简答题And then some bright spark calls me out of the blue, asking if I’m interested in buying a pension. Read the sentence above and answer the following two questions: What does a “bright spark” mean? A、A brilliant idea. B、An unexpected visitor. C、An unpleasant memory. D、Somebody who thinks himself smart.简答题When deciding on which book to read, we need to consider _______. ① Popularity of the book. ② Our English proficiency. ③ Our reading purpose. ④ The writing style of the book. ⑤ Our interest. A、②⑤ B、①③ C、④⑤ D、①④简答题And what was left over, we couldn’t spend all at once, because we had to keep some savings “for a rainy day”, those time when he didn’t have any work. In this sentence, what does a rainy day mean? A、A day when it rains. B、A lucky day. C、The time when people are unhappy. D、The time when people are poor.简答题In dictionaries, dots are used to divide a word into ___________.(1)简答题“Life is so precarious that when we know something truly satisfies us, we hold on to it tight, as a mother hugs her baby close to her breast in a dark, stormy night.” How is life according to the sentence? A、Life is so uncertain that we often feel insecure. B、Life is full of miseries and never satisfies us. C、Life is filled with opportunities and we must grab them. D、Life always brings us surprises which we should hold on to.简答题The last R is __________, and in this step we organize information we’ve learnt from the article.(1)简答题_______ words are those we don’t know but won’t block our comprehension in reading. (1)简答题“We even understand, however fleetingly, that we have more in common with other readers of books in other cultures than we might do with the first person we meet when we step out of our front doors.” What does “do” refer to? A、Understand. B、Have something in common. C、Read. D、Meet.简答题[F] means predicative, which means the adjective can only be used before the noun that it is describing.简答题“Danger! Books may change your life. Such is the power of reading.” What does “such” refer to? A、Danger. B、Books. C、Books may change your life. D、Not mentioned.简答题“It’s difficult because when you have a degree, it opens new doors for you, or you’d like to think that it does.” What does “does” refer to? A、Opens new doors for you. B、Gives you a degree. C、Becomes difficult. D、Not mentioned.简答题If a complex sentence is like a tree, its bare structure is the _______. A、tree trunk B、root C、leaves D、branches简答题If the word “vi·cis·si·tude” appears at the end of a line and we have to break it, where can’t we break it? A、vi-cissitude B、vici-ssitude C、vicis-situde D、vicissi-tude简答题When we get lost in a long sentence, there is no need to read back from the beginning again.简答题In reading, there are words which can be ignored without losing important message.简答题Bottom-up reading model works as well as top-down reading model when we are doing academic reading.简答题“Contrast this scientific/technological worldview with the wisdom tradition, where all beings are sparks of the One continuously unfolding their infinite capacity in a purposeful universe, subject to causes and effects over countless lifetimes.” In this sentence, what is the subject of the word “unfolding”? A、Worldview. B、Tradition wisdom. C、The One. D、All beings.简答题“That the transcendental experience, well-documented through the ages, is not within the purview of modern science does not mean that it does not exist.” What does “it” refer to? A、The transcendental experience. B、That the transcendental experience, well-documented through the ages. C、Modern science. D、The purview of modern science.简答题“…in a broad sense the humanities mean literature primarily, and in a still broader sense, the study of masterpieces in almost any filed of human endeavor.” Which is right if the omission is recovered in the underlined part? A、and literature means in a still broader sense, the study of masterpieces in almost any filed of human endeavor. B、and in a still broader sense, literature means the study of masterpieces in almost any filed of human endeavor. C、and in a still broader sense, the humanities mean the study of masterpieces in almost any filed of human endeavor. D、and in a still broader sense, the study of masterpieces in almost any filed of human endeavor means humanities.简答题As an independent reader, we should understand every word in the text we are reading.