[简答题]A BABYLONIAN lamp, by modern standards, shed little light on its surroundings. Nearly 4000 years later it sheds far more on an issue of great interest: the pace of mankind’s material progress. In a new paper, William Nordhaus of Yale University starts by asking what may seem a dull question: do statisticians measure prices accurately To find out, he studies the economic history of light from Neolithic times to the present. His answer and its implications are startling.
Traditional estimates have failed to track the fall in the price of light, especially over the past 200 years. As a result, they overstate today’s price, relative to the price in 1800, not by a few percentage points, nor even by a factor of one or two, but by a factor of about 1000. Even by the standards of economics, that is a large error. The implications are of corresponding size. If the prices of other things are measured as badly as the price of light, it follows that traditional estimates of economic growt

[多项选择]A BABYLONIAN lamp, by modern standards, shed little light on its surroundings. Nearly 4000 years later it sheds far more on an issue of great interest: the pace of mankind’s material progress. In a new paper, William Nordhaus of Yale University starts by asking what may seem a dull question: do statisticians measure prices accurately To find out, he studies the economic history of light from Neolithic times to the present. His answer and its implications are startling.
Traditional estimates have failed to track the fall in the price of light, especially over the past 200 years. As a result, they overstate today’s price, relative to the price in 1800, not by a few percentage points, nor even by a factor of one or two, but by a factor of about 1000. Even by the standards of economics, that is a large error. The implications are of corresponding size. If the prices of other things are measured as badly as the price of light, it follows that traditional estimates of economic growth a

[单项选择]Which of the following historic events is of little significance to America
A. World War Ⅱ
B. The Glorious Revolution.
C. Boston Tea Party.
D. The Vietnam War.

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As college seniors hurtle into the job hunt, little fibs on the resume--for example, claiming a degree when they’re three credits shy of graduation--seem harmless enough. So new grads ought to read this memo now: those 20-year-old falsehoods on cream-colored, 32-lb. premium paper have poleaxed so many high-profile executives that you wonder who in the business world hasn’t got the message. A resume listing two fictitious degrees led to the resignation of David Edmondson, CEO of RadioShack. Untruthful curricula vitae have also hobbled the careers of executives at Bausch & Lomb, Veritas Software and the U. S. Olympic Committee.
The headlines haven’t dented job seekers’ desire to dissemble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-checking company, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U. S. lie about their education on their resumes. (A common boast by guys: that they playe
A. one’s dishonest acts might be punished someday.
B. many graduates tell trivial lies when preparing their resumes.
C. some untruthful resumes have enabled new grads to hunt jobs.
D. high-profile executives are able to identify the truthfulness of a resume.

[填空题]The winds generated by the fire itself are a little slower than the wind of the surrounding area.

[单项选择]After coming a long way from the valley, the little boy was rired and ______.
A. kind
B. excited
C. weak
D. lively

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Does money buy happiness No! Ah, but would a little more money makes us a little happier Many of us smirk and nod. There is, we believe, some connection between fiscal fitness and emotional fulfillment. Three in four American collegians now consider it "very important" or "essential" that they become "very well-off financially". Money matters.
But a surprising fact of life is that in countries where nearly everyone can afford life’s necessities, increasing affluence matters surprisingly little. The correlation between income and happiness is "surprisingly weak", observed University of Michigan researcher Ronald Inglehart in one 16-nation study of 170,000 people. Once comfortable, more money provides diminishing returns. The second piece of pie, or the second ＄100,000, never tastes as good as the first. Even lottery winners and the Forbes’ 100 wealthiest Americans have expressed only slightly greater happiness than
A. the American characteristic
B. the American contradiction
C. the American wonder
D. the American phenomenon