[简答题]Doing a PhD is certainly not for everybody, and I do not recommend it for most people. However, I am really glad I got my PhD rather than just getting a job after finishing my Bachelor’s. The number one reason is that I learned a hell of a lot doing the PhD, and most of the things I learned I would never get exposed to in a typical software engineering job. (1) The process of doing a PhD trains you to do research, to read research papers, to run experiments, to write papers, to give talks. It also teaches you how to figure out what problem needs to be solved. You gain a very sophisticated technical background doing the PhD, and having your work subject to the intense scrutiny of the academic peer-review process—not to mention your thesis committee.
I think of the PhD a little like the Grand Tour, a tradition in the 16th and 17th centuries where youths would travel around Europe, getting a rich exposure to high society in France, Italy, and Germany, learning about art

[简答题]Doing a PhD is certainly not for everybody, and I do not recommend it for most people. However, I am really glad I got my PhD rather than just getting a job after finishing my Bachelor’s. The number one reason is that I learned a hell of a lot doing the PhD, and most of the things I learned I would never get exposed to in a typical software engineering job. (1) The process of doing a PhD trains you to do research, to read research papers, to run experiments, to write papers, to give talks. It also teaches you how to figure out what problem needs to be solved. You gain a very sophisticated technical background doing the PhD, and having your work subject to the intense scrutiny of the academic peer-review process—not to mention your thesis committee.
I think of the PhD a little like the Grand Tour, a tradition in the 16th and 17th centuries where youths would travel around Europe, getting a rich exposure to high society in France, Italy, and Germany, learning about art

[填空题]Liao gave up her opportunity of doing PHD in America to continue her TV documentary named ______.

[单项选择]That trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn’t bothered by his loudness（）by his lack of talent.
A. so much as
B. rather than
C. as
D. than

[单项选择]Come on-Everybody’s doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure. It usually leads to no good-drinking, drugs and casual sex. But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.
Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of example of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool. In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.
The idea seems promising, and Rosenberg is a perceptive observer. Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail t
A. a supplement to the social cure
B. a stimulus to group dynamics
C. an obstacle to school progress
D. a cause of undesirable behaviors

[填空题]Everybody wastes time. Instead of doing his homework, the schoolboy watches (36) . Instead of writing her (37) ,the student goes out with her friends. They all have good (38) ,but they keep putting off the moment when they must start work. As a (39) , they begin to feel (40) , and then waste even more time (41) they had not allowed themselves to be (42) .
When someone else is (43) our time for us, as for instance during lessons or working hours, (44) . It is when we are responsible for organizing our own time that the need for self- discipline arises.
(45) . Bob is extremely methodical-never wastes time. Alan, on the other hand, (46) . Such periods of intense activity are usually followed by days when he potters around his flat, listening to Mozart and flicking through magazines.