单选题Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, feel and understand about the world has been processed for us." When we "cannot distinguish with certainty the natural from the interpreted, or the artificial from the organic, all theories of the ideal organization of life become equal." In other words, TV teaches that all lifestyles and values are equal, and that there is no clearly defined right and wrong. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, one of the best recent books on the tyranny of television, Neil Postman wonders why nobody has pointed out that television possibly oversteps the instructions in the Bible. In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the traditional standards and mores of society came under heavy assault. Indeed, they were blown apart, largely with the help of one's own. There was an air of unreality about many details of daily life. Even important moral questions suffered distortion when they were reduced to TV images. During the Viemam conflict, there was much graphic violence--soldiers and civilians actually dying-on screen. One scene that shocked the nation was an execution in which the victim was shot in the head with a pistol on prime-time TV. People "tuned in" to the war every night, and controversial issues about the causes, conduct, and resolution of the conflict could be summed up in these superficial broadcasts. The same phenomenon was seen again in the Gulf War. With stirring background music and sophisticated computer graphics, each network's banner script read across the screen, "War in the Gulf," as if it were just another TV program. War isn't a program--it is a dirty, bloody mess. People are killed daily. Yet, television all but teaches that this carnage merely is another diversion, a form of blockbuster entertainment--the big show with all the international stars present. In the last years of his life, Malcolm Muggeridge, a pragmatic and print journalist, warned: "From the first moment I was in the studio, I felt that it was far from being a good thing. I felt that television would ultimately be inimical to what I most appreciate, which is the expression of truth, expressing your reactions to life in words." He concluded: "I don't think people are going to be preoccupied with ideas. I think they are going to live in a fantasy world where you don't need any ideas. The one thing that television can't do is expressing ideas. There is a danger in translating life into an image, and that is what television is doing. It is thus falsifying life. Recorder of what is going on, it is the exact opposite. It cannot convey reality nor does it even want to."

单选题This is the best book I have ever read on the subject, ______ there may be mistakes occasionally.

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单选题According to the passage, many career women find themselves in difficult situations because ______.

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单选题Where there are areas of high unemployment, workers tend to______ to other, wealthier parts of the country.

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单选题Bill Keaggy's studying on grocery lists suggests that ______.

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单选题Enter the information age. Information is the raw material for many of the business activities (62) this new era, just as iron and steel were the basic commodities in the (63) of the industrial age. The world's knowledge is said to be doubling every eight years. This knowledge (64) is stimulating economic progress. The need to collect, analyze, and communicate great (65) of information is producing new products and services, creating jobs, and (66) career opportunities. The information age is (67) considered to be a phenomenon of the service sector of the economy, (68) than a product of heavy industry. Certainly, rocketing information technologies are creating new capabilities (69) knowledge-based service spheres. (70) changes just as dramatic are (71) industry, giving people the (72) to do challenging work in exciting new ways. Manufacturing is full (73) in the information age. From design to production, the manufacturing (74) has long been information-intensive. It always has required exacting communication to describe what goes into products and how to make them. Now, computer technology is giving factory managers new (75) to gather all of this information and use it to control production. Telecommunications are producing error-free communication between the design office and the factory. Computer-aided design is enabling engineers to (76) product performances and manufacturing process on video displays, before resources are committed to build and test prototypes. Techniques like these are bringing (77) new advances in manufacturing productivity. Just as coal fueled the (78) to an industrial society, so microelectronics is powering the (79) of the information age. Microelectronic information management tools are (80) U.S. industrial capabilities, which remains (81) to America's economic wellbeing and national security.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} After the year 1958, a more modern Supreme Court agreed with Justice Helen. In a historic decision in 1954 it held that laws that forcing black students to go to racially segregated schools violated the US Constitution because such schools could never be equal. The opinion of the Court was that "to separate (black school children) from other--solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority- that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone". The Supreme Court's decision in 1954 led to changes which brought an end to the system of segregated public education in the southern states. However, problems in race relations continued to trouble the public schools, even though schools were legally desegregated throughout the country. Black Americans were still mainly in the lowest income and occupational groups and frequently lived in slums in the nation's largest cities. The public schools in these areas were composed predominantly or entirely of black students and often shared the neighborhood problems of high crime rates and other forms of social disorder. The schools in the black slums were clearly unequal to those in the predominantly white, middleclass neighborhoods. The problem of schools where racial separation results from the makeup of neighborhoods rather than from laws requiring segregation exists in all parts of the United States, not just in the South. Numerous efforts to solve this problem have not succeeded very well. The most controversial method used to deal with unequal neighborhood schools was the busing of schoolchildren from their home neighborhoods to schools in more dist ant neighborhoods in order to achieve a greater mixture of black and white children in all schools. Black children from poor or slum neighborhoods were bused to school in predominantly white middle class neighborhoods, and students living in the middle-class neighborhoods were bused into the poorer black neighborhood schools. A new question dealing with racial equality in education was brought to the Supreme Court in the late 1970s. The question dealt with the admission policies of professional schools such as medical and law schools, which are attached to many of the nation's colleges and universities. Some of these schools have attempted to do more than treat all applicants equally. Many have tried in recent years to make up for past discrimination against blacks and other minorities by setting aside a certain number of places specifically for applicants from these groups, this practice came to be described as setting minority quotas, lowering somewhat the academic standards for admission for a limited number of minority applicants.

单选题In only two decades Asian Americans have become the fastest--growing U. S. minority. As their children began moving up through the nation's schools, it became clear that a new class of academic achievers was emerging. Their achievements are reflected in the nation's best universities, where mathematics, science and engineering departments have taken on a decidedly Asian character. This special liking for mathematics and science is partly explained by the fact that Asian-American students who began their education abroad arrived in the U.S. with a solid grounding in mathematics but little or no knowledge of English. They are also influenced by the promise of a good job after college. Asians feel there will be less unfair treatment in areas like mathematics and science because they will be judged more objectively. And the return on the investment in education is more immediate in something like engineering than with an arts degree. Most Asian-American students owe their success to the influence of parents who are determined that their children take full advantage of what the American educational system has to offer. An effective measure of parental attention is homework. Asian parents spend more time with their children than American parents do, and it helps. Many researchers also believe there is something in Asian culture that breeds success, such as ideals that stress family values and emphasize education. Both explanations for academic success worry Asian Americans because of fears that they feed a typical racial image. Many can remember when Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants were the victims of social isolation. Indeed, it was not until 1952 that laws were laid down giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship.

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单选题From the beginning of the passage, we can learn that ______.