The social sciences, as the name shows, are the
scientific study of the behavior of human beings, both in groups and
individually. There is no past or present information of human beings who were
not in groups. The groups may be small, like the family, or large, like a city
or nation. But in order to reach complete development, man must be a member of a
society. It is true that some individuals are more solitary than others. Some,
like monks or hermits, may decide, for religious or other reasons, to leave
their society and live alone. But these are unusual individuals, and even they
can not separate themselves completely from the rest of mankind. A society,
then, seems to be the natural environment of mankind. Scholars who study mankind
in social organizations are called social scientists. The human behavior which social scientis A. They are more solitary than others. B. They all belong to clubs. C. They are all members of groups. D. They separate themselves from the rest of world. [单项选择]
Passage 1 [填空题]The social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia. According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.
Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today’s global challenges including climate change, security, sustainable development and health. (66) Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers. Here, too, the problems are social; the organization and distribution of food, wealth and prosperity. (67) This is a shame—the community should be grasping the opportunity to raise its influence in the real world. To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter., there is no radical innovation without creative destruction. 我来回答: 提交
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