Letter-writing goes back thousands of
years but heated up during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Historically(perhaps
now)letters were indicators of status and breeding. Like conversation, they were
used to manipulate, embellish, entertain, threaten, seduce and of course do
business. On the way home from discovering America, Christopher Columbus got
caught in a storm and his mind turned—as a good bourgeois parent—to his two
sons. Who would pay their school fees if he came to a watery end He picked up a
quill and documented his accomplishments on the voyage for his Spanish patrons,
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, rolled up the letter in a wooden Madeira cask
and threw it into the sea. This was not so much for posterity but rather what
University of York professor William H. Sherman has called "a father’s desperate
petition for A. is based on the stories told in Travels Through France & Italy. B. is a sequel of Travels Through France & Italy. C. is a travelogue. D. has a character modeled on Tobias Smollett.
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Letter-writing goes back thousands of
years but heated up during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Historically(perhaps
now)letters were indicators of status and breeding. Like conversation, they were
used to manipulate, embellish, entertain, threaten, seduce and of course do
business. On the way home from discovering America, Christopher Columbus got
caught in a storm and his mind turned—as a good bourgeois parent—to his two
sons. Who would pay their school fees if he came to a watery end He picked up a
quill and documented his accomplishments on the voyage for his Spanish patrons,
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, rolled up the letter in a wooden Madeira cask
and threw it into the sea. This was not so much for posterity but rather what
University of York professor William H. Sherman has called "a father’s desperate
petition for A. was widely accepted thousands of years ago. B. could serve a wide variety of purposes in the past. C. served as a document forwarded to the King and Queen in Columbus’ case. D. helped Columbus obtain financial support for his sons.
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Up goes gold, down goes the dollar.
Most economists hate gold. Not, you understand, that they would turn up their
noses at a bar or two. But they find the reverence in which many hold the metal
almost irrational, That it was used as money for millennia is irrelevant: it
isn’t any more. Modern money takes the form of paper or, more often, electronic
data. To economists, gold is now just another commodity. So why
is its price soaring Over the pest week, this has topped $ 450 a troy ounce, up
by 9% since the beginning of the year and 77% since April 2001. Ah, comes the
reply, gold transactions are denominated in dollars, and the rise in the price
simply reflects the dollar’s fall in terms of other currencies, especially the
euro, against which it hit a new low this week. Expressed in euros, the gold A. they look down upon B. that can be exchanged in the market C. worth people’s reverence D. that should be replaced by other forms of money
[单项选择] {{B}}TEXT D{{/B}} Man, so the truism goes,
lives increasingly in a man-made environment. This places a special burden on
human immaturity, for it is plain that adapting to such variable conditions must
depend very heavily on opportunities for learning, or whatever the processes are
that are operative (luring immaturity. It must also mean that during immaturity
man must master knowledge and skills that are either stored in the gene pool or
learned by direct encounter, but which are contained in the culture pool--
knowledge about values and history, skills as varied as an obligatory natural
language or an optional mathematical one, as mute as levers or as articulate as
myth telling. Yet, it would be a mistake to leap to the
conclusion that because human immaturity makes possible high flexibility,
therefore anything is possible for the species. Human traits were selected for
their survival value over a four--to five-million-year A. human beings may adapt to new conditions by technological invention rather than by changing their behavior B. sexual promiscuity is no longer an aid to the survival of the human species C. technological innovation is a more important adaptive mechanism than either heredity or direct encounter D. conditions during the upper Pliocene and Pleistocene eras no longer affect the course of human evolution
[单项选择]Who’s to blame The trail of responsibility goes beyond poor maintenance of British railways, say industry critics. Stingy governments — both Labor and Tory —have cut down on investments in trains and rails. In the mid-1990s a Conservative government pushed through the sale of the entire subsidy-guzzling rail network. Operating franchises were parceled out among private companies and a separate firm, Railtrack, was awarded ownership of the tracks and stations. In the future, the theory ran back then, the private sector could pay for any improvements— with a little help from the state—and take the blame for any failings. Today surveys show that travelers believe privatization is one of the reasons for the railways’ failures. They ask whether the pursuit of profits is compatible with guaranteeing safety. Worse, splitting the network between companies has made coordination nearly impossible. "The railway was torn apart at privatization and the structure that was put in place was .. A. trace the failure of Britain’s rail network to its defective origin B. remind people the glorious past of Britain’s railway C. argue for Britain’s rail network D. call for impartiality in assessing the situation
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In recent years American society has become increasingly dependent on its universities to find solutions to its major problems. It is the universities that have been charged with the principal responsibility for developing the expertise to place men on the moon; for dealing with our urban problems and with our deteriorating environment; for developing the means to feed the world’s rapidly increasing population. The effort involved in meeting these demands presents its own problems. In addition, this concentration on the creation of new knowledge significantly impinges on the universities’ efforts to perform their other principal functions, the transmission and interpretation of knowledge ---- the imparting of the heritage of the past and the preparing of the next generation to carry it forward.
With regard to this, perhaps their most traditionally sanctioned task, colleges and universities today find themselves in a serious bind generally. On the one hand, there is the A. A.promote B.rely on C.have an impact on D.block
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