问答题Unintended consequences can be a byproduct of sweeping change. When Henry Ford invented the automobile, the world was transformed by its speed and convenience. Few people, if any, considered what millions of automobiles might mean for the world's energy supply and climate a century down the road. Similarly, with the proliferation of personal computer, businesses and consumers quickly realized the cost and time-saving benefits of the Internet, e-mail and high-speed broadband. Information technology transformed the information age, and global commerce, by making it dramatically easier to manage information, communication, perform research, play the shop. Nowhere is this more evident than in US efforts to reduce energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The days when businesses could send a product into the marketplace without first considering how it might impact the environment are over. Dell was founded with the vision that the customers could be best served through direct relationships. Twenty-three years later, the direct relationship—now a corner-stone of many global companies—can be one of our most valuable tools in collective efforts to reduce energy consumption and protect the environment. The ever-accelerating pace of innovation also created the need for manufactures to look at—and deal with—the entire lifecycle of the technology they created. We also should make a commitment to maintain responsibility throughout a product's entire lifecycle. This starts with design and ends when the product is no longer wanted. We should then recover it and provide updates on our progress. Global industry has been a catalyst for innovation and opportunity since the early days of the industrial revolution. More than two centuries later, the same entrepreneurial spirit and competition that led to the automobile and personal computer can bring new environmental-friendly ventures.

问答题Never before had the world such a tremendous scientific-technical potential, such a capacity to generate wealth and well-being. Authentic technological wonders that have made any place in the world to be always close with regard to distances and communications and have not been capable of bringing wellbeing for everybody, but only for a meager 15% living in the countries of the North. The abysm between North and South is now so huge, that the unsustainability of the current economic order and the blindness of the people who try to justify continuing to enjoy opulence and waste, are evident. The great possibilities that a globalization of solidarity and true cooperation could bring to all people in the world through the scientific-technical wonders, have been reduced by the neo-liberal model to this grotesque caricature full of exploitation and social injustice. We were asked to be ultraliberal in trade and to lift any barrier, which may obstruct the imports coming from the North, but the oral champions of free trade actually are the champions in the praxis of protectionism. The North spends 1 billion dollars a day in practicing what has been banned from doing, that is, subsidizing inefficient products. Today, vis-á-vis the obvious failure of neoliberalism and the great threat that the International Economic Order represents for the south, it is necessary to retake the Spirit of the South by forming an alliance among ourselves.

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问答题What modernist technique does Virginia Woolf employ in her novels like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse?

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问答题 1 We"re moving into another era, as the toxic effects of the bubble and its grave consequences spread through the financial system. Just a couple of years ago investors dreamed of 20 percent returns forever. Now surveys show that they"re down to a "realistic" 8 percent to 10 percent range. But what if the next few years turn out to be below normal expectations? Martin Barners of the Bank Credit Analyst in Montreal expects future stock returns to average just 4 percent to 6 percent. Sound impossible? 2 After a much smaller bubble that burst in the mid-1960s Standard & Poor"s 5,000 stock average returned 6.9 percent a year(with dividends reinvested) for the following 17 years. Few investors are prepared for that. Right now denial seems to be the attitude of choice. "That"s typical," says Lori Lucas of Hewitt, the consulting firm. You hate to look at your investments when they"re going down. Hewitt tracks 500,000401 (k) accounts every day, and finds that savers are keeping their contributions up. But they"re much less inclined to switch their money around. "It"s the slot-machine effect," Lucas says, "People get more interested in playing when they think they"ve got a hot machine—and nothing"s hot today. The average investor feels overwhelmed." 3 Against all common sense, many savers still shut their eyes to the dangers of owning too much company stock. In big companies last year, a surprising 29 percent of employees held at least three quarters of their 402(k) in their own stock. Younger employees may have no choice. You often have to wait until you"re 50 or 55 before you can sell any company stock you get as a matching contribution. 4 But instead of getting out when they can, old participants have been holding, too. One third of the people 60 and up chose company stock for three quarters of their plan, Hewitt reports. Are they inattentive? Loyal to a fault? Sick? It"s as if Lucent, Enron and Xerox never happened. No investor should give his or her total trust to any particular company"s stock. And while you"re at it, think how you"d be if future stock returns—averaging good years and bad—are as poor as Barnes predicts. 5 If you ask me, diversified stocks remain good for the long run, with a backup in bonds. But I, too, am figuring on reduced returns. What a shame. Dear bubble, I"ll never forget. It"s the end of a grand affair.

问答题It is reported that mental health has become a troublesome issue. The number of people committing suicide is on the rise. You are required to analyze this phenomenon and contribute some suggestions on how to keep psychologically healthy. Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition of about 250 words on the following topic: How to Keep Psychologically Healthy?

问答题Directions: Suppose you are going to study abroad and share an apartment with John, a local student. Write him an email to 1) tell him about your living habits, and 2) ask for advice about living there. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zhang Wei" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Americans today don't place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. (1) Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren't difficult to find. "Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual," says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch's latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. (2) Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. "Continuing along this path," says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society." "Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege," writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, a Pulitzer-Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. (3) Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children, (4) "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read—so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. (5) Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country's educational system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise./

问答题Neoclassicism(3 points)

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问答题Archeological studies have provided evidence that the use of plants for decoration as well as for food developed early in the history..

问答题他对无家可归的孩子悉心照顾，就像照顾自己的儿子一样。

问答题State about any speech production model that you are familiar with. Use an utterance example to illustrate your understanding of the chosen model and explain how it accounts for the exchange error of "This is the happiest life of my day".

问答题Ethics are moral standards, not governed by law, that focus on the human consequences of actions. (46) Ethics often require behavior that meets higher standards than that established by law, including selfless behavior rather than calculated action intended to produce a tangible benefit. Ethics are a product of a society's culture, which includes its traditions, customs, values, and norms. Within a society, ethical behavior is usually taken for granted. (47) Members implicitly understand how relationships, duties, and obligations among people and groups ought to be conducted and distinguish between their self-interests and the interests of others. Different cultures and political regimes have different interpretations of legality and ethics. Countries also control and punish unethical and illegal behavior in a variety of ways. Who determines what is right or wrong.9 Ethical relativism and universalism are different views on whether a person or group should set ethical standards and to whom the standards apply. Individual ethical relativism is the view that there is no absolute principle of right and wrong, good or bad, in any social situation. The individual persons in a particular situation determine what is right and wrong. In its extreme form, ethics are a personal judgment independent of societal norms and values. Cultural ethical relativism is the doctrine that what is right or wrong, good or bad, depends on one's culture. If the values of a society support certain acts as ethical and morally correct, then they are acceptable behavior for that society. (48) The counter argument, ethical universalism, maintains that there are universal and objective ethical rules located deep within a culture that also apply across societies. Moral philosophers usually reject ethical relativism because "despite differing practices and beliefs, people often do not disagree about ultimate moral standards. " (49) For example, anthropological research demonstrates that behaviors in a wide variety of societies that appear to be unethical or immoral from a particular cultural perspective—usually Western culture—reflect similar ultimate values upon closer inspection. For corporations, however, moral relativism has considerable appeal. It is an attractive position when the business ethics of other cultures are difficult to understand and interpret. It avoids these problems because it permits a business to use its own ethical standards. (50) More compelling reason for accepting relativism is reluctance to give competitive advantage to cultures that conduct business using different, often less stringent, moral and ethical standards. What should be an organization's approach to ethics? Two fundamental perspectives of corporate ethical and social responsibility are the efficiency perspective and social responsibility theory. Neither can be demonstrated to be preferable by scientific analysis. The positions are grounded in different assumptions about the relationships among human action, economic principles, and desirable social outcomes.

问答题How many syllables does the word "teacher" have? What are they? How many morphemes does it have? What are they?