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单选题Many workers felt that they were {{U}}victimized{{/U}} by automation.
单选题Instead of waiting for the arrival of our counsel, it is better to have it out with the thief right away.
单选题He could hardly ______ his temper when he saw the state of his office.
单选题The top floors of a building collapsed trapping a construction worker in the rubble(瓦砾), but he was______and can speak to rescuers.
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单选题The investigation______evidence of a large-scale illegal trade in wild birds.
单选题{{B}}Passage 3{{/B}}
The single greatest shift in the
history of mass-communication technology occurred in the 15th century, and was
well described by Victor Hugo in a famous chapter of Notre Dame de Paris. It was
a Cathedral. On all parts of the giant building, statuary and stone
representations of every kind, combined with huge widows of stained glass, told
the stories of the Bible and the saints, displayed the intricacies of Christian
theology, adverted to the existence of highly unpleasant demonic winged
creatures, referred diplomatically to the majesties of political power, and in
addition, by means of bells in bell towers, told time for the benefit of all of
Pairs and much of France. It was an awesome engine of communication.
Then came the transition to something still more awesome. The new
technology of mass communication was portable, could sit on your table, and was
easily replicable, and yet, paradoxically, contained more information, more
systematically presented, than even the largest of cathedrals. It was the
printed book. Though it provided no bells and could not tell time, the over-all
superiority of the new invention was unmistakable. In the last
ten or twenty years, we have been undergoing a more or less equivalent
shift--this time to a new life as a computer-using population. The gain in
portability, capability, ease, orderliness, accuracy, reliability, and
information-storage over anything achievable by pen scribbling, typewriting, and
cabinet filing is recognized by all. The progress for civilization is undeniable
and, plainly, irreversible. Yet, just as the book's triumph over the cathedral
divided people into two groups, one of which prospered, while the other lapsed
into gloom, the computer's triumph has also divided the human race.
You have only to bring a computer into a room to see that some people
begin at once to buzz with curiosity and excitement, sit down to conduct
experiments, ooh and ah at the boxes and beeps, and master the use of the
computer or a new program as quickly as athletes playing a delightful new game.
But how difficult it is--how grim and frightful!--for the other people, the
defeated class, whose temperament does not naturally respond to computers. The
machine whirries and glows before them and their faces twitch. They may be
splendidly educated, as measured by book-reading, yet their instincts are all
wrong, and no amount of manual-studying and mouse-clicking will make them right.
Computers require a sharply different set of aptitudes, and, if the aptitudes
are missing, little can be done, and misery is guaranteed. Is
the computer industry aware that computers have divided mankind into two new,
previously unknown classes, the computer personalities and the non-computer
personalities? Yes, the industry knows this. Vast stuns have been expended in
order to adapt the computer to the limitations of non-computer personalities.
Apple's Macintosh, with its zooming animations and pull-down menus and little
pictures of life folders and watch faces and trash cans, pointed the way. Such
seductions have soothed the apprehensions of a certain number of the
computer-averse. This spring, the computer industry's efforts are reaching a
culmination of sorts. Microsoft, Bill Gates' giant corporation, is to bring out
a program package called Microsoft Bob, designed by Mr. Gates' wife, Melinda
French, and intended to render computer technology available even to people who
are openly terrified of computers. Bob's principle is to take the several tasks
of operating a computer, rename them in a folksy style, and assign to them the
images of an ideal room in ideal home, with furniture and bookshelves, and with
chummy cartoon helpers ("Friends of Bob") to guide the computer user over the
rough spots, and, in that way, simulate an atmosphere that feels nothing like
computers.
单选题The head of the museum was ______ and let us actually examine the ancient manuscripts.
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单选题A goal of modern dance often is to express the dancer's Uinnermost/U feelings and emotions.
单选题Money, time and health concerns
loom largely in the poll of more than 1,100 women
who have at least one living parent
. About 20 % said they were very happy. More than half of the women were concerned about
an elderly relative"s
health. Those who had sick relatives were much more likely to feel depressed and to
worry about
having enough time
for family member.
单选题Most great artists are exceptionally ______ people.
单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}}
A new biotechnology procedure that
could become commercially available in as little as two to four years is
"transgenesis", which permits scientists to create an animal with specific
traits by adding, removing, inactivating, or repairing genes in an embryo. The
additional genes can come from any source. For example, if a gene of
interest occurs in mosquitoes—say, one that codes for resistance to a certain
disease—it can be removed and places in the embryo of a farm animal. The several
strains of commercially useful transgenic farm animals that will probably emerge
in the next few years could include leaner pigs, poultry resisting to influenza
or other deadly diseases, sheep with wool that is easier to wash, and goats that
produce valuable pharmaceuticals in their milk. The simplest way
to make transgenic animals is to inject a gene into a one-cell embryo and then
implant the embryo in another animal. Under the right conditions, the new gene
joins one of the embryo's strands of genes. Each cell created as the embryo
divides gets a copy of the new gene. An alternative technique is to
incorporate the gene into a type of virus known as a retrovirus that has bean
modified so it cannot reproduce itself after entering a cell. The virus, which
cannot cause disease, delivers the gene to the cell's nucleus- Often this method
is better than gene injection because a retrovirus always delivers just one
gene, and the gene is always undamaged and
complete.
单选题A third-party arbitrator is one who is chosen ______.
单选题The artist has made a______of combining the first-rate photograph and design with advanced technology in every piece of work he produces.
单选题An international treaty signed several years ago
bans
trade in plants and animals of endangered species.
单选题I______him that I would help him if he had any difficulty in carrying out the task.
单选题(清华大学2008年试题) The changes in globally averaged temperature that have occurred at the Earth's surface over the past century are similar in size and timing to those【1】by models that take into account the combined influences of human factors and solar variability. To【2】the question of attribution requires the【3】of more powerful and complex methods, beyond the use of global averages alone. New studies have focused on【4】maps or patterns of temperature change in【5】and in models. Pattern analysis is the cli-matologically equivalent of the more comprehensive tests in the medical analogy mentioned【6】, and makes it possible to achieve more definitive【7】of observed climate changes to a particular cause or causes. The expected influence of human activities is thought to be much more complex than uniform warming over the entire surface of the Earth and over the whole【8】cycle. Patterns of change over space and time therefore provide a more powerful【9】technique. The basic idea【10】pattern-based approaches is that different【11】causes of climate change have different characteristic patterns of climate response or fingerprints. Attribution studies seek to【12】a fingerprint match between the patterns of climate change【13】by models and those actually observed. The most recent assessment of the science suggests that human activities have led to a discernible【14】on global climate and that these activities will have an increasing influence on future climate. The burning of coal, oil and natural gas, as well as various agricultural and industrial practices, are【15】the composition of the atmosphere and contributing to climate change. These human activities have led to increased atmospheric【16】of a number of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and so on in the lower atmosphere. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil, have also increased the【17】of small particles in the atmosphere. These particles can change the【18】of energy that is absorbed and reflected by the atmosphere. They are also believed to modify the【19】of air and clouds, changing the amount of energy that they absorb and reflect. Intensive studies of the climatic effects of these particles began only recently and the overall【20】is uncertain. It is likely that the net effect of these small particles is to cool the climate and to partially offset the warming of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases.
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