Passage Three
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According to the best historical and archaeological evidence, it is estimated that it took about 800 thousand to 1 million years for the earth's population to reach the 250 total which existed at the end of the first century 'after Christ. For some time after that, disease, famine, and war kept the population increase down to a fraction of 1 percent a year so that more than 15 centuries passed before the population reached 500 million. But in the next 250 years, up to 1850, the population of the world shot up to the 1 billion mark, and today it has reached 3 billion. It is predicted by United Nations investigators that in the next 35 years the population of the world will double. When experts are asked what the most effective measure which overpopulation poses, they reply that at least three measur A. 800 thousand B. 1 million C. 250 million D. 500 million [单项选择]According to the passage, air turbulence generally does which of the following
Ⅰ. Creates small droplets of equal size to form in cloud cores. Ⅱ. Causes different concentrations of rain droplets to form in different places. Ⅲ. Speeds up the rate by which large droplets appear. A. Ⅰ only B. Ⅱ only C. Ⅰ and Ⅱ only D. Ⅱ and Ⅲ only E. (E) Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ [单项选择]According to the passage, rain prediction requires a quantitative description of droplet collision in turbulence for which of the following reasons
A. The "sling effect" remains unproven and requires experimental corroboration. B. The degree to which droplets collide is the only reliable method of assessing air flow. C. The degree of turbulence may help forecast the formation of large-size droplets that precipitate rain. D. Such factors as warm and cold fronts and individual cloud formations could not be performed otherwise. E. The laws which govern the formation of concentration heterogeneities still need to be discerned. [单项选择]According to the passage, British people attached importance to ______.
A) the quantities of the articles C) the practicality of the articles B) the individuality of the articles D) the price of the articles A. According to the passage, British people attached importance to ______. B. the quantities of the articles C. the individuality of the articles D. the practicality of the articles E. the price of the articles [单项选择]According to the passage, scientists have decided that sulfur aerosols from volcanic eruptions affect global temperatures to a greater extent than ash clouds because
A. the greenhouse gas effect produced by human activities tends to have a much greater environmental effect than that of volcanic explosions B. clouds of sulfur-rich gases tend to achieve greater heights in the stratosphere than do ash clouds C. a particular explosion producing high sulfur and little ash had a greater environmental effect than the converse D. the burning of fossil fuels tends to exacerbate the effects of sulfurous aerosols, but not those of ash clouds E. global warming effects tend to minimize the impact of ash clouds, but not those of sulfurous aerosols [填空题]According to the passage, the unsuccessful people often share a lot in______, such as delusional thinking, bad manners, putting first things last, punishing friends etc.
[填空题]The least romantic nation according to the passage is______.
[单项选择]According to the passage, the collective unconscious and the personal and unconscious have in common which of the following
A. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious are hereditary, deriving from common cultural experiences, including symbolic archetypes. B. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious share an extricable link with the conscious that should be made evident. C. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious contain repressed experiences. D. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious share a position at the center of the human ego. E. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious include dreams, fantasies, and actions that should be made conscious. [单项选择]According to the passage, Michelangelo was unable to finish three-fifths of his artworks for which of the following reasons
A. He possessed a deep sense of ambiguity toward his own ideas that caused him to lose confidence in them. B. He displayed a tendency to work quickly on one project and then abandon it in haste for another. C. He generally felt a dissatisfaction with the ideals that served as the model for his art works. D. He frequently felt unable to express his general ideals through a particular art work. E. A heavy price was exacted upon him as an artist by the process of continual abstraction. [单项选择]According to the passage, psychophysical parallelists would be LEAST likely to agree with which of the following views attributed to Spinoza
A. Through a relationship of correlation, mental occurrences can only determine other mental occurrences. B. Through a relationship of causation, physical occurrences can only determine other physical occurrences. C. Mind and body exist in pre-established coordination provided by a third entity, transcendent intelligence. D. Consciousness and extension, as separate finite qualities, may be described as distinct. E. One of the necessary attributes of any divine essence is its infinitude. 我来回答: 提交
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