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[单项选择]Several years ago I was teaching a course on the philosophical assumptions and cultural impact of massive multi-user online games at Williams College. The students in the course were very intelligent and obviously interested in the topic.
But as the semester progressed, I began to detect a problem with the class. The students were working hard and performing well but there was no energy in our discussions and no passion in the students. They were hesitant to express their ideas and often seemed to be going through the motions. I tried to encourage them to be more venturesome with tactics I had used successfully in the past but nothing worked.
One day I asked them what was or, perhaps better, was not going on. Why were they so cautions and where was their enthnsiasm for learning They seemed relieved to talk about it and their response surprised me. Since pre-kindergarten, they explained, they had been programmed to perform well so they could get to the next level. They had bee
A. passionate enough
B. adventurous enough C. not smart enough
C. not active enough
[单项选择] Ten years ago I used to be very fit. I cycled to work during the week days and I got a lot of exercise at the weekends. I used to play tennis a lot and go for long walks. In those days I had a job in an office, but I did not have many things to do, so I didn’’t earn very much. I knew it was not a very good job but I had a lot of time to do the things I enjoyed doing.
Then, about eight years ago, I got a much better job. The pay was better. But the hours were a lot longer, too. I bought a car and drove to work every day. I began to take people out to lunch. "Expense account lunches". And I began to put on weight, too. I stopped playing tennis and going for long walks at the weekend because I just didn’’t have any time for things like that any more. There’’s a lot of stress in a job like mine. Perhaps that’’s why I started drinking more than I used to. For example, I used to have only half a glass of whisky when I got home, then I started filling the glass to the top. Then I had
A. Four.
B. Five.
C. Six.
D. Seven.
