Who said "Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is the truth."
A.Aristotle
B.Socrates
C.Thales
D.Plato's wife
- · 有3位网友选择 C,占比37.5%
- · 有2位网友选择 A,占比25%
- · 有2位网友选择 D,占比25%
- · 有1位网友选择 B,占比12.5%
A.Aristotle
B.Socrates
C.Thales
D.Plato's wife
A.Plato
B.Aristotle
C.Socrates
D.Diogenes
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
St. Paul didn't like it. Moses warned his people against it. Hesiod declared it "mischievous" and "hard to get rid of it", but Oscar Wilder said, "Gossip is charming".
"History is merely gossip", he wrote in one of his famous plays. "But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality".
In past time, under Jewish law, gossipmongers might be fined or flogged. The Puritans put them in stocks or ducking stools, but no punishment seemed to have the desired effect of preventing gossip, which has continued uninterruptedly across the back fences of the centuries.
Today, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light. Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, even evolutionary biologists are concluding that gossip may not be so bad after all.
Gossip is "an intrinsically valuable activity", philosophy professor Aaron Ben-Ze'ev states in a book he has edited, entitled Good Gossip. For one thing, gossip helps us acquire information that we need to know that doesn't come through ordinary channels, such as: "What was the real reason so-and-so was fired from. the office?" Gossip also is a form. of social bonding, Dr. Ben-Ze'ev says. It is "a kind of sharing" that also "satisfies the tribal need—namely, the need to belong to and be accepted by a unique group". What's more, the professor notes, "Gossip is enjoyable".
Another gossip groupie, Dr. Ronald De Sousa, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, describes gossip basically as a form. of indiscretion and a "saintly virtue", by which he means that the knowledge spread by gossip will usually end up being slightly beneficial. "It seems likely that a world in which all information were universally available would be preferable to a world where immense power resides in the control of secrets", he writes.
Still, everybody knows that gossip can have its ill effects, especially on the poor wretch being gossiped about. And people should refrain from certain kinds of gossip that might be harmful, even though the ducking stool is long out of fashion.
By the way, there is also an interesting strain of gossip called medical gossip, which in its best form, according to researchers Jerry M. Suls and Franklin Goodkin, can motivate people with symptoms of serious illness, but who are unaware of it, to seek medical help.
So go ahead and gossip. But remember, if (as often is the case among gossipers) you should suddenly become one of the gossipers instead, it is best to employ the foolproof defense recommended by Plato, who may have learned the lesson from Socrates, who as you know was the victim of gossip spread that he was corrupting the youth of Athens: when men speak ill of thee, so live that nobody will believe them. Or, as Will Rogers said, "Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip".
Persons' remarks are mentioned at the beginning of the text to _____.
A.show the general disapproval of gossip.
B.introduce the topic of gossip.
C.examine gossip from a historical perspective.
D.prove the real value of gossip.
In Puerto Rico he heard a legend about an island called Bikini, where there was said to be a spring that restored youth to all who bathed in it. It is said he was seeking this spring when he discovered Florida.
He sailed from Puerto Rico in March 15i3. On Easter Sunday he sight ed the coast. A few days later he landed on Florida's east coast, near what is now St. Augustine. He named the place La Florida after the Spanish term for Easter Sunday -- Pascua Florida, or "flowery feast." He then sailed around the peninsular and up the west coast. He returned to Florida in 1521.
In what year did de Leon discover Florida ?
A.1508.
B.1513.
C.1521.
D.1492,
A.Socrates
B.Plato
C.Aristotle
A、William Wordsworth
B、Philip Sidney
C、Horace
D、Plato
Maria de Menezes said her only desire now was to see justice done. She said she didn't want to see any other mother suffer as she has. The family say they are glad that documents and pictures of Jean Charles de Menezes after he'd been shot which contradict the original police version have been made public. They say they knew from the start that he had no reason to run from the police and world never have jumped over a barrier of an underground station.
According to the news, why was the Brazilian man killed?
A.He was a murderer.
B.He was a spy.
C.He was expected as a terrorist.
D.He was taken for a robber.
A.My wife
B.Plato
C.Socrates
D.Pythagoras
A、Socrates
B、Plato
C、Aristotle
D、None of the above
To determine the【C15】______ of the lack of sleep, scientists have put subjects【C16】______ a set of psychological and performance tests【C17】______ them, for instance,【C18】______ columns of numbers or recall a passage read to them only minutes earlier, "We've found that if you're in sleep deficit (缺乏), performance suffers," says Dr. David. "Short-term memory is【C19】______ , as are abilities to【C20】______ decisions and to concentrate."
【C1】
A.request
B.need
C.want
D.fancy
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