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The author suggests in the second paragraph that （）.

A.while some physicists conclude from the laws of nature that there is a God, others draw no such conclusion

B.it is only by studying philosophy that a man can develop religious beliefs

C.by examining a living cell under a microscope biologists can under stand the process of evolution

D.there is a disparity of thinking between scientists and people from other walks of life regarding science and religion

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A、while some physicists conclude from the laws of nature that there is a God, others draw no such conclusion

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第1题

The author suggests that it is more difficult to overcome ______.A．prejudice against women

The author suggests that it is more difficult to overcome ______.

A．prejudice against women leaders

B．fear for the unpredictable future

C．others' judgments on us

D．our own internalized fear

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第2题

The author suggests that the main reason for the persisting influence of Bachofen' s work

is that ______.

A．feminists have shown little interest in ancient societies

B．Bachofen' s knowledge of Amazonian culture is unparalleled

C．reliable information about the ancient world is difficult to acquire

D．historians have been primarily interested in the modem period

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第3题

The fridge is considered necessary.It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food l

ist appeared with the label: "Store in the refrigerator."

In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, 1 was fed well and healthy.The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times each week.The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus(剩余的) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes.Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food.Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.

The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation.Many well-tried techniques already existed -- natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling...

What refrigeration did promote was marketing --- marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a good price.

Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary.Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house -- while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.

The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been not important.

1.The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily." suggests that the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties.()

2.The author says that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges because people had effective ways to preserve food.()

3.Consumers benefited the most from fridges according to the author？()

4.What refrigeration did promote was food-preserving.()

5.The author is critical to fridges.()

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第4题

Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being normal one and to praise or

criticize others as they are similar to or different from it.And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.Here is a great argument in favor of traveling abroad and learning foreign languages.It is only by traveling or living in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are like.And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all.Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to exist.The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs.With almost the whole of Western Europe belonging to the European Economic Community (EEC) and the increasing standardization this brings about, plus the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem some truth in this—at least as far as Europe is concerned.However this may be, at lest the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different animal from themselves.

1.The passage is mostly concerned with the issue of ____.

A.advantages of the EEC

B.attitudes towards other countries

C.learning foreign languages

D.differences among people

2.According to the author, ____.

A.our knowledge of other cultures are always wrong

B.reading books about other countries is the safest way of understanding their peoples

C.there are more similarities than differences among different people

D.there are more differences than similarities among different people

3.Some people think that European peoples are identifying themselves with each other because of the following EXCEPT _____.

A.the establishment of the EEC

B.the greater rapidity and ease of travel

C.the increasing standardization

D.the rapid industrialization

4.The clause “However this may be” suggests that ____.

A.the author is going to introduce a new idea

B.the author is about to avoid any conclusion

C.the author is about to give up his own point of view

D.the author will stick to his own point of view

5.The passage seems to attach importance to ____.

A.the greater ease of travel nowadays than before

B.the uncontrollable tendency to identification

C.the similarities in terms of way of life between different cultures

D.the differences between European peoples and other nations

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第5题

Conventional wisdom about conflict seems pretty much cut and dried. Too little conflict br

eeds apathy (冷漠) and stagnation (呆滞). Too much conflict leads to divisiveness (分裂) and hostility. Moderate levels of conflict, however, can spark creativity and motivate people in a healthy and competitive way.

Recent research by Professor Charles R. Schwenk, however, suggests that the optimal level of conflict may be more complex to determine than these simple generalizations. He studied perceptions of conflict among a sample of executives. Some of the executives worked for profit seeking organizations and others for not-for-profit organizations.

Somewhat surprisingly, Schwenk found that opinions about conflict varied systematically as a function of the type of organization. Specially, managers in not-for-profit organizations strongly believed that conflict was beneficial to their organizations and that it promoted higher quality decision making than might be achieved in the absence of conflict.

Managers of for-profit organizations saw a different picture. They believed that conflict generally was damaging and usually led to poor-quality decision making in their organizations. Schwenk interpreted these results in terms of the criteria for effective decision making suggested by the executives. In the profit-seeking organizations, decision-making effectiveness was most of ten assessed in financial terms. The executives believed that consensus rather than conflict enhanced financial indicators.

In the not-for-profit organizations, decision-making effectiveness was defined from the perspective of satisfying constituents. Given the complexities and ambiguities associated with satisfying many diverse constituents executives perceived that conflict led to more considered and acceptable decisions.

In the eyes of the author, conventional opinion on conflict is ________.

A．wrong

B．oversimplified

C．misleading

D．unclear

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第6题

Losing your ability to think and remember is prett...

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A、Not all of them are symptoms of dementia.

B、They occur only among certain groups of people.

C、Not all of them are related to one's age.

D、They are quite common among fifty-year-olds.

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第7题

A moment's drilling by the dentist may make us nervous and upset.Many of us cannot

stand pain.To avoid the pain of a drilling that may last perhaps a minute or two, we demand the “needle”-a shot of Novocain (奴佛卡因) - that deadens the nerves around the tooth.

Now it's true that the human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it.This helps us adjust to the world.Without our nerves and our brain, which is a bundle of nerves, we wouldn't know what's happening.But we pay for our sensitivity.We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body.The history of torture is based on the human body being open to pain.

But there is a way to handle pain.Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails.Fakirs can put a needle right through an arm, and feel no pain.This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.

The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude towards it.If the dentist says, “This will hurt a little,” it helps us to accept the pain.By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation we can handle the pain without falling apart.After all, although pain is an unpleasant sensation, it is still a sensation, and sensations are the stuff of life.

26.The passage is mainly about().

A.how to suffer pain

B.how to avoid pain

C.how to handle pain

D.how to stop pain

27.Th e sentence “But we pay for our sensitivity.” in the second paragraph implies that ()

A.we should pay a debt for our feeling

B.we have to be hurt when we feel something

C.our pain is worth feeling

D.when we feel pain, we are suffering it

28.When the author mentions the Indian fakir, he suggests that().

A.Indians are not at all afraid of pain

B.people may be senseless of pain

C.some people are able to handle pain

D.fakirs have magic to put needles right through their arms

29.The most important thing to handle pain is ()

A.how we look at pain

B.to feel pain as much as possible

C.to show an interest in pain

D.to accept the pain reluctantly

30.The author's attitude towards pain is().

A.pessimistic

B.optimistic

C.radical

D.practical

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第8题

It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state of literacy

. These figures from the Department of Education are sufficient- 27 million Americans cannot read at all, and a further 35 million read at a level that is less than sufficient to survive in our society.

But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading, it has been suggested that almost 80 percent of America's literate, educated teenagers can no longer read without an accompanying noise (music) in the background or a television screen flickering at the corner of their field of perception. We know very little about the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed. This violation of concentration, silence, solitude goes to the very heart of our notion of literacy; this new form. of part-reading, of part-perception against background distraction, renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration, let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Under these circumstances, the question of what future there is for the arts of reading is a real one. Ahead of us lie technical, psychic, and social transformations probably much more dramatic than those brought about by Gutenberg, the German inventor in printing. The Gutenberg revolution, as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated. The information revolution will touch every fact of composition, publication, distribution, and reading. No one in the book industry can say with any confidence what will happen to the book as we've known it.

The picture of the reading ability of the American people, drawn by the author, is ______.

A．rather bleak

B．fairly bright

C．very impressive

D．quite encouraging

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第9题

Let children learn to judge their own work.A child learning to talk does not learn by

being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking.He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those who are around him use.Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's.In the same way, children learning to do all the other things without being taught-to walk, run, climb, ride a bicycle-compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes.But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them.We do it all for him.We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to.Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher.Let him do it himself or with the help of other children if he wants it.

Let him correct his own papers.Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work？ Our job should be to help the child when he can't find the way to right answer.Let's end all this nonsense of grades, exams, marks.Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them.The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours.Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world？” Don't worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.

31.What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things______？

A.By copying what other people do

B.By finding mistakes and correcting them

C.By listening to explanations from skilled people

D.By asking a great many questions

32.What does the author think teachers do which they should not do______？

A.They give children correct answers

B.They point out children's mistakes to them

C.They allow children to make their own work

D.They encourage children to copy from one another

33.The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are______.

A.not really important skills

B.more important than other skills

C.basically different from learning adult skills

D.basically the same as learning other skills

34.Exams, grades and marks should be abolished(废除) because children's progress should only be judged by______.

A.educated persons

B.the children themselves

C.teachers

D.parents

35.the author fears that children will grow up into adults who are______.

A.too independent of others

B.too critical of themselves

C.unable to think for themselves

D.unable to use basic skills

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第10题

1 For the Greeks, beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to

be what we now have to call—lamely, enviously—whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person's "inside" and "outside," they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive—and so ugly. One of Socrates' main pedagogical acts was to be ugly—and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of paradoxes life really was.

2 They may have resisted Socrates' lesson. We do not. Several thousand years later, we are more wary of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off—with the greatest facility—the "inside"(character, intellect) from the "outside" (looks); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented, good.

3 It was principally the influence of Christianity that deprived beauty of the central place it had in classical ideals of human excellence. By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only, Christianity set beauty adrift—as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige. For close to two centuries it has become a convention to attribute beauty to only one of the two sexes, the sex which, however fair, is always Second. Associating beauty with women has put beauty even further on the defensive, morally.

4 A beautiful woman, we say in English, but a handsome man. "Handsome" is the masculine equivalent of—and refusal of—a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only. That one can call a man "beautiful" in French and in Italian suggests that Catholic countries—unlike those countries shaped by the Protestant version of Christianity—still retain some vestiges of the pagan admiration for beauty. But the difference, if one exists, is of degree only. In every modern country that is Christian or post-Christian, women are the beautiful sex—to the detriment of the notion of beauty as well as of women.

The author means ______ by "whole persons" in Para.

A．persons of beauty

B．persons of virtue

C．persons of excellence

D．none of the above

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