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as the scientist maintains, composed of dancing atoms, but it does not reveal
itself to us as anything of the kind, and it is not with dancing atoms but a
solid and motionless object that we live. So remote is this "real" table—and most of the other "realities" with which science deals—that it cannot be discussed in terms which have any human value, and though it may receive out purely intellectual credence it cannot be woven into the pattern of life as it is led, in contradistinction to life as we attempt to think about it. Vibrations in the either are so totally unlike, let us say, the color purple that the gulf between them cannot be bridged, and they are, to all intents and purposes, not one but two separate things of which the second and less "real" must be the most significant for A. a solid motionless object B. certain characteristic vibrations in "ether" C. a form fixed in space and time D. a mass of atoms on motion [单项选择]Never before can we witness such a preposterous state of affairs as we are seeing today.
A. could we have witnessed B. have we witnessed C. should we witness D. could we witness [填空题]Peoples occupied North America before the arrival of the (1)______
European in the 15th century have long been known as Indians because (2)______ of the belief prevalent at time of Columbus that the Americas were the (3)______ outer reaches of the Indies. Most scholars agree that Native Americans came into the Western Hemisphere from Asia by the Bering Strait in a (4)______ series of migrations. From Alaska they spread to the east and south. (5)______ Several separate waves of migration are said to count for the many native (6)______ linguistic families, while the common origin used to explain the physical (7)______ characteristics that Native Americans have in common--Mongoloid features, coarse, straight, black hair, dark eyes, sparse body hair, and a skin colour range from yellow-brown to reddish brown. Many scholars (8)______ [单项选择]"Before, we were too black to be white. Now. we’re too white to be black. " Hadija, one of South Africa’s 3. 5m Coloured (mixed race) people, sells lace curtains at a street market in a bleak township outside Cape Town. In 1966 she and her family were driven out of District Six, in central Cape Town, by an apartheid government that wanted the area for whites. Most of the old houses and shops were bulldozed but a Methodist church, escaping demolition, has been turned into a little museum, with an old street plan stretched across the floor. On it, families have identified their old houses, writing names and memories in bright felt-tip pen. "We can forgive, but not forget," says one.
Up to a point. In the old days, trampled on by whites, they were made to accept a second-class life of scant privileges as a grim reward for being lighter-skinned than the third-class blacks. Today, they feel trampled on by the black majority. The white-led National Party, which still governs the Western A. it was trampled on by the black majority B. many Coloured succeeded in getting reclassified C. the Coloured couldn’t speak Xhosa, a black African language D. the Coloured had conflicts about the aim of their movement 我来回答: 提交
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