[填空题]By saying "its presence should be felt rather than seen", the author means ______.

[填空题]By saying "its presence should be felt rather than seen", the author means ______.

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• A. should be encouraged rather than laughed at
• B. a sentimental displacement of feeling
• C. can have for people who never consented it
• D. is to weigh other’ s interest against one’ s own
• E. it invites you to think that animals should be treated with no consideration
• F. human are different from animals in every respect

The most elementary form of moral reasoning ______.

[单项选择]Why should the government, rather than industry or universities, provide the money to put a network of supercomputers in place Because there is a range of problems that can be attacked only with the massive data-managing capacity of a supercomputer network. No business or university has the resources to purchase by itself enough machines for a whole network, and no business or university wants to invest in a part of a network if no mechanism exists for coordinating establishment of the network as a whole.
Which one of the following indicates a weakness in the argument
A. It does not furnish a way in which the dilemma concerning the establishment of the network can be resolved.
B. It does not establish the impossibility of creating a supercomputer network as an international network.
C. It fails to address the question of who would maintain the network if the governments, rather than industry or universities provides the money for establishing it.
D. It takes for granted and without justification that it would enhance national preeminence in science for the government to provide the network.
E. (E) It overlooks the possibility that businesses or universities, or both, could cooperate to build the network.

[填空题]I’d rather read than watch television: the programs seem _____________(越来越差) all the time.

[填空题]The hero would rather die than (give)______in.

[多项选择]我宁愿同朋友行走在黑暗中，电不愿独自徘徊在光亮处。(would rather…than)

[单项选择]Rather than allowing these dramatic exchanges between her characters to develop fully, Ms. Norman unfortunately tends to ______ the discussions involving the two women.
A. exacerbate
B. protract
C. augment
D. truncate
E. elaborate