Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right
It is uncertain that Wave will work on a large scale because______.
A.people cannot find practical uses for it
B.it will be a challenge to regular e-mail
C.the technology it needs is more complicated
D.many people do not understand how it works
The passage aims to inform. us that __________.
[A] national libraries start to preserve the web
[B] national libraries cannot save everything
[C] national libraries have found a solution
[D] America's Library of Congress has a budget
Learner drivers have to keep their previous jobs ______
A.because they don' t want their present bosses to know what they're doing
B.because they want to earn money from both jobs
C.because they cannot earn money as taxi drivers yet
D.because they look forward to further promotion
Dear Mr. Bridges,
I am writing to you to propose a meeting with you on the 15th. At the proposed meeting, I would like to discuss with you how to organize an advertising campaign for our of our clients. I would like to have your advice on having an appropriate budget for such a project. Please let me know if you will be available for the proposed meeting.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Marianne Reeves
PR Manager
ABC Consulting Co.
Write a letter to Ms. Reeves:
apologizing for being unable to attend the meeting
explaining why you cannot attend the meeting
suggesting another date (make it reasonably soon)
asking her to contact your secretary to confirm the appointment
Dear Ms. Reeves,
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Antarctica has nine-tenths of all the world's ice. If all this ice melted, the level of the world's oceans would rise 250 feet. Most cities along the coast would be drowned. In New York Harbor, water would almost cover the Statue of Liberty's head. But the ice in Antarctica does not melt. The temperature stays well below freezing the year round in most places. Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. The temperature there has been known to drop to more than 100 degrees below zero.
Antarctica does not have much plant life. Only a few simple plants such as mosses can grow there. The climate is so harsh, and food so scare, that people cannot settle in Antarctica. But along the coasts of the continent there are many birds, fish and animals.
Thousands of whales and millions of seals swim in Antarctica seas. Six kinds of seals are found. The fur seal, the smallest, has long been hunted for its silky fur. The tough-skinned elephant seal is the largest. It can weigh as much as four tons.
Most of the world's whaling takes place in Antarctica waters. The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.
A number of birds live in Antarctica, and fly over the water and ice. Penguins are the best-known of Antarctic birds. They cannot fly, but they have flipper-wings, which make them strong swimmers.
(1)
A.Seven-tenths.
B.Eight-tenths.
C.Nine-tenths.
D.Six-tenths.
There is no other man in history who formulated the ideas of democracy with such fullness, persuasiveness, and logic. Those interested in democracy as a poetical philosophy and system—even those who do not accept his postulates or are critical of his solutions—must reckon with his thought.
What, then, is his thought, and how much of it is still relevant under modern conditions?
Of all the ideas and beliefs that make up the political philosophy known as Jefferson democracy, perhaps three are paramount. These are the idea of equality, the idea of freedom, and the idea of the people's control over government. Underlying the whole, and serving as a major premise, is confidence in man.
To Jefferson; it was virtually axiomatic that the human being was essentially good, that he was capable of constant improvement through education and reason. He believed that "no definite limit could be assigned" to man's continued progress from ignorance and superstition to enlightenment and happiness. Unless this kept in mind, Jefferson cannot be understood properly.
What did he mean by the concept of equality, which he stated as a "serf-evident" truth? Obviously, he was not foolish enough to believe that all men are equal in size or intelligence or talents or moral development. He never said that men are equal, but only that they come into the world with "equal rights". He believed that equality was a political rather than a biological or psychological or economic conception. It was a gift that man acquired automatically by coming into the world as a member of the human community.
Intertwined with equality was the concept of freedom, also viewed by Jefferson as a "natural right." In the Declaration of Independence he stated it as "self-evident" that liberty was one of the "inherent" and "unalienable rights" with which the Creator endowed man. "Freedom", he summed up at one lime, "is the girl of Nature."
What did Jefferson mean by freedom and why was it necessary for him to claim it as an "inherent" or "natural" right? In Jefferson thought there are two main elements in the idea of freedom. There is, first, man's liberty to organize his own political institutions and to select periodically the individuals to run them. The other freedom is personal. Foremost in the area of individual liberty, Jefferson believed, was the untrammeled fight to say, think, write, and believe whatever the citizen wishes m provided, of course, he does not directly injure his neighbors.
It is because political and personal freedom are potentially in conflict that Jefferson, in order to make both secure, felt the need to found them on "natural fight". If each liberty derives from an "inherent" fight, then neither could justly undermine the other. Experience of the past, when governments, were neither too strong for the ruled or too weak to rule them, convinced Jefferson of the desirability of establishing a delicate natural balance between political power and personal fights.
This brings us to the third basic element in the Jeffersonian idea: the people's control over government. It is paradoxical that Jefferson, Who spent most of his adult years in politics, had an ingrained distrust of government as such. For the then-existing governments of Europe, virtually all of them hereditary monarchies, he had antipathy mixed with contempt. His mistrust of strong and unchecked government was inveterate. "I am not," he said, "a friend to a very energetic
A.Equality, freedom and people's control over government,
B.Equality, confidence in man and people's control over government.
C.Equality, freedom and confidence in man.
D.Freedom confidence in man and people's control over government.
What does the PR manager think of the authors proposal of playing games?
A.It is against the rule.
B.It makes no sense.
C.It is worth a try.
D.It would be beneficial.
In the new wave of suicide bombings, _____have been injured and _____have been killed.
A.more than 80;at least 180
B.more than 118;at least 18
C.more than 180;at least 80
D.more than 118;at least 80
The Statue of Liberty was given by the Spanish people as a gift. ()
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