单选题Culture is activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. 【C1】______of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless 【C2】______on God"s earth. What we should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start【C3】______, and their culture will lead them as deep as philosophy and as high as 【C4】______. We have to remember that the valuable intellectual development is self-development, and that it【C5】______takes place between that ages of sixteen and thirty. As to training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of twelve. In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas"—that is to say, ideas that are merely【C6】______into the mind without being utilized, or tested , or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of education, the most【C7】______phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas. Except at【C8】______intervals of intellectual motivation, education in the past has been radically【C9】______with inert ideas. That is the reason why uneducated clever women, who have seen much of the world, are in middle life so much the most cultured part of the community. They have been saved from this horrible burden of inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity【C10】______greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas.

单选题Despite his ______ as a trouble-maker, he was promoted to department manger.(2003年上海交通大学考博试题)

单选题By saying "Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one", the father meant that ______.

单选题Dr. Brosnan and Dr. de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys ______.

单选题It can be inferred that through Chapter-A-Day ______.

单选题The capital intended to broaden the export base and ______ efficiency gains from international trade was channeled in stead of uneconomic import substitution.

单选题It is appropriate on an anniversary of the founding of a university to remind ourselves of its purposes. It is equally appropriate at such riffle for students to (61) why they have been chosen to attend and to consider how they can best (62) the privilege of attending. At the least you as students can hope to become (63) in subject matter which may be useful to you in later life. There is, (64) , much more to be gained. It is now that you must learn to exercise your mind sufficiently (65) learning becomes a joy and you thereby become a student for life. (66) this may require an effort of will and a period of self-discipline. Certainly it is not (67) without hard work. Teachers can guide and encourage you, but learning is not done passively. To learn is your (68) . There is (69) the trained mind satisfaction to be derived from exploring the ideas of others, mastering them and evaluating them. But there is (70) level of inquiry which I hope that some of you will choose. If your study takes you to the (71) of understanding of a subject and, you have reached so far, you find that you can penetrate to (72) no one has been before, you research. Commitment to a life of scholarship or research is (73) many other laudable goals. It is edifying, and it is a source of inner satisfaction even (74) other facets of life prove disappointing. I strongly (75) it.

单选题Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed— and perhaps never before it's served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe. A. by which B. it's served C. peoples and nations D. as

单选题The author's overall point is that ______.

单选题Dinosaurs were reptiles which became extinct about 65 million years ago. The most intriguing question about dinosaurs has always been " (21) did they die out?" There is no simple answer to this question, (22) many hundreds of scientists are studying the problem. They are not studying the extinction of the dinosaurs (23) , but the whole question of extinction. Many other plants and animals have (24) in the past, and it is important to understand (25) this happened. Having this information could help save many species that are (26) in the modern world. Humans are causing extinctions now, because of pollution and other damage (27) the environment. Maybe the dinosaurs can tell us how to save the earth today, (28) their extinction 65 million years ago! Some of the early dinosaur scientists, 100 years ago, thought the dinosaurs died out because the (29) changed, and they could not breathe. Others thought that the dinosaurs disappeared simply because they became too big. They were (30) to move and could not find enough food (31) One theory is that a huge killer meteorite (32) the earth. Some scientists (33) that the extinction of dinosaurs was possibly due to rapid (34) of the planet's climate. Perhaps huge amounts of lava pours out of volcanoes in India. This sent up vast (35) of dust that blacked out the sun, and made the earth icy cold.

单选题 A happy life, according to the Scottish poet James Thomson, consists of "retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books," among other things. Alice Munro, perhaps the greatest short-story writer of our time, has elected to embrace this bliss, saying last week, "I'm probably not going to write anymore." An incredulous editor from the National Post had to follow up on whether she really meant it-that last year's sublimely devastating collection, Dear Life, was it for her. "Oh, yes," the 81-year-old Canadian said, telling disappointed fans to "read the old ones over again. There are lots of them." Yet if you have ever imagined a typical day in the life of an author, your vision probably resembles Thomson's. Writing seems like tender labor, and it's not hard to picture all those quarterly Munro stories— the ones that appear in The New Yorker as regularly as fresh interns—being created from a diet of easy grace, fertilized frequently with tea, long walks, dinners on the porch, and Chekhov readings. Why would anyone have to retire from writing, as if it's a job with regular hours? Except it is. John Updike used to rent a one-room office above a restaurant, where he would report to write six days a week. John Cheever famously put on his only suit and rode the elevator with the 9-to-5 crowd, only he would proceed down to the basement to write in a storage room. Robert Caro still puts on a jacket and tie every day and repairs to his 22nd-floor Manhattan office. Authors who corral their duties into daily routines help remind us of the industry of writing. A muse does not pour words into someone's skull. The drudgery has conquered some of our best wordsmiths. "When you decide 'to be a writer, ' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like," Philip Roth, another recent literary retiree, has said about the "stringent exigencies" of literature. "But working at it nearly every day for 50 years ... turns out to be an extremely taxing job and hardly the pleasantest of human activities." He even called it "just torture, awful." Munro has long been able to pensively observe someone and effortlessly penetrate the character's extraordinary private history. "Nobody bothers anymore to judge her goodness," the critic James Wood has said. "Her reputation is like a good address." It is as if she can look upon a person and always see the full span of a life. Now she has taken a measure of her years and judged that, at last, she can stop. Let us read the old ones over again. There are lots of them.

单选题Some people think they have an answer to the problems of automobile crowding and pollution in large cities. Their answer is the bicycle, or "bike". In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bicycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines. For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bicycle riders. For example, they want the city to paint special lanes for bicycle on some of the main streets, because when bicycle riders must use the same lanes as cars, there may be accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes, more people would use bikes. But no bicycle lanes have been painted yet. Not everyone thinks they are a good idea. Taxi drivers don"t like the idea— they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets don"t like the idea—they say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too far from downtown to travel by bike. The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. On weekends, Central Park—the largest open space in New York—is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only. But Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown. Until that happens, the safest place to bicycle may be in the park.

单选题The poor girl spent over half a year in the hospital but she is now ______ for it. A. none the worse B. none the better C. never worse D. never better

单选题Advances in computers and data networks inspire visions of a future "information economy" in which everyone will have (1) to gigabytes of all kinds of information anywhere and anytime, (2) information has always been a (3) difficult commodity to deal with, and, in some ways, computers and high-speed networks make the problems of buying, (4) , and distributing information goods worse (5) better. The evolution of the Internet itself (6) serious problems. (7) the Intemet has been privatized, several companies are (8) to provide the backbones that will carry traffic (9) local networks, but (10) business models for intereonnectinn—who pays how much for each packet (11) , for example—have (12) to be developed. (13) intereonnection standards are developed that make (14) cheap and easy to transmit information across independent networks, competition will (15) . If technical or economic (16) make interconnection difficult, (17) transmitting data across multiple networks is expensive or too slow, the (18) suppliers can offer a signfficant performance (19) ; they may be able to use this edge to drive out competitors and (20) the market.

单选题After spending some time on the island they became ______to the hardships. A. scathed B. sniggered C. inured D. outreached

单选题(2008)—Why did you leave the meeting early? --I found the discussion______.

单选题It doesn't take long to get a good feel for the potential of cloud computing and how it can offer ready access to entirely new business capabilities, less expensive IT resources, and unrivaled flexibility for businesses of every size. Since becoming a hot topic early 2008 as major vendors, including top firms such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, jumped on the bandwagon with a wide-range of offerings, cloud computing has consistently stayed on the industry's radar. With leading companies still joining the movement—including IBM, HP, and Salesforce—cloud computing has moved from a cottage industry to one of the bigger growth areas in the computing business, just as the industry as a whole begins to take serious lumps from the recession. The onus is now on businesses to take advantage of cloud computing to cut costs and become more agile. In the process, they will have some hard choices to make—some intriguing ones too—if they want to access the many advantages that cloud computing platforms can provide. There are also some non-trivial challenges involved in adopting cloud computing that must be watched closely as well. These includes a long list of issues such as the security and privacy of business data in remote 3rd party data centers, the dreaded concerns about platform lock-in, worries about reliability and performance, and even fears about making the wrong decision before the industry begins to mature. However, in a business environment where change is almost mandatory in order to survive, cloud computing appears to offer significant economic benefits if the risks can be offset. Hence, one of the bigger challenges IT departments will face this year is whether they can take the plunge with cloud computing quickly enough to benefit their organizations as a whole. Phil Wainewright has covered some of the more interesting issues swirling around cloud computing of late including the default lock-out that occurs in the event of the demise of a cloud computing provider as well as the brewing SLA battles between the major providers. This underscores hew the cloud computing space is where the new platform wars are forming and it's sizing up to be as big or bigger than earlier ones. The good news for now: In a wide-open new industry, there is no clear leader today and choice prevails. This brings up the side discussion of what actually constitutes cloud computing, since everyone seems to be applying the label to anything that runs on the network. Is it Web hosting of your application code? Is it a software platform as an on-demand service? Do SaaS applications count as cloud computing? The answers to all these questions are a qualified yes; the answer hovers roughly around the outsourcing of computing of any kind (CPU, storage, apps, etc.) using a shared cost, commodity utility model. In general, you know if you're involved with cloud computing of some kind if you're receiving a bill for computing services being done for you somewhere else but which you can access directly.

单选题The wealth of a country should be measured______the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.

单选题What is the author's attitude towards television?

单选题The quality and number of a city's public roads offer an excellent means of gauging its prosperity.