp the noble idea at the center of the poem: Milton's definition of the high function of a poet.

Samuel Johnson disliked Lycidas because ______.

A．he was deaf

B．he made a foolish judgment

C．it was a pastoral poem

D．he was not a friend of Edward King

It is commonly supposed that when a man seeks literary power he goes to his room and prepares an article for the press. But this is to begin literary culture【C1】______ the wrong end. We speak a hundred times for every【C2】______ we write. The busiest writer produces 【C3】______ more than a volume a year, not so much as his talk would【C4】______ in a week.【C5】______ through speech it is usually decided whether a man is to have【C6】______ of his language or not. If he is slovenly in his ninety-nine cases of talking, he can【C7】______ pull himself【C8】______ to strength and exactitude (精确) in the hundredth ease of writing. A person is made in one piece, and the same being runs through a 【C9】______ of performances. Whether words are uttered on paper or to the air, the effect【C10】______ the utterer is the same. Vigor or feebleness is【C11】______ accordingly as energy or slackness has been in command. I know that certain【C12】______ to a new field are often necessary. A good speaker may find awkwardness in himself, when he【C13】______ write; a good writer, when he speaks. And certainly eases occur【C14】______ a man exhibits【C15】______ strength in one of the two, speaking or writing, and not in the other. But such eases are rare.【C16】______ , language once【C17】______ our control can be employed for oral or for written【C18】______ And【C19】______ the opportunities for oral practice enormously outbalance those for written, it is the oral which are chiefly significant in the【C20】______ of literary power.

【C1】

A．on

B．in

C．by

D．at

The writer seems to think that the teacher's judgment on that sensitive piece of writing is______

A．reasonable

B．unfair

C．foolish

D．careless

The writer seems to think that the teacher's judgment on that sensitive piece of writing is ______.

A．reasonable

B．foolish

C．unfair

D．careless

The writer seems to think that the teacher's judgment on that sensitive piece of writing is______.

A．reasonable

B．unfair

C．foolish

D．careless

听力原文：M: Here we are. This is the National Palace Museum. What are you especially interested in seeing?

W: It's hard to say. In fact, I know very little about Chinese art and history. But can you give me some details about this building?

M: It's built in the classical Chinese style, with a curved roof.

W: What are those little statues on the roof?

M: In the old days they were used to cover the nails that held the roof together, because the roofs were made of wood. Nowadays, the statues are just for decoration.

W: That's the same style. roof as the concert hall we visited yesterday, right? It seems like I've seen it before.

M: Right. The styles are the same, but as you can see, the colors are different. The Museum is yellow, which stands for the emperor.

W: Hmm. How did the Museum get such a large collection?

M: This art collection was the emperors'. But it was taken over by the Nationalists in 1924.

W: How old is the collection?

M: Some of the bronze pieces go hack to the 17th century B. C., but the collection itself was set up by the first emperor of the Song Dynasty over a thousand years ago.

W: Over a thousand years? Incredible! Let's go inside. I can't wait to check it put!

M: OK. You know, most of the collection here was put together during the Qing Dynasty. So, what did you think?

W: I was impressed with the landscape paintings, and all the jade carvings. That jade cabbage just can' t be beat !

M: Yeah, the colors were so realistic, and it was so carefully carved. What else did you like?

W: I really liked the calligraphy. I wish I could understand what it said. The writing was beautiful.

M: I'm glad you enjoyed it.

(23)

A．In a concert hall.

B．In the National Palace Museum.

C．At an exhibition.

D．On the plane.

听力原文：F: I'm sorry, Sir. But you're allowed only one piece of luggage on the plane. You'll have to check in one of your suitcases at the baggage counter.

M: Actually, one of these belongs to the woman up ahead. I'm just giving her a hand.

Q: What does the man mean?

(13)

A．He refuses to check in the other suitcase.

B．He only has one suitcase, and one of the suitcases he's carrying isn't his.

C．He thinks the woman up ahead should check in the suitcase.

D．He's helping the woman up ahead to check in the suitcase.

材料：

It is not recommended that any person shall be allowed on the bridge or in the pilot house except the pilot and other representative of the canal，and master and such officers and other members of the crew of the vessel as may be necessary for its navigation and control，management，operation and safety．

Navigational aids are difficult to maintain and are reported to be unreliable in this waters．A considerable amount of shipping uses the canal and，in addition，many local fishing craft with nets may be encountered in the area. Since passage through the canal entails a run of more than 250 miles，long periods of considerable vigilance are necessary in order to maintain safe standards of navigation．

问题：

PILOT HOUSE is referred to ________ in this passage．

A.the cabin in which the pilot stays

B.the space which the rudder is located

C.the bridge of vessels

D.the cabin which is prepared for the pilot

SHIPPING is referred ________ in this passage．A.the operations of transportation of GOODs by sea

B.the procedures of marine transportation business

C.the management of marine transportation business

D.the vessels and ships

The person on the bridge or in the pilot house shall be those ________．A.who are recommended

B.who are familiar with the navigation．management．Operation and safety control

C.who are directly involved in the navigation，management，operation and safety control

D.who have nothing to do with the navigation，management，operation and safety control

The author implies that ________．A.even by making use of modern instrument it is difficult to maintain safety in this area

B.mariners should take it easy when navigating in this area

C.modern instrument should be used to control the safety of navigation in this area

D.it is dangerous when navigating in this area

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

Lots of creatures already reproduce without sex. Since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, in 1978, (1)_____ of human beings (2)_____ in laboratory glassware rather than in bed.

If human cloning becomes possible—and since the birth of a sheep called Dolly, (3)_____ doubt that it will be feasible to clone a person by 2025—even the link between sex organs and reproduction (4)_____. You will then be able to take a cutting from your body and grow a new person, (5)_____ you were a willow tree.

(6)_____, we have already divorced sex from reproduction. In the 1960s, the contraceptive pill freed women to enjoy sex for its own sake. (7)_____, greater tolerance of homosexuality signaled society's acceptance of non-reproductive sex of another sort. These changes are only continuations of a (8)_____ that started perhaps a million years ago.

Human beings (9)_____ the interest in infertile, social sex with a few other species: dolphins, apes and some birds. But (10)_____ sex is too good for human beings to (11)_____, more and more people will abandon it as a (12)_____ of reproduction.

In the modern world, you can (13)_____ have sex and parenthood without suffering the bit (14)_____. Some Hollywood actresses (15)_____ the urge for mothering by electing to adopt children (16)_____ spoil their figures (as they see it) by childbearing. For people as beautiful as this, the temptation to (17)_____ a clone (reared in a surrogate womb) could one day be (18)_____.

However, human cloning and designer babies are probably not (19)_____. Even assuming that the procedures are judged safe and efficient in farm animals, still a long way off, they will be heavily (20)_____, if not banned, by many governments for human beings.

A．hundreds of thousands

B．hundred of thousands

C．hundreds of thousand

D．hundred of thousand