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There are poor teachers, to be sure, and I’m convinced the teaching profession in this country must police itself more vigorously. I’ve thought sometimes that an incompetent teacher is worse than an incompetent surgeon, since a surgeon can cut up only one person at a time. However, it is also true that no profession is made healthy by focusing only on what’s bad, and we must begin to see teachers as part of the solution, not the problem. Perhaps we can learn something from Japanese here. Teachers in that country, are heroes of the culture. If we do so, we may come closer to identifying the reason for the differences in school performance in our two countries.
Woman:IwishIhadn’thurtLinda’sfeelingslik
Woman: I wish I hadn’t hurt Linda’s feelings like that yesterday. You know I never meant to.
Man: The great thing about Linda is that she doesn’t hold any grudges.By tomorrow, she will have forgotten all about it.
Question: What does the man say about Linda
A．She is forgetful.
B．She is considerate.
C．She is forgiving.
D．She is careless.
Cananinventivesocietygetbolderasitgrowso
Can an inventive society get bolder as it grows older That question affects people of all ages—especially those living in the United States,Europe, and Japan, which are expected to have fewer workers supporting more retirees.According to Science andEngineering Indicators (SEI):2OO2,issued by the National ScienceBoard (NSB、,America’s science and engineering workforce will continue to grow in coming decades, but its average age is likely to rise.
Will scientific workers in their 50s and 60s continue to make valuable contributions The report avoided asking whether aging impairs creativity. If it does, then the growth of our productivity and improvement of our standard of living might be in trouble. There is already a shortage of youngAmericans in research; in 2003 the NS
B、expressed concern over the United States’ dependence on foreign PhDs.
Scientists, often older ones, have for years questioned how long they can stay productive. G.H. Hardy set the tone in his 1940 classic,
A、Mathematician’sApology. "Like any other mathematician who has passed sixty," Hardy confessed, "I have no longer the freshness of mind, the energy, or the patience to carry on effectively with my proper jo
B、" He continued that "mathematics... is a young man’s game."
The age lore of other sciences can be similarly misleading. The Nobel laureate physicist PaulDirac has suggested, tongue in cheek, that a physicist over 30 was as good as dead, and the physicist-historianAbraham Pals wrote ofEinstein after 1925 (whenEinstein was 46)that, as far as his work went, he might as well have gone fishing.And yet the sociologist Harriet Zuckerman, in her landmark 1977 book, ScientificElite ,observed that U.S. Nobelists received their prizes for work done when they were, on average, nearly 39. Sir Nevill Mott won a Nobel Prize in physics for his postretirement research.
Great biologists seem especially hardy. The German naturalistAlexander von Humboldt successfully surveyed harsh, remote areas of the RussianEmpire for goldfields after turning 60,and began publishing the 19th century’s greatest work of synthesis,Cosmos, at age 76;he had completed 2000 pages by his death at 89,in 1859. More recently, Harvard University’sErnst Mayr was still writing papers at 100.
Why, then, do certain researchers stagnate while others flourish Some might be internalizing what Zuckerman called the "mythology" of aging in science.But another factor is that any education has built-in limits.EvenEinstein may have been bumping against them. Scientists over 40 face a choice: continue using the endowments that have served them well but are challenged by a new generation, or turn to new subjects.
From Sociologist Harriet Zuckerman’s book we learn that ______.
A、the age lore worked for physicist

B、in certain science Nobel prizes not only belonged to young scientists
C．scientists over 30 were as good as dead
D．researchers flourished when they past 60
Thebatisamarvelofevolutionaryadaptation.
The bat is a marvel of evolutionary adaptation. Most of them roost during the day, and are active at night or twilight for they can avoid objects in the dark. I have seen this phenomenon at work. In my youth, I used to explore old mining shafts in the Randsburg district. Sometimes my intrusion disturbed clans of bats that were hanging upside down in the dark caves.
They would fly about to evident panic, but the panic was mine, not theirs. Some flew crazily out into the daylight but some merely returned to their perches. None ever touched me, much to my relief.
They may exist but I have never seen a stuffed nylon bat. To children, bats may not be as lovable as koala bears. Perhaps manufacturers do not regard them as marketable. It is not so much their hideous faces and winged bodies that have caused us to get rid of bats, but rather the ancient myths in which dead humans, such asCountDracula, leave their graves at night in the form of bats to suck blood from human victims, especially fragile young woman.As we know from some movies these vampires must return to their graves before daylight.Endangered young women can frustrate vampire by sleeping with a string of garlic around their necks.
There are actually three species of bloodsucking bats. They are called vampire bats after the ancient legends, and their tactics are indeed frightful. LikeCountDracula, they feed at night. They make a small cut in their sleeping victim with sharp incisor teeth, usually not even awakening their prey. Then they suck the blood that sustains them.
Should that discourage children from wanting them as pets
As Mitchell notes from the New Yorker ad, bats are clean and intelligent. Most of them are insect-eaters, and they serve nature by destroying crop-damaging insects. They also pollinate (传授花粉) flowers and spreading see
D、
BatConservation International claims that without bats a host of insects/pests would multiply unchecked and many of our planet’s most valuable plants would go unpollinate
D、
It is clear that the bar is our friend, and that, despite its appearance, it is here to serve humanity.
I’d be the first to buy a stuffed nylon bat.Children’s hearts are big, and bats need love, too.
According to the passage, vampire bats______.A．live on the blood of living creatures
B．are believed to be fond of delicate women
C．never ever fly in the daylight

D、are the evil spirit ofCountDracula
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He is a rare celebrity scientist. He’s even had a TV cameo role (小角色) in Star Trek in which he plays poker with scientific icons (偶像)Sir Isaac Newton andAlbertEinstein. Yet when asked about comparisons between himself and the two scientists, he calls it all "media hype (炒作)." Once asked how he felt about being labeled the world’s smartest person, he responded: "It is very embarrassing. It is rubbish, just media hype. They just want a hero, and I fill the role model of a disabled genius.At least I am disabled, but I am no genius. "
Hawking hasALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neuromuscular disease that progressively weakens muscle control. He gets around in a wheelchair, and after completely losing the use of his vocal chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985, he communicates through a computer.
A、speech synthesizer "speaks" for him after he punches in what he wants to say, selecting words in the computer software by pressing a switch with his hanD、Unfortunately, it makes him sound like he has anAmerican accent, he says.
Despite his humorous, self-effacing manner, Hawking is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists. Many consider him to be the most brilliant sinceEinstein. Since 1979, he’s held the post of Lucasian professor of mathematics atCambridge University—which was once held by Isaac Newton no less—and has twelve honorary degrees. He’s also a best-selling author. His book,
A、Brief History of Time ,has been translated into 33 languages and has sold nine million copies.
For much of his academic life, Hawking has been among a group of theoretical physicists searching for a "theory of everything’—one unified scientific theory that explains the big cosmological questions like How did the universe begin Why is the universe the way it is and How will it end
You are probably familiar with the existing theories, such as theBigBang theory. However, these theories are inconsistent with each other. So Hawking—among a group of theoretical physicists—has been on a quest to come. up with a theory of quantum (量子)gravity that would incorporate these theories—the theory of everything (TOE、—which would solve the problem of what caused the universe to start expanding.
How successful have the world’s leading cosmologists been Hawking predicts we’ll have the TOE、in the next 20 years.
In this passage, Hawking appears to be ______.
A、silent and hard working
B．humorous, modest and industrious
C．confident and proud
D．diffident and shy
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The world is full of new horrors and there’s no place to hide. Who says soDisaster psychologists, for a start. They are the people who take in the big picture of our collective reactions to human-created disaster, the ways these reactions are caused, and our coping mechanisms.And research into disaster psychology is growing fast.
Among the big issues being addressed by these researchers are understanding the terrorists’ weapons, assessing the full impact of terrorism—and, crucially, working out which psychological approaches actually work. It’s a deeply controversial areA、
Take the work ofDennisEmbry as an example. He argues that we have overlooked the obvious. the purpose of terrorism is to create terror. This works best "if the very symbols of everyday life become conditioned fear and anxiety stimulant". The top targets will be the most symbolic of a nation’s daily life, preferably served up for prime-time television.Crashing planes from United andAmericanAirlines into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon from 8.46 am on met those objectives all too perfectly.After the attacks, people stopped flying. Why Not because they had made a rational risk assessment but because the mere thought of flying made their palms sweat.
From terrorism to rail crashes, counseling and "debriefing” are the standard response to help those caught up in disasters.But there are growing doubts about their effectiveness. What might be going wrongDebriefing focuses on getting people to talk through the trauma(创伤)and its emotional consequences soon after the incident.Could it be that some people are better by distancing themselves from what happened, rather than retelling it
The passage tells us that disaster psychology is ______.A．a highly controversial area
B．a well-established science
C．not associated with terrorism
D．not a part of scientific study