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1.The formation of the Clerical Script is an important turning point in the evolution of Chinese characters because it lays a foundation for the squatter shape of the later script forms.
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According to the expectations theory of the term structure, ________
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If the topic is “The Evolution along with History of Batman as a Heroic Figure”, which pattern would be the most suitable one?
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The theory of Said has its origins in theory of _____and theory of Antonio Gramsci.
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The expressive theory stresses the effect of _____.
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The Mimetic theory first appeared in _____.
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The mode of writing of this piece is narrative because it shows the three stages of the Kiowas’ history－emergence, evolution and decline.
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The ________ theory is the most widely accepted theory of the term structure of interest rates because it explains the major empirical facts about the term structure so well.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the features that largely influenced procurement and its evolution in the 1990s and 2000s?以下哪项不属于影响了1990年代和千禧年代的采购发展的理念？
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The author explores the three stages of the Kiowa’s culture－emergence, evolution and prosperity by involving himself with the landscape as well as using his grandmother as a focus or a link.
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The amount of theory now taught in the class has been increased.
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Jackie Mcleans recordings have shown that he is one of the few jazz musicians who style. of playing has kept pace with the evolution of modern jazz.
此题为多项选择题。
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The professor mentions a theory that people migrating from the Sahara were important to the development of the Egyptian civilization. Which sentence best describes the professors attitude toward this theory？
A．It is exciting because it perfectly explains recent archaeological discoveries.
B．It is problematic because it goes too far beyond the generally available data.
C．It raises an interesting possibility and he hopes to see more evidence for it.
D．It cannot be taken seriously until it explains how the migrants got to Egypt.
此题为多项选择题。
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In the long history of natural evolution,many kinds of animals have______from the earth.
A．withdrawn
B．vanished
C．found
D．hung
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The following picture describe the theory of:
A．James-Lange
B．Cannon-Bard
C．Schachter’s Two-Factor
D．None of these above
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Which of the following theories is NOT about the origin of language？
A．Divine-origin theory
B．Speech act theory
C．Invention theory
D．Evolution theory
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Shortly after the British naturalist, Charles Darwin, published his theory of evolution, a Victorian lady was asked what she thought of the idea that humans and animals were descended from a common ancestor. "Let us hope it is not true," she said. (46)
This story is probably apocryphal, but it illustrates well the attitudes of the time. (47) Many people accept Darwin's view of how we came into being that our bodies evolved through the process of natural selection acting on our genes.
However, Darwin believed evolution was responsible for far more than just our physical characteristics. He saw it as the major influence in shaping our psychology. In- deed, he predicted that "in the distant future, psychology will be based on a new foundation". (48)
To proponents of concepts like free will and personal responsibility, such an idea seems absurd. (49) Their research has revealed increasing evidence that the human mind is made up of innate mechanisms, which control everything from the way we perceive time and space, to how we learn survival techniques and choose mates.
(50) Steven Pinker, Professor of Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, likens language ability to computer software, "children learn a new word every 90 minutes of their waking life for years, then they have to figure out how to string them together using a kind of mental computer program. The essence of human language is the ability to convey new ideas by putting words together in different combinations. Since we all have this language 'software' in our minds, we can figure out what others are saying by the meanings of the words and the order in which they are arranged."
A. Today, we are more comfortable with out past.
B. "And, if it is true, let us hope it does not become public knowledge."
C. But a growing number of scientists are questioning the extent to which our behavior. is controlled by our culture.
D. Many people are calling for controls on cloning immedicte1y before the practice is abused.
E. The foundation was, of course, his theory of evolution.
F. Nowhere is this more obvious than our innate ability to learn languages.
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The evolution of the mangrove species is described to______.
A．illustrate the similarities of human society to the natural world
B．provide a contrastive example to the development of human society
C．explain how Nature ruthlessly gets rid of the weaker species
D．how plants evolve to maintain their quality of life
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What is the professor's attitude toward the second theory？
A．He thinks it is inferior to the other two.
B．He remains neutral to it.
C．He finds it nonsensical.
D．He thinks it is firmly reasonable.
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Before considering this question it is interesting to review briefly the evolution of 【M1】______
the mind as the instrument. The commonest way that has been used to find out the
relative intellectual level of creatures at different stage
of evolutionary complexity has 【M2】______
been to study the way they behave when giving different kinds of puzzles. For example, 【M3】______
an ant possesses a complex routine of behaviour, but can it think？ The answer is what 【M4】______
if an ant is forced to go through a maze of passages, many of which are dead ends,
on its way to its nestle, it starts by making a lot of mistakes and taking a great many 【M5】______
wrong turnings. In the end, however, after it has to worry its way through often 【M6】______
enough, it does learn to get to its nest without going into any of the blind alleys.
As one moves up the evolutionary scale the test of mind-power exemplified by solving 【M7】______
the problem of getting through a maze becomes very simple. Among mammals, 【M8】______
for example, the maze is an inadequate test. The learning problem does not tax enough
attributes of the mind. In this sort of learning, as a matter of fact, rats can hit university
undergraduates and have, in fact, repeatedly done so. The next, more subtle test of 【M9】______
mental ability is to see what level an animal can think about something when 【M10】______
it is not there.
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Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory. As philosopher of science, Karl Popper has emphasized a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions the theory survives, and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory. At least that is what is supposed to happen, but you can always question the competence of the person who carried out the observation.
In practice, what often happens is that a new theory is devised that is really an extension of the previous theory. For example, very accurate observations of the planet Mercury revealed a small difference between its motion and the predictions of Newton's theory of gravity. Einstein's general theory of relativity predicted a slightly different motion from Newton's theory. The fact that Einstein's predictions matched what was seen, while Newton's did not, was one of the crucial confirmations of the new theory. However, we still use Newton's theory for all practical purposes because the difference between its predictions and those of general relativity is very small in the situations that we normally deal with. (Newton's theory also. has the great advantage that it is much simpler to work with than Einstein's ! )
It turns out to be very difficult to devise a theory to describe the universe all in one go. Instead, we break the problem up into bits and invent a number of partial theories. Each of these partial theories describes and predicts a certain limited class of observations, neglecting the effects of other quantities, or representing them by simple sets of numbers. It may be that this approach is completely wrong. If everything in the universe depends on everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation. Nevertheless, it is certainly the way that we have made progress in the past. The classic example again is the Newtonian theory of gravity, which tells us that the gravitational force between two bodies depends only on one number associated with each body, its mass, but is otherwise independent of what the bodies are made of. Thus one does not need to have a theory of the structure and constitution of the sun and the planets in order to calculate their orbits:
Today scientists describe the universe in terms of two basic partial theories-the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century. Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other-they cannot both be correct. One of the major endeavours in physics today, is the search for a new theory that will incorporate them both-a quantum theory of gravity. We do not yet have such a theory, and we may still be long way from having one, but we do already know many of the properties that it must have.
According to the passage, why can't any physical theory be permanently established？
A．Such a theory is only suggested as a possible way of explaining an idea.
B．The person proposing such a theory may be incompetent.
C．Observations always disagree with predictions.
D．Observations are always falsified by predictions.
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They aimed to ________ a new theory of evolution based on the latest findings in archaeo
A．A.define
B．B.produce
C．C.construct
D．D.instruct
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The impact of Darwin' s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influe
A．A.Romanticism
B．B.Transcendentalism
C．C.Realism
D．D.Naturalism
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We learn from Paragraph 2 that the idea of evolution through natural selection ______.
A．had arisen long before the publication of Origin
B．was less influential than generally supposed
C．was shared by some of Darwin"s contemporaries
D．originated from geological evidences and fossil records
