Two opposite words are enough to be a rhetorical device

The following pairs of words are relational opposites EXCEPT ______.

A．hot/cold

B．wife/husband

C．buy/sell

D．above/below

It is notorious that facts are compatible with opposite emotional comments, since the same fact will inspire entirely different feelings in different persons, and at different times in the same person; and there is no rationally deducible (可推论的) connection between any outer fact and the sentiments it may happen to provoke. These have their source in another sphere of existence altogether, in the animal and spiritual region of the subject's being. Conceive yourself, if possibly, suddenly stripped of all the emotion with which your world now inspires you, and try to imagine it as it exists, purely by itself, without your favorable or unfavorable, hopeful or apprehensive comment. Ft will be almost impossible for you to realize such a condition of negativity and deadness. No one portion of the universe would then have importance beyond another; and the whole collection of its things and series of its events would be without significance, character, expression, or perspective. Whatever of value, interest, or meaning our respective worlds may al3 pear endowed with are thus pure gifts of the spectator's mind. The passion of love is the most familiar and extreme example of this fact. If it comes, it comes; if it does not come, no process of reasoning can force it. Yet it trans forms the value of the creature loved as utterly as the sunrise transforms Mont Blanc from a corpse-like gray to a rosy enchantment; and it sets the whole world to a new tune for the lover and gives a new issue to his life. So with fear, with indignation, jealousy, ambition, worship. If they are there, life changes. And whether they shall be there or not depends almost always upon non-logical, often on organic conditions. And as the excited interest which these passions put into the world is our gift to the world, just so are the passions themselves gifts;—gifts to us, from sources sometimes low and some times high; but almost always non-logical and beyond our control. Gifts, either of the flesh or of the spirit; and the spirit blows where it lists, and the world's materials lend their surface passively to all the gifts alike, as the stage-setting receives indifferently whatever alternating colored lights may be shed upon it from the optical apparatus in the gallery.

Meanwhile the practically real world for each one of us, the effective world of the individual, is the compound world, the physical facts and emotional values in indistinguishable combination. Withdraw or pervert (使错乱) either factor of this complex resultant, and the kind of experience we call pathological ensues.

This passage mainly discusses ______.

A．the dual nature of the world in which we humans live

B．the effect of strong emotions

C．emotion and reality'

D．emotions and passions—gifts of the spectator's mind

The pair of words borrow and "lend" are ______.

A．gradable opposites

B．relational opposites

C．complementary opposites

D．contradictory opposites

A correlation coefficient of+0 means two stocks are______.

A．perfectly positively correlated

B．opposite the market beta

C．equal to the market beta

D．perfectly negatively correlated

To be brief, a hedge is placed by taking a futures position opposite to the position held in the ___ market.

A.cash

B.share

C.stock

D.futures

听力原文： Two tragedies at coal mines on opposite sides of the world remind us all how dangerous some jobs Can De.

In China last week, floodwaters from a river trapped one hundred and eighty-one miners in two mines. An official in Shandong province said Thursday that there was no hope of finding them alive.

The Crandall Canyon mine in the American state of Utah collapsed on August sixth, trapping six miners. Last week, another collapse at the mine killed three rescuers and injured six others.

Coal mining deaths have been decreasing in the United States. But last year there were forty-seven, more than double the number the year before. Twelve of the deaths resulted from an explosion at the Sago mine in West Virginia.

The Labor Department has a newly published report on work-related deaths last year in the United States. (28)The construction industry had the largest number. But the single deadliest job in the United States is commercial fisherman.

What does it mean by mentioning "opposite sides of the world" ?

A．China and the United States.

B．Europe and Australia.

C．South America and India.

D．Japan and Korea.

There are generally three kinds of sense relations recognized, sameness relation, oppositeness relation and inclusiveness relation. They are represented by______respectively.

A．synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy

B．synonymy, hyponymy, and antonymy

C．antonymy, synonymy, and hyponymy

根据以下内容回答题：

Friend is better than fortune．Friend is worse than poison in some（1）．The above two statements are opposite and seem to be unreasonable but they can be explained（2）.The latter implies all evil friends who lead US astray．The former（3）all good friends who drive us towards good.My ideal friend is of course a good friend（4）goodness is shown below．He has no bad liking，as smoking and drinking．He lives in frugality．He studies diligently（5）waste his golden time．（6）he honors his parents and loves his brothers，at school he respects his teachers and sympathizes with his school mates．He treats those truly who are（7）him．He never speaks of others’evils（8）boasts of his own merits．In a word，he has all the good characters better than（9）．I can follow him as a model．By his precepts I am（10）the danger of doing a wrong action．By his help I am free from all dlffieulues． Indeed，if I have such a person as my friend，I shall never fear difficulty and I shall nev-er know the existence of the word“failure”．

1.

A.conditions

B.eases

C.times

D.occasions

Should a leader strive to be loved or feared? This question, famously posed by Machiavelli, lies at the heart of Joseph Nye's new book. Mr. Nye, a former dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and one-time chairman of America's National Intelligence Council, is best known for promoting the idea of “soft power”, based on persuasion and influence, as a counterpoint to "hard power" , based on coercion (强迫) and force.

Having analyzed the use of soft and hard power in politics and diplomacy in his previous books, Mr. Nye has now turned his attention to the relationship between power and leadership, in both the political and business spheres. Machiavelli, he notes, concluded that "one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved." In short, hard power is preferable to soft power. But modern leadership theorists have come to the opposite conclusion.

The context of leadership is changing, they observe, and the historical emphasis on hard power is becoming outdated. In modern companies and democracies, power is increasingly diffused and traditional hierarchies (等级制) are being undermined, making soft power ever more important. But that does not mean coercion should now take a back seat to persuasion, Mr. Nye argues. Instead, he advocates a synthesis of these two views. The conclusion of The Powers to Lead, his survey of the theory of leadership, is that a combination of hard and soft power, which he calls "smart power”, is the best approach.

The dominant theoretical model of leadership at the moment is, apparently, the “transformational leadership pattern”. Anyone allergic (反感) to management term will already be running for the exit, but Mr. Nye has performed a valuable service in rounding up and summarizing the various academic studies and theories of leadership into a single, slim volume. He examines different approaches to leadership, the morality of leadership and how the wider context can determine the effectiveness of a particular leader. There are plenty of anecdotes and examples, both historical and contemporary, political and corporate.

Alas, leadership is a slippery subject, and as he depicts various theories, even Mr. Nye never quite nails the jelly to the wall. He is at his most interesting when discussing the moral aspects of leadership—in particular, the question of whether it is sometimes necessary for good leaders to lie—and he provides a helpful 12-point summary of his conclusions. A recurring theme is that as circumstances change, different sorts of leaders are required; a leader who thrives in one environment may struggle in another, and vice versa. Ultimately that is just a fancy way of saying that leadership offers no easy answers.

From the first two paragraphs we may learn that Mr. Machiavelli's idea of hard power is ______.

A．well accepted by Joseph Nye

B．very influential till nowadays

C．based on sound theories

D．contrary to that of modern leadership theorists

Friend is better than fortune. Friend is worse than poison in some 【B1】 . The above two statements are opposite and seem to be 【B2】 but they can be explained 【B3】 : The latter 【B4】 all evil friends who 【B5】 us astray. The former 【B6】 all good friends who drive us towards good.

My 【B7】 friend is of course a good friend 【B8】 goodness is shown 【B9】 . He has no bad 【B10】 , as smoking and drinking. He lives frugally. He studies diligently 【B11】 waster his golden time. 【B12】 he 【B13】 his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects his teachers and 【B14】 his schoolmates. He treats those truly who are 【B15】 him. He never speaks of others' evils 【B16】 boasts of his own merits. 【B17】 , he has all the good characters better than 【B18】 . I can follow him as a model. By his precepts I am 【B19】 the danger of doing a wrong action. By his help I 【B20】 all difficulties.

Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never feel difficult and I shall never know the existence of the word "failure".

【B1】

A．conditions

B．cases

C．times

D．occasions