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Others argue that since the earth has endured a long string of ice ages in the last two million to three million years, any warming is（）to be temporary.
A、seemed
B、likely
C、tended
D、possible
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（Passage 2） The author argues that __________ .
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The author believes that learning is a tedious process without any fun.
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What does the author argue for in the passage?
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The author wants to argue in the passage
A．that being kind and being smart are not mutually exclusive.
B．whether Harvard"s "freshman pledge" should be adopted or not.
C．that empathy has become the new scapegoat of academic decline.
D．when the debate over Harvard"s "freshman pledge" will be ended.
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The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the student’s _________.
A:learning ability and communicative skill;
B:total personality;
C:personal qualities and social skills;
D:intellectual ability
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The authors argue that more money should be spent on______.
A．maintaining the well-being of the elderly.
B．looking after the sick.
C．extending the life of the dying.
D．developing aging-slowing interventions.
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According to the context, "a chair rocker on the .front porch" in paragraph 3 means that the author
A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.
B．was paralyzed and stayed in a rocking chair.
C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.
D．would sit in a chair and stay at home.
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The author argues that children______.
A．have to suffer various side effects of abuse
B．have often lost trust in the power of intuition
C．have to trust their parents rather than intuition
D．often say or do things against their inner voice
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You could benefit from flipping through the pages of I Can’t Believe You Asked That, a book by author Phillip Milano that’s subtitled, A No-Holds-Barred Q&A A bout Race, Sex, Religion, and Other Terrifying Topics.
For the past seven years, Milano—who describes himself as "a straight, white middle class married guy raised in an affluent suburb of Chicago"—as operated yforum.com, a Website that was created to get us talking. Through the posting of probing, provocative and sometimes simply inane questions and the answers they generate, people are encouraged to have a no-holds-barred exchange on topics across racial, ethnic and cultural lines. More often than not, the questions grow out of our biases and fears and the stereotypes that fuel misunderstanding among us.
As with the Web site, Milano hopes his book will be a social and cultural elixir. "The time is right for a new ’culture of curiosity’ to begin to unfold, with people finally breaking down the last barrier to improve race and cultural relations" by actually talking to each other about their differences, Milano said in an e-mail message to me. Milano wisely used the Internet to spark these conversations. In seven years, it has generated 50,000 postings—many of them questions that people find hard to ask in a face-to-face exchange with the subjects of their inquiries.
But in his book, which was published earlier this month, Milano gives readers an opportunity to read the questions and a mix of answers that made it onto his Web site. "I am curious about what people who have been blind from birth ’see’ in their dreams," a 13-year old boy wanted to know. "Why do so many mentally disabled people have such poor-looking haircuts and ’nerdy’ clothes？" a woman asked. "How do African-Americans perceive God？" a white teenager wanted to know. "Do they pray to a white God or a black God？"
Like I said, these questions can generate a range of emotions and reactions. But the point of Milano’s Web site, and his book, is not to get people mad, but to inform. us "about the lives and experiences" of others. Though many of the answers that people offered to the questions posed in his book are conflicting, these responses are balanced by the comments of experts whose responses to the queries also appear in the book.
Getting people to openly say what they are thinking about things that give rise to stereotypes and bigotry has never been easy. Most of us save those conversations for gatherings of people who look or think like us.
The purpose of the website is to
A．give people a chance to speak out.
B．prepare materials for a book.
C．get people exchanging ideas freely.
D．solve the social and cultural problems.
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Though he think highly of the development of computer science, the author doesn’t mean that ________.
A) computers are likely to become a new form. of intelligent life
B) human beings have lost control of computers
C) the intelligence of computers will eventually surpass will that of human beings
D) the evolution of intelligence will probably depend on that of electronic brains
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The author used the example of a rattle to show that________.
A．in toy-making there is a continuity in the use of materials
B．even the simplest toys can reflect the progress of technology
C．it often takes a long time to introduce new technology into toy-making
D．even a simple toy can mirror the artistic tastes of the time
此题为多项选择题。
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The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the student’s ________.
A) personal qualities and social skills
B) total personality
C) learning ability and communicative skills
D) intellectual ability
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The author argues that, given the conditions on factory farms,______.
A．we should all be outraged
B．it"s no wonder that disease is common
C．the government should institute new regulations
D．Mad Cow Disease may never be fully controlled
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The reason the author considers "hypothesis" as "a leap into the unknown" is that______.
A．it is not reliable
B．it is a kind of adventure
C．it goes beyond gathered facts
D．it requires too much unrealistic effort to formulate
此题为多项选择题。
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To refute the idea that wearing a uniform. can avoid envy, the author argues that it would hinder people from working hard for ______.
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Some geologists argue that if oil is as common in unsam-pled areas of the world as it is in those already sampled, our current estimate of reserves that exist underground must be multiplied by a factor of 10,000. From this we can conclude that we can meet the oil needs of the entire world for at least five centuries, even assuming that future consumption grows at an accelerating rate. To reach the stated conclusion, the author must assume which of the following？
A．It is possible to recover the oil contained in unexplored areas of the world.
B．The consumption rate for oil will not grow rapidly.
C．Oil will remain an important energy source for at least 500 years.
D．The world will achieve and maintain zero population growth.
E．New technology will make oil discovery and drilling more feasible than ever before.
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The author argues in paragraph 3 that payments for ecosystem services may bring______.
A．the full privatization of land
B．the robbery of common resources
C．the rational exploitation of natural resources
D．desirable ecosystem services
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The authors of Race Against the Machine argue that______.
A．technology is diminishing man" s job opportunities
B．automation is accelerating technological development
C．certain jobs will remain intact after automation
D．man will finally win the race against machine
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In this text the author argues that______.
A．the government has not done enough to combat Mad Cow Disease
B．factory farming poses a health threat
C．small farmers are the key to economic success
D．animals should not be treated poorly
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The author argues that we should______.
A．follow our inner guide in everything we do
B．listen to and act upon the channel we select
C．fly up rather than slide down the social scale
D．conform. to the universal mechanism within us
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The author suggests that a narcissist is someone who ______.
A．loves and admires himself excessively
B．is characterized by apathy and isolation
C．is interested in nothing but being noticed
D．strives to be the best through thick and thin
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An editorial in the paper argues that a person only should be allowed to attend school if the marginal cost of educating that person is less than the marginal benefit of educating that person. The wri
A．normative economics
B．positive economics
C．negative economics
D．economic naturalism
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The author of this passage intends to argue that______.
A．staying healthy is impossible without accumulating much wealth
B．being physically healthy can eventually contribute to your wealth
C．feeling good about your finance is also of health benefit
D．a large fortune will increase the chance of deterioration of health
