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In the 19th century, there used to be a model of how to be a good person. There are all these torrents of passion flowing through you. Your job, as captain of your soul, is to erect dams to keep these passions in check. Your job is to just say no to laziness, lust, greed, drug use and the other sins.
These days that model is out of fashion. You usually can’t change your behaviour by simply resolving to do something. Knowing what to do is not the same as being able to do it. Your willpower is not like a dam that can block the torrent of self-indulgence. It’s more like a muscle, which tires easily. Moreover, you’re a social being. If everybody around you is overeating, you’ll probably do so, too.
The 19th-century character model was based on an understanding of free will. Today, we know that free will is bounded. People can change their lives, but ordering change is not simple because many things, even within ourselves, are beyond our direct control.
Much of our behaviour, for
A. Passion.
B. Action.
C. Capability.
D. Determination.
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In early 19
th
century America, care for the mentally iii was almost non-existent: the
afflicted were usually relegated to prisons, almshouses, or inadequate
supervision by families. Treatment, if provided, paralleled other medical
treatments of the time, including bloodletting and purgatives. However, in a
wave of concern for the oppressed, some took action. Among these, Dorothea Dix
was the leading crusader for the establishment of state-supported mental
asylums. Through her efforts, the first state hospitals for the insane were
built in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She and other reformers sought humane,
individualized care, with the rich and the poor housed together to insure high
standards for all. The movement was generated by social reform, but throughout
the century, mental illness was probed and analyzed, and" cures" prescribed by
both the scientific and lay communities. "Moral treatment" was the
A. inadequate care by families
B. social reform
C. the effects of medical treatment
D. those who were not mentally iii
[填空题]During the 19th century, natural gas was used on a local scale because of the difficult situation in
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[填空题]During the 19th century, gas was used on a local scale because of the difficult situation in ______.
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Almost a century after his
death, the well-known French author Jules Verne has once again managed to fire
the imagination of people around the world, this time with an unpublished novel,
Paris in the 20th Century. The manuscript, completed in 1863 but long locked
away in a safe, was uncovered only in 1989 by Verne’s great-grandson, and it
appeared in English translation just a few months ago. This 19th-century vision
of the future describes life among skyscrapers of glass and steel, high-speed
trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, fax machines and a global
communications network. The prescience of these forecasts matches what one would
have expected from the author who introduced countless readers of his age to a
host of technological marvels, from submarines to helicopters and
spacecraft.
But in fact, Paris in the 20th Century is a tragedy.
It describes the life of an idealistic young man who s
A. He thinks it is a comedy.
B. This 19th-century vision of the future describes life among skyscrapers of glass and steel, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, fax machines and a global communications network.
C. It describes the life of an unidealistic young man who struggles to find happiness in the fiercely materialistic dystopia that Paris has become by 1920.
D. He thinks the Jules Verne has once again managed to fire the imagination of people around the world and it is a grim and troubling comment on the human costs of technological progress.
[单项选择]No one writes the 19th century novels about 20th--now 21st-- century American better than Allegra Goodman, whose omniscient narrators and impeccably (完美地) polished storytelling seem borrowed from an era when authors were expected to issue cool moral judgments rather than exorcise (驱除) inner demons. In her first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, Goodman captured the subtle currents beneath the surface of an orthodox Jewish enclave in upstate New York. With her superb new Intuition, she turns her gimlet eye on another tight-knit community: a cancer research lab.
Sandy Glass and Marion Mendelssohn run a lab at the Philpot Institute in Cambridge, Mass., and they are like all of Goodman’s characters, cultured, complex, and vividly drawn. A charming, prosperous doctor, Sandy is "always cheerful, brimming with the irrepressible joy of his own intelligence". Married to a lovely, accomplished academic, he has three lovely, accomplished daughters and lives in a luxurious home, for "appearances we
A. novels about the 20th century, written in the 19th century
B. novels about the 19th century, written in the 20th century
C. novels about the 20th century, written in the 19th century way
D. novels about the 19th century; written in the 20th century way
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A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and 7millin people arrived while about 2 million departed. About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good. They even had an affectionate nickname, “uccelli di passaggio,” birds of passage.
Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it. We don’t need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strick definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might then begin to solve our immigra
A. come and go: big mistake.
B. living and thriving : great risk.
C. with or without : great risk.
D. legal or illegal: big mistake.
