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1、There are great many reas ons for study ing what philosophers 1._have said in the past. One is that we cannot separate thehistory of philosophy from which of scie nee. Philosophy is 2._large discussi on about matters on which few people are quite 3._certa in, and those few hold opposite opinions. As

2、 kno wledgein creases, philosophy buds off the scie nces.For an example, in the ancient world and the Middle Ages 4._philosophers discussed moti on. Aristotle and St. ThomasAquinas taught that a moving body would slow dow n un til a force 5._were con sta ntly applied to it. They were wron g. It goes

3、 on movi ng uni ess somethi ngslows it dow n. But they had good argume nts on their side, and if we study these, and theexperime ntswhich proved them right this will help us to dist in guish truth 6._from false in the scie ntific con troversies of today.7._We also see how differe nt philosopher refl

4、ects the social 8._life of his day. Plato and Aristotle, in the slave-ow ning society of ancient Greece, thoughtmanshighest state was con templati onrather tha n activity .In the Middle Ages St. Thomasbelieved a regular feudal system of nine ranks of an gels. Herbert 9._Spen cer, i n the time of fre

5、e competitio n betwee n capitalists,found the key to progress as the survival of the fittest. Thus 10._Marxism is see n to fit into its place as the philosophy for the workers, the only class witha future.Passage 2The white House bega n to be built in 1792, but it was not completed un til ten years

6、later. EveryAmerica n preside nt lived in it except for George Washi ngton, although he did have a 1.majority part in desig ning it.2._The gover nment held a competiti on to choose the bestdesig n for the preside nthouse. The winner was a young man of 3._South Caroli na, James Hoba n. His desig n wa

7、s a three-level house of stone. And Preside nt Washington made some cha ngesin the winning desig n. He made the house long and wider, and 4._cha nged it into a two-storied house in stead of three.The sec ond preside nt, Joh n Adams, was first to live in the 5._White House. When he and his wife moved

8、 on to the new house 6._in November, 1800, work was still going on, although the mai nlive area was completed. The whole work did n ot fin ish un til the 7._adm ini stratio n of the 3rd preside nt, Thomas Jeffers on.Twelve years later, the British army in vaded Wash ingtonand burned the White House.

9、 The fire completely destroyed thein side of the buildi ng and experts said the White House was so 8._dan gerous to live in. Later on workers rebuilt the in side of theWhite House. More offices were added, most of which un dergro und. 9._None of the work, however, cha nged the appeari ng of 10._the

10、buildi ng. Many people asked why thepreside nthouse iscalled the White House. Historia ns say it has bee n so called simply because it was pain ted white.passage 3When some nineteenth century New Yorkers said“Harlem”，they mea nt almost all of Man hatta n above Eighty-sixth Street.Toward the end of t

11、he cen tury, however, a groupof citize ns in upper Man hatta n-want perhaps, to shape a closer 1._and more precise sense of com mun itydesig nated a sect ion thatthey wished to have known as Harlem. The chose n area was theHarlem which Blacks were movi ng in the first decades of the 2._new cen tury

12、as they left their old settleme nts on the middle and lower blocks of the West Side.As the com mun ity became predo minan tly Black, the veryword“Harlem”seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3._easy to forget that“Harlem”was originally the Dutch name“Harlem ”；the community it described had

13、been founded by 4._people from Holla nd；and that for most of its three cen turiesitwas first settled in the sixtee n hun dredsit had bee n preoccupied 5._by White New Yorkers.“Harlem”became synonymous to 6._Black life and Black style in Man hatta n. Blacks livi ng thereused the word as though they h

14、ad coined it on themselvesnot 7._only to desig nate their area of reside nee but to express their sense of the various qualities of its lifeand atmosphere. As theyears passed,“Harlem”asserted an even larger meaning. In 8._the words of Adam Clayt on Powell, Sr., the pastor of theAbyssinian Baptist Ch

15、urch, Harlem“became the symbol of libertyand the Promised Land to Negroeseverywhere”.By 1919 Harlempopulati on had grow n by several thousa nd.It had received its share of wartime migrati on from the South,the Caribbea n, and parts of colonial Africa. Some of thenew arrivals merely lived for Harlem;

16、 it was New York they had 9._come to, looki ng for jobs and for all the other lege ndary opport unitiesof life in the city. To others who migrated to Harlem, NewYork was merely the city in which they found themselves:Harlem was exactly what they wished to be. 10._Passage 4After months of speculation

17、 about what A would do with its mysterioussearch-engine company, A9, Web surfers finally got their first taste on Apr. 14.Yet despite of some intriguing new features not yet found 1. _on leading sites such as Google and Yahoo! , the site () - still in test mode -rises as many questions 2 _as it answ

18、ers.The biggest question remains is whether Amazon, 3. _through A9, would clash into Google more directly. 4. _Google itself is testing a search engine for products called Froogle thatsstarting to appealWeb shoppers. 5. _At the same time, Amazon clearlyisnltooking to limitA9shorizons.How directly A9

19、 eventually goes up against the reigned 6. _search champion, it faced lots of challenges. For one, 7. _it may run into some of the same privacy issues that recently have plagued Google.A9sprivacy policy pointsout that information provided through entering search term 8. _or by signing intoonesAmazon

20、 account could supply the companywith information that could personally identify the searcher.Those may be somewhat less intrusive(打擾的，冒犯的) than 9. _Googlesupcoming Gmail free e-mail offering, which could search the contents of messagesto pitch personalized ads. But comments posted on some sites alr

21、eady indicate some peopleare uncomfortable withGooglespotential threats to privacy. 10._Passage 5Almost every new innovation goes through three phases.When initially introducing into the market, the process 1._of adoption is slow. The early models are expensive andhard to use, and perhaps even unsaf

22、e. The economicimpact is relatively great. 2._The second phase is the explosive one, where the innovationwas rapidly adopted by a large number of people. It gets 3._cheaper and easier to use and becomes something familiar.And then in the third stage, diffusion of the innovationslows down again, as i

23、f it permeates out across the economy. 4._During the explosive phase, whole new industries springup to produce the new product or innovation, and to serviceit. For example, during the 1920s, there was dramatic 5._acceleration in auto production, from 1.9 million in 1920to 4.5 million in 1929. This b

24、oom was accompanied with all 6._sorts of other essential activities necessary for anauto-based nation: Roads had to been built for the cars to 7._run on; refineries and oil wells, to provide the gasoline;and garages, to repair it. 8._Historically, the same pattern is repeated again and againwith inn

25、ovations. The construction of the electrical systemrequested an enormous early investment in generation and 9._distribution capacity. The introduction of the radio wasfollowed by a buying spree （無節(jié)希 9 的狂熱行為 ）by Americanswhat quickly brought radios into almost half of all households 10._by 1930, up f

26、rom nearly none in 1924.Passage 6Learning does not happen passively. It is an activity which a person does. It is a task which can be attempted in various of ways, some of whichare 1._more appropriate than others. When the material to be learned is 2._a brief and simple kind which is familiar with t

27、he person and of intense 3._interest to him, effective learning usually proceeds automatically. In the first place, the person at once relates the material to other materialwhich has already securely learned. Subsequently, the relevance 4._of the newly learned material to his interests assures its b

28、eing 5._recalled on many occasions; and one repetition minimizes 6._the likelihood of remembering. Furthermore, the subsequent use 7._of the new material is likely to take place in a variety of contexts and, so, the material becomes related to a narrower range of other material.8._ Because of all th

29、is, the material is rapidly learned, long retained, and recalled with increasingly readiness in a variety of 9.contexts. Without really trying, the person had fulfilled a 10._few important conditions of effective learning.Passage 2Passage 11. areAgreat f aa great many 為固定搭配，修飾可數(shù)名詞，意為“很多，大量”，后面的名詞用復(fù)數(shù)

30、形式。2. whichfthatthat 這里做代詞，指代前文已經(jīng)提到的“history ”一詞，而 which 可做疑問代詞或定語從句的引導(dǎo)詞，代這里不能用。3. largeflargelylargely 這里是副詞，意為“在很大程度上”，如果有人打算把 large 考慮成修飾 discussion 的形容詞，那么，前邊勢必加冠詞 a 或 the,但沒有 large discussion 的說法, 所以這里只能把large 改換成副詞.4. anf/for example 是固定搭配，意為“例如，中間不加不定冠詞an。5. un tilfuni essuntil 常和 not 連用，形成 n

31、otuntil 句式，所以 not 是檢驗(yàn) until 是否用對的一個(gè)標(biāo)志。這句在說：“亞里士多德和圣托馬斯阿奎那都認(rèn)為一個(gè)運(yùn)動的物體除非給它不停地使力，否則它就會停下來”。unless 這里是“除非”的意思。6. rightfwrong這句話說“但是他們那一方面有很好的論證。如果我們研究這些論述和證明這些說法是錯(cuò)誤的那些實(shí)驗(yàn)，那么我們就會辨清今日科學(xué)糾紛的真與假” 文判斷，這里應(yīng)是wrong。7. falseffalsehood這里需要一個(gè)名詞，因此把 false 改為 falsehood8. differentfevery這句謂語動詞和主語均為第三人稱單數(shù)，而用 different 修飾的

32、名詞一般用復(fù)數(shù)形式，因此需要改變 different。再看下文，列舉了諸位哲學(xué)家，因此可把 different 改為 every，既不妨礙句子意思，又符合語法規(guī)則。9. believedAafinbelieve in 意為“相信，后常接名詞，而believe 則為“相信或認(rèn)為，后常接從句，因此加上一個(gè)介詞in。10. asfin此句意為“斯賓塞在資本主義自由競爭時(shí)期，發(fā)現(xiàn)進(jìn)步的關(guān)鍵在于適者生存”，此句的另一表達(dá)方式為 “Spencer, in the time of free competition between capitalists, found the survival根據(jù)上下of t

33、he fittest as the key to progress. ” 而按現(xiàn)有語序，需把a(bǔ)s 改成 in。1. for f /在句子中說明前后兩個(gè)相等成份的關(guān)系時(shí)用except，否則用 except for。本句是說每位美國總統(tǒng)，除了喬治華盛頓，都曾在白宮居住過，“ Every American preside nt與George Washington ”為對等成分，故應(yīng)去掉for。2. majorityfmajormajority 意為大多數(shù)、半數(shù)以上，一般后接復(fù)數(shù)名詞，而major 則為主要的。本句意為華盛頓在設(shè)計(jì)白宮中起了主要作用，故應(yīng)用 major。3.offfrom要表示一個(gè)人的

34、家鄉(xiāng)在哪里，介詞應(yīng)為from。4.longfIon ger本句意思是說華盛頓把白宮設(shè)計(jì)得比原來更長，更寬了一些。與原來作比較，long 當(dāng)然應(yīng)用比較級，而且and 連接的兩個(gè)形容詞也應(yīng)為對等成分，既然wider 是比較級，long 也應(yīng)為比較級。5. was 人 firstfthethe +序數(shù)詞具有名詞意味，在這里the first 即表示 the first preside nt。6. ontofinto搬進(jìn)新居”應(yīng)為move in ”或move into ” ,move on 意為繼續(xù)前進(jìn)”，而move onto ”則是不存在的。7.liveflivi nglive意為活著的，而living 則是適于居住的、生活的。the living area 意為適于居住的地區(qū)。8. softoo原文說，戰(zhàn)火把樓房的內(nèi)部完全燒毀了，專家們說白宮太危險(xiǎn)了，不能居住了，所以后來工人們才又重修白宮內(nèi)部?！疤睉?yīng)為“tootoo”。9. which 人 undergroundfwere 或 whichfthem本句有兩種改法，若想使這部分成為非限制性定語從句，則which 引導(dǎo)一個(gè)句子，后面應(yīng)加一個(gè)“were”；若想使這部分為獨(dú)立成分，則改which 為 them。10. appeari ngfappeara nee原句意思是說，重建白宮的工作并未改變它的外貌。appearing 為 app