The West begun to take more notice of the East. The fifth volume of an enormous work r

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The West begun to take more notice of the East. （西方国家开始越来越关注东方国家)The

The West begun to take more notice of the East. (西方国家开始越来越关注东方国家)The fifth volume of an enormous work re-assessing the Chinese contribution to science and technology is to be published next year. The first volume, which was published twenty years ago, set the tone for the whole work. In it, evidence was given to show that many inventions which, until then, western historians had claimed for Europe, were made first in China. The attempt to rewrite the intellectual history of the world was not received without protest by some reputable historians. However, the evidence that has been presented so far in the first four volumes has persuaded many historians who were skeptical at first. China's invention of paper, printing, the magnetic compass and gunpowder has never been disputed, but this new history has added advanced bridge design, mechanical clocks, paddle boats and many other inventions to the list.

In the four volumes published so far no attempt has been made to explain why China has not kept up with the West in science and technology in modern times. It is probable that the answer is to be found in the social and economic history of China, where a static society under a relatively benevolent regime (仁慈的政体) of scholar-gentry (学者绅士) contrasts with the potentially revolutionary and dynamic society of the West at the end of the Middle Ages. In recent years, the Chinese government has been making every effort to catch up with the West again, and there is little doubt that the gap is being reduced year by year. But will China avoid the West's mistakes？

1.How many volumes have been published so far？

A.Five.

B.Four.

C.Three.

D.None.

2.What is special about the first volume？

A.It introduces the world intellectual history.

B.It introduces the history of Europe.

C.It demonstrates that the Chinese made many inventions.

D.It explains why China lags behind the west in science and technology.

3.In the first paragraph, the word “skeptical" means ______.

A.doubtful

B.worried

C.sad

D.angry

4.Which of the following inventions in NOT made by the Chinese？

A.Gunpowder.

B.Motor cars.

C.Paddle boats.

D.Bridge design.

5.The best title for this passage is ______.

A.Development of Science and Technology in China

B.Comparisons Between the East and the West

C.China Is Catching Up

D.China's Inventions

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Children are a relatively modern invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did not exi

st. In medieval and Renaissance painting you see pintsized men and women, wearing grown-up clothes and grown-up expressions, performing grown-up tasks. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.

Children today not only exist; they have taken over, in no place more than in America, and at no time more than now. It is always Kids' Country here. Our civilization is child-centered, child-obsessed. A kid's body is our physical ideal. In Kids' Country we do not permit middle-age. Thirty is promoted over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to be overtaken will come.

We are the first society in which parents expect to learn from their children. Such a topsy-turvy (颠倒) situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, ours is an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids. In the Old Country, that is, Europe, hope was in the father, and how much wealth he could accumulate and pass along to his children. In the growth pattern of America and its everexpanding frontier, the young man was ever advised to GO WEST; the father was ever inheriting from his son. Kids' Country may be the inevitable result.

Kids' Country is not all bad. America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kids' Country. We not only wear kids' clothes and eat kids' food; we dream Kids' dreams and make them come true. It was, after all, a boy's game to go to the moon.

If in the old days children did not exist, it seems equally true today that adults, as a class, have begun to disappear, condemning all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups (俯卧撑) against eternity.

The author uses the example of the Renaissance painting to show that ______.

A．adults showed less concern for children than we do now

B．adults were smaller and thinner at that time; but they still had a lot of work to do

C．children looked and acted like adults at that time

D．children were not permitted to appear in family paintings at that time

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Before I got to the cinema,the film（）.

A.had begun

B.has begun

C.is begun

D.was beginning

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On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia: inten

tionally administering a lethal drug to a terminally ill patient who has asked to be relieved of suffering. Twenty times a day, life-prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn when there is no hope that it can effect an ultimate cure. "Active" euthanasia remains a crime on the Dutch statute books punishable by 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15 years has made it clear that a competent physician who carries it out will not be prosecuted.

Euthanasia, often called "mercy killing", is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. But more and more doctors and nurses in Britain, West Germany, Holland and elsewhere readily admit to practicing it, most often in the "passive" form. of withholding or withdrawing treatment. The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately boiled over into a sometimes fierce public debate, with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those opposed to the practice see themselves up-holding sacred principles of respect for life, while those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years on the defensive, the advocates now seem to be gaining ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British subjects favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of respondents to a poll taken late last year in France said they would like the law changed to decriminalize mercy killings.

Reasons for the latest surge of interest in euthanasia are not hard to find. Europeans, like Americans, are now living longer. The average European male now lives to the age of 72, women to almost 80. As Derek Humphrey, a leading British advocate of "rational euthanasia" says, "lingering chronic diseases have replaced critical illnesses as the primary cause of death."

And so the euthanasists have begun to press their case with greater force. They argue that every human being should have the right to "die with dignity", by which they usually mean the right to escape the horrors of a painful or degrading hospitalization. Most advocates of voluntary euthanasia has argued that the right to die should be accorded only to the terminally and incurably ill, but the movement also includes a small minority who believe in euthanasia for anyone who rationally decides to take his own life.

That right is unlikely to get legal recognition any time in the near future. Even in the Netherlands, the proposals now before Parliament would restrict euthanasia to a small number of cases and would surround even those with elaborate safeguards.

According to Paragraph 1, which of the following is NOT true？

A．Active euthanasia is regarded as a crime by Dutch law.

B．The doctor who carried out euthanasia will be charged.

C．An unqualified doctor carrying out euthanasia will be accused.

D．Active euthanasia executives will be sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

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Beijing and Zhangjiakou （) applying to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in 2013.

A. begin

B. began

C. have begun

D. had begun

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（)his talk when Mary ran out of the lecture hall.

A、Hardly had be begun

B、Hardly he had begun

C、Hardly he has begun

D、He hardly had begun

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By the time he was 12, Edison _______ to make a living by himself.A.would beginB.has be

By the time he was 12, Edison _______ to make a living by himself.

A.would begin

B.has begun

C.had begun

D.was begun

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______ his talk when Mary ran out of the lecture hall.A. Hardly had he begun B. Hardly

______ his talk when Mary ran out of the lecture hall.

A. Hardly had he begun

B. Hardly he had begun

C. Hardly he has begun

D. He hardly had begun

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Christianity has become a worldwide religion since it（)almost two thousand years ago.

A.has begun

B.had begun

C.began

D.begins

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