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• 1What chiefly distinguishes essays from articles may be in

  A.the different amount of words used in representation.

  B.the acute sensibility and keen insight of essayists.

  C.the distinction between animal and vegetable worlds.

  D.the variation of arguments about their meanings.

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• 2Essays are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

  A.careful arrangement and organization of chief ideas.

  B.remarkable concision and meaningful presentation.

  C.improbable condensation to any shorter accounts.

  D.flashes of wit and enlightenment of argumentation.

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• 3The author suggests that if the Stone Age should come up again

  A.the art of essay-writing would lose its foundation.

  B.the art and literature would most totally vanish.

  C.the art of story-telling would remain in caves alone.

  D.the life of art would be thoroughly drained away.

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• 4The author asserts that the changes in readers’taste

  A.contribute to the incompatibility of essays with stories.

  B.often result in unfavorable effect, to say the least.

  C.sometimes come to something undesirable, of course.

  D.usually bring about beneficial outcome, so to say.

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• 5The author mentions GDP and GPI figures in support of the claim that

  A.GPI is influenced positively by volunteer work.

  B.GDP comprises a general record of money spent.

  C.GPI is the most reasonable modification of GDP.

  D.GDP is inferior to GPI in depicting economic reality.

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• 6The author’s purpose in the first paragraph is to

  A.explain the basic requirements for legislative issues.

  B.point out a possible moral dilemma facing a legislator.

  C.hint the clash between legislation and public concerns.

  D.show the disparity between legislators and constituents.

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• 7The second paragraph indicates that a legislator’s dilemma is

  A.more obvious than an actual one.

  B.more easily identified in reality.

  C.plainer than its real existence.

  D.hardly so factual as it seems.

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• 8The disagreement between a legislator and his constituents

  A.causes a moral problem merely in a democracy.

  B.usually reflects a debate about long-term goals.

  C.barely creates a moral dilemma in most cases.

  D.arises only when constituents are ill informed.

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• 9The author implies that a legislator should

  A.best serve his constituents anyhow.

  B.evaluate his electorate’s complaints.

  C.embody the public interests forever.

  D.follow his constituents’intentions.

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• 10The legislator who promotes industrialization of the rural district

  A.fails to understand the requirements of the region.

  B.advances his agenda at the cost of that of his voters.

  C.ignores the crucial issue of the community he represents.

  D.carries through the common views of his constituents.

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