We should recognize the cultural values of people we work with, and take them into ac
A.pool
B.line
C.stream
D.chain
A.Pre-commit, publicly.
B.Confront the downside of inaction.
C.Remove the hidden blockage.
D.Be kind to yourself. Recognize that your brain needs help if it’s going to be less short-sighted.
"But eighty or even ninety.,, normal life-span for humans" (paragraph3 ) is closet in meaning to [ A] on average, people now live to beover eighty. [ B ] we should recognize that people nowlive to between eighty and ninety on average. [ C] nowadays it isn't normal for peopleto die younger than eighty. [ D ] average life expectancy isincreasingly being considered to be eighty or more,
听力原文: Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, summed up the four chief qualities of money some 2,000 years ago. It must be lasting and easy to recognize, to divide, and to carry about. In other words it must be, durable, distinct, divisible and portable. When we think of money today, we picture it either as round, flat pieces of metal which we call coins, or as printed paper notes. But there are still parts of the world today where coins and notes are of no use. They will buy nothing, and a traveler might starve if he had none of the particular local money to exchange for food.
Salt may seem rather a strange substance to use as money, but in countries where the food of the people is mainly vegetable, it is often an absolute necessity. Cakes of salt, stamped to show their value, were used as money in Tibet until recent times, and cakes of salt will still be used to buy goods in Borneo and parts of Africa.
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A.It should be made of metal.
B.It should be durable, distinct, divisible and portable.
C.It had been 2,000 years old.
D.It should be made of high-quality materials.
The title below that best expresses the main idea of this passage is ______.
A.What Emerson Said
B.Individualism in Writing
C.Doing Your Best
D.Great Works of Art
There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in
pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling.
(orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt
'naturally' and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 【B1】______
deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact,
remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what 【B2】______
our speech sounds like when we speak out, and it often 【B3】______
comes as a shock when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. 【B4】______
It is not a voice we recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting
is something which we almost always know. We begin the 'natural' 【B5】______
learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or
write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and 【B6】______
practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours
per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult 【B7】______
English spelling. This is 'natural', therefore, that our speech-sounds 【B8】______
should be those of our immediate circle;after all, as we have seen,
speech operates as a means of holding a community and 【B9】______
giving a sense of 'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a
'stranger', someone who speaks with an accent of a different
community — perhaps only a few miles far. 【B10】______
【B1】
What's this news about?
A.A new find that people who sleep less tend to be fat.
B.A new find that people who sleep less tend to be thin.
C.A new find that more sleep will result in obesity.
D.A new find that women should sleep less.
No two clouds are ever alike. But it is still possible to group clouds and to give them names. We can recognize the different kinds of clouds and watch them for signs of changing weather.
As a rule, the higher the clouds, the better the weather. And the lower the clouds, the worse the weather is likely to be. To predict the weather, there are three things about clouds you should look for: movement, color, and change.
Clouds can tell you if storm is on the way. For example, small feathery cirrus clouds (卷云) can become thick and move lower. This means rain is on the way. If there is a sudden, cool breeze (微风) thunder (雷声) clouds appears, then a storm is about to break out.
According to the first paragraph, we can say that ______.
A.the weather always remains the same in a day
B.a fine day can't last for long
C.we rarely think about the weather
D.the weather changes a lot
The Culture Debate in the US: Whose Culture Is This ,Anyway?
美国的文化辩论:空间是谁的文化?
Part of the debate about culture revolves around issues of perspective and ownership. Within a nation such (1) the United States—a nation whose cultural heritage includes elements from every corner of the world (2) are a great many perspectives coexisting and intertwining in the cultural fabriC.When we all ask (3) as individuals, "what belongs to me, to my culture?" we are rewarded with a spectacular variety of (4) ; in this way, different perspectives and ownership of different cultural traditions enriches everyone. But when we ask " (5) belongs to us, to our culture?" we ask a much harder question. Do the people of the (6) States, or of any culturally complex human society, necessarily share common cultural elements? If so, who gets (7) decide what those elements are?
This debate is a crucial one in many cultures throughout the world (8) . In the US, the debate promises to impact the way we educate our children—that is, (9) manner and shape in which culture reproduces itself—and the way we write our laws. In (10) countries, equally crucial issues are at stake.
For many people, what is at stake is the character (11) US national identity. Hirsch argues that this identity needs to become less culturally fragmented; others, like Walker, (12) that the national character gets its strength from cultural diversity, from the freedom (at home and in (13) ) to celebrate, honor, and reproduce different cultural traditions. Those who take this latter view follow the reasoning (14) Shweder, arguing that we need to accept that there are multiple valid cultural perspectives and that two (15) perspectives can both be valid even though they might contradict one another.
Recognize that the position you (16) in this debate about culture—whatever position you take—is a political one with implications (17) what we should value, what we should praise, what we should accept, what we should teach. When (18) reflect on this debate, when you contribute your own voice to the discussion, try to be (19) of the implications that follow from your position. When you listen to the voices of others, try to (20) with awareness, deciding for yourself what is at stake and how their positions relate to your own.
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