试题库在线考试题库-历年真题模拟试题及答案-考博英语在线试题测试中心-希赛网

题库

首页 > 题库 > 合肥工业大学

If it were only necessary to decide whether to teach elementary science to everyone on a mass basis or to find the gifted few and take them as far as they can go, our task would be fairly simple. The public school system, however, has no such choice, for the jobs must be carried on at the same time. Because we depend so heavily upon science and technology for our progress, we must produce specialists in many fields. Because we live in a democratic nation, whose citizens make the policies for the nation, large numbers of us must be educated to understand, to support, and when necessary, to judge the work of experts. The public school must educate both producers and users of scientific services.In education, there should be a good balance among the branches of knowledge that contribute to effective thinking and wise judgment. Such balance is defeated by too much emphasis on any one field. This question of balance involves not only the relation of the natural science, the social sciences, and the arts, but also relative emphases among the natural sciences themselves.Similarly, we must have a balance between current and classical knowledge. The attention of the public is continually drawn to new possibilities in scientific fields and the discovery of new knowledge; these should not be allowed to turn our attention away from the sound, established materials that form the basis of courses for beginners.9. According to the first paragraph, the task of education is fairly complicated because ______.10. Which of the following points is NOT INCLUDED in the passage?11. It can be inferred from the passage that _.12. The best title for this passage might be _______.

The first two decades of this century were dominated by the microbe hunters. These hunters had tracked down one after another of the microbes responsible for the most dreaded scourges of many centuries: tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria. But there remained some terrible diseases for which no microbe could be incriminated: scurvy, pellagra, rickets, and beriberi. Then it was discovered that these diseases were caused by the lack of vitamins, a trace substance in the diet. The diseases could be prevented or cured by consuming foods that contained the vitamins. And so in the decades of the l920s and 1930s, nutrition became a science and the vitamin hunters replaced the microbe hunters.In the 1940s and l950s, biochemists strived to learn why each of the vitamins was essential for health. They discovered that key enzymes in metabolism depend on one or another of the vitamins as coenzymes to perform the chemistry that provides cells with energy for growth and function. Now, these enzyme hunters occupied center stage.You are aware that the enzyme hunters have been replaced by a new breed of hunters who are tracking genes—the blueprints for each of the enzymes—and are discovering the defective genes that cause inherited diseases—diabetes, cystic fibrosis. These gene hunters, or genetic engineers, use recombinant DNA technology to identify and clone genes and introduce them into bacterial cells and plants to create factories for the massive production of hormones and vaccines for medicine and for better crops for agriculture. Biotechnology has become a multibillion-dollar industry.In view of the inexorable progress in science, we can expect that the gene hunters will be replaced in the spotlight. When and by whom? Which kind of hunter will dominate the scene in the last decade of our waning century and in the early decades of the next? I wonder whether the hunters who will occupy the spotlight will be neurobiologists who apply the techniques of the enzyme and gene hunters to the functions of the brain. What to call them? The head hunters, I will return to them later.5. What is the main topic of the passage?6. How do vitamins influence health?7. Which of the following best describes the author’s tone in the last paragraph of the passage?8. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?

In the mid-nineteenth, the United States had tremendous natural resources that could be exploited in order to develop heavy industry. Most of the raw materials that are valuable in the manufacture of machinery, transportation facilities, and consumer goods lay ready to be worked into wealth. Iron, coal, and oil—the basic ingredients of industrial growth—were plentiful and needed only the application of technical expertise, organizational skill, and labor.One crucial development in this movement toward industrialization was the growth of the railroads. The railway network expanded rapidly until the railroad map of the United States looked like a spider’s web, with the steel filaments connecting all important sources of raw materials, their places of manufacture, and their centers of distribution. The railroads contributed to the industrial growth not only by connecting these major centers, but also by themselves consuming enormous amounts of fuel, iron, and coal.Many factors influenced the emerging modes of production. For example, machine tools, the tools used to make goods, were steadily improved in the latter part of the nineteenth century—always with an eye to speedier production and lower unit costs. The products of the factories were rapidly absorbed by the growing cities that sheltered the workers and the distributors. The increased urban population was nourished by the increased farm production that, in turn, was made more productive by the use of the new farm machinery. American agricultural production kept up with the urban demand and still had surpluses for sale to the industrial centers of Europe.The labor that ran the factories and built the railways was recruited in part from American farm areas where people were being displaced by farm machinery, in part from Asia, and in part from Europe. Europe now began to send tides of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe—most of whom were originally poor farmers but who settled in American industrial cities. The money to finance this tremendous expansion of the American economy still came from European financiers for the most part, but the Americans were approaching the day when their expansion could be financed in their own “money market”.1. What does the passage mainly discuss?2. Why does the author mention “a spider’s web” in Para.2?3. According to the passage, who were the biggest consumers of manufactured products?4. Which of the following is NOT true of United States farmers in the nineteenth century?

Directions: Some people are in favor of mandatory (强制的) retirement age by saying that after a certain time, people are more likely to deteriorate both physically and mentally; However, others are against it holding the view that older people can bring a wealth of experience to a workplace. What’s your opinion? You are to write a composition to express your opinion in about 220 words.

艺术的最高境界是无技巧。我几十年前同一位朋友辩论时就说过：长得好看的人用不着浓妆艳抹，而我的文章就像一个丑八怪，不打扮，看起来倒还顺眼些。他说：“流传久远的作品是靠文学技巧流传，谁会关心百十年前的生活？”我不同意，我认为打动人心的还是作品中所反映的生活和主人公的命运。这仍然是在反对那些无中生有、混淆黑白的花言巧语。我最恨那些盗名欺世、欺骗读者的谎言。

Some parents believe that securing admission to a top-flight university provides a child with an irrevocable passport to success, guaranteeing a life of uninterrupted economic mirth. Parents such as these upwardly mobile chuckleheads exude an almost Prussian belligerence when announcing their children’s destinations, congratulating themselves on a job well done, while issuing a sotto voce taunt to parents of the less gifted. For them, the hard part of child rearing is now over. Junior went to the right prep school, made the right friends, signed up for the right activities and is now headed for the right school. Now we can get the heck out of here and move to Tuscany (an Italian region known for gorgeous landscapes).But in reality, life doesn’t end at age 17 or 21. In real life, some children get the finest educations but still become fist-class screw-ups. Some of those boys and girls most likely to succeed are going to end up on welfare or skid row. At which point they’ll need parental input or cash. A parent’s responsibility doesn’t end once the kids leave. A parent’s responsibility never ends. That’s why Nature gives you the job.

Miss Tennant was ______ into revealing the names of the people who got involved in organizing and carrying out the murders.

During our exploration, we discovered that people will exploit the newness and breadth of the Information Marketplace to support their wishes and ______.

In his speech, the president emphasized that the challenge to man’s future can never be met by making ______ adjustments here and there.

A defeated candidate for the House of Representatives must wait two years before running again, because elections are ______.

She makes no ______ of then affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances.

The architect must respond to the cultural concerns of society ______ and pay attention to the functional and aesthetic aspect of the buildings.

The electronically developed countries are ______ nothing less than the abandonment of reading and writing of written language itself, and in its place, the recreation of oral culture.

The gloomy myth-makers foresee a world destroyed by floods or fire, and a human population ______ by war, starvation or infectious diseases.

Scientists hope the collision will produce a large crater in the comet’s surface in order to reveal the core and give some ______ to the origin of the solar system.

Research shows that many voters who haven’t yet made up their minds are ______ towards the Democrats.

The family is also the institution where most of us, both as children and as parents, acquire a sense of continuity with the past and a sense of ______ to the future.

The prominent British surgeon Joseph Lister pioneered the use of carbolic acid to ______ surgical instruments, sutures and wound dressing, thereby preventing infection of wounds.

Changing from solid to liquid, water takes in heat from all substances near it, and this ______ produces artificial cold surrounding it.

Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering.

暂未登录

学员用户尊享特权

老师批改作业做题助教答疑学员专用题库高频考点梳理

上一页 1 2 3 4 5 6 下一页