We promise that we’11 meet again after we______our college education in three years’tim
A.finish
B.will finish
C.finished
D.will have finished
A.finish
B.will finish
C.finished
D.will have finished
第1题
"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 US 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".
What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school?
A.The habit of thinking independently.
B.Profound knowledge of the world.
C.Practical abilities for future career.
D.The confidence in intellectual pursuits.
第2题
We learn from the passage that the date of sowing cotton is usually______.
A) on June 15th
B) on July 15th
C) on July 1st
D) on July 20th
第3题
From the passage, we may figure out that" vital" in line 3, paragraph 1 means ______.
A.direct
B.important
C.only
D.visible
第4题
PartA 2. The National Association of Securities Dealers is investigating whether some brokerage
houses are inappropriately pushing individuals to borrow large sums on their houses
to invest in the stock market. Can we persuade the association to investigate would-be privatizers of Social Security? For it is now apparent that the Bush administration’s privatization proposal will amount to the same thing: borrow trillions, put the
money in the stock market and hope.
Privatization would begin by diverting payroll taxes, which pay for current Social
Security benefits, into personal investment accounts. The government would
have to borrow to make up the shortfall. This would sharply increase the government’s debt. “Never mind”, privatization advocates say, “in the long run, people would
make so much on personal accounts that the government could save money by cutting retirees’
benefits.Even so, if personal investment accounts were invested in Treasury bonds,
this whole process would accomplish precisely nothing. The interest workers would receive on,
their accounts would exactly match the interest the government would
have to pay on its additional debt. To compensate for the initial borrowing,
the government would have to cut future benefits so much that workers would gain nothing at all.
However, privatizersclaim that these investments would make a lot of
money and that, in effect, the government, not the workers, would reap most of those gains,
because as personal accounts grew, the government could cut benefits.
We can argue at length about whether the high stock returns such schemes assume are realistic
(they arent), but lets cut to the chase: in essence, such schemes
involve having the government borrow heavily and put the money in the stock market. That’s because the government would, in effect, confiscate workers’gains in their personal accounts by cutting those workers’ benefits.
Once you realize whatprivatization really means, it doesn’t sound too responsible, does it? But the details make it considerably worse. First,
financial markets would, correctly, treat the reality of huge deficits today as a much more
important indicator of the governments fiscal health than the mere promise that government could save money by
cutting benefits in the distant future. After all, a government bond is a legally binding
promise to pay, while a benefits formula that supposedly cuts costs 40 years from now is nothing
more than a suggestion to future Congresses.
If a privatization plan passed in 2005 called for steep benefit cuts in 2045,
what are the odds that those cuts would really happen? Second,
a system of personal accounts would pay huge brokerage fees. Of course, from Wall Street’s point of view that’s a benefit, not a cost.
第26题:According to the author, “privatizers”are those_____.
[A] borrowing from banks to invest in the stock market [B] who invest in Treasury bonds
[C] advocating the government to borrow money from citizens [D] who earn large sums of money in personal
accounts
第5题
Dear Ms Lau
Subject: Short Delivery of Order No. TS678
Thank you very much for(1)the T-shirts on time.
(2), after careful checking, we found there were(3)100 cases, which means 20 cases were(4). According to the contract, the(5)should be 120 cases.
The goods are urgently needed;(6)we will miss the great chance for the huge(7)at present.
As(8)as you receive this letter, please send 20 cases immediately. We are (9)to solve the problem instead of lodging a claim.
We hope the matter will come to your special(10).
Yours sincerely
Ming Ren
Marketing Manager
第6题
for, too high, meet, meet with, disappointed, at, on
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you(1)your mail.We are(2)to hear that our price for your required product is(3)for your acceptance.You mentioned that Japanese goods are being offered to you(4)a price approximately 8% lower than our quotation.
We accept your position, but we are of the opinion that the quality of the other makes does not measure up to that of our products.Although we are keen to do business with you, we regret that we cannot accept your counter offer.
We do want to try and work with you, and meet your request, but the best we can do is to reduce our previous quotation by 3%.We hope that this will(5)your approval.
We look forward to hearing from you.
With best regards,
第7题
To give you a general(1)of the various kinds of textiles now available for export, we are enclosing herewith a catalogue and a price list for your examination.
第8题
It has been justly said that while" we speak with our vocal organs we (1)_____ with our whole bodies". All of us communicate with one another (2)_____, as well as with words. Sometimes we know what we're doing, as with the use of gestures such as the thumbs-up sign to indicate that, we (3)_____. But most of the time we're not aware that we're doing it. We gesture with eyebrows or a hand, meet someone else's eyes and (4)_____. These actions we (5)_____ are random and incidental. But researchers (6)_____ that there is a system of them almost as consistent and comprehensible as language, and they conclude that there is a whole (7)_____ of body language, (8)_____ the way we move, the gestures we employ, the posture we adopt, the facial expression we (9)_____, the extent to which we touch and the distance we stand (10)_____ each other.
The body language serves a variety of purposes. Firstly it can replace verbal communication, (11)_____ with the use of gesture. Secondly it can modify verbal communication, loudness and (12)_____ of voice is an example here. Thirdly it regulates social interaction: turn taking is largely governed by non-verbal (13)_____. Finally it conveys our emotions and attitudes. This is (14)_____ important for successful cross-culture communication.
Every culture has its own" body language", and children absorb its nuances (15)_____ with spoken language. The way an Englishmen crosses his legs is (16)_____ like the way a mate American does it. When we communicate with people from other, cultures, the body language sometimes help make the communication easy and (17)_____, such as shaking hand is such a (18)_____ gesture that people all over the world know that it is a signal for greeting. But sometimes—the body language can cause certain misunderstanding (19)_____ people of different cultures often have different forms behavior. for sending the same message or have different (20)_____ towards the same body signals.
A.address
B.reverse
C.converse
D.confer
第9题
We learn from Paragraph 1 that Gilbert's appointment has______.
A.incurred criticism.
B.raised suspicion.
C.received acclaim.
D.aroused curiosity.
第10题
------The experiment is of particular importance.
------1 see. We won' t carry on with it______we can get the good equipment.
A.until
B.unless
C.whether
D.after
第11题
Dear Sir or Madam,
(1)is our new price list which will(2)by the end of this month.You will see that we have increased our prices on most models.We have, however, refrained from doing so on some models of(3)we hold large stocks.The explanation(4)ur increased prices stems from the fact(5)we are now paying 10% more for our raw materials than we were paying last year, along with some of our subcontractors having raised their prices(6)15%.
As you know, we(7)our product and are(8)of the reputation for quality and dependability we have built over 15 years.We will not(9)that reputation because of raising costs.We have, therefore, decided to raise the price of some of our products.
We hope you will understand our position and(10)your cooperation.
With best regards,