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The kids who grew up on" Star Trek" can’ t find (1) way around Earth.
Americans can (2) direct to England, but only half can find (3) on a map of Europe. They can fly almost (4) in the United States for a few hundred dollars, but they put New York State in 37 places on both coasts. When they look for the United States (5) , they (6) it in China, Australia, Brazil, Russia, India and Botswana.
For people who are supposed to be leaders of the (7) world, Americans are (8) dumb, according to a survey conducted for the National Geographic Society.
In many school (9) , geography has been mixed with history (10) melted down into social studies. Social studies has been processed into" teacher resource packages "and (11) of good writing, excitement, color and any ideas that aren’ t simplistic; too (12) and too deadening to hold students’ attention.
In the last few years, evidence of America s educational (13) has prompted hundreds of studies, generated baskets (14) legislation and moved parents into advocacy groups. But there’ s (15) to show that the trend has been (16) .
NO matter (17) you try, you can.’t make it seem (18) that many Americans say pandas come from Panama, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Vietnam or (19) Iraq, and Columbus was trying to get to Europe when he bumped into (20) .
A:full of B:with C:according to D:out of
The kids who grew up on" Star Trek" can’ t find (1) way around Earth.
Americans can (2) direct to England, but only half can find (3) on a map of Europe. They can fly almost (4) in the United States for a few hundred dollars, but they put New York State in 37 places on both coasts. When they look for the United States (5) , they (6) it in China, Australia, Brazil, Russia, India and Botswana.
For people who are supposed to be leaders of the (7) world, Americans are (8) dumb, according to a survey conducted for the National Geographic Society.
In many school (9) , geography has been mixed with history (10) melted down into social studies. Social studies has been processed into" teacher resource packages "and (11) of good writing, excitement, color and any ideas that aren’ t simplistic; too (12) and too deadening to hold students’ attention.
In the last few years, evidence of America s educational (13) has prompted hundreds of studies, generated baskets (14) legislation and moved parents into advocacy groups. But there’ s (15) to show that the trend has been (16) .
NO matter (17) you try, you can.’t make it seem (18) that many Americans say pandas come from Panama, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Vietnam or (19) Iraq, and Columbus was trying to get to Europe when he bumped into (20) .
A:full of B:with C:according to D:out of
It is hard to get any agreement on the precise meaning of the term "social class" In everyday life, people tend to have a different approach to those they consider their equals from that which they assume with people they consider higher or lower than themselves in the social scale. The criteria we use to place a new acquaintance, however, are a complex mixture of factors. Dress, way of speaking, area of residence in a given city or province, education and manners all play a part.
In the eighteenth-century one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that the "whole annual produce of the land and labor of every country’ provided revenue to "three different orders of people: Those who live by rent, those who live by wages, those who live by profit" . Each successive stage of the industrial revolution, however, made the social structure more complicated.
Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth-century between the upper middle class and the working class. There were small-scale industrialists as well as large ones, small shopkeepers and tradesmen, officials and salaried employees, skilled and unskilled workers, and professional men such as doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the possession of wealth inevitably affected a person’s social position. Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than their working-class parents. But they lacked the social training of the upper class, who despised them as the "new rich" .
They often sent their sons and daughters to special schools to acquire social training. Here their children mixed with the children of the upper classes were accepted by them, and very often found marriage partners from among them. In the same way, a thrifty, hardworking labourer, though not clever enough himself, might save for his son enough to pay for an extended secondary school education in the hope that he would move into a white-collar’ occupation, carrying with it a higher salary and move up in the social scale.
In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes, the growth of the social services, and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook. The upper classes no longer are the sole, or even the main possessors of wealth, power and education, though inherited social position still carries considerable prestige.
Many people today are hostile towards class distinctions and privileges and hope to achieve a classless society. The trouble is that as one inequality is removed, another tends to take its place, and the best that has as far been attempted is a society in which distinctions are elastic and in which every member has fair opportunities for making the best of his abilities.
How do we place people in society in relation to ourselves, according to the text
A:Mainly by their way of speaking. B:According to the place where they were born. C:By regarding them inferior to ourselves. D:According to a complex mixture of factors.
The question of where insights come from has become a hot topic in neuroscience, despite the fact that they are not easy to induce experimentally in a laboratory. Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Sheth have taken a creative approach. They have selected some brain-teasing but practical problems in the hope that these would get closer to mimicking real insight: To qualify, a puzzle had to be simple, not too widely known and without a methodical solution. The researchers then asked 18 young adults to try to solve these problems while their brainwaves were monitored using an electroencephalograph (EEG).
A typical brain-teaser went like this. There are three light switches on the ground-floor wall of a three-storey house. Two of the switches do nothing, but one of them controls a bulb on the second floor. When you begin, the bulb is off. You can only make one visit to the second floor. How do you work out which switch is the one that controls the light
This problem, or one equivalent to it, was presented on a computer screen to a volunteer when that volunteer pressed a button. The electrical activity of the volunteer’s brain (his brainwave pattern) was recorded by the EEG from the button’s press. Each volunteer was given 30 seconds to read the puzzle and another 60 to 90 seconds to solve it.
Some people worked it out; others did not. The significant point, though, was that the EEG predicted who would fall where. Those volunteers who went on to have an insight (in this case that on their one and only visit to the second floor they could use not just the light hut the heat produced by a bulb as evidence of an active switch) had had different brainwave activity from those who never got it. In the right frontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with shifting mental states, there was an increase in high-frequency gamma waves (those with 47-48 cycles a second). Moreover, the difference was noticeable up to eight seconds before the volunteer realised he had found the solution. Dr. Sheth thinks this may he capturing the “transformational thought” in action, before the brain’s “owner” is consciously aware of it.
This finding poses fascinating questions about how the brain really works. Conscious thought, it seems, does not solve problems. Instead, unconscious processing happens in the background and only delivers the answer to consciousness once it has been arrived at. Food for further thought, indeed.
How do brains work according to the passage
A:Brains decide according to the consciousness. B:Brains decide according to the subconsciousness. C:Brains decide before their owners know about it. D:Brains decide after their owners know about it.
The question of where insights come from has become a hot topic in neuroscience, despite the fact that they are not easy to induce experimentally in a laboratory. Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Sheth have taken a creative approach. They have selected some brain-teasing but practical problems in the hope that these would get closer to mimicking real insight: To qualify, a puzzle had to be simple, not too widely known and without a methodical solution. The researchers then asked 18 young adults to try to solve these problems while their brainwaves were monitored using an electroencephalograph (EEG).
A typical brain-teaser went like this. There are three light switches on the ground-floor wall of a three-storey house. Two of the switches do nothing, but one of them controls a bulb on the second floor. When you begin, the bulb is off. You can only make one visit to the second floor. How do you work out which switch is the one that controls the light
This problem, or one equivalent to it, was presented on a computer screen to a volunteer when that volunteer pressed a button. The electrical activity of the volunteer’s brain (his brainwave pattern) was recorded by the EEG from the button’s press. Each volunteer was given 30 seconds to read the puzzle and another 60 to 90 seconds to solve it.
Some people worked it out; others did not. The significant point, though, was that the EEG predicted who would fall where. Those volunteers who went on to have an insight (in this case that on their one and only visit to the second floor they could use not just the light hut the heat produced by a bulb as evidence of an active switch) had had different brainwave activity from those who never got it. In the right frontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with shifting mental states, there was an increase in high-frequency gamma waves (those with 47-48 cycles a second). Moreover, the difference was noticeable up to eight seconds before the volunteer realised he had found the solution. Dr. Sheth thinks this may he capturing the “transformational thought” in action, before the brain’s “owner” is consciously aware of it.
This finding poses fascinating questions about how the brain really works. Conscious thought, it seems, does not solve problems. Instead, unconscious processing happens in the background and only delivers the answer to consciousness once it has been arrived at. Food for further thought, indeed.
A:Brains decide according to the consciousness. B:Brains decide according to the subconsciousness. C:Brains decide before their owners know about it. D:Brains decide after their owners know about it.
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| It is hard to get any agreement on the
precise meaning of the term "social class" In everyday life, people tend to have
a different approach to those they consider their equals from that which they
assume with people they consider higher or lower than themselves in the social
scale. The criteria we use to place a new acquaintance, however, are a complex
mixture of factors. Dress, way of speaking, area of residence in a given city or
province, education and manners all play a part. In the eighteenth-century one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that the "whole annual produce of the land and labor of every country’ provided revenue to "three different orders of people: Those who live by rent, those who live by wages, those who live by profit" . Each successive stage of the industrial revolution, however, made the social structure more complicated. Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth-century between the upper middle class and the working class. There were small-scale industrialists as well as large ones, small shopkeepers and tradesmen, officials and salaried employees, skilled and unskilled workers, and professional men such as doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the possession of wealth inevitably affected a person’s social position. Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than their working-class parents. But they lacked the social training of the upper class, who despised them as the "new rich" . They often sent their sons and daughters to special schools to acquire social training. Here their children mixed with the children of the upper classes were accepted by them, and very often found marriage partners from among them. In the same way, a thrifty, hardworking labourer, though not clever enough himself, might save for his son enough to pay for an extended secondary school education in the hope that he would move into a white-collar’ occupation, carrying with it a higher salary and move up in the social scale. In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes, the growth of the social services, and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook. The upper classes no longer are the sole, or even the main possessors of wealth, power and education, though inherited social position still carries considerable prestige. Many people today are hostile towards class distinctions and privileges and hope to achieve a classless society. The trouble is that as one inequality is removed, another tends to take its place, and the best that has as far been attempted is a society in which distinctions are elastic and in which every member has fair opportunities for making the best of his abilities. |
A:Mainly by their way of speaking. B:According to the place where they were born. C:By regarding them inferior to ourselves. D:According to a complex mixture of factors.
(According to) our estimate, only one (out of) three company managers (have been) trained in the (field of) management.（ ）
A:According to B:out of C:have been D:field of
According to the author ______.
A:Washington's lack of formal education placed him at a disadvantage in later life B:Washington should have gone to France even though be could not speak French C:Washington was not as good as a president as Adams, Jefferson or Madison D:Washington was a model for all Virginian gentlemen
A project manager believes that modifying the scope of the project may provide added value service for the customer. The project manager should A．assign change tasks to project members B．call a meeting of the configuration control board C．change the scope baseline D．postpone the modification until a separate enhancement project is funded after this project is completed according to the original baseline （）.
A:assign change tasks to project members B:call a meeting of the configuration control board C:change the scope baseline D:postpone the modification until a separate enhancement project is funded after this project is completed according to the original baseline
