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Jan Hendrik Schon's success seemed too
good to be true, and it was. In only four years as a physicist at Bell
Laboratories, Schon, 32, had co-anthored 90 scientific papers--one every 16
days--detailing new discoveries in superconductivity, lasers, nanotechnology and
quantum physics. This output astonished his colleagues, and made them
suspicious. When one co-worker noticed that the same table of data appeared in
two separate papers--which also happened to appear in the two separate
papers--which also happened to appear in the two most prestigious scientific
journals in the world, Science and Nature--the jig was up. In October 2002, a
Bell Labs investigation found that Schon had falsified and fabricated data. His
career as a scientist was finished. If it sounds a lot like the
fall of Hwang Woo Suk--the South Korean researcher who fabricated his evidence
about cloning human cells--it is. Scientific scandals, which are as old as
science itself, tend to follow similar patterns of hubris and comeuppance.
Afterwards, colleagues wring their hands and wonder how such malfeasance can be
avoided in the future. But it never is entirely. Science is built on the honor
system; the method of peer-review, in which manuscripts are evaluated by experts
in the field, is not meant to catch cheats. In recent years, of course, the
pressure on scientists to publish in the top journals has increased, making the
journals that much more crucial to career success. The questions raised anew by
Hwang's fall are whether Nature and Science reaches the public, and whether the
journals are up to their task as gatekeepers. Scientists are
also trying to reach other scientists through Science and Nature, not just the
public. Being often-cited will increase a scientist's "Impact Factor", a measure
of how often papers are cited by peers. Funding agencies use the Impact Factor
as a rough measure of the influence of scientists they're considering
supporting. It also no doubt reflects the increasing and sometimes excessive
emphasis amongst funding agencies and governments on publication measures, such
as the typical rates of citation of journals. Whether the clamor
to appear in these journals has any bearing on their ability to catch fraud is
another matter. The fact is, fraud is terrifically hard to spot. The panel found
that Hwang had fabricated all of the evidence for research that claimed to have
cloned human cells, but that he had successfully cloned the dog
Snuppy. After this, Science sent the paper to three stem-cell
experts, who had a week to look it over. Their comments were favorable. How were
they to know that the data was fraudulent? With the financial
and deadline pressures of the publishing industry, it's unlikely that the
journals are going to take markedly stronger measures to vet manuscripts. Beyond
replicating the experiments themselves, which would be impractical, it's
difficult to see what they could do to take science beyond the honor
system.
单选题Questions 14 to 16 are based on a talk on the Central College library. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 to 16.
单选题{{B}}Part B{{/B}} In the following article some paragraphs have
been removed. For Questions 66~70, choose the most suitable paragraphfrom the
list A~F to fit into each ofthe numbered gaps. There is one paragraph which does
not fit in any of the gaps.
A.There are different formulas for the exchange of glances
depending on where the meeting takes place. B.In the
subway or bus where long rides in very close circumstances are a necessity, we
may be hard put to find some way of not staring. We sneak glances, but look away
before our eyes can lock. If we look with an unfocused glance that misses the
eyes and settles on the head.the mouth, the body for any place but the eyes is
an acceptable looking spot for the unfocused glance.
C.Actually in this way we are saying, in body language, “I know you are
there, ”and a moment later we add, “But I would not dream of intruding on your
privacy. ” D.It is the technique we use for any unusual
situation where too long a stare would be embarrassing. When we see an
interracial couple, we also use this technique. We might use it when we see a
man with an unusual beard, with extra longhair, with outlandish clothes, or a
girl with a minimal miniskirt may attract this look-and-away.
E.For this passing encounter Dr. Erving Goffman in behavior in public
places says that the quick look and the lowering ofthe eyes is body language
for, “I trust you. I am not afraid of you. ” F.Sometimes the
rules are hard to follow, particularly if one of the two people wears dark
glasses. With unfamiliar human beings, when we
acknowledge their humanness, we must avoid staring at them, and yet we must also
avoid ignoring them. To make them into people rather than objects, we use a
deliberate and polite inattention. We look at them long enough to, make it quite
clear that we see them, and then we immediately look away.
66.______ The important thing in such an exchange is that
we do not catch the eye of one whom we are recognizing as a person. We look at
him without locking glances, and then we immediately look away. Recognition is
not permitted. 67.______ If you pass
someone in the street, you may eye the oncoming person until you are about eight
feet apart, then you must look away as you pass. Before the eight-foot distance
is reached, each will signal in which direction he will pass. This is done with
a brief look in that direction. Each will veer slightly and the passing is done
smoothly. 68.______ To strengthen this
signal, you look directly at the other's face before looking away.
69.______ It becomes impossible to
discover just what they are doing. Are they looking at you too long, too
intently? Are they looking at you at all? The person wearing the glasses feels
protected and assumes that he can stare without being noticed in his staring.
However, this is a self-deception. To the other person, dark glasses seem to
indicate that the wearer is always staring at him. We
often use this look-away technique when we meet famous people. We want to assure
them we are respecting their privacy and that we would not dream of staring at
them. The same is true of the crippled or physically handicapped. We look brief
and then look away before the stare can be said to be a stare.
70.______ Of course, the opposite is also true. If we
wish to put a person down, we may do so by staring longer than is acceptably
polite. Instead of dropping our gazes when we lock glances, we continue to
stare. The person who disapproves of interracial marriages or dating will stare
rudely at the interracial couple. If he dislikes long hair, short dresses, or
beards, he may show it with a longer-than-acceptable stare.
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{{B}} Questions 11 to 13 are based on the
following talk on tattoo. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 to
13.{{/B}}
单选题Questions 4--8 Answer the following questions by using NO MORE THAN three words.
单选题At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before heading for West Milford High, a rural school in northernmost New Jersey. On his 30-minute commute, the young former investment banker tries to dream up new ways of lifting the monumentally forgettable Mexican War off the textbook page and into his students' imaginations. Can he invoke the storied memories of Robert E. Lee, who cut his first military exploits on the plains of Veracuz—or will he be met with thundering responses of "Who's Lee"? Should he raise James K. Polk out of the mystic chords of memory, and hope, for a nanosecond, that the kids will care about the first U. S. president who stepped aside because he'd accomplished everything he wanted? Let's think some more. Well, there's always the Alamo. And hey, isn't that the teachers' parking lot up ahead? It's never an easy task. These big kids in big jeans and ball caps, come to his history classes believing that history is about as useful as Latin. Most are either unaware or unimpressed that the area's iron forges once produced artillery cannon for George Washington's army. Their sense of history orbits more narrowly around last month's adventures on "Shop Rite Strip", the students' nickname for downtown West Milford, once a factory town, now a Magnet for middle-class vacationers. Cosgrove looks uncommonly glum as he thumbs through a stack of exams in the teachers' lounge. "I can't believe anyone in my class could think John Brown was the governor of Massachusetts," moans Cosgrove, 28, pointing to one student's test paper. He had to be sleeping for days on end. The same morning, students in his college bound class could name only one U. S. Supreme Court justice—Clarence Thomas. All his wit, energy and beyond-the-textbook research can't completely reverse the students' poor preparation in history, their lack of general knowledge, their numbness to the outside world. It's the bane of history teachers at every level. When University of Vermont professor James Loewen asked his senior social-science majors who fought in the Vietnam War, 22 percent answered North and South Korea. Don't these kids even go to the movies?
单选题Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modem life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the greater efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the "typical" Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality.
Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that "assembly-line life" will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, rind the cultivation of the good things in life—to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe?
Since the late 1950"s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.
In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.
单选题What problem does Mr. Kerin point out?
单选题The pages of the Harvard Business Review are not usually populated by novelists. But Joseph Finder is just such a rarity. Recently, the HBR posted a fictitious case study by Mr. Finder on its website. Readers will now have a chance to comment; the most interesting contributions, as well as the remarks of several corporate grandees, will appear alongside the story in the printed version of the magazine in October.
In the case study, Mr. Finder describes a dilemma facing Cheryl Tobin, the newly installed chief executive of a big aerospace firm. She starts to suspect that her colleagues have engaged in massive corruption to win contracts. Ms. Tobin is also a central character in Mr. Finder"s new book, Power Play, which was released earlier this week. In the novel, her main concern is not corruption but an executive retreat on a remote island that goes horribly wrong.
A graduate of both Yale and Harvard, Mr. Finder took up novel-writing after flirting with a career at the CIA and taking a stab at journalism. He had written a non-fiction book about links between American businesses and the Soviet Union but had been unable to use some of the most fascinating material he had picked up, since his sources wanted it to remain off the record. So Mr. Finder wove those titbits into a political thriller instead. After three more novels on political themes, he decided to set his next book in the world of business.
There are many novels set in offices and boardrooms. The appeal of Mr. Finder"s lies not in the majesty of the prose—they are airport novels, not Pulitzer candidates—but in the plausibility of their plots and the accuracy of their depiction of corporate life. "I"ve not seen anything that couldn"t happen," says Skip Brandon, co-founder of Smith Brandon International, a corporate-intelligence company. "The business community is pretty interesting, with all sorts of characters which he brings to life with a level of realism people can relate to," says Bill Teuber, of EMC, a data-storage company.
Business journalism may provide plenty of facts and figures, Mr. Finder argues, but it seldom gives readers much of a feel for corporate fife. Fiction, in his view, can provide a more accurate picture than anything found in newspapers or management literature. At any rate, Mr. Finder is convinced that corporate insiders talk more candidly to him than they do to reporters.
He has found big companies remarkably willing to provide background material. For his book,
Paranoia
, he talked with high-ups at Apple, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard—a computer-maker whose subsequent involvement in a real-life case of corporate espionage may not have come as a surprise to Mr. Finder"s readers. For
Killer Instinct
, the company NEC helped him to understand what it was like to be an American working for a big Japanese electronics firm.
单选题{{I}} Questions 17 to 20 are based on the talk about George Orwell. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20.{{/I}}
单选题Which of the following may be the best title for this passage? _______.
单选题Entering the room, I found my father __ at the desk and ___ something .
单选题Questions 11 to 13 are based on a conversation between two lovers in which the girl tells the boy how to get to some places. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 to 13.
单选题Thetrampwaslockedinthestore______.
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单选题Which of the following is NOT the cause for the emergence of suburbia?
单选题The study of philosophies should make our own ideas flexible. We are all of us apt to take certain general ideas for granted, and call them common sense. We should learn that other people have held quite different ideas, and that our own have started as very original guesses of philosophers. A scientist is apt to think that all the problems of philosophy will ultimately be solved by science. I think this is true for a great many of the questions on which philosophers still argue. For example, Plato thought that when we saw something, one ray of light came to it from the sun, and another from our eyes and that seeing was something like feeling with a stick. We now know that the light comes from the sun, and is reflected into our eyes. We don' t know in much detail how the changes in our eyes give rise to sensation. But there is every reason to think that as we learn more about the physiology of the brain, we shall do so, and that the great philosophical problems about knowledge are going to be pretty fully cleared up. But if our descendants know the answers to these questions and others that perplex ns today, there will still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. However exact our science, we cannot know it ns we know the past. Philosophy may be described as argument about things of which we are ignorant. And where science gives us a hope of knowledge it is often reasonable to suspend judgment. That is one reason why Marx and Engels quite rightly wrote to many philosophical problems that interested their contemporaries. But we have got to prepare for the future, and we cannot do so rationally without some philosophy. Some people say we have only got to do the duties revealed in the past and laid down by religion, and god will look after the future. Other say that the world is a machine and the course of future events is certain, whatever efforts we may make. Marxists say that the future depends on ourselves, even though we are part of the historical process. This philosophical view certainly does inspire people to very great achievements. Whether it is true or not, it is powerful guide to action. We need a philosophy, then, to help us to tackle the future. Agnosticism easily becomes an excuse for laziness and conservatism. Whether we adopt Marxism or any other philosophy, we cannot understand it with-out knowing something of how it developed. That is why knowledge of the history of philosophy is important to Marxists, even during the present critical days.
单选题 Read the following texts answer the questions accompany them by
choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.{{B}}Part
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Opinion polls are now beginning to show
that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is
probably here to stay. This means we shall have to make ways of sharing the
available employment more widely. But we need to further, We
must ask some primary questions about the future of work. Would we continue to
treat employment as the norm? Would we not rather encourage many other ways for
self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of
us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to
revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the
office, as centers of production and work? The industrial age
has been the only period of human history during which most people's work has
taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some
of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This
seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could provide the prospect of a
better future for work. University employment, as its history shows, has not
meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the
enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid
work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide
a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage
industries and removed work from people's homes. Later, as transportation
improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to
their places of employment until, eventually, many people's work lost all
connection with their home lives and the place in which they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial time,
men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village
community, Now it became a custom for the husband to go out to be paid through
employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and
benefit regulations still assume this norm today and restrict more flexible
sharing Of work roles between the sexes. It was not only women
whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work,
young people and old people were excluded—a problem now, as more teenagers
become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active
lives. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly
come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal of creating
jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage
without full time jobs.
单选题Whatdoesthemando?A.Ataxi-driver.B.Abusdriver.C.Apoliceman.D.Atouristguide.
单选题The "standard of living" of any country means the average person's share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country's standard of living, therefore, depends first and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money but on things that money can buy- "goods "such as food and clothing, and "services" such as transport and entertainment. A country's capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have an effect on one another. Wealth depends to a great extent upon a country's natural resources, such as coal, gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a favourable climate; other regions possess none of them. The USA is one of the wealthiest regions of the world because she has vast natural resources within her borders, her soil is fertile, and her climate is varied. The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the least wealthy. Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn them to use. Sound and stable political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well served by nature but less well ordered. Another important factor is the technical efficiency of a country's people. Old countries that have, through many centuries, trained up numerous skilled craftsmen and technicians are better placed to produce wealth than countries whose workers are largely unskilled. Wealth also produces wealth. As a country becomes wealthier, its people have a large margin for saving, and can put their savings into factories and machines which will help workers to produce more goods in their working day. A country's standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed within its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade. For example, Britain's wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on those grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural product that would other wise be lacking. A country's wealth is, therefore, much influenced by its manufacturing capacity, provided that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures.