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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(打扰的，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 （无节希 9 的狂热行为 ）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 为固定搭配，修饰可数名词，意为“很多，大量”，后面的名词用复数

30、形式。2. whichfthatthat 这里做代词，指代前文已经提到的“history ”一词，而 which 可做疑问代词或定语从句的引导词，代这里不能用。3. largeflargelylargely 这里是副词，意为“在很大程度上”，如果有人打算把 large 考虑成修饰 discussion 的形容词，那么，前边势必加冠词 a 或 the,但没有 large discussion 的说法, 所以这里只能把large 改换成副词.4. anf/for example 是固定搭配，意为“例如，中间不加不定冠词an。5. un tilfuni essuntil 常和 not 连用，形成 n

31、otuntil 句式，所以 not 是检验 until 是否用对的一个标志。这句在说：“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它不停地使力，否则它就会停下来”。unless 这里是“除非”的意思。6. rightfwrong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. falseffalsehood这里需要一个名词，因此把 false 改为 falsehood8. differentfevery这句谓语动词和主语均为第三人称单数，而用 different 修饰的

32、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，因此可把 different 改为 every，既不妨碍句子意思，又符合语法规则。9. believedAafinbelieve 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. asfin此句意为“斯宾塞在资本主义自由竞争时期，发现进步的关键在于适者生存”，此句的另一表达方式为 “Spencer, in the time of free competition between capitalists, found the survival根据上下of t

33、he fittest as the key to progress. ” 而按现有语序，需把as 改成 in。1. for f /在句子中说明前后两个相等成份的关系时用except，否则用 except 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 preside nt与George Washington ”为对等成分，故应去掉for。2. majorityfmajormajority 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，故应用 major。3.offfrom要表示一个人的

34、家乡在哪里，介词应为from。4.longfIon ger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，long 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 是比较级，long 也应为比较级。5. was 人 firstfthethe +序数词具有名词意味，在这里the first 即表示 the first preside nt。6. ontofinto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.liveflivi 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. softoo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。“太太”应为“tootoo”。9. which 人 undergroundfwere 或 whichfthem本句有两种改法，若想使这部分成为非限制性定语从句，则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。10. appeari ngfappeara nee原句意思是说，重建白宫的工作并未改变它的外貌。appearing 为 app