A. popular B. proper C. inner D. educated

Passage Four

Dressing fashionably was very important in fourteenth-century Spain. This was especially true for any man who considered himself an aristocrat or dandy. Before going out, a well-dressed man would put on his finest boots, one of his embroidered caps and his favorite beard, dyed to match the color of his clothing.

Believe it or not, false beards were once as popular as neckties are today. Beards had for years considered a sign of strength and manhood, and the bigger and thicker they were, the better. Those unfortunates who had little facial hair were forced by custom into wearing false beards made of horsehair. Soon, however man in the Spanish fashion world was wearing them too, while many quite substantial real beards were shaved off to make way for the false variety.

By day, the fashionable dandy might wear a yellow or a crimson beard to impress his friends, but in the evening a long black beard was proper for serenading his senorita, Any color or shape of beard could be had.

However, as you can imagine, the growth of this unusual custom created many interesting problems. People with similar beards were mistaken for one another. Creditors could not find debtors, and police often arrested the wrong people, while the real villain escaped wearing their hairy disguises. The price of horsehair skyrocketed. Finally, King Philip IV of Aragon put a stop to all the foolishness by outlawing the wearing of false beards.

46. What is the passage mostly concerned with？

A. The size of beards.

B. The color of beards.

C. Varieties of false beards.

D. The custom of wearing false beards.

SOX is an alternative(66)for XML. It is useful for reading and creating XML content in a(67)editor. It is then easily transformed into proper XML. SOX was created because developers can spend a great deal of time with raw XML. For many of us, the popular XML(68)have not reached a point where their tree views, tables and forms can completely substitute for the underlying(69)language. This is not surprising when one considers that developers still use a text view, albeit enhanced, for editing other languages such as Java. SOX uses(70)to represent the structure of an XML document, which eliminates the need for closing tags and a number of quoting devices. The result is surprisingly clear.

A．semantic

B．pragmatics

C．syntax

D．grammar

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A．semantic

B．pragmatics

C．syntax

D．grammar

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A．SOA

B．UDDI

C．XML

D．Web Service

● C++ is used with proper （73） design techniques.

（73）

A. object-oriented

B. object-based

C. face to object

D. face to target

Which of the following has the proper word stress？（）

A. scienTific

B. Scientific

C. sCienTific

D. scientific

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A．syntax

B．grammar

C．semantic

D．pragmatics

A.violent

B. messy

C. peaceful

D. proper

A. valuable

B. meaningful

C. fitted

D. proper