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(Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The author hates frozen foods in spite of their seeming advantages. ()

A．seems to be

B．seem to be

C．is seeming to be

D．are

A.invitation

B.tradition

C.politeness

D.personality

Ten minutes ________ an hour when one is waiting for a phone call.

A、seem

B、seems

C、seemed

D、seeming

So excited ______ that she couldn't help crying at that time.

A) she seemed B) was she seeming

C) did she seem D) she did seem

Why should this be？ From the complexity of causes responsible for the present commonplace interview form, a few are worth singling out, such as the revolt against rationality and the worship of feeling in its place. To the young of the 60s, the painstaking search for understanding of a given political problem may have appeared less fruitful and satisfying than the free expression of emotion which the same problem generated. Sooner or later, broadcasting was bound to reflect this.

This bias against understanding has continued. To this we must add the professional causes that have played their part. The convention of the broadcast interview had undergone little change or radical development since its rise in the 50s. When a broadcasting form. ceases to develop, its practitioners tend to take it for granted and are likely to say "how" rather than ask "why".

Furthermore, these partly psychological, partly professional tendencies were greatly accelerated by the huge expansion of news and current affairs output over the last 15 years. When you had many, additional hours of current affairs broadcasting, interviewing turned out to be a far cheaper convention than straight reporting, which is costly in terms of permanent reporters and time preparation. The temptation to combine an expanded news and current affairs service with a relatively small additional financial expense by making the interview happen everywhere proved overwhelming.

To be fair, there are compensating virtues in interviewing, such as immediacy and authority, yet in all honesty I must say that the spread of the interviewing arrangement has led to a corresponding diminution of quality broadcasting.

According to the author, in the past politicians thought that television interviewers ______.

A．knew more about politics than they did

B．should be honoured to meet them

C．really were eager to be politicians too

D．gave them a difficult time in interviews

Metaphor, different from simile, is basically ___________.

A.a comparison between seemingly unrelated things

B.a device to create a literary atmosphere

C.an expression of something invisible via the visible

D.a literary device to reveal a hidden reality

There is only one given name in western name.()

A.given away

B.given up

C.given in

D.given back

A.is given

B.will be given

C.would be given

D.would have given