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[单项选择]Deserts and high mountains have always been a（）to the movement of people from place to place
A. barrier
B. fence
C. prevention
D. jam
[单项选择]Since my childhood I have been always taught that it is very ______ to interrupt others.
A. rude
B. rough
C. crude
D. coarse
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[单项选择]Scholars and students have always been great travellers. The official case for "academic mobility" is now often stated in impressive terms as a fundamental necessity for economic and social progress in the world, and debated in the corridors of Europe, but it is certainly nothing new. Serious students were always ready to go abroad in search of the most stimulating teachers and the most famous academies; in search of the purest philosophy, the most effective medicine, the likeliest road to gold.
Mobility of this kind meant also mobility of ideas l their transference across frontiers, their simultaneous impact upon many groups of people. The point of learning is to share it, whether with students or with colleagues; one presumes that only eccentrics have no interest in being credited with a startling discovery, or a new technique. It must also have been reassuring to know that other people in other parts of the world were about to make the same discovery or were thinking along the
A. spend less time travelling
B. cut down research costs
C. develop their ideas more quickly
D. keep up with current developments
