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[填空题]Many experts who favor genetically modified foods believe that genetic engineering can help to meet the demands of the world’s increasing population.
[单项选择]The 18th-century battlefield was, compared with that of the 20th century, an intimate theater, especially (41) in the engagement of Revolution, which were usually small even by the standards of the day, soldiers has to come to close quarters to kill; this fact reduced the mystery of battle, though perhaps not its terrors. But at least the battlefield lost some of its impersonality. In fact, in (42) to the 20th century combat, in which the enemy (43) remains unseen and the source of incoming fire unknown, in the 18th-century battles the enemy could be seen and some- times even (44) . (45) one’s enemy may have aroused a singular (46) of feeling uncommon in modern battles. Before the assault occurred tension and anxiety (47) up as the troops marched from their movements was well understood by themselves and their enemies, who must have watched with feelings of dread and fascination. When the order came sending them (48)
[填空题]In the 18th and 19th centuries, universities in western Europe and United States enjoyed increasing academic freedom because of acceptance of the experimental methods of the sciences.
[单项选择]John Locke, the well-known 18th century English thinker, emphasized experience as the ()condition for expansion of human knowledge.
A. incompatible
B. incredible
C. indefinite
D. indispensable
[单项选择]The 18th century witnessed a new literary form--the modern English novel, which is contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ( ), presentation of life of the common people.
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic
[单项选择]From the 18th through the mid-19th century, whale oil provided light to much of the Western world. At its peak, whaling employed 70,000 people and was the United States’ fifth-largest industry. The U. S. stood as the world’s foremost whale slayer. Producing millions of gallons of oil each year, the industry was widely seen as unassailable, with advocates scoffing at would-be illumination substitutes like. lard oil and camphene. Without whale oil, so the thinking went, the world would slide backward toward darkness.
By today’s standard, of course, slaughtering whales is considered barbaric. Two hundred years ago there was no environmental movement to speak of. But one wonders if the whalers, finding that each year they needed to go farther afield from Nantucket Island to kill massive sea mammals, ever asked themselves: what will happen when we run out of whales Such questions today constitute the cornerstone of the ever-louder logic of sustainability.
Climate alarmists and cam
A. people have stopped disputing the practice of whale killing.
B. the number of whales has risen despite mass slaughter.
C. modern society is more alert to the sustainability of nature.
D. environmentalists have brought whale killing to an abrupt end.