The new discovery _______ be of great service to mankind.A. is bound toB. is bound forC

Curiosity and imagination are important___which help stimulate the discovery of new

Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard our conversation. “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home？” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints.”
At first the author looked upon life as a process of getting He formed this view of life because_______.
A.other people were selfish
B.he thought if exciting to get from others
C.of his early education
D.of his character
The author wrote a note of appreciation to the post office because________.A.he knew what such a note would mean to the post office
B.he had discovered giving-away made life all the more exciting
C.he believed he would get something back by doing so.
D.the postman delivered an important letter in time
When the author needed a post-office box,_________.A.he wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation.
B.he asked to put his name on a waiting list.
C.he tried to see the postmaster.
D.many had applied for post-office boxes before him.
The postmaster promised__________.A.to make a new post-office box for the author
B.to let the author have a post-office box.
C.to include the author’s mane on the list.
D.to deliver the author’s mail to his home
The postmaster interfered because_________.A.he was thankful for the letter the author had written
B.he overheard their conversation
C.he was proud of their good service
D.he received a lot of complaints for lack of post-office box

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Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money. This is how I experimented with giving away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper. One discovery I made about giving away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard our conversation. " Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home？ " I said yes. "Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints.
From the passage, we understand that______.
A．the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties
B．the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers
C．the author received the same education as most people during his childhood
D．the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting

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考虑下列每一个事件会如何影响实际GDP。你认为实际GDP的变动反映了经济福利相似的变动吗？ a．佛罗里达的飓风
考虑下列每一个事件会如何影响实际GDP。你认为实际GDP的变动反映了经济福利相似的变动吗？
a．佛罗里达的飓风迫使迪斯尼乐园停业一个月。
b．新的、更容易种植的小麦品种的开发增加了农民的收成。
c．工会和经理之间对抗的加剧引发了一场罢工。
d．全国企业经历着需求减少，这使企业解雇工人。
e．议会通过新环境法，该法禁止企业使用排出大量污染物的生产方法。
f．更多的高中生辍学从事剪草坪的工作。
g．全国的父亲减少工作周数，以便把更多的时间用于与孩子在一起。
Consider how each of the following events is likely to affect real GDP. Do you think the change in real GDP reflects a similar change in economic well-being？
a．A hurricane in Florida forces Disney World to shut down for a month.
b．The discovery of a new, easy-to-grow strain of wheat increases farm harvests.
c．Increased hostility between unions and management sparks a rash of strikes.
d．Firms throughout the economy experience falling demand，causing them to lay off workers.
e．Congress passes new environmental laws that prohibit firms from using production methods that emit large quantities of pollution.
f．More high-school students drop out of school to take jobs mowing lawns.
g．Fathers around the country reduce their workweeks to spend more time with their children.

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Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
The planet's wild creatures face a new threat—from yuppies (雅皮士), empty nesters and one parent families.
Biologists studying the pressure on the planet's dwindling biodiversity today report on a new reason for alarm. Although the rate of growth in the human population is decreasing, the number of individual households is exploding.
Even where populations have actually dwindled in some regions of New Zealand, for instance— the numbers of individual households has increased, because of divorce, career choice, smaller families and longer lifespan.
Jianguo Lin of Michigan State University and colleagues from Stanford University in California report in Nature, in a paper published online in advance, that a greater number of individual households, each containing on average fewer people, meant more pressure on natural resources.
Towns and cities began to sprawl (蔓生，蔓延) as new homes were built. Each household needed fuel to heat and light it; each household required its own plumbing, cooking and refrigeration.
"In larger households, the efficiency of resource consumption will be a lot higher, because more people share things," Dr Liu said. He and his colleagues looked at the population patterns of life in 141 countries, including 76 "hotspot' regions unusually rich in a variety of local wildlife. These hot spots included Australia, New Zealand, the US, Brazil, China, India, Kenya, and Italy. They found that between 1985 and 2000 in the "hotspot" parts of the globe, the annual 3.1% growth rate in the number of households was far higher than the population growth rate of 1.8%.
"Had the average household size remained at the 1985 level," the scientists report, "there would have been 155 million fewer households in hotspot countries in 2000.
Dr Liu's work grew from the alarming discovery that the giant pandas living in China's Wolong reserve are more at risk now than they were when the reserve was first established. The local population had grown, but the total number of homes had increased more swiftly, to make greater inroads into the bamboo forests.
Only around 1.75 million species on the planet have been named and described. Biologists estimate that there could be 7 million, or even 17 million, as yet to be identified. But human numbers have grown more than sixfold in the past 200 years, and humans and their livestock are now the greatest single consumer group on the planet. The world population will continue to soar, perhaps leveling off around 9 billion in the next century. Environmental campaigners have claimed that between a quarter and a half of all the species on earth could become extinct in the next century.
Biologists report that the biodiversity is decreasing because ______.
A．more individual households are increasing greatly
B．human beings are threatening many wild creatures
C．human populations have been decreasing in recent years
D．wild creatures depend on more individual households

Text 3 根据以下资料，回答下列各题。 The US$3-million Fundamental physics prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March. And it is far from the only one of its type. As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years. Many, like the Fundamental Physics Prize, are funded from the telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet entrepreneurs. These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science. What’s not to like？ Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature. You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels, The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists. They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research. They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research. They do not fund peer-reviewed research. They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius. The goals of the prize-givers seem as scattered as the criticism. Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research. As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed. The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include. But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson. The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money. Time, rather than intention, has given them legitimacy. As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear. First, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one. Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere, It is fair to criticize and question the mechanism—that is the culture of research, after all—but it is the prize-givers’ money to do with as they please. It is wise to take such gifts with gratitude and grace. The Fundamental Physics Prize is seen as
A.a symbol of the entrepreneurs’ wealth.
B.a possible replacement of the Nobel Prizes.
C.an example of bankers’ investments.
D.a handsome reward for researchers.

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第一代 Discovery 诞生的年份为（）

discovery（）

Important () his discovery might be,it was regarded as a matter of no account in

his time.