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[单项选择]If the various advocates of the conflicting options are all smart, experienced, and well-informed, why do they disagree so completely Wouldn’t they all have thought the issue through carefully and come to approximately the same "best" conclusion
The answer to that crucial question lies in the structure of the human brain and the way it processes information.
Most human beings actually decide before they think. When any human being —executive, specialized expert, or person in the street — encounters a complex issue and forms an opinion, often within a matter of seconds, how thoroughly has he or she explored the implications of the various courses of action Answer: not very thoroughly. Very few people, no matter how intelligent or experienced, can take inventory of the many branching possibilities, possible outcomes, side effects, and undesired consequences of a policy or a course of action in a matter of seconds. Yet, those who pride themselves on being decisive often
A. Decision makers.
B. The "losing" faction.
C. Anger, resentment, and jealousy.
D. Other people.
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Slavery Divides the Nation
Conflicting interests in north and south became increasingly apparent. Resenting the large profits obtained by northern businessmen from marketing the cotton crop, southerners attributed the backwardness of their section to northern expansion. Northerners, on the other hand, declared that slavery--the "peculiar institution" the south felt to be essential to its economy-- was wholly responsible for the region’s relative backwardness.The main contradiction between the north and the south was that ______.
A. northerners thought they didn’t make large profits from cotton
B. northerners thought slavery was the cause of the backwardness in the south
C. southerners thought the north made the south poor
D. the north and the south had different interests
[单项选择]Advocates of revolutionary distributed computing argue that the traditional operating system has become______, akin to placing a baton-wielding orchestra conductor at the front of a session of jazz musicians.
A. a prerequisite
B. a throwback
C. an anachronism
D. an anathema
E. an encumbrance
[填空题]Today adoption advocates think birth culture plays an important role in raising children from a different race.
[填空题]The Natural Approach advocates that language teaching should emphasize ______ rather than form.
[单项选择]Since 1975 advocates of humane treatment of animals have broadened their goals to oppose the use of animals for fur, leather, wool, and food. They have mounted protests against all forms of hunting and the trapping of animals in the wild. And they have joined environmentalists in urging protection of natural habitats from commercial or residential development. The occasion for these added emphases was the publication in 1975 of "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals" by Peter Singer, formerly a professor of philosophy at Oxford University in England. This book gave a new impetus to the animal rights movement. The post-1975 animal rights activists are far more vocal than their predecessors, and the organizations to which they belong are generally more radical. Many new organizations are formed. The tactics of the activists are designed to catch the attention of the public.
Since the mid-1980s there have been frequent news reports about animal right organizat
A. conducting
B. popularizing
C. changing
D. outraging
