问答题Many schools argue that the "sticker" prices show in the U.S. News index are misleading. Since most students, not just those who might be described as truly "needy", usually are eligible for some form of financial aid. 1 In fact, tuition discounting has become so widespread that on many campuses what began as a subsidy for the minority has turned into an entitlement for the majority. Some schools actually encourage students to bargain for larger aid packages by implicitly—or explicitly-promising "to meet the competition". 2 Naturally, the something-for-nothing generosity of this strange system comes at a price, as increases in financial aid usually have to be funded by raising already high tuition higher still. 3 Unhappily, college loans have become as much a part of student life as Friday night beer busts. Between 1990 and 1995, the $103billion combined with the total of undergraduate loans exceeded the sum of all the debt incurred by all the college students during the preceding three decades. 4 Statistics like these trouble Charles Manning, chancellor of the West Virginia University System, who worries that high levels of debt could "wind up negatively influencing students" lifestyles, their choices of careers, their willingness to go to graduate and professional schools and their ability to buy homes, cars and other consumer products." Of even greater concern is that many of these debtors may also wind up, at least temporarily, in jobs that do not offer what have come to be thought of as college-level salaries. The disturbing truth is that there are simply too many college graduates competing for too few college-level jobs. In her latest study, Kristina J. Shelley, a Bureau of Labor Statistics specialist in the post-college-employment market, estimates that at least 22 percent of all college graduates entering the work force between 1994 and 2005 were or will be either unemployed or in jobs for which a bachelor"s degree is not ordinarily considered a necessity. 5 Working with some big companies is an honorable first job, but the salaries they offer rarely enable graduates both to repay a student loan and to enjoy a life style appropriate with their expectations.

问答题Parents are required by law to see that their children receive full-time education, at school or elsewhere, between the ages of 5 and 16 in England, Scotland and Wales and 4 and 16 in Northern Ireland. About 93 percent of pupils receive free education from public funds, while the others attend independent schools financed by fees paid by parents. Many, aged 3-4 years, children attend nursery schools and classes (or, in England, reception classes in primary schools). Pre-school education may also be provided in some private day nurseries and pre-school playgroups (which are largely organized by parents). The Government has stated its commitment to a major expansion of pre-school education and wants all children to begin school with a basic foundation in literacy and numeracy. From September 1998 it is providing free nursery education in England and Wales for all 4 year olds whose parents want it, and is committed to staged targets for provision for 3 year olds thereafter. Local education authorities, in partnership with private and voluntary providers, have drawn up "early years development plans" for securing these objectives. The plans are designed to show how co-operation between private nurseries, playgroups and schools call best serve the interests of children and their parents. From April 1999, early years development partnerships and plans will be expanded to deliver quality childcare integrated with early education. In addition, the Government is working with local authorities and others in England to establish "early excellence centers" designed to demonstrate good practice in education and childcare. In Scotland, local education authorities have been taking the leading role, from Au- gust 1998, in planning and co-ordinating pre-school education and in providing places, working in partnership with voluntary and private providers. The Government planned to give all children in the pre-school year access to quality, part-time education by the winter of 1998. Northern Ireland has a lower compulsory school age of 4 and a single school entry date in September each year. A pre-school education expansion programme, undertaken through partnership between the education and library boards, other statutory providers and the private and voluntary sectors, has provided additional pre-school places.

问答题The key position and role of women in the process of development is increasingly being recognized. Although the three great World Conferences of Women were more concerned with recognizing and compiling approaches to emancipation we can currently confirm a general sharpening of awareness. 21 It has become clear that the Third World cultures have been weakened in this respect by the methods of colonial education which are almost exclusively directed towards the male. Of the many criticisms of this situation let one voice be heard: "Development education groups and programs are very much male dominated and lack woman"s perspective." So, too, the hopes placed in vocational training as an aid to equality have been disappointed since this in its turn was to large extent focused on male. 22 In these circumstances we should not be surprised that until now women have participated least in the educational processes which have been introduced. Only 20% attend primary school and the percentage of those who leave early is highest among girls. Because of the lack of basic training only around 10% take part in Adult Education programs. Hence it is vitally important to secure a turning point by increasing the awareness of the need for education. The International Conference at Jomtien in 1990 provided the solution to this: "A more educated mother raises a healthier family. She has fewer and better-educated children. She is more productive at home and in the workplace and is better able to get further education." 23 Many problems in school are consequences of incorrect or improperly balanced nutrition combined with inadequate hygiene. Together these factors can lead to failure to keep pace in school. 24 Hence even primary education for girls should be directed towards the basic needs and necessities and provide answers which are as simple as possible. In rural districts such answers will be different from those given in urban areas. The education of girls and women must to a large degree be an education for the life they will lead, tailored to a woman"s position. In saying this we are in fact demanding that the education of women, like all educational work in the Third World, should be an integrated part of the community. Consequently there are many partners in this process school, family, small businesses, governmental and non-governmental organizations. The educational skill consists in keeping this interplay active in such a way that there is no deficiency in material content. 25 An important consequence of this is the awakening of the desire to question, which, on the one band presses for further education and on the other hand for its practical application.

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问答题从来就没有完美的幸福。人类不存在尽善尽美的状况。无论幸福可能是别的什么东西，它既不在于拥有也不在于实现，而是在于追求的过程。我们要时刻牢记，我们与生俱来的权力不是享受幸福而是追求幸福。幸福在于追求的本身，在于追求我们终生为之而努力并从中获得启迪的有意义的事情，也就是说在于追求的过程。对于一个民族的评价不是在于看它拥有什么或是想要拥有什么，而是看他想要并在追求什么。

问答题瘦小的他走在我前面。他曾经走得那么飞快，我总要小跑才能赶得上。

问答题Fireworks lit up the night the sky in the German town of Frankfurt on the Oder River that borders Poland at midnight Friday when the German-Polish border barrier was eliminated.

问答题Many schools argue that the "sticker" prices show in the U.S. News index are misleading. Since most students, not just those who might be described as truly "needy", usually are eligible for some form of financial aid. 1 In fact, tuition discounting has become so widespread that on many campuses what began as a subsidy for the minority has turned into an entitlement for the majority. Some schools actually encourage students to bargain for larger aid packages by implicitly—or explicitly-promising "to meet the competition". 2 Naturally, the something-for-nothing generosity of this strange system comes at a price, as increases in financial aid usually have to be funded by raising already high tuition higher still. 3 Unhappily, college loans have become as much a part of student life as Friday night beer busts. Between 1990 and 1995, the $103billion combined with the total of undergraduate loans exceeded the sum of all the debt incurred by all the college students during the preceding three decades. 4 Statistics like these trouble Charles Manning, chancellor of the West Virginia University System, who worries that high levels of debt could "wind up negatively influencing students" lifestyles, their choices of careers, their willingness to go to graduate and professional schools and their ability to buy homes, cars and other consumer products." Of even greater concern is that many of these debtors may also wind up, at least temporarily, in jobs that do not offer what have come to be thought of as college-level salaries. The disturbing truth is that there are simply too many college graduates competing for too few college-level jobs. In her latest study, Kristina J. Shelley, a Bureau of Labor Statistics specialist in the post-college-employment market, estimates that at least 22 percent of all college graduates entering the work force between 1994 and 2005 were or will be either unemployed or in jobs for which a bachelor"s degree is not ordinarily considered a necessity. 5 Working with some big companies is an honorable first job, but the salaries they offer rarely enable graduates both to repay a student loan and to enjoy a life style appropriate with their expectations.

问答题如果你60岁时就觉得自己已经老了，那你的一举一动就真的会像老人一样。

问答题这方案富于创造性，独出心裁，所以他们都很喜欢。

问答题In agriculture-based countries -- home to 417 million rural people, 170 million of who live on less than ＄1 a day -- the agricultural sector is essential to overall growth, poverty reduction, and food security. Most of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the sector employs 65 percent of the labor force and generates 32 percent of GDP growth.

问答题Walk along the River Warnow, in northern Germany, and you may be lucky enough to spot a SeaFalcon, a sleek, white machine with two propellers, two wings and a distinctly unbirdlike tail. It looks like an aircraft. Which is what it is. Except, it isn't. It is a ship—at least in the eyes of the International Marine Organisation, which regulates such things. That matters, because ships are much more lightly regulated than aircraft. The SeaFalcon is really a ground-effect vehicle. It flies only over water and only two metres above that water. This means the air beneath its wings is compressed, giving it additional lift. In effect, it is floating on a cushion of air. That makes it far cheaper to run than a plane of equivalent size, while the fact that it is flying means it is far faster—at 80-100 knots—than a ship of any size. Its designer, Dieter Puls, thus hopes it will fill a niche for the rapid transport of people and light goods in parts of the world where land and sea exist in similar proportions. The theory of ground-effect vehicles goes back to the 1920s, when Carl Wieselsberger, a German physicist, described how the ground effect works. There was then a period of silence, followed by a false start. In the 1960s the Soviet armed forces thought that ground-effect vehicles would be ideal for shifting heavy kit around places like the Black Sea. Their prototypes did fly, but were never deployed in earnest and their jet engines consumed huge amounts of fuel. This did, however, prove that the idea worked. And two German engineers, Mr. Puls and Hanno Fischer (whose version is called Airfish 8), have taken it up and made it work by using modern, composite materials for the airframes, and propellers rather than jets for propulsion. One reason the Soviet design was so thirsty is that the power needed to lift a ground-effect vehicle is far greater than that needed to sustain it in level flight. The Soviet design used heavy jet engines to deliver the power needed for take-off. But the SeaFalcon uses a hydrofoil to lift itself out of the water, and Airfish 8 uses what Mr. Fischer calls a hoverwing—a system of pipes that takes air which has passed through the propeller and blasts it out under the craft during take-off. The next stage, of course, is to begin production in earnest—and that seems to be about to happen. Mr. Puls says he has signed a deal with an Indonesian firm for an initial order of ten, while both he and Mr. Fischer are in discussions with Wigetworks, a Singaporean company, with a view to starting production next year. South-East Asia, with its plethora of islands and high rate of economic growth is just the sort of place where ground-effect vehicles should do well. All of which sounds optimistic. But a note of caution is needed. For another sort of ground-effect vehicle was also expected to do well and ended up going nowhere. The hovercraft differed from the vehicles designed by Messrs Puls and Fischer in that it relied on creating its own cushion of air, rather than having one provided naturally. That meant it could go on land as well as sea—which was thought at the time (the 1950s) to be a winning combination. Sadly, it was not. Hovercraft have almost disappeared. But then, in the eyes of the regulators, they counted as aircraft.

问答题I have read your article. I expect to meet an older man.

问答题There is a difference between science and technology. Science is a method of answering theoretical questions; technology is a method of solving practical problems. 21 Science has to do with discovering the facts and relationships between observable phenomena in nature and with establishing theories that serve to organize these facts and relationships. Technolggy has to do with tools, techniques, and procedures for implementing the findings of science. Another distinction between science and technology has to do with the progress in each. Progress in science excludes the human factor. 22 Scientists, who seek to comprehend the universe and know the truth with the highest degree of accuracy and certainty, cannot pay attention to their own or other people"s likes or dislikes, or to popular ideas about the fitness of things. What scientists discover may shock or anger people—as did Darwin"s theory of evolution. But even an unpleasant truth is more than likely to be useful; besides, we have the option of refusing to believe it! 23 But hardly so with technology; we do not have the option of refusing to hear the sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft flying overhead; we do not have the option of refusing to breathe polluted air. 24 The legitimate purpose of technology is to serve people—people in general, not merely some people; and future generation, not merely those who presently wish to gain advantage for themselves. We are all familiar with the abuses of technology. 25 Many people blame technology itself for widespread pollution, and even social decay—so much so that the promise of technology is obscured. That promise is a cleaner and healthier world. If wise applications of science and technology do not lead to a better world, what else will?

问答题The vaulting-off point of Ben Ratliff's biography is the belief that John Coltrane, tenor and so-prano saxophonist, was not only a towering performer but also the last major figure in the evolution of jazz. Indeed, jazz seemed to lose its way after he died in 1967, aged 40. Mr. Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, leaves Coltrane's private life largely alone. For a jazzman, he kicked drugs and drink pretty early and afterwards led a remarkably suburban life. Rather, it is a biography of the Cohrane sound : an urgent, non-vibrato intensity that the saxophonist constantly reinvented—unlike most jazz musicians who professionally settle into a comfortable groove or who reinvent themselves at most once or twice in their lives. The Cohrane sound, unlike Charlie Parker's, did not spring fully formed on the listening public. Coltrane was something of a late and hesitant starter. He was nearly 30 when an assuredness settled in and he was able to harness his phenomenal technique and mastery of jazz lore to his urgent driven style, soloing in riffles and cascades of scales and arpeggios. The late 1950s were exceptional years for jazz. Though rock-and-roll had not yet swamped it, jazz big bands were no longer commercially viable. The jazz was in small clubs where quartets and quintets played live, and Cohrane was lucky to be hired by two superb bandleaders and teachers, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. But for Coltrane, all this was the beginning of the journey, not the end. At first he attempted to cram ever more into the Western harmony of jazz tunes: an ever-denser architecture of chord changes. Before long, even his technique exhausted those possibilities. He began to abandon harmony, turning to modes that seemed to speak of older things : African and native-American history, Eastern spiritual power, universal love. Then even the modes started to go. Many of his audiences lost him as he encouraged younger, more wayward players into his regular group; then his regular musicians went. Asked by a Japanese reporter in 1966 what he wished to be in ten years' time, Cohrane replied simply that he wanted to be a saint. And that, in many circles, is what after his death he became. To the cult's adherents, Coltrane's music by the end had ascended to a plane of intensity that was close to godliness, and could not be questioned. A Church of St John Cohrane exists in San Francisco: the founders first claimed that the musician was an incarnation of god, but later demoted him to sainthood. Mr. Ratliff's biography is particularly good in exploring Coltrane's afterlife. Coltrane's musical presence remains so powerful that even today jazz musicians, particularly horn players, are influenced by it—unless they define themselves in sharp contradistinction to it. But Mr. Ratliff investigates the charge that, if jazz as an evolutionary folk form died with Cohrane, it was he who killed it : pulling down its harmonic structure, destroying its sense of swing and knocking the pleasure and fun out of it in an ecstasy of self-indulgence. The late Robert Lowell, an American poet, spoke of "the monotony of the sublime" ; this could be applied to Coltrane. On the charge of destroying jazz, Mr. Ratliff finds Cohrane not guilty. But it is hard to escape a sense, both among those jazz players who followed him out to the wilder edges or those who struggled to bring the idiom back to its earlier harmonic forms, that jazz has been chasing its tail ever since he died. Had Coltrane's life not been cut short, where would his sound have chased next?

问答题1．除去议会有27件法案来规范广告的条件，没有任何一个正式的广告商敢于推销一种商品却不能兑现其在广告中的承诺。 2．如果其信息只被局限于告知——就广告而言，如果这不是完全不可能达到的，也是非常难做的，因为即便是一个诸如衬衫颜色的选择这样的细节都会具有微妙的说服意味——那么广告就会如此地乏味以至于没有人会关注它。 3．随着家庭离开他们原来稳定的社区，离开他们多年的朋友和扩展的家庭关系，非正式的信息流动被切断了，随之而去的是对在需要时能获得可靠和值得信赖的信息的信心。 4．现在这种让孩子们和其同学或时间竞争的热情导致了一个双层结构，在这个结构里面善于竞争的A类好像在某个方面要比他们B类的同辈更胜一筹。 5．在跟你谈话的时候，可能成为你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教育、经验和其他资格是不是值得他雇用你，而你的“商品”和能力一定要以一种有条不紊而且合情合理的相互关联的方式被展示出来。

问答题In January New England was covered with thick snow and ice while Miami was warm with flowers in blossoms.

问答题在车没有停稳之前请不要站起来。

问答题{{B}}加强中非团结合作推动建设和谐世界{{/B}} 中华民族历来爱好和平，主张强不凌弱、富不侮贫，主张协和万邦。早在600年前，中国明代著名航海家郑和率领庞大船队4次到达非洲东海岸。他们给非洲人民带来的是和平的愿望和真诚的友谊，而不是刀剑枪炮和掠夺奴役。在近代以后的100多年中，中国人民曾经饱受列强的殖民侵略和压迫，同绝大多数非洲国家有着相似的历史遭遇和悲惨命运。中国人民从19世纪中叶到20世纪中叶开展的英勇的斗争，就是要反对殖民侵略和民族压迫，实现中华民族的独立和中国人民的解放，进而建设人民当家作主的新国家。今天，中国人民早已实现了自己的百年夙愿，正在为创造自己更加美好的生活而团结奋斗。正因为有着这样刻骨铭心的历史经历和奋斗过程，所以中国人民最坚决地反对一切形式的殖民、压迫、奴役活动，最真诚地同情一切为争取民族独立和人民幸福而奋斗的民族，最深切地理解这些民族的愿望和要求。新中国成立后，中国政府和人民为非洲人民争取民族解放、反对殖民主义统治的英勇斗争提供了政治上、物质上、道义上的坚定支持。中国过去不会、现在不会、将来也决不会把自己的意志以及不平等的做法强加于其他国家，更不会做任何有损于非洲国家和人民的事。中国尊重非洲人民自主选择适合自己国情的政治制度和发展道路，支持非洲国家加强民主法制建设和实施良好管理，支持非洲国家充分发挥自身优势、积极参与国际合作和竞争。

问答题“打桥牌”(bridge)的风格是与同伴紧密合作，与另外两家组成的联盟斗智斗勇，进行激烈竞争。“打麻将”(mahjong)则是孤军作战，看着上家，防着下家，自己和不了，也不让别人和。在工作中，这种做法显然是不好的，尤其是自己出不了成绩，也不让人家出成绩，更是严重影响科技事业的发展。团队精神是任何一项集体事业所必需的。