题目内容
Leeanne Carlson wanted $ 20 million for his large house with two gardens, but he _______ $ 10 million.
A. settled for????????????? B. settled down????????????? C. settled on????????????? D. settled in
A
【解析】
试题分析:句意:Leeanne Carlson的两个花园的大房子要价两千万,但是一千万也勉强可以。A. settled for对 ... 感到满足; 勉强认可 ,B. settled down定居,C. settled on安顿下来,适应于新家,D. settled in
安顿下来,适应于新家。所以选A。
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When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.
Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?
Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue.
Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went.
Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”
Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.
【小题1】How do you understand Point 1 —The telephone creates the need to communicate ?
| A.People don’t communicate without telephone. |
| B.People communicate because of the creating of the telephone. |
| C.People communicate more since telephone has been created. |
| D.People communicate more because of more traffic. |
| A.Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency. |
| B.Mobile phones bring convenience as well as little secret to people. |
| C.Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged. |
| D.Mobile phones are part of people’s life. |
a. Point 1. b. Point2. c. Point3. d. Point 4. e. Point 5.
| A.c, d | B.a, e | C.a, c | D.b, e |
| A.the TV screen | B.a fax machine |
| C.the phone line hooked up to the computer | D.a microphone |
| A.Phone Power | B.Kinds of Phone |
| C.How to Use Phones | D.Advantage of Phones |
Bruce Alberts, the former President of the National Academies (USA), has now taken over as Editor-in Chief of Science. Judging by his editorial in this week’s issue Considering Science Education there could be some interesting times ahead in Science offices.
Here’s part of what Bruce has to say about science education…
I consider science education to be critically important to both science and the world, and I shall frequently deal with this topic on this page. Let’s start with a big-picture view. Science has greatly advanced our understanding of the natural world and has enabled the creation of countless medicines and useful devices. It has also led to behaviors that have improved lives. The public appreciates these practical benefits of science, and science and scientists are generally respected, even by those who are not familiar with how science works or what exactly it has discovered.
But society may less appreciate the advantage of having everyone acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that are central to practice of successful science: scientific habits of mind. These habits include a critical attitude toward established claims and a stro
ng desire for logic and evidence. As famous astronomer Carl Sagan put it, science is our best detector (检测器). Individuals and societies clearly need a means to logically test the constant clever attempts to operate our purchasing and political decisions. They also need to challenge what is unreasonable, including the intolerance that led to so many regional and global conflicts.
So how does this relate of science education? Might it be possible to encourage, across the world, scientific habits of mind, so as to create more rational (理性的) societies everywhere? In principle, a strong expansion of science education could provide the world with such an opportunity, but only if scientists, educators, and policy-makers redefine (重新定义) the goals of science education, beginning with college-level teaching. Rather than only conveying what science has discovered about the natural world, as is done now in most countrie
s, we should provide first all students with the knowledge and practice of how to think like a scientist.
【小题1】 Which of the following is NOT included in the “scientific habits of mind”?
| A.A critical attitude toward established claims. | B.A strong desire for logic. |
| C.A clever and active mind. | D.A strong desire for evidence. |
| A.To create more rational societies everywhere. |
| B.To relate decision-making to science education. |
| C.To encourage science education around the world. |
| D.To set right goals of science education. |
| A.Offering all students enough practice to drill their mind. |
| B.Equipping all students with a thinking model of a scientist. |
| C.Telling students what science has discovered about the natural world. |
| D.Advising all students to challenge all established scientific achievements. |
| A.Bruce Alberts, a great science educator |
| B.Science education and world peace |
| C.The government and science education |
| D.Bruce Alberts’ opinion on science education |