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[单项选择]The author focuses primarily on
A. presenting two competing scientific theories for the cause of post-industrial climate change and evaluating the body of evidence behind each one
B. giving a brief overview of some recent scientific developments in solar physics and explaining their possible implications for future research
C. discussing the successes in linking terrestrial phenomena with solar activity and indicating how they may have an impact on preventing further climate change
D. pointing out the success of a certain line of scientific inquiry into the terrestrial effects of solar activity while qualifying its successes with regard to climate change
[单项选择]The author is primarily concerned with
A. criticizing Ellison on the basis of reactionary assumptions his work makes about politically-involved blacks
B. exposing the limitations of Ellison’s novel when compared with the actual work performed by black workers and activists
C. chronicling the effects Ellison’s novel had upon the black activist movements of the 1960’s
D. comparing Ellison’s view of post-industrial black America with that of the activists working at the time
E. critically describing Ellison’s approach as novelist to the task of ethical publicity
[填空题]What is the author primarily concerned with in this passage
[单项选择]In this passage, the author is primarily concerned with
A. advancing an argument against human cloning based on evidence from cloning experiments performed on lower life forms
B. measuring the technical and ethical limitations of the embryonic cloning process in mammals
C. refuting arguments against human cloning through the use of hard scientific evidence
D. illuminating the critical ethical distinctions in process between human cloning and sheep cloning
E. describing how the ethical issues in the quest for human cloning have given rise to new models of embryonic development
[单项选择]In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with
A. identifying the differences between science and pseudo-science as they relate to skepticism
B. stressing the importance of employing the scientific method to assuage skeptics
C. proposing a new scientific approach which answers the objections presented by skepticism
D. offering a model of skepticism that is both useful to science and avoids the pitfalls of relativism
E. explaining the difference between the assumptions made by relativists and those made by skeptics
[单项选择]The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
A. refuting a belief held by one school of linguistics
B. reviewing an interesting feature of language
C. illustrating the confusion that can result from the improper use of language
D. suggesting a way in which languages can be made more nearly perfect
E. surveying new interesting areas of research in the field of linguistics
[单项选择]In the fourth paragraph, the author is primarily concerned with
A. restating the main idea of the passage
B. using research findings to make predictions
C. outlining the direction of future research
D. describing an additional aspect of a phenomenon
E. introducing a conflicting hypothesis
[单项选择]The author mentions "sight unseen" primarily in order to emphasize that Shor’s method
A. does not allow for the cloning of a bit of quantum information that has not first been recognized
B. tends to be less reliable than classical information correction, because it is impossible to discern whether Shor’s is successful
C. has been accepted by physicists without much skeptical investigation
D. allows for a quantum correction where the individual states of quantum bits do not need to be reported.
E. quantum correction circuits tend to operate at random
[单项选择]The author is primarily addressing______.
A) parents of teenagers B ) newspaper readers
C) those who give advice to teenagers D) teenagers
[简答题]Like Super Mario Brothers children in a platform game use the included controllers to______.
[单项选择]In his essay "The Parable of the Tapeworm," Mario Vargas Llosa argues that at the heart of the writer’s will to write is rebellion, a "rejection and criticism of life as it is." Moreover, he speculates, it is even possible that good literature may inspire actual acts of rebellion when the reader compares the better world of the book to the relative junk heap of real life. Whether or not this is universally true, it’s an attractive idea, and, in its way, a comforting one. Language is a lever that might move the enormous weight of the fickle, war-torn world we live in. It’s free, universal and highly portable: better than plastic bomb and difficult to govern.
Vargas Llosa’s idea is also, of course, a writerly sort of realpolitik, a wish that a good novel -- or story or poem -- can literally remake history. When Luis Alberto Urrea began his epic novel, "The Hummingbird’s Daughter," 20 years ago, the United States was in the first phase of a conservative backlash, the culture wars
A. This draws God closer to the workers and encourages them.
B. This is to inspire the young Teresita that she should believe in the workers and depend on them.
C. This is a challenge to the orthodoxy ideas that true religion belongs to the upper class.
D. This is saying that God is hardworking and does not indulge in playin