单选题In a sense, the new protectionism is not protectionism at all, at least not in the traditional sense of the term.The old protectionism referred only to trade restricting and trade expanding devices, such as the tariff or export subsidy.The new protectionism is much broader than this; it includes interventions into foreign trade but is not limited to them.The new protectionism, in fact, refers to how the whole of government intervention into the private economy affects international trade.The emphasis on trade is still there, thus came me term"protection".But what is new is the realization that virtually all government activities can affect international economic relations. The emergence of the new protectionism in the Western world reflects the victory of the interventionist.or welfare economy over the market economy.Jab Tumiler writes, "The old protectionism…coexisted, without any apparent intellectual difficulty with the acceptance of the market as a national as well as an international economic distribution mechanism.Indeed, protectionists as well as(if not more than)free traders stood for laissez faire.Now, as in the 1930s, protectionism is an expression of a profound skepticism as to the ability of the market to distribute resources and incomes to societies sarisfaction." It is precisely this profound skepticism of the market economy that is responsible for the protectionism.In a market economy,economic change of various colors implies redistribution of resources and incomes.The same opinion in many communities apparently is that such redistributions often are not proper.Therefore, the government intervenes to bring about a more desired result. The victory of the welfare state is almost complete in northem Europe.In Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, government intervention in almost all aspects of economic and social life is considered normal.In Great Britain this is only somewhat less true.Government traditionally has played a very active role in economic life in France and continued to do so.Only West Germany dares to go against the tide towards excessive interventionism in Western Europe.It also happens to be the most successful Western European economy. The welfare state has made significant progress in the United States as well as in Western Europe.Social security,unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, and rent control are by now traditional welfare state elements on the American scene.
单选题So ______ was the mood of the meeting that an agreement was soon reached.
单选题Farmers often use water buffalo to help them in the ______ fields.
单选题Factors leading to the crises included poor regulation mismanagement and deception in the industry, and competition from other types of financial firms.
单选题The world"s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shah
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the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice
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the last decade, new research shows.
The discovery has stunned scientists, who
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that around 50bn tons of meltwater
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each year and not being replaced by new snowfall.
The study is the first to survey all the world"s icecaps and glaciers and was made
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by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps— Greenland and Antarctica—is much
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than previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia
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most of the discrepancy.
Bristol University glaciologist Prof Jonathan Bamber, who was not part of the research team, said, "The very unexpected result was the negligible mass loss from high mountain Asia which is not
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different from zero. "
The melting of Himalayan glaciers caused
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in 2009 when a report from the UN"s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly stated that they would disappear by 2035, instead of 2350.
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, the scientist who led the new work is clear that while greater uncertainty has been discovered in Asia"s highest mountains, the melting of ice caps and glaciers around the world
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a serious concern.
"Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year," said Prof John Wahr of the University of Colorado. "People should be just as worried about the melting of the world"s ice as they were before. "
His team"s study, published in the journal Nature, concludes that between 443-629bn tons of meltwater overall are added to the world"s oceans each year. This is
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sea level by about 1.5mm a year, the team reports,
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the 2mm a year caused by expansion of the warming ocean.
The scientists are careful to point out that lower-altitude glaciers in the Asian mountain ranges—sometimes dubbed the "third pole" —are
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melting. Satellite images and reports confirm this. But over the study period, enough ice was added to the peaks to
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.
单选题Because of the close ______ of architects and builders, the building was completed ahead of schedule. A. simulation B. composition C. collaboration D. inflation
单选题Despite efforts to provide them with alternatives such as the shelter, women frequently and repeatedly returned to violent and abusive partners. By the late 1970s, feminists at Women Together, like those doing similar work throughout the United States, began to understand that battered women experience a range of post-traumatic psychological responses to abuse, similar to those of victims of other types of violence or trauma. Subsequently, the psychological response of battered women became reified as "battered woman syndrome," a sub-category of post-traumatic stress disorder. Interestingly, in the course of trying to create social change, the focus of feminists perceptibly shifted to trying to explain why battered women fail to leave the partners who beat them. In trying to address this question, a debate ensued among feminists and mental health workers as to potential merits and problems of categorizing as mental disorder what many feminists labeled a normal response to fear and an appropriately angry response to abuse. Although many women left abusive relationships or successfully ended violence by other means, some responded to ongoing or accelerated abuse by killing or trying to kill their male partners. In many states, when they went to trial, such women found they were restricted from introducing testimony about the abuse they had endured or their resulting states of mind. In trying to address these women's needs, some activists and scholars advocated the use of expert testimony to explain battered woman syndrome to juries. This strategy would introduce evidence of past abuse and challenge the gender biases of self-defense law by explaining the woman's state of mind at the time of the offense. Feminist legal scholars raised potential problems in the use of battered woman syndrome. They argued that it could be used against women who did not neatly fit pre-established criteria and had the potential to become another example of the tendency to label women's normal angry responses as mental illness. While the desirability of working to admit expert testimony was debated, individual state courts and legislatures varied in their willingness to recognize battered woman syndrome, permit evidence of past abuse, or allow expert testimony. As the legal debate about battered women's responses to violence was beginning to unfold, the Ohio movement became directly involved in it when a former shelter resident, shot and killed her abusive common law husband. In 1978 Women Together, in conjunction with the woman's lawyer, decided to challenge existing law by trying to introduce battered woman syndrome expert testimony at trial. Because at the time the syndrome had little scientific merit or legal recognition, the trial court declared inadmissibility, a decision upheld by the State Supreme Court (State v. Thomas 1981 66 Ohio St. 2d 51). Women Together founders left the shelter to establish professional careers, viewing this as a means of advancing the feminist agenda. The frustrations, limitations and defeats they had experienced as outside challengers impelled them to adopt a strategy of infiltration and appropriation of the institutions they sought to change. For example, one founder, who had worked through lobbying for ERA America in addition to her other feminist activism, explained her decision to run for elected office by saying: "[When ERA was defeated] I decided to run for the legislature. I said 'I can do better than these turkeys. '/
单选题Americans today don"t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. 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. 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 U.S. 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. 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: "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. 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".
单选题Are we at the beginning of another Age of Exploration? Perhaps even more important, are we at the beginning of
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Age of Colonization? As the population of the world increases towards the point
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the earth can no longer support all the people
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on it, the second question becomes urgent. Will we discover a new world,
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Columbus did, on which human life will be possible? At this point in the space age, no one can really answer these questions. We can say,
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that we will not see tomorrow the kind of space travel that
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fiction and the movies have shown. It will be a long time before we have flight that run
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to human colonies on the moon or on, one of the planets. We are not even going to be able to
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immediate advantages of the minerals that we may find on the planets
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our own solar system.
Great problems must be solved
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we could send colonists out into place. The distances that must be
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and the length of time it takes to do that can hardly be
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. There are also dangers that we still do not realty understand, from radiation, for example, or from pieces of matter
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in space, or from contamination forms of life that might
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there. There is also need for humans to take their own environment into space
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them. So far no "island" has been discovered in space on which people can exist without systems that
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life, and these systems must accompany any future space
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Finally, on the most practical
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there has to be enormous expense
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in space exploration. The U.S. and Russian governments have already spent billions of dollars for projects
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which they can receive a return only in knowledge and not in money.
单选题The ______ goal of the book is to help bridge the gap between research and teaching, particularly between researchers and teachers.
单选题It can be inferred from the article that the majority of tropical forests ______.
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单选题The three points of view that indicate the relations of individuals are ______.
单选题The company has consistently denied responsibility, but it agreed to the settlement to avoid the expense of______.
单选题Some people believe that "King John" was written by Shakespeare, but some people it might be written by an ______ author.
单选题Costs for regulation of business actually are a hidden tax severely reducing the competitive ness of domestic businesses ______ when they face an increasingly global marketplace.
单选题There are probably very few cases in which different races have lived in Ucomplete/U in a single country for long periods.
单选题To impress a future employer, one should dress neatly and be ______.
单选题Her shabby clothes were often made ______ by her classmates.
单选题Which of the following is true according to the last paragraph?