【正文】 s history. A. Ballad. B. Romance. C. Epic. D. Elegy. 37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20 century? A. The Great Gatsby. B. The Sun Also Rises. C. The Sound and the Fury. D. Beyond the Horizon. 38. ________ is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind. A. Semantics. B. Pragmatics. C. Cognitive linguistics D. Sociolinguistics 39. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of ________. A. absence of obstruction. B. presence of obstruction. C. manner of articulation. D. Place of articulation.40. The definition “the act of using, or promoting the use of, several languages, either by an individual speaker or by a munity of speakers” refers to ________. A. Pidgin. B. Creole. C. Multilingualism. D. Bilingualism.PART IV PROOFREADING amp。s seventeen minutes past twelve.” she said, looking up at him with a kind of shy and clumsy coquetry (調(diào)情；賣(mài)俏). A passenger, nothing this play, grew excessively sardonic, and winked at himself in one of the numerous mirrors. At last they went to the diningcar. Two rows of Negro waiters, in glowing white suits, surveyed their entrance with the interest, and also the equanimity (平靜), of men who had been forewarned. The pair fell to the lot of a waiter who happened to feel pleasure in steering them through their meal. He viewed them with the manner of a fatherly pilot, his countenance radiant with benevolence. The patronage, entwined with the ordinary deference, was not plain to them. And yet, as they returned to their coach, they showed in their faces a sense of escape. 26. The description of the couple39。s statement was part of her wifely amiability. She took from a pocket a little silver watch。 and in truth her eyes opened wider and she contemplated the seagreen figured velvet, the shining brass, silver, and glass, the wood that gleamed as darkly brilliant as the surface of a pool of oil. At one end a bronze figure sturdily held a support for a separated chamber, and at convenient places on the ceiling were frescos in olive and silver. To the minds of the pair, their surroundings reflected the glory of their marriage that morning in San Antonio。t it, Jack?” “Nor this trip, anyhow.” he answered bravely. “We39。s fine, ain39。s attitude towards “paperlessness”? A. He reviews the situation from different perspectives. B. He agrees with some of the people quoted in the passage. C. He has a preference for digital innovations. D. He thinks airlines benefit most from the digital age.TEXT CWhen George Orwell wrote in 1941 that England was “the most classridden country under the sun”, he was only partly right. Societies have always had their hierarchies, with some group perched at the top. In the Indian state of Bihar the Ranveer Sena, an uppercaste private army, even killed to stay there. By that measure class in Britain hardly seems entrenched (根深蒂固的). But in another way Orwell was right, and continues to be. As a new YouGov poll shows, Britons are surprisingly alert to class – both their own and that of others. And they still think class is sticky. According to the poll, 48% of people aged 30 or over say they expect to end up better off than their parents. But only 28% expect to end up in a different class. More than twothirds think neither they nor their children will leave the class they were born into. What does this thing that people cannot escape consist of these days? And what do people look at when decoding which class someone belongs to? The most useful identifying markers, according to the poll, are occupation, address, accent and ine, in that order. The fact that ine es fourth is revealing: though some of the habits and attitudes that class used to define are more widely spread than they were, class still indicates something less blunt than mere wealth. Occupation is the most trusted guide to class, but changes in the labour market have made that harder to read than when Orwell was writing. Manual workers have shrunk along with farming and heavy industry as a proportion of the workforce, while the number of people in whitecollar jobs has surged. Despite this striking change, when they were asked to place themselves in a class, Brits in 2006 huddled in much the same categories as they did when they were asked in 1949. So, jobs, which were once a fairly reliable guide to class, have bee misleading. A survey conducted earlier this year by Expertian shows how this convergence on similar types of work has blurred class boundaries. Expertian asked people in a number of different jobs to place themselves in the working class or the middle class. Secretaries, waiters and journalists were significantly more likely to think themselves middleclass than accountants, puter programmers or civil servants. Many new whitecollar jobs offer no more autonomy or better prospects than old bluecollar ones. Yet despite the muddle over what the markers of class are these days, 71% of those polled by YouGov still said they found it very or fairly easy to figure out which class others belong to.In addition to changes in the labour market, two other things have smudged the borders on the class map. First, since 1945 Britain has received large numbers of immigrants who do not fit easily into existing notions of class and may have their own pyramids to scramble up. The flow of new arrivals has increased since the late 1990s, multiplying this effect. Second, barriers to fame have been lowered, Britain39?！?he says. “They had never asked, they39。t work. Those functions are both its strength and its weakness.” In the early to mid39。s successes are seen and recognized。s home is one39。s largest bus and train operator. B. Currently Greyhound routes in Britain are limited. C. The coach starts from London every hour. D. Passengers are offered a variety of services.Questions 7 and 8 are based on the foll