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Peppeberg’s work with Alex was intended to prove that animals .
A. do have thoughts
B. can learn to speak
C. can become man's friends
D. do live long lives
Peppeberg’s work with Alex was intended to prove that animals .
A. do have thoughts
B. can learn to speak
C. can become man's friends
D. do live long lives
第1题
At the beginning, how did many scientists view Peppeberg's work?
A. It would reveal a creature's mind.
B. It would probably end in failure.
C. It would be hard to judge its value.
D. It would be a long-term project.
第2题
Technology makes it more difficult to separate ourselves from work. In times past, it was possible to have a stressful workplace, go home, and relax. Since less work was mental and more was physical, it was relatively easy to remove oneself —physically and mentally —from it. The sophisticated communication technology available today was not yet developed. In contrast to the "good old days," it is no longer possible for busy men and women to go home or go on vacation and truly "get away from it all." It becomes difficult to relax when you are carrying a beeper that may go off any minute. The result is higher levels of stress in men and women because technology enables others to "find them anywhere."
It is ironic that much technology is designed to make work easier and faster; presumably, this will make life easier for those who must operate the technology, but such is not the case. Witness the prophetic words of the great philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806- 1873): "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." How true this is despite the promise of "miraculous" new machinery ranging from a "new and more efficient" vacuum cleaner to the most sophisticated computer. The solution to living well lies not in new and better technology, but in the selective disuse of it so that life can be enjoyed in a more emotionally fulfilling way.
This passage mainly discusses ______.
A.modern man's life that is filled with stress and pressure
B.new technology that has failed to make modern man's life comfortable
C.the negative impact of advanced technology on men's psychological well-being
D.the contrast between contemporary life and life in the past
第3题
Your advice would be ______ valuable to him, who is at present at his wit's end.
A.exceedingly
B.extremely
C.extensively
D.exclusively
第4题
In their determination to read Dickinson's life in terms of a traditional romantic plot, biographers have missed the unique pattern of her life -- her struggle to create a female life not yet imagined by the culture in which she lived. Dickinson was not the innocent, lovelorn and emotionally fragile girl sentimentalized by the Dickinson myth and popularized by William Luce's 1976 play, the Belle of Amherst. Her decision to shut the door on Amherst society in the 1850's transformed her house into a kind of magical realm in which she was free to engage her poetic genius. Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affair, but rather a part of a more general pattern of renunciation through which she, in her quest for self sovereignty, carried on an argument with the puritan fathers, attacking with wit and irony their cheerless Calvinist doctrine, their stem patriarchal God, and their rigid notions of "true womanhood."
What's the author's main purpose in the passage?
A.To interpret Emily Dickinson's eccentric behavior
B.To promote the popular myth of Emily Dickinson
C.To discuss Emily Dickinson's failed love affair
D.To describe the religious climate in Emily Dickinson's time
第5题
A.work of a day
B.a day’s work
C.day's work
D.a-day work
第7题
They ______ more enthusiastic about their work since their teacher's return.
A.are
B.were
C.had been
D.have been