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单选题 Questions 11-13 are based on the following report about personality. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13.
单选题What ______ to Tom? A. was happened B. is happened C. has happened
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following dialogue between husband and wife about their unpleasant trip. You now
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The study of reading skills is as old
as written language. It is believed that it was approximately 3000 to 4000 BC
when the first systematic efforts were made to teach people to read and to
write. Egyptian scribes were taught these skills in formal schools, but we have
no knowledge of the techniques that were used by them. The
modern emphasis on the scientific study of reading dates from approximately 1887
when a French scientist named Javal discovered that the visual process in
reading is not the technique people had originally assumed to be. It seems to
most persons that as you read along a line of print your eye moves along
smoothly recognizing words and phrases, one after the other, as it moves. Javal
carefully observed the eyes of persons reading and discovered two quite
important things. First, the eyes, rather than moving were stopped most of the
time. Second, rather than moving slowly and smoothly along a line, they moved in
extremely quick jumps from one point of fixation to the next. Javal was so
struck by these jumps that he called eye movements saccadic after the French
word "to jump". His findings were a surprise to many persons. If
you are interested in trying out Javal's experiment, watch a friend very
carefully as he reads, paying particular attention to the movements of his eyes.
If you want to get a clearer picture of these rapid eye movements, you might try
a technique invented by Professor W. R. Miles. It is known as the Miles
Peep-Hole Technique and consists of the very simple process of cutting a small
hole in the center of a page of print and observing the reader through the hole.
This puts your point of observation approximately where the reader is looking,
and you get a very clear picture of the saccadic eye movements.
The discovery of saccadic eye movements by Javal stimulated many other
people to try to study in more detail the nature of the mechanical process of
reading. One of the earliest techniques was an effort to record eye movements on
paper by connecting a little pneumatic tube through a long series of pulleys and
wires to a pen which would write on moving paper and jiggle back and forth as
the eyes moved. This turued out to be a reasonable good way of finding out how
many eye movements a person was making but it was quite uncomfortable for the
person being tested. Another rather disturbing technique was the process of
putting a spot of white material on the comer of the eye. The material was then
photographed with a movie camera as the person read. During the
period from 1900 to about 1920 a new technique in studying eye movements in
reading came into use with the development of eye movement cameras. Another
complicated set of the eye through a series and onto a spool of moving film.
Early cameras of this type were extremely expensive and difficult to construct.
One of the first was used at the University of Chicago, another at the
University of Minnesota, and after a few years more of them were built in other
institutions throughout the country. Since 1920, many modem
scientists have studied the problem of accurate recordings of eye movements in
reading. As a result, there are several more modem techniques in use today.
Modem equipment includes highly sophisticated cameras with high-speed film,
cameras in helmets which fit on the head of the reader and show a picture of
what he sees as well as the location of his eye movements, and other complex
film devices. One very expensive but useful price of recording equipment is an
electronic device which measures the location of visual fixation by measuring
the voltage across the eyeball and feeds the electronic information into a
computer which plots the exact location of the center of vision. All of these
mechanical, photographic, and electronic devices have given us a great deal of
useful information about the reading process.
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Questions 14-16 are based on the
following passage. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions
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单选题What methods have been taken by the developing countries to encourage trained personnel to return?
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单选题For centuries the most valuable of African resources for Europeans were the slaves, but these could be obtained at coastal ports, without any need for going deep inland. Slavery had been an established institution in Africa. Prisoners of war had been enslaved, as were also debtors and individuals guilty of serious crimes. But these slaves usually were treated as part of the family. They had clearly defined rights, and their slave status was not necessarily inherited. Therefore it is commonly argued that Africa's traditional slavery was mild compared to the trans-Atlantic slave trade organized by the Europeans. This argument, however, can be carried too far. In the most recent study of this subject, some scholars warned against the illusion that "cruel and dehumanizing enslavement was a monopoly of the West. Slavery in its extreme forms, including the taking of life, was common to both Africa and the West. The fact that African slavery had different origins and consequences should not lead us to deny what it was —the exploitation and control of human beings". Neither can it be denied that the wholesale shipment of Africans to the slave plantations of the Americans was made possible by the participation of African chiefs who rounded up their fellow Africans and sold them as a handsome profit to European ship captains waiting along the coasts. Granting all this, the fact remains that the trans-Atlantic slave trade conducted by the Europeans was entirely different in quantity and quality from the traditional type of slavery that had existed within Africa. From the beginning the European variety was primarily an economic institution rather than social, as it had been in Africa. Western slave traders and slave owners were acted on by purely economic considerations, and were quite ready to work their slaves to death if it was more profitable to do so than to treat them more mercifully. This inhumanity was reinforced by racism when the Europeans became involved in the African slave trade on a large scale. Perhaps as a subconscious rationalization they gradually came to look down on Negroes as inherently inferior, and therefore destined to serve their white masters. Rationalization also may have been involved in the Europeans' use of religion to justify the traffic in human beings. It was argued, for instance, that enslavement assured the conversion of the African evil-believing religions to the true faith as well as to civilization.
单选题Who is Robin Butler?
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单选题Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages. People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2. The objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness ("this" and "that"); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or removed .from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future. This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologist that all cultures are to be viewed independently and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
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