1、 The author’s opinion on。Machiavelli’s History of Florence is that (单选题)
A. history has much to do with the。person who records it.
B. the charm lies in the style rather than.in the content.
C. most people failed to read Machiavelfi’s intention in it.
D. any history of this kind should be written in this way.
试题答案:B
2、 (单选题)
A. on
B. to
C. against
D. for
试题答案:A
3、 (单选题)
A. specific
B. unique
C. particular
D. peculiar
试题答案:C
4、
根据以下材料,回答{TSE}题
Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technologywhen she says that "anyone in today's world who doesn't understand data processing is noteducated. "But she insists that the increasing emphasis on these matters leave certain gaps. Says she:"The very strongly utilitarian emphasis in education, which is an effect of man-made satellites andthe cold war, has really removed from this culture something that was very profound in its 18th and19th century roots, which was a sense that literacy and learning were ends in themselves for a democratic republic. "
In contrast to Plato's claim for the social value of education ,a quite different idea of intellectu-al purposes was advocated by the Renaissance humanists. Overjoyed with their rediscovery of theclassical learning that was thought to have disappeared during the Dark Ages, they argued that theimparting of knowledge needs no justification--religious, social, economic, or political. Its purpose,to the extent that it has one, is to pass on from generation to generation the corpus of knowledge thatconstitutes civilization. "What could man acquire, by virtuous striving, that is more valuable thanknowledge?" asked Erasmus, perhaps the greatest scholar of the early 16th century. That idea hasacquired a tradition of its own. "The educational process has no end beyond itself," said JohnDewey. "It is its own end. "
But what exactly is the corpus of knowledge to be passed on? In simpler times, it was allincluded in the medieval universities' Quadrivium ( arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music ) andTrivium(grammar, rhetoric,logic). As recently as the last century,when less than 5% of Americanswent to college at all, students in New England establishments were compelled mainly to memorize and recite various Latin texts, and crusty professors angrily opposed the introduction of any newscientific discoveries or modem European languages. "They felt," said regretfully Charles FrancisAdams, Jr. ,the Union Pacific Railroad president who devoted his later years to writing history," thata classical education was the important distinction between a man who had been to college and a manwho had not been to college, and that anything that diminished the importance of this distinction wasessentially revolutionary and tended to anarchy. "
{TS} The first paragraph shows that Jill Ker Conway accepts utilitarian emphasis in education
(单选题)
A. wholeheartedly.
B. with reservation.
C. against。her own will.
D. with contempt.
试题答案:B
5、 The Edinburgh meeting established four key principles including (单选题)
A. all nations should evenly benefit from the world economic growth.
B. all developing countries should have full participation in shaping the global economy.
C. wealthy countries should take the lead.in developing the world economy.
D. international regimes should be abolished in case they affect economic relations.
试题答案:B
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