The（ ）of the apartment to his office was an advantage on rainy days.

A.vicinity B.neighborhood C.surroundings D.confines

Though the number of the upper class is a mere one third of the population, they make up at least 25 percent of the nation’s wealth. This class has two parts: upper-upper and lower-upper.（1）, the upper-upper class is the “old rich”—families that have been wealthy for several generations—a nobility of（2）and wealth. A few are known across the nation, such as the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts. Most are not（3）to the general public. They have no（4）to the rest of the community,（5）their income from the investment of their inherited wealth. By（6）, the lower-upper class is the “new rich”. （7）they may be wealthier than some of the old rich, the new rich have been（8）to make their money like（9）else beneath their class.（10）their status is generally（11）than that of the old rich, who have not found it necessary to lift a finger to make their money, and who（12）to look down upon the new rich. However its wealth is（13）, the upper class is very rich. They have enough money and leisure time to（14）an interest in the arts and to（15）rare books and paintings. They generally live in exclusive areas, belong to exclusive social clubs, communicate with each other, and marry their own kind, all of which keeps them so（16）from the masses that they have been called the out-of-sight class. More than any other class, they tend to be（17）of being members of a class. They also（18）an enormous amount of power and influence here and abroad, as they（19）many top government positions. Their actions（20）the lives of millions.

（ ）several times, they need some encouragement.

国画(Chinese painting)是世界上最古老的艺术传统之一。绘画时用毛笔蘸黑墨或彩墨在纸张或丝绸上作画。根据表现手法，国画可分为写意派(the Xieyi School)和工笔派(the Gongbi School)两大类。写意派以自由表达和形式夸张为特点；工笔派则注重以精细的笔法描绘细节。山水画被公认为国画的最高形式。纵观历史，不同时期的国画都相应地反映出人们的社会意识。

I am interested in（ ）you have told me.

1.According to the author, philosophy became distinct from science and theology during the（ ）.2.The author suggests that Descartes' support for the new science of the seventeenth century can be characterized as（ ）.3.The author of the passage implies which of the following in discussing the development of philosophy during the nineteenth century?4.With which of the following statements concerning the writing of history would the author of the passage be most likely to agree?5.The primary function of the passage as a whole is to（ ）.

Present-day philosophers usually envision their discipline as an endeavor that has been since antiquity, distinct from and superior to any particular intellectual discipline, such as theology or science. Such philosophical concerns as the mind-body problem or, more generally, the nature of human knowledge, they believe, are basic human questions whose tentative philosophical solutions have served as the necessary foundations on which all other intellectual speculation has rested.The basis for this view, however, lies in a serious misinterpretation of the past, a projection of modern concerns onto past events. The idea of autonomous discipline called "philosophy", distinct from and sitting in judgment on such pursuits as theology and science, turns out, on close examination, to be of quite recent origin. When, in the seventeenth, century, Descartes and Hohbes rejected medieval philosophy, they did not think of themselves, as modern philosophers do, as proposing a new and better philosophy, but rather as furthering "the warfare between science and theology". They were fighting, albeit discreetly, to open the intellectual world to the new science and to liberate intellectual life from ecclesiastical-philosophy, and envisioned their work as contributing to the growth, not of philosophy, but of research in mathematics and physics.This link between philosophical interests and scientific practice persisted until the nineteenth century, when decline in ecclesiastical power over scholarship and changes in the nature of science, provoked the final separation of philosophy from both.

The demarcation of philosophy from science was facilitated by the development in the early nineteenth century of a new notion, that philosophy's core interest should be epistemology, the general explanation of what it means to know something: Modern philosophers now trace that notion back at less to Descartes and Spinoza, but it was not explicitly articulated until the late eighteenth century, by Kant, and did not become built intothe structure of academic institutions and the standard self-descriptions of philosophy professors until the late nineteen