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[单项选择]The primary purpose of this text is to ________.
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Usually the primary purpose of textbook writing is to inform. In textbooks, authors wellinformed in a particular subject or discipline identify the terms, facts, and opinions considered essential to an understanding of the field. While authors’ personal interests play a role in what terms or facts are selected and how they are interpreted, the writing bears a primary or central goal which is not to persuade you to see things from the same perspective. In fact, textbook authors frequently give equal time to opposing points of view so that readers can draw their own conclusion.
However, as you turn from your textbooks to the pages of newspapers and magazines, you may encounter writers with other primary goals. Some write to entertain; others write simply to air a personal preference. However, a good portion of the writers you encounter, particularly on the editorial (社论) pages, write in the hope that you will share or at least seriously consider adopting their
A. they are only interested in the facts provided by the article
B. they make a judgement of the arguments given in the article
C. they do not accept the arguments provided by the article.
D. they are able to distinguish between facts and opinions given in the articl
[单项选择]The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. analyze a current trend in relation to the past
B. discuss a particular solution to a long-standing problem
C. analyze changes in the way a long-standing problem is viewed
D. apply a generalization to an unusual situation
E. (E) describe an old approach by contrasting it with a newer approach
[单项选择]The author's primary purpose is to
A. answer a theoretical question about a phenomenon in the field of physics
B. discuss the current state of research concerning the phenomenon of cold fusion
C. resolve a research dispute in the field of physics
D. predict a crisis in scientific method for researchers of the cold fusion phenomenon
E. (E) suggest reasons that experiments involving cold fusion phenomenon should not be trusted
[单项选择]The authors primary purpose in writing this passage was to ______.
A. plead for the abolishment of uniforms
B. show that uniforms are not possible in a democratic society
C. advocate stronger governmental controls on the wearing of uniforms
D. convince the reader that uniforms have more disadvantages than advantages
[单项选择]The primary purpose of the second paragraph is which of the following
A. To show that Augustan Rome and fifth-century Athens are examples of cultural, economic, and military expansion against which all subsequent cases must be measured.
B. To suggest that cultural, economic and military advances have tended to be closely interrelated in different societies.
C. To argue that, while the revivals of Augustan Rome and fifth-century Athens were similar, they are unrelated to other historical examples.
D. To indicate that, wherever possible, historians should seek to make comparisons with the earliest chronological examples of revival.
[单项选择]The primary purpose of this passage is to explain that ______.