During the past two years, the ______ of automobile accidents in London City has decreased
A.proportion
B.quantity
C.amount
D.number
A.proportion
B.quantity
C.amount
D.number
【C1】
A.agenda
B.schedule
C.basis
D.interval
During the past ten years, there have been __ changes in the country.
A.Lasting
B.Dramatic
C.Powerful
D.imaginary
Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutusl influence
among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music cul Lure as a whole.
One more important part of music's material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media—radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the "information revolution", a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; the)' have affected music cultures all over the globe.
Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance bucause ______.
A.it helps produce new cultural tools and technology
B.it can reflect the development of the nation
C.it helps understand the nation's past and present
D.it can demonstrate the nations civilization
What happened during the past four weeks?().
A.The patient has visited several doctors.
B.The patient's company has undergone an integration.
C.The patient's company has dismissed several employees.
D.The patient's company has moved into a new building.
That the plates are moving is now beyond dispute. Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from each other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them. The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of one plate with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth's interior. It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it. Hot spots, anchored in the deeper layers of the earth, provide the measuring instruments needed to resolve the question. From an analysis of the hot spot population it appears that the African plate is stationary and that it has not moved during the past 30 mil lion years.
The significance of hot spots is not confined to their role as a frame. of reference. It now appears that they also have an important influence on the geophysical processes that propel the plates across the globe. When a continental plate comes to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layer creates a broad dome. As the dome grows, it develops deed fissures (cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean. Thus just as earlier theories have explained the mobility of the continents, so hot spots may explain their mutability (inconstancy).
The author believes that ______.
A.the motion of the plates corresponds to that of the earth's interior
B.the geological theory about drifting plates has been proved to be truse
C.the hot spots and the plates move slowly in opposite directions
D.the movement of hot spots proves the continents are moving apart
According to the passage, Pearl Buck described herself as "mentally bifocal" to suggest that she was ().
A.capable of resolving the differences between two distinct linguistic systems
B.keenly aware of how the past could influence the future
C.capable of producing literary works of interest to both
D.equally familiar with two different cultural environments
A.human civilization remains gorious though it is affected by climatic changes
B.mankind is virtually helpless in the face of the dramatic changes of climate
C.man has to limit his activities to slow down the global warming process
D.human civilization will continue to develop in spite of the changes of nature
A.among
B.during
C.with
D. between
A.that
B.besides
C.because
D.except