Joseph Conrad's works emerge out of the confluence of three literary currents prominent in the Europe of Conrad's time: romanticism, realism, modernism.

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A．three week's work

B．three weeks' works

C．three weeks' work

D．three week's works

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A．three week's work

B．three weeks' works

C．three weeks' work

D．three week's works

Which of the following sentences works best as the topic sentence for the list of sentences above?

A、Food, art dance, clothing, music, and holidays offer windows into the cultural values, patterns, and expectations of the local people.

B、Many study-abroad students find that navigating the transportation of another country can be among the most frustrating yet rewarding aspects of studying abroad.

C、After living in such a city for a semester, however, such students develop a certain pride in being able to travel with confidence across a large city, picking the right bus or train line, and leading visitors to destinations across town.

D、Other students study in a rural community or less developed location, where buses or public transit may be limited or even primitive. Finding a safe bus or van for intercity travel can take hours in many parts of the world.

From the perspective of the poor, it seems obvious that the benefits would outweigh the costs. The benefits to poor people of no longer being poor would be enormous. Their intake of protein and other nutrition would increase their choice of housing and the quality of the housing they select would improve. Crimes related to poverty(that the poor generally commit against each other)—murder, rape, robbery, burglary, child abuse, spouse abuse, and drug related crimes—would probably decrease. Apart from these specific improvements, the poor would benefit by an increase in the control over their own lives. Increased purchasing power represents a part of this. More money to spend not only permits the purchase of additional goods and services but greatly widens the choice of goods and services that potentially could be purchased. The poor, if no longer poor, would also gain greater control of various non-fiscal aspects of their lives. As their economic stake in society increases, their political stake is likely to increase as well. They will note more, and thus exercise a greater influence in municipal, local, state, and federal elections. As a result, elected officials will respond to them more effectively. Agencies of government—police, fire, sanitation, streets, parks, and so forth—will also respond more promptly and effectively. Public school systems in particular will be more responsive. The former poor who dislike the education their children are getting in public schools will have an increased ability to "vote with the dollars" by enrolling their children in previously unaffordable private schools or moving to living quarters in previously unaffordable communities. Responding to the former poor will become a matter of survival for the teachers and administrators who depend for their livelihood on the public schools. While the benefits to the poor of enjoying a right not to be poor may for the most part be obvious, some potential disadvantages—to them—should also be considered. First, will not the creation of a right not to be poor reduce the motivation of the poor to exert themselves to get out of poverty? It is arguable that to the extent that self-help is rendered unnecessary to achieve a minimum living standard, many of the poor will refrain from enrolling in the schools, undertaking the enterprises, and in general taking the risks that today elevate many of them not only above the poverty line but into the middle class and beyond. The establishment of a right not to be poor could result, arguably, in the poor as a whole—or at least a substantial percentage of them—ending up economically worse off in the long run. Second, to the extent that a guarantee of non-poverty reduces the poors incentive to exert themselves, will there not be a parallel reduction in their innovative contributions to the economic well-being of our entire society—including the well-being of the former poor along with the well-being of the rest of us? In other words, a guarantee of non-poverty may arguably induce the poor child—whose deprivation would otherwise have spurred the child to graduate from high school, finish college, get a Ph.D. in physics, and win the Nobel Prize for devising a way to produce cheaper energy—to refrain, because of the security offered by the guarantee, from embarking on a course that would greatly benefit all former poor people as well as society as a whole.

Which one of the following is usually viewed as a crime related to poverty?

A．A rich businessman humiliates his poor fellow for not working hard.

B．A worker beats a gentleman for his staring at his beautiful wife.

C．A poor man murders another poor one just for his money.

D．A president of a company sends a spy to another company to steal some information.

Edouard Manet's Races in the Bois de Boulogne is similar to Picasso's works in all the following aspects EXCEPT

A．vigor.

B．authority.

C．harmony in the color scheme.

D．the same high price.

Which of the following is NOT Mark Twain's works?

A．The Innocent's Abroad

B．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C．The Prince and the Pauper

D．Daisy Miller

When facing the stress problem, only 20% of the college students would turn to______.

听力原文：Tutor: We're very pleased to welcome Professor lsaac Nebworth to our tutorial group today and he's come to share one of his pet passions with us - city traffic and our western dependence on the motor car. I believe questions are quite welcome throughout.

Professor: Thank you. Well, I know you're all very familiar with the super highway here in Melbourne. But do super highways automatically lead to super wealth, as our politicians would have us believe? I think not.

Tutor: Can you give us an example of what you mean exactly? Professor: Sure ... well, by continuing to encourage this dependence on the motor car, we simply create more congestion and more urban sprawl. And you can see that here in Melbourne right under your nose.

Student: Excuse me. I would just like to say that I feel the sprawl is part of the city. The freeways mean people can

enjoy the benefits of living away from the centre ... on larger blocks with gardens… but still be able to drive back into the city centre for work or entertainment.

Professor: Well, I'm not convinced that people want to do that. And is our money being well spent? It may be OK for you now but come back to me in five years time! Let's take City Link, for example, the new freeway here in Melbourne.

Student: Well ... I use the freeway all the time. I think it's great.

Professor: Ah yes, but it cost ＄2 billion to build, and you could have gotten ten times the value by putting the money into public transport. If you give the automobile road space, it will fill that space ... and you'll soon find you'll be crawling along your City Link.

Tutor: But surely, you cannot simply blame the car. Some of the blame must rest with governments and city planners?

Student: Well there is an argument, surely, that building good roads is actually beneficial because most new cars these days are highly efficient - they use far less petrol than in the past and emissions of dangerous gases are low. Old congested roads, on the other hand, encourage traffic to move slowly and it's the stationary cars that cause the pollution and smog ... whereas good roads increase traffic speeds and thus the amount of time cars are actually on the roads.

Professor: Well ... this is the old argument put forward by the road lobby but, for me it's clear cut. Roads equal cars which equal smog. Public transport is the way to go.

Tutor: Now ... on that topic of public transport, I read somewhere recently that Australia isn't doing too badly in the challenge to increase the use of public transport.

Professor: Better than America, granted, but by comparison with Canada, it's not so good. For instance, if you compare Toronto with the US metropolis of Detroit only 160 kilometres away ... in Detroit only 1% of passenger travel is by public transport whereas in Toronto it's 24%, which is considerably better than Sydney which can only boast 16%.

Tutor: Well I think it's encouraging that our least cardependent city is actually our largest city. 16% of trips being taken on public transport in Sydney, isn't too bad.

Professor: But it's a long way behind Europe. Take both London and Paris for instance ... where 30% of all trips taken are on public transport.

Tutor: Well, they do both have an excellent underground system.

Professor: ... and Frankfurt comes in higher still at 32%.

Tutor: I understand that they've been very successful in Copenhagen at ridding the city of the car. Can you tell us anything about that experiment?

Professor: Yes indeed. Copenhagen is a wonderful example of a city that has learnt to live without the motor car. Back in the 1960s they adopted a number of policies designed to draw people back into the city. For instance, they paid musicians and artists to perform. in the streets. They also built cycle lanes and now 30% of the inhabitants of Copenhagen use a bicycle to go to work. Sydney, by comparison, can only boast 1% of the population cycling to wo

A．lead to better lifestyles.

B．are a feature of wealthy cities.

C．result in more city suburbs.

In its everyday life, Italy is very much the man's world. However, because of the Italian's understanding of foreigners, the woman tourist is able to invade many of the male places that are prohibited to Italian women. These places include the cafè and the wine shop.

In the large cities the cafè is a combination of club and office. Here, for the price of a coffee, an Italian can read all the newspapers brought to him. And he can transact business, with the waiter producing pen, ink, and stamps as needed. Or if he wants, he can sit outside under a canvas covering before the door and enjoy the sight of beautiful women passing by.

The wine shop, as a rule, is a more vigorous place than the caf6, and is filled almost exclusively with men. Wandering singers, generally in groups of two or three, add to the noise of these places with their songs and music. Many of the songs are of a political character and make fun of the leading statesmen of Italy, America, England, France, and Russia. But the songs are generally showing off a spirit of mischief. And when the criticism is about America, the American tourists find themselves laughing as much as anyone else. The Italian is a master at making fun of you and making you like it.

The Italian men are deep-rooted gamblers. They have been brought up to it as children, but they are cautious gamblers and never go too much in it. The national lottery used to be one of the most popular forms of gambling. But later a football stake had taken away much of the interest in the lottery. But here the important thing is that gambling, the same as drinking, seldom goes to an Italian's head and his bets are not really dangerous risks. Even at cards the Italian plays for low stakes, generally for a cup of coffee or wine.

In this world of the Italian male it would be careless if the romanticism of the Italian were neglected. The Italian might well be described as the world's greatest romanticist. From any boat in Venice to any member of the government in Rome, the Italian is always aware of romance, of love and of the importance of being a good lover.

on the beaches of Italy, the visitor is aware that the Italian really live for romance. His manners, his compliments, his charm and his general way of behaving are those of a romanticist. Almost every Italian you meet is convinced that he is another Casanova.

Romance is as much a part of Italy as its art and its history. Perhaps the feeling of romance that wells up in you when you come to Italy is one of the greatest things that Italy has to offer a world that is tired of war and political intrigue. It is the ideal place for a honeymoon because hotel managers and waiters make you conscious of your own love and stress it in such a way that you feel more in love in this country than in any other.

In Italy, the cafè and the wine shop ______.

A．welcome everybody, including both men and women

B．welcome the Italian women only

C．do not allow the Italian women to come in

D．do not allow the foreign women to come in

In its everyday life, Italy is very much the man's world. However, because of the Italian's understanding of foreigners, the woman tourist is able to invade many of the male places that are prohibited to Italian women. These places include the caffe and the wine shop.

In the large cities the caffe is a combination of club and office. Here, for the price of a coffee, an Italian can read all the newspapers brought to him. And he can transact business, with the waiter producing pen, ink, and stamps as needed. Or if he wants, he can sit outside under a canvas covering before the door and enjoy the sight of beautiful women passing by.

The wine shop, as a rule, is a more vigorous place than the caffe, and is filled almost exclusively with men. Wandering singers, generally in groups of two or three, add to the noise of these places with their songs and music. Many of the songs are of a political character and make fun of the leading statesmen of Italy, America, England, France, and Russia. But the songs are generally showing off a spirit of mischief. And when the criticism is about America, the American tourists find themselves laughing as much as anyone else. The Italian is a master at making fun of you and making you like it.

The Italian men are deep-rooted gamblers. They have been brought up to it as children, but they are cautious gamblers and never go too much in it. The national lottery used to be one of the most popular forms of gambling. But later a football stake had taken away much of the interest in the lottery. But here the important thing is that gambling, the same as drinking, seldom goes to an Italian's head and his bets are not really dangerous risks. Even at cards the Italian plays for low stakes, generally for a cup of coffee or wine.

In this world of the Italian male it would be careless if the romanticism of the Italian were neglected. The Italian might well be described as the world's greatest romanticist. From any boat in Venice to any member of the government in Rome, the Italian is always aware of romance, of love and of the importance of being a good lover.

On the beaches of Italy, the visitor is aware that the Italian really lives for romance. His manners, his compliments, his charm and his general way of behaving are those of a romanticist. Almost every Italian you meet is convinced that he is another Casanova.

Romance is as much a part of Italy as its art and its history. Perhaps the feeling of romance that wells up in you when you come to Italy is one of the greatest things that Italy has to offer a world that is tired of war and political intrigue. It is the ideal place for a honeymoon because hotel managers and waiters make you conscious of your own love and stress it in such a way that you feel more in love in this country than in any other.

In Italy, the caffe and the wine shop______.

A．welcome everybody, including both men and women

B．welcome the Italian women only

C．do not allow the Italian women to come in

D．do not allow the foreign women to come in