题目
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experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.
We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place
in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is
passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it"s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday
communication with friends and co-workers.
Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told
even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor (谣言).
Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn"t
show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn,
whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down
the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically,
the original message has changed.
That"s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes
the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a
story, trying to improve on it, stamping (打上标记) it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it
think they know.
This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be
re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue,
unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to
challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.
B. solving a math problem
C. visiting an exhibition
D. doing scientific reasoning
B. knowledge
C. communication
D. passive learning
B. a message should be delivered in different ways
C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing
D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor
B. Passive learning may not be reliable.
C. Active learning occurs more frequently.
D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively (被动地). We achiev】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Choice, we are given to believe, is a right. But for a good many people in the world, in rich and poor countries,
choice is a luxury, something wonderful but hard to get, not a right. And for those who think they are
exercising their right to make choices, the whole system is merely an illusion, a false idea created by companies
and advertisers hoping to sell their products.
The endless choice gives birth to anxiety in people"s lives. Buying something as basic as a coffee pot is not
exactly simple. Easy access to a wide range of everyday goods leads to a sense of powerlessness in many
people, ending in the shopper giving up and walking away, or just buying an unsuitable item (商品) that is not
really wanted. Recent studies in England have shown that many electrical goods bought in almost every family
are not really needed. More difficult decision-making is then either avoided or trusted into the hands of the
professionals, lifestyle instructors, or advisors.
It is not just the availability of the goods that is the problem, but the speed with which new types of
products come on the market. Advances in design and production help quicken the process. Products also need
to have a short lifespan so that the public can be persuaded to replace them within a short time. The typical
example is computers, which are almost out-of-date once they are bought. This indeed makes selection a
problem. Gone are the days when one could just walk with case into a shop and buy one thing; no choice, no
anxiety.
B. The practice of choice is difficult.
C. The right of choice is given but at a price.
D. Choice and right exist at the same time.
B. People are likely to find themselves overcome by business persuasion.
C. Shoppers may find themselves lost in the broad range of items.
D. Companies and advertisers are often misleading about the rage of choice.
B. products of the latest design flood the market
C. competitions are fierce in high-tech industry
D. everyday goods need to be replaced often
B. The opinions on people"s right in different countries.
C. The problems about the availability of everyday goods.
D. The helplessness in purchasing decisions
to "make something" of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping
up with the competition.
With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two
gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure
everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
When it was suppertime, I walked back home.
"How many did you sell, my boy?" my mother asked.
"None."
"Where did you go?"
"The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues."
"What did you do?"
"Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post."
"You just stood there?"
"Didn"t sell a single one."
"My God, Russell!"
Uncle Allen put in, "Well, I"ve decided to take the Post." I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickle (五分
镍币). It was the first nickel I earned.
Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with
self-confidence (自信), and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be
without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.
One day, I told my mother I"d changed my mind. I didn"t want to make a success in the magazine business.
" If you think you can change your mind like this," she replied, "you"ll become a good-for-nothing." She
insisted that, as soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said
no, she would scold me.
My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with
my father"s plain workman"s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did
she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband"s people
for true life and love.
B. The job was quite easy for him.
C. His mother had high hopes for him.
D. The competition for the job was fierce.
B. interested
C. ashamed
D. disappointed
B. interested
C. ashamed
D. disappointed
B. The arguing between the boy and his mother.
C. The quarrel between the boy and his customers.
D. The fight between the boy and his father.
B. The early success of a journalist.
C. The happy childhood of the writer.
D. The important role of the writer in his family.
a sort of alarm: after years of non-stop hard work, he might wear himself out and die an early death.
Only after a week"s leave-during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on
a beach-was Rudenstine able to return to work.
In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Amazingly, within this world there
is a universal but silly saying: "I am so busy."
We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully
deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others.
To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax-this has become the model
of a successful life.
Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing is
with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.
How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the
week-for followers of some religions-for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a
time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our
children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our
work aside, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world.
Rest is s spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our
many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission
to stop work. In fact, "Remember the Sabbath" is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and
a principle to follow.
B. a warning of danger
C. a sign of age
D. a spread of disease
B. be more talented than other people
C. be more important than anyone else
D. be busying working without time to rest
B. fail to realize that rest is an essential part of life
C. fail to realize that religions force them to rest
D. think that taking a rest means being lazy
B. The Sabbath gives us permission to rest.
C. It is silly for anyone to say "I am busy."
D. We should be available to our family and friends.
post office?"
Foreign tourists are often confused (困惑) in Japan because most streets there don"t have names; in Japan,
people use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to
travelers, "Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office
is across from the bus stop."
In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains,
so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks,
people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, "Go north two
miles. Turn east, and then go another mile."
People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure distance in time, not
miles. "How far away is the post office?" you ask. "Oh," they answer, "it"s about five minutes from here." You
say, "Yes, but how many miles away is it?" They don"t know.
It"s true that a person doesn"t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a
situation? A new Yorker might say, "Sorry, I have no idea." But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers "I don"t
know." People in Yucatan believe that "I don"t know" is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong
one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!
B. show him a map of the place
C. tell him the names of the streets
D. refer to recognizable buildings and places
B. Los Angeles.
C. Kansas.
D. Iowa.
B. Los Angeles.
C. Kansas.
D. Iowa.
B. It"s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.
C. People have similar understandings of politeness.
D. New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.
double that depending on where you live now. That"s because Moscow has just been found to be the world"s
most expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Human Resources Consulting.
Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percent more expensive
including the cost of housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment (娱乐).
A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4,000 a month; a CD $24.83, and an international newspaper
$6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger (汉堡包) is a steal at $4.80.
London takes the No.2 place, up from No.5 a year ago, thanks to higher cost of housing and a stronger
British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates (估算) London is 26 percent more expensive than New
York these days. Following London closely are Seoul and Tokyo, both of which are 22 percent more expensive
than New York, while No.5 Hong Kong is 19 percent more costly.
Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and are the only two
listed in the top 50 of the world"s most expensive cities. But both have fallen since last year"s study-New York
came in 15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell to 42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco
came in a distant third at No. 54, down 20 places from a year earlier.
Toronto, meanwhile, is Canada"s most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In
Australia, Sydney is the priciest place to live in and No. 21 worldwide.
B. something delicious
C. something very cheap
D. an act of buying
B. the stronger pound against the dollar
C. its expensive transportation
D. the high prices of fast food meals
B. Hong Kong.
C. Moscow.
D. Sydney.
B. Los Angeles.
C. San Francisco.
D. Toronto.
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