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26.The passage is mainly about ________. . A.celebrity and personal style C.celebrity and fashion design
(D)
President Arling has put his long awaited economic restructuring program before the Congress. It provides a coordinated program of investment credits, research grants, education reforms, and tax changes designed to make American industry more competitive. This is necessary to reverse the economic slide into unemployment, lack of growth, and trade deficits that have plagued the economy for the past six years.
The most liberal wing of the President's party has called for stronger and more direct action. They want an incomes policy to check inflation while federal financing helps rebuild industry behind a wall of protective tariffs.
The Republicans, however, decry even the modest, graduated tax increases in the President's program. They want tax cuts and more open market. They say if federal money has to be injected into the economy, let it through defence spending.
Both these alternatives ignore the unique nature of the economic before us. It is not simply a matter of markets or financing. The new technology allows vastly increased production for those able to master it. But it also threatens those who fail to adopt it with permanent second-class citizenship in the world economy. If an industry cannot lever itself up to the leading stage of technological advances,' then it will not be able to compete effectively. If it cannot do this, no amount of government protectionism or access to foreign markets can keep it profitable for long. Without the profits and experience of technological excellence to reinvest, that industry can only fall still farther behind its foreign competitors.
So the crux is the technology and that is where president's program focused. The danger is not that a plan will not be passed, it is that the ideologues of right and left will distort the bill with amendments that will blur its focus on technology. The economic restructuring plan should be passed intact. If we fail to restructure our economy now, we may not get a second chance.
27.What is the requirement of the most liberal wing of the Democratic-party? A.They want a more direct action. C.They want to rebuild industry.
B.They want an incomes policy to check inflation. D.They want a wall of protective tariffs.
B.celebrity and market potential D.celebrity and clothing industry
28.What is the editors attitude toward the economic restructuring plan? A.supportive
B.indifferent
C.disapproving
D.compromising
29.The focus of the President's program is on ________. A.investment
B.economy
C.technology
D.tax
30. The danger to the plan lies in ________. A.the two parties' objection
B.different idea of the two parties about the plan
C.its passage
D.improper revision of its focus
(E)
Our mobile devices give us a remarkable ability: to document every moment of our lives. But in our relentless attempt to curate all of these experiences for others using a variety of filters, are we missing perhaps the most important filter of all- a 'moral' one?
The latest example of the moral ambiguities of curation in a mobile world came this week, when the New York Post published a photo taken seconds before a man who had been pushed onto the subway tracks was fatally struck. The photo was published on the Post's front page with the chilling headline, 'Doomed' This wasn't the first time a witness to a casualty has opted to capture an image rather than help the victim, but this time, the subway photo controversy extended beyond a single photojournalist faced with a moral dilemma. According to accounts of the tragic NYC subway incident, there were other onlookers as well, snapping photos and recording video in the fateful 22 seconds, rather than attempting to help the victim.
If this tragic scenario sounds familiar, that's because it is. Malcolm Gladwell described a similar type of event in his book, The TIPPING Point. In 1964, thirty-eight different New Yorkers refused to help a woman who was being murdered in their neighborhood despite hearing her cries for help. The case of Kitty Genovese was so inexplicable at the time that psychologists have even given it a name- the 'bystander effect'. That people could be aware of such a tragic event happening in front of them and still be unresponsive could only be attributed to a societal diffusion of responsibility. Each of the 38 bystanders felt that enough people were witnessing the event that each of them, individually was no longer responsible for becoming involved.
If anything, our mobile devices have intensified this. When faced with difficult or awkward social situations, we often retreat into observer mode, confident that the appearance of being engaged with our device will absolve us of any individual responsibility to act. Yet, when we become silent curators of the world around us, we run the risk of distancing ourselves from our subjects so completely that we no longer feel the moral imperative to act.
During the early years of the social media boom, expert commentators liked to say that society was moving from a 'lean back' mode to a 'lean forward' mode. Instead of leaning back and passively consuming TV on our couches, we were leaning forward and adding our voices to the conversation via the Web. We seemed to be more engaged with what was happening in the world around us, interacting with others across many different platforms and seemingly turning every event into a chance for active participation.
It would be a shame if the mobile revolution turns out to be a step backward, transforming all of us once again into passive curators of the world around us, rather than active participants. Consider that, as a society, we have reached a point where it is completely acceptable to see two people having dinner together, curating photos of the food in front of them rather than conversing with each other. Many of us seem to walk around with our heads permanently down, furiously
tapping away on our tiny screens rather than engaging with others. Then, when an event happens - tragic or otherwise - many of us reflexively turn to the screen to capture it, putting us all at risk of turning into mobile bystanders. 31.It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that________.
A. the photojournalist who took the subway photo was from New York Post B. the man who died in the accident committed suicide
C. the photojournalist and the bystanders are thought as immoral. D. all the bystanders were busy snapping photos or recording videos
32.The subway photo controversy extended beyond a single photojournalist because ________. A. he was supposed to play his moral part
B. the publicized photo aroused sympathy among the public D. other onlookers had the same response as the photojournalist
C. life saving should go before any professional duty 33. The 'bystander effect' is caused by ________. A. the widespread use of mobile devices C. the large amount of bystanders
B. people's decreasing morality D. the dispersion of responsibility
34.Which of the following belongs to a 'lean forward' mode? A.Watching TV on the couches.
B. Playing offline computer games.
D. Taking photos of food while having dinner with other people.
C. Remarking on the latest news via the Internet.
35.What*s the author's attitude towards mobile bystanders? A. Critical.
IV. Blank filling
Directions: Read the following tow passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
(A)
In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition of each new skill - the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child (1)________ his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might (2)________(force) to use a toilet too early, and a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, (3)________ a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters; (4)________ are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls
B. Indifferent.
C. Approving.
D. Ambiguous.
imposed(5)________( represent) the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it (6)________ next is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that \is better than precept\If they are not sincere and do not practice (7)________ they preach, their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for (8)________, and realize they (9)________(fool) to some extent.
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents' principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
(B)
Nearly a thousand Year 11 students (10)________(explore) their A-level, university and career options with staff and students at Oxford University over the past two weeks.
Investigating Options is an outreach event that focuses on key decision point for state school students, and forms part of the Pathways Programme which is a collaboration between target state schools in the UK and 27 Oxford colleges.
Three sessions were held in mid-to-late November, in which students heard mini-lectures by Oxford postgraduates and took part in workshops with undergraduates.
Ashley Walters, school's liaison officer (联络官) at Exeter and Lincoln colleges, said: 'Outreach officers often find that students are not aware of how far their decisions can affect the opportunities available to them at University level. Investigating Options (11)_______(intend) to get them thinking about what they (12)________want to study at university, and what they can do now (13)________(maximize) their opportunities later on.
‘We also hope that, by visiting us now, the students will see Oxford as a familiar friend (14)________ ________ as something new when they come to make their application choices.’
Teachers of these students were also invited to Exeter College to receive information on supporting their students’ application choices.
Mr. Walters added: “It's not all about the students - we will be running some sessions for their (15)________(accompany) teachers in the afternoon. Teaching staff can have a huge impact on their students' choices, (16)_______ we generally don't get a chance to engage with them because they don't send us applicants directly.”
V. Translation
Direction: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1. 那些违反校规的学生都将难逃惩罚，应该采取有效措施来阻止他们为所欲为。(escape) 2. 直到附近的连锁便利店发生火灾，画廊的经理才意识到防火的重要性。(Not until)