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[填空题]It is not uncommon for distinguished scientists in the twilight of their careers to turn their hand to philosophy. Unfortunately, the failures among such endeavors are generally acknowledged to outnumber the successes, and Wilson’s contribution to the genre must on the whole be consigned to the majority.
16. ______
Wilson does, however, intend to present a thesis, the thesis that all knowledge is unified. The key concept he exploits, borrowing from the 19th century philosopher William Whewell, is consilience. For Whewell, consilience meant seeking principles with as wide an explanatory reach as possible. Its meaning in Wilson’s text is somewhat indefinable: Sometimes it seems only to mean that different kinds of phenomena have something to do with one another. Sometimes it marks the insistence that there is a seamless web of cause and effect. Quite often it also seems to mean some strong doctrine of physicalist reductionism, though no such doctrine is ever spelled out in
[单项选择]Scientists are eager to talk with other scientists working on similar problems.
A. 科学家热衷于与从事类似课题研究的其他科学家交流。
B. 科学家更容易与其他科学家谈话来解决相同的问题。
C. 科学家很乐意在解决类似问题时同其他科学家交流。
D. 科学家更容易就雷同的问题与其他科学家交流。
[填空题]Texting is uncommon in Asian countries.
[单项选择]Saussure distinguished the linguistic competence of the speaker and the actual phenomena or data of linguistics (utterances) as
[填空题]Earthquakes were not uncommon in San Francisco, and there had been bad ones in 1868, 1898, and 1900. But the results of the earthquake of (11) were the worst of all. It first Struck the city at (12) in the early morning of April 18th, and lasted one minute.
A minute seems a short time when one is in a (13) place, and sometimes it passed much too quickly. But in an earthquake it is terribly long. At one moment you are living your (14) . At the next your chairs and tables are dancing on the floor, your house is (15) , and your world is suddenly changed. You cannot be sure what will happen next. You cannot be sure if you will be alive to see what happens next.
