“Museum”is a slippery word.It first meant(in Greek)anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill,a shrine,a garden,a festival or even a textbook.Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion,a muses shrine.Although the Greeks already collected det
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festival or even a textbook.Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion,a muses shrine.Although the
Greeks already collected detached works of art,many temples—notably that of Hera at Olympia(before which the Olympic
flame is still lit)—had collections of objects,some of which were works of art by well-known masters,while paintings and sculptures in the Alexandrian Museum were incidental to its main purpose.
The Romans also collected and exhibited art from disbanded temples,as well as mineral specimens,exotic plants,
animals;and they plundered sculptures and paintings(mostly Greek)for exhibition.Meanwhile,the Greek word had slippeD.into Latin by transliteration(though not to signify picture galleries,which were called pinacothecae)and museum still more or
less meant“Muses-shrine”.
The inspirational collections of precious and semi-precious objects were kept in larger churches and monasteries—which
focused on the gold-enshrined,bejewelled relics of saints and martyrs.Princes,and later merchants,had similar collections,
which became the deposits of natural curiosities:large lumps of amber or coral,irregular pearls,unicorn horns,ostrich eggs,
fossil bones and so on.They also included coins and gems—often antique engraved ones—as well as,increasingly,paintings and sculptures.As they multiplied and expanded,to supplement them,the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined.
At the same time,visitors could admire the very grandest paintings and sculptures in the churches,palaces and castles;
they were not“collected”either,but“site-specific”,and were considered an integral part both of the fabric of the buildings and of the way of life which went on inside them—and most of the buildings were public ones.However,during the revival of
antiquity in the fifteenth century,fragments of antique sculpture were given higher status than the work of any contemporary,
so that displays of antiquities would inspire artists to imitation,or even better,to emulation;and so could be considered Muses-shrines in the former sense.The Medici garden near San Marco in Florence,the Belvedere and the Capitol in Rome were
the most famous of such early“inspirational”collections.Soon they multiplied,and,gradually,exemplary“modern”works were also added to such galleries.
In the seventeenth century,scientific and prestige collecting became so widespread that three or four collectors independently published directories to museums all over the known world.But it was the age of revolutions and industry which produced the next sharp shift in the way the institution was perceived:the fury against royal and church monuments prompted antiquarians to shelter them in asylum-galleries,of which the Musee des Monuments Francais was the most famous.Then,in the first
half of the nineteenth century,museum funding took off,allied to the rise of new wealth:London acquired the National Gallery and the British Museum,the Louvre was organized,the Museum-Insel was begun in Berlin,and the Munich galleries were
built.In Vienna,the huge Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums took over much of the imperial treasure.
Meanwhile,the decline of craftsmanship(and of public taste with it)inspired the creation of“improving”collections.The
Victoria and Albert Museum in London was the most famous,as well as perhaps the largest of them.
“...the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined” in the third paragraph means that _______.
B.fakers grew rapidly in number.
C.fakers became more skillful.
D.fakers became more polite.
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第1题：
Anything else? ()
A. We provide education relating to depression and anxiety.
B.First, we provide education relating to depression and anxiety.
C. Moreover, we provide education relating to depression and anxiety.
参考答案：C
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第2题：
The ancient Olympic Games were part of a religious festival in honour of the Greek god Zeus, the father of all Greek gods and goddesses.The festival and games were held in Olympia, a religious sanctuary.The athletes came to Olympia from all parts of the Greek world, from as far as Spain in the west and Turkey in the east.The ancient Olympic Games began in the yea 776 BC when Koroibos, a cook from the city of Elis, won a 200-metre-long race.They took place for a period of 617 years until the last games were held in AD 393
In the ancient games, athletes received prizes worth large amounts of money.In fact the word athlete is an ancient Greek word, meaning one who competes for a prize.Although women did not compete in the games, there was a separate festival held at the same time in honour of Hera, wife of Zeus At this festival unmarried girls competed in foot races.
The marathon was not an event of the ancient Olympic Games.The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Olympic Games in 1896.It was named after a village called Marathon where the Persians were defeated by a small Greek army The news of the victory was brought to Athens by soldier, who ran the 26 miles from the village of Marathon to the capital 26 miles was therefore adopted as the distance of the modern marathon race
The Olympic flag was introduced in 1908 and carries the symbol of five linked rings.Which represent the five continents-Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Europe.The Olympic flame was first carried in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.There was no torch relay in the ancient Olympic Games.The first torch relay in the modern OlympIc Games was staged in Berlin in 1936.(判断正误)
26.The ancient Greeks held the first Olympic Games in 617 BC.()
27.The ancient Greeks held the Olympic Games for 393 years.()
28.They did not allow women to compete in the an cient Olympic Games.()
29.They first used the Olympic flag in 1908.()
30.The torch relay was first used in the ancient Olympics.()
参考答案：FFTTF
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第3题：
Although stage plays have been set to music since the era(年代) of the ancient Greeks when the dramas of Sophocles and Aeschylus were accompanied by lyres(里拉琴) and flutes, the usually accepted date for the beginning of opera as we know it is 1600. As part of the celebration of the marriage of King Henry IV of France to the Italian aristocrat(贵族) Maria de Medici, the Florentine composer Jacopo Peri produced his famous Euridice, generally considered to be the first opera. Following his example, a group of Italian musicians called the Camerata began to revive(复兴) the style. of musical story that had been used in Greek tragedy.
1. This passage is a summary of ____.
A、opera in Italy
B、the Camerata
C、the development of opera
D、 Euridice.
2. According to the author, Jacopo Peri wrote ____.
A、Greek tragedy
B、the first opera
C、the opera Maria de Medici
D、the opera The Camerata
3. We can infer that the Camerata ____.
A、was a group of Greek musicians
B、developed a new musical drama based upon Greek drama
C、was not known in Italy
D、was the name given to the court of King Henry IV
4. The author suggests that Euridice was produced ____.
A、in France
B、originally by Sophocles and Aeschylus
C、without much success
D、for the wedding of King Henry IV
5. According to this passage, modern opera began in the ____.
A、time of the ancient Greeks
B、fifteenth century
C、sixteenth century
D、seventeenth century
参考答案：1-5：CBBDD
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第4题：
It has meant that in the first place the amount of benefits must be small lest people’s willingness to work and support themselves suffers.
正确答案：本题考核知识点：目的状语从句的翻译
该句是一个含有lest引导的目的状语从句的复合句。主句部分又包含了一个that引导的宾语从句。主句的主语为代词it，考生翻译时应联系上下文找出它所指代的对象，避免产生歧义。在此句中，it指代的是前文整个句子，可以译为“这种观念”。Mean字面含义是“表示．．．的意思”，在这里因为主语译成观念，所以可将mean活译成“认为”与之相搭配。连词lest引导目的状语从句，按字面意思直译是“以免人们的积极性受到损害”，但是考虑到要突出主语以及具体动作，可依照汉语习惯译成主动句。
词汇：benefit常见含义是“好处，利益”，因为整个文章谈论的是社会保障问题，所以应译成“救济金，保障金”。in the first place字面意思是“在第一的位置上”，一般译为“首先”。Willingness原意为“甘愿，自愿”，Suffer意为“受损害，受痛苦”，两个词搭配在一起，译为“积极性受到损害”或“损害积极性”。
译文：首先，这种观念认为，救济金的数额必须小，以免损害人们主动工作，自食其力的积极性。
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第5题：
“Museum”is a slippery word.It first meant(in Greek)anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill,a shrine,a garden,a
festival or even a textbook.Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion,a muses shrine.Although the
Greeks already collected detached works of art,many temples—notably that of Hera at Olympia(before which the Olympic
flame is still lit)—had collections of objects,some of which were works of art by well-known masters,while paintings and sculptures in the Alexandrian Museum were incidental to its main purpose.
The Romans also collected and exhibited art from disbanded temples,as well as mineral specimens,exotic plants,
animals;and they plundered sculptures and paintings(mostly Greek)for exhibition.Meanwhile,the Greek word had slippeD.into Latin by transliteration(though not to signify picture galleries,which were called pinacothecae)and museum still more or
less meant“Muses-shrine”.
The inspirational collections of precious and semi-precious objects were kept in larger churches and monasteries—which
focused on the gold-enshrined,bejewelled relics of saints and martyrs.Princes,and later merchants,had similar collections,
which became the deposits of natural curiosities:large lumps of amber or coral,irregular pearls,unicorn horns,ostrich eggs,
fossil bones and so on.They also included coins and gems—often antique engraved ones—as well as,increasingly,paintings and sculptures.As they multiplied and expanded,to supplement them,the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined.
At the same time,visitors could admire the very grandest paintings and sculptures in the churches,palaces and castles;
they were not“collected”either,but“site-specific”,and were considered an integral part both of the fabric of the buildings and of the way of life which went on inside them—and most of the buildings were public ones.However,during the revival of
antiquity in the fifteenth century,fragments of antique sculpture were given higher status than the work of any contemporary,
so that displays of antiquities would inspire artists to imitation,or even better,to emulation;and so could be considered Muses-shrines in the former sense.The Medici garden near San Marco in Florence,the Belvedere and the Capitol in Rome were
the most famous of such early“inspirational”collections.Soon they multiplied,and,gradually,exemplary“modern”works were also added to such galleries.
In the seventeenth century,scientific and prestige collecting became so widespread that three or four collectors independently published directories to museums all over the known world.But it was the age of revolutions and industry which produced the next sharp shift in the way the institution was perceived:the fury against royal and church monuments prompted antiquarians to shelter them in asylum-galleries,of which the Musee des Monuments Francais was the most famous.Then,in the first
half of the nineteenth century,museum funding took off,allied to the rise of new wealth:London acquired the National Gallery and the British Museum,the Louvre was organized,the Museum-Insel was begun in Berlin,and the Munich galleries were
built.In Vienna,the huge Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums took over much of the imperial treasure.
Meanwhile,the decline of craftsmanship(and of public taste with it)inspired the creation of“improving”collections.The
Victoria and Albert Museum in London was the most famous,as well as perhaps the largest of them.
The sentence “Museum is a slippery word” in the first paragraph means thatA.the meaning of the word didn’t change until after the 15th century.
B.the meaning of the word had changed over the years.
C.the Greeks held different concepts from the Romans.
D.princes and merchants added paintings to their collections.答案：B解析：本题考查语义理解。
根据下文可知，全文主旨在于介绍museum一词在历史过程中的变化，本句的意思为“museum一词的意义随着岁月的流逝发生了改变”，综上，B选项正确。
故正确答案为B项。 -
第6题：
Some people do not like anything to be out of place;they are never late for work;they return their books on time to the library;they remember people's birthdays;and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive．Mr．Hill is such a man.
Mr．Hill works in a bank,and lives alone．The only family he has is in the next town:his sister lives there with her husband,and her son,Jack．Mr．Hill does not see his sister,or her family,from one year to the next,but he sends them Christmas cards,and he has not forgotten one of Jack's seventeen birthdays.
Last week Mr．Hill had quite a surprise．He drove home from the bank at the usual time,driving neither too slowly nor too fast;he parked his car where he always parked it,out of the way of other cars,and he went inside to make his evening meal．Just then,there was a knock at the door．He opened the door,to find a policeman standing on the door-step.
"What have I done wrong?"Mr．Hill asked himself．"Have I driven on the wrong side of the road?Has there been some trouble at the bank?Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?"
"Hello,Uncle,"said the policeman,"My name is Jack."
Mr．Hill__.A.hardly sees his sister
B.sees his sister only at Christmas time
C.sees his sister on Jack's birthday
D.always sees his sister答案：A解析：从not...from one year to the next句中可见A正确。 -
第7题：
At one time（）was called Classical Method since it was first used in the teaching of the classical languages of Latin and Greek.
the grammar-translation method
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第8题：
艺术女神（Muses）
正确答案: 宙斯和摩涅莫绪涅的女儿们，共有九人；亦称为缪斯或庇厄利亚的女神们（Pierides），因她们生于庇厄利亚地方。 -
第9题：
单选题Should she come tomorrow, I will take her to the museum.AShould
Bcome
Cwill
Dto the museum
正确答案： B解析： -
第10题：
单选题What does the passage mainly talk about?AWhat to do in a museum.
BWhen to visit a museum.
CWhere to find a museum.
DHow to enjoy a museum.
正确答案： A解析：
本题是主旨大意题。因此，本文主要就如何更好地参观博物馆给出了几点建议。第一段总结到：“there are many possible ways to enjoy yourself in a museum.”由此可知，文章主题是关于如何更好地参观博物馆。答案为D项。 -
第11题：
单选题I’d rather you ______ anything about the garden until the weather improves.Adon’t make
Bdidn’t do
Cdon’t do
Ddidn’t make
正确答案： B解析：
would rather从句谓语动词要用虚拟语气，此处应用一般过去时表示过去现在或将来要做的事。 -
第12题：
单选题I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t do anything but ______ there when I first met my present boss.Ato sit
Bsitting
Csat
Dsit
正确答案： C解析：
句意：第一次碰到我现在的老板时，我很尴尬，除了坐在那里不知道该干什么。couldn’t do anything but (to) do sth表除了做什么之外别无选择。如果but前有do的适当形式，but后接省略to的不定式。 -
第13题：
Speedway racing is a type of motorcycle racing that is done on a track with a special motorcycle.It was introduced to Britain in 1 928.The first races were held at High Beech in Epping Forest.Now races are held in special stadiums, but then a track was made in the forest behind a pub called the Royal Oak.The track was not concrete or tarmac, but was made from cinders.The first races were organized by Jack Hill-Bailey He had visited Australia and seen speedway racing there.When he returned to Britain, he decided to introduce the sport to Britain and started organizing the first races with his friends in the IFord Motorcycle Club.They expected 3, 000 people to come and watch the races, but over 30, 000 people arrived to see the first races!(判断正误)
1.You need a special motorcycle for a speedway race.()
2.Speedway races are held on the road.()
3.Speedway races were held in Austral ia before they were held in Britain.()
4.Jack Hill--Bailey organized the first races by himself.()
参考答案：TFTF
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第14题：
The road became so slippery after the rain that several cars ______ sideways into the ditch.()A. slid
B. detached
C. overcame
D. trembled
参考答案：A
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第15题：
the grammar－translation method was at one time called ______ since it was first used in the teaching of the classical languages of latin and greek.A、classical Method
B、minimum method
C、audiolingual Method
D、aural-oral method
参考答案：A
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第16题：
“Museum”is a slippery word.It first meant(in Greek)anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill,a shrine,a garden,a
festival or even a textbook.Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion,a muses shrine.Although the
Greeks already collected detached works of art,many temples—notably that of Hera at Olympia(before which the Olympic
flame is still lit)—had collections of objects,some of which were works of art by well-known masters,while paintings and sculptures in the Alexandrian Museum were incidental to its main purpose.
The Romans also collected and exhibited art from disbanded temples,as well as mineral specimens,exotic plants,
animals;and they plundered sculptures and paintings(mostly Greek)for exhibition.Meanwhile,the Greek word had slippeD.into Latin by transliteration(though not to signify picture galleries,which were called pinacothecae)and museum still more or
less meant“Muses-shrine”.
The inspirational collections of precious and semi-precious objects were kept in larger churches and monasteries—which
focused on the gold-enshrined,bejewelled relics of saints and martyrs.Princes,and later merchants,had similar collections,
which became the deposits of natural curiosities:large lumps of amber or coral,irregular pearls,unicorn horns,ostrich eggs,
fossil bones and so on.They also included coins and gems—often antique engraved ones—as well as,increasingly,paintings and sculptures.As they multiplied and expanded,to supplement them,the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined.
At the same time,visitors could admire the very grandest paintings and sculptures in the churches,palaces and castles;
they were not“collected”either,but“site-specific”,and were considered an integral part both of the fabric of the buildings and of the way of life which went on inside them—and most of the buildings were public ones.However,during the revival of
antiquity in the fifteenth century,fragments of antique sculpture were given higher status than the work of any contemporary,
so that displays of antiquities would inspire artists to imitation,or even better,to emulation;and so could be considered Muses-shrines in the former sense.The Medici garden near San Marco in Florence,the Belvedere and the Capitol in Rome were
the most famous of such early“inspirational”collections.Soon they multiplied,and,gradually,exemplary“modern”works were also added to such galleries.
In the seventeenth century,scientific and prestige collecting became so widespread that three or four collectors independently published directories to museums all over the known world.But it was the age of revolutions and industry which produced the next sharp shift in the way the institution was perceived:the fury against royal and church monuments prompted antiquarians to shelter them in asylum-galleries,of which the Musee des Monuments Francais was the most famous.Then,in the first
half of the nineteenth century,museum funding took off,allied to the rise of new wealth:London acquired the National Gallery and the British Museum,the Louvre was organized,the Museum-Insel was begun in Berlin,and the Munich galleries were
built.In Vienna,the huge Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums took over much of the imperial treasure.
Meanwhile,the decline of craftsmanship(and of public taste with it)inspired the creation of“improving”collections.The
Victoria and Albert Museum in London was the most famous,as well as perhaps the largest of them.
Which is the main idea of the passage?A.Collection and collectors.
B.The evolution of museums.
C.Modern museums and their functions.
D.The birth of museums答案：B解析：本题考查主旨大意。
全文介绍了museum一词意义的变化过程，以及museum一词现代意义的由来，其他三项都只是介绍museum一词的意义变化时提到的例子，不能作为全文标题，综上，B选项正确。
故正确答案为B项。 -
第17题：
“Museum”is a slippery word.It first meant(in Greek)anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill,a shrine,a garden,a
festival or even a textbook.Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion,a muses shrine.Although the
Greeks already collected detached works of art,many temples—notably that of Hera at Olympia(before which the Olympic
flame is still lit)—had collections of objects,some of which were works of art by well-known masters,while paintings and sculptures in the Alexandrian Museum were incidental to its main purpose.
The Romans also collected and exhibited art from disbanded temples,as well as mineral specimens,exotic plants,
animals;and they plundered sculptures and paintings(mostly Greek)for exhibition.Meanwhile,the Greek word had slippeD.into Latin by transliteration(though not to signify picture galleries,which were called pinacothecae)and museum still more or
less meant“Muses-shrine”.
The inspirational collections of precious and semi-precious objects were kept in larger churches and monasteries—which
focused on the gold-enshrined,bejewelled relics of saints and martyrs.Princes,and later merchants,had similar collections,
which became the deposits of natural curiosities:large lumps of amber or coral,irregular pearls,unicorn horns,ostrich eggs,
fossil bones and so on.They also included coins and gems—often antique engraved ones—as well as,increasingly,paintings and sculptures.As they multiplied and expanded,to supplement them,the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined.
At the same time,visitors could admire the very grandest paintings and sculptures in the churches,palaces and castles;
they were not“collected”either,but“site-specific”,and were considered an integral part both of the fabric of the buildings and of the way of life which went on inside them—and most of the buildings were public ones.However,during the revival of
antiquity in the fifteenth century,fragments of antique sculpture were given higher status than the work of any contemporary,
so that displays of antiquities would inspire artists to imitation,or even better,to emulation;and so could be considered Muses-shrines in the former sense.The Medici garden near San Marco in Florence,the Belvedere and the Capitol in Rome were
the most famous of such early“inspirational”collections.Soon they multiplied,and,gradually,exemplary“modern”works were also added to such galleries.
In the seventeenth century,scientific and prestige collecting became so widespread that three or four collectors independently published directories to museums all over the known world.But it was the age of revolutions and industry which produced the next sharp shift in the way the institution was perceived:the fury against royal and church monuments prompted antiquarians to shelter them in asylum-galleries,of which the Musee des Monuments Francais was the most famous.Then,in the first
half of the nineteenth century,museum funding took off,allied to the rise of new wealth:London acquired the National Gallery and the British Museum,the Louvre was organized,the Museum-Insel was begun in Berlin,and the Munich galleries were
built.In Vienna,the huge Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums took over much of the imperial treasure.
Meanwhile,the decline of craftsmanship(and of public taste with it)inspired the creation of“improving”collections.The
Victoria and Albert Museum in London was the most famous,as well as perhaps the largest of them.
The idea that museum could mean a mountain or an object originates from ______.A.the Romans.
B.Florence.
C.Olympia.
D.Greek.答案：D解析：本题考查细节。
首段第二句“It first meant (in Greek) anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill, a shrine, a garden, a festival or even a
textbook.”可以看出museum可以用来指代山脉或事物起源于Greek，综上，D选项正确。
故正确答案为D项。 -
第18题：
Some people do not like anything to be out of place;they are never late for work;they return their books on time to the library;they remember people's birthdays;and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive．Mr．Hill is such a man.
Mr．Hill works in a bank,and lives alone．The only family he has is in the next town:his sister lives there with her husband,and her son,Jack．Mr．Hill does not see his sister,or her family,from one year to the next,but he sends them Christmas cards,and he has not forgotten one of Jack's seventeen birthdays.
Last week Mr．Hill had quite a surprise．He drove home from the bank at the usual time,driving neither too slowly nor too fast;he parked his car where he always parked it,out of the way of other cars,and he went inside to make his evening meal．Just then,there was a knock at the door．He opened the door,to find a policeman standing on the door-step.
"What have I done wrong?"Mr．Hill asked himself．"Have I driven on the wrong side of the road?Has there been some trouble at the bank?Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?"
"Hello,Uncle,"said the policeman,"My name is Jack."
Last week Mr．HillA.was pleasant
B.was quite astonished
C.was quite disappointed
D.was unpleasant答案：B解析：句子“Last week Mr．Hill had quite a surprise”就是答案。 -
第19题：
Muses（缪斯）
正确答案: 希腊神话中掌管艺术的诸神。 -
第20题：
单选题The situation involving the repatriation of the Elgin Marbles to Athens is most similar to which of the following ______.AA Native American tribe in Oregon requests that a museum in Chicago return some ceremonial masks that could help in fundraising efforts to build a proposed museum in Portland.
BThe nation of Peru in South America threatens the nation of Ecuador with military action if Ecuador does not hand over various gold artifacts of the Inca Empire, which originated in Peru.
CThe National Archeology Museum of Cairo in Egypt requests that the Louvre return eight mummies from the time of Ramses the Great for the Gairo Museum’s new exhibit hall dedicated to artifacts from Ramses’ court.
DThe nation of Greece requests the nation of Turkey to provide Greek archeologists with free access to ancient Greek sites on the Ionian coast of Turkey, and to transfer any cultural artifacts found there to the National Archeology Museum in Athens.
EA museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, requests that the Texas History Museum in Austin, Texas, send the original “Lone Star” flag to Baton Rouge for a new exhibit entitled, “Texas: Our Neighbor to the East.”
正确答案： C解析：
通过第三段内容可知，希腊博物馆的设施和参观人数都大英博物馆，这两点都对大英博物馆宣传的文物应该保存在更好的地方，供更多人观赏这一点相符，据此可知本题应选C项。 -
第21题：
填空题At one time（）was called Classical Method since it was first used in the teaching of the classical languages of Latin and Greek.正确答案： the grammar-translation method解析： 暂无解析 -
第22题：
单选题Why not stay at home since that the road is so slippery after the heavy snow?AWhy not
Bsince that
Cis
Dheavy snow
正确答案： A解析： -
第23题：
单选题_____ATo the Science Museum.
BTo the History Museum.
CTo the Art Museum.
DTo the Space Museum.
正确答案： D解析：
根据选项可知该题涉及的是地点的选择，听时注意地点名词“science museum”等，可判断他要去科技馆。 -
第24题：
单选题I felt so embarrassed that I couldn’t do anything but _____ there when I first met my present wife.Ato sit
Bsitting
Csat
Dsit
正确答案： B解析：
本题意在考查非谓语动词。do anything/everything/nothing之后出现but/except时，but后的不定式要去掉to，所以本题应选动词原形sit，也就是选项D。