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With so many essays ______, I doubt if I shall have time to visit my relatives.
A．written
B．to write
C．writing
D．being written
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Essays, however, hang somewhere on a line between two sturdy poles: this is what I think, and this is what I am. Autobiographies which aren't novels are generally extended essays, indeed. A personal essay is like the human voice talking, its order being the mind's natural flow, instead of a systematized outline of ideas. Though more changeable or informal than an article or treatise, somewhere it contains a point which is its real center, even if the point couldn't be uttered in fewer words than the essayist has used. Essays don't usually boil down to a summary, as articles do, and the style. of the writer has a "nap" to it, a combination of personality and originality and energetic loose ends that stand up like the nap (绒毛) on a piece of wool and can't be brushed flat. Essays belong to the animal kingdom, with a surface that generates sparks, like a coat of fur, compared with the flat, conventional cotton of the magazine article writer, who works in the vegetable kingdom, instead. But, essays, on the other hand, may have fewer "levels" than fiction, because we are not supposed to argue much about their meaning. In the old distinction between teaching and storytelling, the essayist, however cleverly he tries to conceal his intentions, is a bit of a teacher or reformer, and an essay is intended to convey the same point to each of us.
An essayist doesn't have to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he can shape or shave his memories, as long as the purpose is served of explaining a truthful point. A personal essay frequently is not autobiographical at all, but what it does keep in common with autobiography is that, through its tone and tumbling progression, it conveys the quality of the author's mind. Nothing gets in the way. Because essays are directly concerned with the mind and the mind's peculiarity, the very freedom the mind possesses is conferred on this branch of literature that does honor to it, and the fascination of the mind is the fascination of the essay.
According to the passage the changes in readers' taste ______.
A．contribute to the incompatibility of essays with stories
B．often result in unfavorable effect, to say the least
C．sometimes come to something undesirable, of course
D．usually bring about beneficial outcome, so to say
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Stars in Their Eyes
The ScientifiC．American Book of the Cosmos edited by David Levy， Macmillan， 20， ISBN 0333782933
Previous generations of scientists would have killed to know what we know. For the first time in history， we have a pretty good idea of the material content of the Universe， our position within it and how the whole thing came into being.
In these .times of exploding knowledge there is a definite need to take stock and assemble what we know in a palatable （受欢迎的） form._________ （46）
The essays in The ScientifiC．American Book of the Cosmos have been selected by David Levy， co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levyg， which in 1994 stnaek Jupiter with the violence of several full-scale nuclear wars. _________ （47） This is certainly a great collection of essays， but it is
not， as the book promises， a seamless （完美的，无缝隙的） synthesis of our current knowledge.
Nobody can fault the range of articles Levy has included. There are essays on the planets，moons and assorted debris （碎片） in the Solar System， and on our Galaxy， the Milky Way: _________ （48）
The contributors， too， are stars in their own fields. Not many books can boast chapters written by such giants as Erwin Schrodinger and Francis Criekl My personal favorites are a piercingly clear essay by Albert Einstein on general relativity and an article by Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt on the inflationary （膨胀的） Universe.
So much for the book"s content. But Levy has not succeeded in providing an accurate synthesis of our Current knowledge of the cosmos， which the book jacket promises. Gathering together previously publ!shed articles inevitably leaves subject gaps， missing explanations and so on.
_________ （49） But there isn"t one. In fact， surprisingly for a book so densely packed with infor-mation， there is no index.
Collecting essays in this way is clearly a good publishing wheeze （巧妙地主意）. But thisapproach shortchanges the public， who would be better served by an account moulded into a seamless whole. _________ （50） However， for the next edition， please， please can we have an index？
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A.Tegmark fears he may hold the record for the longest time taken to read one book.
B.In a more positive vein， this is a wonderful collection of essays to dip in and out of if you already have a good overview （概述） of current cosmiC．understanding.
C.Levy is an active astronomer and an accomplished writer， so you"d expect him to provide a broad and accurate picture of our current understanding of the cosmos.
D.ScientifiC．American has attempted to cater to this need by bringing together essays that have appeared in the magazine.
E.To some extent， these could have been plugged with a glossary （词表） of terms.
F.Also included are contributions on the world of subatomiC．particles， the origin of life on the Earth and the possibility of its existence elsewhere.
Stars in Their Eyes
The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos edited by David Levy， Macmillan， ￡20， ISBN 0333782933
Previous generations of seientists would have killed to know what we know. For the first time in history， we have a pretty good idea of the material content of the Universe， our position within it and how the whole thing came into being.
In these times of exploding knowledge there is a definite need to take stock and assemble what we know in a palatable （受欢迎的） form_________（46）
The essays in The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos have been selected by David Levy，co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9， which in 1994 struck Jupiter with the violenee of several full-scale nuclear wars. _________（47） This is certainly a great collection of essays， but it is not， as the book promises， a seamless （完美的，无缝隙的） synthesis of our current knowledge.
Nobody can fault the range of articles Levy has included. There are essays on the planets，moons and assorted debris （碎片） in the Solar System， and on our Galaxy， the Milky Way. _________（48）
The contributors， too， are stars in their own fields. Not many books can boast eha"pters written by such giants as Erwin Sehrodinger and Francis Crick. My personal favorites are a piercingly clear essay by Albert Einstein on general relativity and an article by Alan Guth and Paul Stein- hardt on the inflationary （膨胀的） Universe.
So much for the book"s content. But Levy has not succeeded in providing an accurate synthe-sis of our current knowledge of the eosmos， which the book jacket promises. Gathering together previously published articles inevitably leaves subject gaps， missing explanations and so on._________ （49） But there isn"t one. In fact， surprisingly for a book so densely packed with infor-mation， there is no index.
Collecting essays in this way is clearly a good publishing wheeze （巧妙的注意）. But this approach shortchanges the public， who would be better served by an account moulded into a seamless whole._________（50） However， for the next edition， please， please can we have an index？
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A.Tegmark fears he may hold the record for the longest time taken to read one book.
B.In a more positive vein， this is a wonderful collection of essays to dip in and out of if you already have a good overview （概述） of current cosmic understanding.
C.Levy is an active astronomer and an accomplished writer， so you"d expect him to provide a broad and accurate picture of our current understanding of the cosmos.
D.Scientific American has attempted to cater to this need by bringing together essays that have appeared in the magazine.
E.To some extent， these could have been plugged with a glossary （词表）. of terms.
F.Also included are contributions on the world of subatomic particles， the origin of life on the Earth and the possibility of its existence elsewhere.
She has written ______ her brother has.
A．as many as essays
B．as much as essays
C．as many essays as
D．as much essays as
These computer systems are known as e-raters. They use artificial intelligence to think in a way【C6】______teachers. In the state of Indiana, computer grading of a statewide【C7】______test began with a【C8】______of the system itself. For two years, both a computer and humans graded the student writing. Officials say there was almost no difference between the computer grades and【C9】______given by the【C10】______readers.
Systems are also being used to grade writing in college classes. The computers【C11】______a few hundred【C12】______of student writing already graded by humans. Then the systems【C13】______new essays【C14】______those already examined.
How do teachers feel about all this？ Many say machines can【C15】______the job【C16】______people can. A computer can find spelling and grammar mistakes.【C17】______these teachers say it can never really【C18】______what a writer is trying to say.【C19】______say a program cannot follow a thought or judge a humor【C20】______understand a beautifully expressed idea.
【C1】
A．read through
B．read about
C．take up
D．take in
3. The History of the English Dictionary In 1746, Samuel Johnson began to work on his most famous book, the Dictionary of the English Language. It took him nine years to complete and in that time, he wrote meanings for more than 40,000 words. It was the first English dictionary to include so many words. It had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". Johnson was born in Staffordshire, Britain in 1709. His father was a bookseller and the family was not very rich. Johnson was a very clever student and he went to Oxford University in 1728. After Oxford, he became a school teacher but he was not happy about his job. In 1735, he married a woman named Elizabeth Porter. He was twenty-five years old and she was forty-six. A few years after that, Johnson got a job to write the English dictionary. He worked in a house in London and he had six men to help him. To write the dictionary, Johnson looked for words used by the important English writers in those days. He underlined the sentences where the words were used and wrote them in his notebooks. Then he gave his notebooks to his workers and they wrote the words and the sentences out neatly. After that, they put the words in order according to the English alphabet. Once that was done, Johnson would write the meanings for the words. When it was completed, the Dictionary of the English Language became famous and it was used by many people in that time. Johnson was a happy man because of that, but his wife died before the dictionary was completed and she never got to share her husband's happiness. Johnson died in London in 1784. In his lifetime, he not only wrote the Dictionary of the English Language but he also wrote many poems and famous articles. His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, and the widely read tale The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763, he befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets. 6. The Dictionary of the English Language was the first ______.
A、dictionary to include so many words
B、dictionary in the world
C、dictionary that was written in England
D、English dictionary to have 40,000 words
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