1、单选题：
 However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation.
选项：
A:difficult
B:complicated

C:invalid

D:simple

答案: 【complicated

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2、单选题：
Perhaps it is worth trying to speak it, but it should not be laid down as an edict , and made immune to change from below. 
选项：
A:secure

B:odorous

C:revival

D:impure

答案: 【secure

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3、单选题：
The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. 
选项：
A:contemptuous

B:Sharp

C:penetrating

D:distasteful

答案: 【contemptuous

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4、单选题：
The King's English is a model—a rich and instructive one--but it ought not to be an ultimatum. 
选项：
A:the general opinion about the character, qualities, etc.

B:something that provokes or annoys

C:final statement of conditions to be accepted

D:state of being in demand

答案: 【final statement of conditions to be accepted

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5、单选题：
It was an Australian who had given her such a definition of "the King's English," which produced some rather tart remarks about what one could expect from the descendants of convicts. 
选项：
A:loaded

B:special

C:sarcastic

D:different

答案: 【sarcastic

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6、单选题：
One could have expected that it would be about then that the phrase would be coined. 
选项：
A:comforted

B:coincided

C:invented

D:happened
答案: 【invented

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7、单选题：
After five centuries of growth, o1f tussling with the French of the Normans and the Angevins and the Plantagenets and at last absorbing it, the conquered in the end conquered the conqueror. 
选项：
A:make the greatest possible use of

B:have a hard struggle or fight

C:come to a lower level or state

D:raise to a higher grad

答案: 【have a hard struggle or fight

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8、单选题：
When E. M. Forster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age”, we sit up at the vividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image. 
选项：
A:happening in the same time

B:giving orders

C:not pretended

D:suggesting evil

答案: 【suggesting evil

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9、单选题：
Suddenly they see the moment for one of their best anecdotes, but in a flash the conversation has moved on and the opportunity is lost. 
选项：
A:uninteresting writing

B:exciting information

C:long tedious talk

D:short amusing story

答案: 【short amusing story

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10、单选题：
The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the English peasants of the 12th century.  
选项：
A:criminal

B:aggressor

C:captain

D:captor

答案: 【criminal

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