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[单项选择] I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated(淹没) by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can’’t tell is whether they have any kind of taste." You don’’t hear that word much now. And yet we still need the underlying concept, whatever we call it. What my friend meant was that he wanted students who were not just good technicians, but who could use their technical knowledge to design beautiful things. For those of us who design things, these are not just theoretical questions. If there is such a thing as beauty, we need to be able to recognize it. We need good taste to make good things. Instead of treating beauty as an airy abstraction, to be either blathered about or avoided depending on how one feels about airy abstractions, let’’s try considering it as a practical question: how do you make good stuff
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[单项选择] I have a friend who put her career on hold after she got married and had children. She stayed at home until the oldest was four years old, 56 she began doing part-time jobs to get out of the house. That wasn’t enough, so she took a full-time job, which 57 her to travel. She was making more money than her husband, even 58 four years off the market. Her in-laws, who believe a woman’s only function is housekeeping, 59 to her husband with their negative opinions. Emotionally torn (受折磨的), he wanted to 60 his wife but was conditioned by loyalty (忠诚) to his parents’ ideals. Naturally, his wife also felt 61,eager to purse her vision but emotionally invested in her husband and family.
I 62 her to go with her vision, because it’s her life. Too many women give up their career dreams to 63 a relationship. That’s traditional, but it can 64 you crazy. And some dreams, if you don’t purse them in time, will pass you 65 . When you’re finally free to go 66 them, you’ve 67 the window of
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