填空题Old people are always saying that the young people are not (51) they were. The same comment is (52) from generation to generation and it is always (53) . It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy (54) freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so (55) on their parents. Events which the older generation remember vividly are (56) more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is (57) from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the simple (58) that they have been (59) a bit longer. They don't like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the (60) are doing. They are questioning the (61) of their elders and disturbing their complacency. They take leave to (62) that the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds. What they reject more than (63) is conformity. Office hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn't people work best if they were given complete freedom and (64) ? And what (65) the clothing? Who said that all the men in the world should (66) drab grey suits? If we turn our (67) to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Why have the older generation so often used (68) to solve their problems? Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more (69) possessions? Can anything be right with the retrace? Haven't the old lost (70) with all that is important in life?

填空题Confucius—a statesman, scholar, and educator of great skill and reputation—is generally held to he China's greatest and most influence philosopher.A. educationB. great skillC. greatestD. influence

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填空题(61) Apple's Ipad may be latest and greatest tech gadget, but oddly enough, it also represents a return to model that most tech companies long ago abandoned—vertical integration. Apple has designed its own processor, called A4, to power the Ipad. (62) That is a big deal so until now Apple has used chips made by others, like Intel and Samsung. (63) In addition the processor, Apple also makes its own operating-system software for the Ipad. (64) Moreover, the only way to get applications for an Ipad will be to buy it from Apple. The same goes for content. (65) To get movies, TV shows, books, music-or everything, really—you will not have to buy them from Apple's online store, and the Ipad itself will be sold only by Apple stores. (66) From top to bottom this is a closing device, completely controlled by Apple. Is that a good thing? (67) Vertical integration was the norm back in the 1970s with minicomputer manufacturers like Digital Equipment Corp, and Data General, and late on with workstation makers like Sun Microsystems. (68) But pretty much everyone decided long ago that vertical integration was a workable model. Why make your own processors and operating system when you can buy chips from Intel and Windows from Microsoft? (69) It was ironic which on the same day that Apple was announcing the Ipad, Sun was holding an event to announce the completion of its being taken over by Oracle—ironic because Sun's pricy vertical-integration model was a big reason for the company's decline. (70) Why is Apple defying the conventional wise and going vertical? For one thing, its CEO, Steve Jobs, is a control freak and hates relying on others. (71) Also, Jobs has been around long enough to know the advantages of a vertical integrated company. (72) If the A4 is as good a processor as people seem to think, Apple's Ipad will have a big performance advantage than all the other tablet computers that are about to hit the market. And what of Apple's risky bet on vertical integration? (73) Won't the highly cost of going it alone put Apple at a disadvantage compared to makers that buy chips and software from others? (74) Won't those other guys be able to charge more than Apple? The answer is, probably, yes. But again, most people, myself included, are happy to pay more for what Apple makes. (75) My take is that Apple's bet on vertical integration, that seems against the tide, is actually a stroke of genius. Part VI Writing Directions: Read the following paragraph and then write a response paper of about 250 to 300 English words. A lot of people today are animal rights advocates. Some of them are very passionate and even quite radical about the issue. But others argue that "human rights" will always take priority. In fact, in many places even the most basic human rights are not adequately protected. So why animal rights? What do you think? And why?

填空题 Before a big exam, a sound night's sleep will do you more good than poring over textbooks. That, at least, is the folk wisdom. And science, in the form of behavioral psychology, supports that wisdom. But such behavioral studies cannot distinguish between two competing theories of why sleep is good for the memory. one says that sleep is when permanent memories form. The other says that they are actually formed during the day, but then "edited" at night, to flush away what is superfluous. To tell the difference, it is necessary to look into the brain of a sleeping person, and that is hard. But after a decade of painstaking work, a team led by Pierre Maquet at Liege University in Belgium has managed to do it. The particular stage of sleep in which the Belgian group is interested in is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when brain and body are active, heart rate and blood pressure increase, the eyes move back and forth behind the eyelids as if watching a movie, and brainwave traces resemble those of wakefulness. It is during this period of deep that people are most likely to relive events of the previous day in dreams. Dr. Maquet used an electronic device called PET to study the brains of people as they practiced a task during the day, and as they slept during the following night. The task required them to press a button as fast as possible, in response to a light coming on in one of six positions. As they learnt how to do this, their response times got faster. What they did not know was that the appearance of the lights sometimes followed a pattern--what is referred to as "artificial grammar". Yet the reductions in response time showed that they learnt faster when the pattern was present than when there was not. What is more, those with more to learn (i. e. , the "grammar", as well as the mechanical task of pushing the button) have more active brains. The "editing" theory would not predict that, since the number of irrelevant stimuli would be the same in each case. And to eliminate any doubts that the experimental subjects were learning as opposed to unlearning, their response times when they woke up were even quicker than when they went to sleep. The team, therefore, concluded that the nerve connections involved in memory are reinforced through reactivation during REM sleep, particularly if the brain detects an inherent structure in the material being learnt. So now, on the eve of that crucial test, maths students can sleep soundly in the knowledge that what they will remember the next day are the basic rules of algebra and not the incoherent talk from the radio next door.

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填空题Each employee with a modicum of intelligence would be able to undertake such a basic process.A.EachB.a modicum of intelligenceC.would be able toD.such a

填空题(Among) all the poems I have read recently, Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Trust" (seems) the most relevant (to) our (times). A. Among B. seems C. to D. times