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1、There are great many reas ons for study ing what p hilos op hers 1.have said in the p ast. One is that we cannot sep arate the history of p hilos ophy from which of scie nee. P hilos ophy is 2.large discussi on about matters on which few people are quite 3.certa in, and those few hold opp osite opin

2、ions. As kno wledge in creases, p hilos ophy buds off the scie nces.For an exa mple, in the ancient world and the Middle Ages 4.7.p hilos op hers discussed moti on. Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas taught that a moving body would slow dow n un til a force 5. were con sta ntly app lied to it. They we

3、re wron g. It goes on movi ng uni ess somethi ng slows it dow n. But they had good argume nts on their side, and if we study these, and the exp erime nts which pro ved them right this will help us to disti nguish truth 6.from false in the scie ntific con troversies of today.We also see how differe n

4、t p hilos op her reflects the social 8.life of his day. P lato and Aristotle, in the slave-ow ning society of ancient Greece, thoughtmans highest state was contemp lati onrather tha n activity .In the Middle Ages St. Thomas believed a regular feudal system of nine ranks of an gels. Herbert 9.Spen ce

5、r, i n the time of free comp etitio n betwee n cap italists, found the key to p rogress as the survival of the fittest. Thus 10.Marxism is see n to fit into its pl ace as the p hilos ophy for the workers, the only class with a future.Passage 2The white House bega n to be built in 1792, but it was no

6、tcompi eted un til ten years later. Every America n p reside nt livedin it exce pt for George Washi ngton, although he did have a 1.majority part in desig ning it.2.The gover nment held a comp etiti on to choose the bestdesig n for the p reside nt ' house. The winner was a young man of 3.South C

7、aroli na, James Hoba n. His desig n was a three-levelhouse of stone. And P reside nt Wash ington 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 p reside nt, Joh n Adams, was first to live in the 5.W

8、hite House. When he and his wife moved on to the new house 6.in November, 1800, work was still going on, although the mainlive area was comp leted. The whole work did n ot fin ish un til the 7.adm ini stratio n of the 3rd p reside nt, Thomas Jeffers on.Twelve years later, the British army in vaded W

9、ash ingtonand burned the White House. The fire comp letely destroyed thein side of the buildi ng and exp erts 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

10、, cha nged the app eari ng of 10.the buildi ng. Many people asked why thep reside nt' house iscalled the White House. Historia ns say it has bee n so called simply because it was pain ted white.“ Harlem ”passage 3 When some nin etee nth cen tury New Yorkers said they mea nt almost all of Man hat

11、ta n above Eighty-sixth Street. Toward the end of the cen tury, however, a group of citize ns in upper Man hatta n-want p erha ps, to sha pe a closer 1. and more p recise sense of com mun ity desig nated a sect ion thatthey wished to have known as Harlem. The chose n area was the Harlem which Blacks

12、 were movi ng in the first decades of the 2.new cen tury as they left their old settleme nts on the middle and lower blocks of the West Side.As the com mun ity became p redo minan tly Black, the very word “ Harlem ” seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.easy to forget that“ Harlem ” was o

13、riginally the Dutch name“ Harlem ”；the community it described had 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 p reocc up ied 5._by White New Yorkers.“ Harlem ” became synonymous to 6.not 7.Black life and B

14、lack style in Man hatta n. Blacks livi ng there used the word as though they had coined it on themselves only to desig nate their area of reside nee but to exp ress their sense of the various qualities of its life and atmos phere. As the years passed,“ Harlem ” asserted an even larger meaning. In 8.

15、the words of Adam Clayt on Po well, Sr., the p astor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem“ became the symbol of libertyand the P romised Land to Negroeseverywhere ”.By 1919 Harlem ' popu lati on had grow n by several thousa nd. It had received its share of wartime migrati on from the South,

16、the Caribbea n, and p arts of colonial Africa. Some of thenew arrivals merely lived for Harlem： it was New York they had 9.come to, looking for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities of life in the city. To others who migrated to Harlem, NewYork was merely the city in which they found th

17、emselves:Harlem was exactly what they wished to be. 10.Passage 4After months of speculation about what A would do with its mysterious search-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

18、Google and Yahoo! , the site () - still in test mode - rises as many questions 2 as it answers.The biggest question remains is whether Amazon, 3. through A9, would clash into Google more directly. 4. A9'shorizons.Google itself is testing a search engine for products called Froogle that 'ssta

19、rting to appeal Web shoppers. 5. _ At the same time, Amazon clearlyisn 'ltooking to limitHow directly A9 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.A9'sp

20、rivacy policy pointsout that information provided through entering search term 8. or by signing intoone 'sAmazon account could supply the companywith information that could personally identify the searcher.Those may be somewhat less intrusive(打扰的，冒犯的) than 9.Google 'supcoming Gmail free e-ma

21、il offering, which could search the contents of messages to pitch personalized ads. But comments posted on some sites already indicate some people are uncomfortable with Google 'spotential threats to privacy. 10.Passage 5Almost every new innovation goes through three pbases.When initially introd

22、ucing into the market, the process 1.of adoption is slow. The early models are expensive andhard to use, and perhaps even unsafe. The economicimpact is relatively great. 2.The second pbase is the explosive one, where the innovationwas rapidly adopted by a large number of people. It gets 3.Chea per a

23、nd easier to use and becomes somethi ng familiar.And then in the third stage, diffusion of the innovationslows down again, as if it permeates out across the economy. 4.During the explosive pbase, whole new industries springup to produce the new product or innovation, and to serviceit. For exam pie,

24、duri ng the 1920s, there was dramatic 5.acceleration in auto production, from 1.9 million in 1920to 4.5 million in 1929. This boom 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; refi neries and oil w

25、ells, to pro vide the gasoli ne;and garages, to repair it. 8.Historically, the same pattern is repeated again and againwith innovations. The construction of the electrical systemrequested an enormous early investment in generation and 9.distribution capacity. The introduction of the radio wasfollowe

26、d by a buying spree （无节希 9 的狂热行为 ）by America nswhat quickly brought radios into almost half of all households 10.by 1930, up from 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 wh

27、ich are 1._ more appropriate than others. When the material to be learned is 2.a brief and simple kind which is familiar with the 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 material

28、which has already securely learned. Subsequently, the relevance 4._ of the newly learned material to his interests assures its being 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 pla

29、ce in a variety of contexts and, so, the material becomes related to a narrower range of other material. 8. Because of all this, 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.f

30、ew important conditions of effective learning.Passage 11. are A great f aa great many为固定搭配，修饰可数名词，意为“很多，大量”2. which f thatthat这里做代词，指代前文已经提到的“history ”一词，而3. large f largelylargely这里是副词，意为“在很大程度上”，如果有人打算把 所以这里只能把large改换成副词.4. an f /for example是固定搭配，意为“例如”，中间不加不定冠词5. until f unlessuntil常和not连用，形成notu

31、ntil句式，所以not是检验它不停地使力，否则它就会停下来”。unless这里是“除非”6. right f wrong这句话说“但是他们那一方面有很好的论证。如果我们研究这些论述和证明这些说法是错误的那些实验，那么我们就会辨清今日科学纠纷的真与假” 文判断，这里应是 wrong。7. false f falsehood这里需要一个名词，因此把，后面的名词用复数形式。which可做疑问代词或定语从句的引导词,large考虑成修饰discussion的形容词,an。until是否用对的一个标志。这句在说: 的意思。代这里不能用。那么，前边势必加冠词 a或the,但没有large discuss

32、ion的说法,“亚里士多德和圣托马斯阿奎那都认为一个运动的物体除非给。根据上下false 改为 falsehood。8. differentevery这句谓语动词和主语均为第三人称单数，而用different修饰的名词一般用复数形式，因此需要改变different。再看下文，列举了诸位哲学家，为every，既不妨碍句子意思，又符合语法规则。9. believed A a f inbelieve in意为"相信"，后常接名词，而believe则为"相信或认为"，后常接从句，因此加上一个介词in。10. as f in此句意为“斯宾塞在资本主义自由竞争时期，

33、发现进步的关键在于适者生存”，此句的另因此可把different改一表达方式为“ Spencer, in the time of free competition between capitalists, found the survival of the fittest as the key to progress. ” 而按现有语序，需把 as 改成 in。Passage 21. for f /在句子中说明前后两个相等成份的关系时用exce pt，否则用exce pt for。本句是说每位美国总统，除了乔治-华盛顿，都曾在白宫居住过，“ Every American p reside nt

34、”与“ George Washington "为对等成分，故应去掉for。2. majority f major,故应用 major。majority意为“大多数”、“半数以上”，一般后接复数名词，而major则为“主要的”。本句意为“华盛顿在设计白宫中起了主要作用”from。3.of f from要表示一个人的家乡在哪里，介词应为4.1 ong f lon gerlong当然应用比较级，而且and连接的两个形容词也应为对等成分，既然wider是本句意思是说华盛顿把白宫设计得比原来更长，更宽了一些。与原来作比较，比较级，long也应为比较级。the first 即表示 the fir

35、st p reside nt 。5. was A first f thethe +序数词具有名词意味，在这里6. onto f into“搬进新居”应为“ move in ”或“ move into ” ,move on意为“继续前进”，而“ move onto ”则是不存在的。7.live f livi nglive意为“活着的”，而“ living ”则是“适于居住的”、“生活的”。the living area意为“适于居住的地区”8. so f too原文说，战火把楼房的内部完全烧毁了，专家们说白宫太危险了，不能居住了，所以后来工人们才又重修白宫内部。9. which A underground f were 或 which f them本句有两种改法，若想使这部分成为非限制性定语从句，则“太太”应为“tootoo”which引导一个句子，后面应加一个“were”；若想使这部分为独立成分，则改which 为 them。Passage 6appearing 为 appear（岀现）的 v. +