t="" be="" measured="" by="" numbers="" alone,="" because="" it="" also="" is="" giving="" rise="" to="" a="" radical="" new="" way="" of="" thinking="" about="" the="" nature="" work="" itself.="" long-held="" notions="" jobs="" and="" careers,="" skills="" needed="" succeed,="" even="" relation="" between="" individuals="" employers="" —all="" these="" are="" being="" challenged.We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead. No one looking ahead 20 years possibly could have foreseen the ways in which a single invention, the chip, would transform our world thanks to its applications in personal computers, digital communications and factory robots. Tomorrow's achievements in biotechnology, artificial intelligence or even some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of dramatic changes. But one thing is certain: information and knowledge will become even more vital, and the people who possess it, whether they work in manufacturing or services, will have the advantage and produce the wealth. Computer knowledge will become as basic a requirement as the ability to read and write. The ability to solve problems by applying information instead of performing routine tasks will be valued above all else. If you cast your mind ahead 10 years, information services will be predominant. It will be the way you do your job.1.A characteristic of the information age is that （ ）.2.One of the great changes brought about by the knowledge society is that （ ）.3.By referring to computer and other inventions, the author means to say that （ ）.4.The future will probably belong to those who （ ）.5.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?'>

A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, the knowledge society. It all translates to a fundamental change in the way we work. Already we are partly there. The percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen dramatically in the western world. Today the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan (two thirds or more in many of these countries) are in the service industry, and the number is on the rise. More women are in the work force, than ever before. There are more part-time jobs. More people are self-employed. But the breadth of the economic transformation can't be measured by numbers alone, because it also is giving rise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself. Long-held notions about jobs and careers, the skills needed to succeed, even the relation between individuals and employers —all these are being challenged.We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead. No one looking ahead 20 years possibly could have foreseen the ways in which a single invention, the chip, would transform our world thanks to its applications in personal computers, digital communications and factory robots. Tomorrow's achievements in biotechnology, artificial intelligence or even some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of dramatic changes. But one thing is certain: information and knowledge will become even more vital, and the people who possess it, whether they work in manufacturing or services, will have the advantage and produce the wealth. Computer knowledge will become as basic a requirement as the ability to read and write. The ability to solve problems by applying information instead of performing routine tasks will be valued above all else. If you cast your mind ahead 10 years, information services will be predominant. It will be the way you do your job.1.A characteristic of the information age is that （ ）.2.One of the great changes brought about by the knowledge society is that （ ）.3.By referring to computer and other inventions, the author means to say that （ ）.4.The future will probably belong to those who （ ）.5.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.the service industry is relying more and more on the female work force B.manufacturing industries are steadily increasing C.people fi

He is an excellent observer and a distinguished writer with the power not only to（ ）facts but to evoke in the imagination of his readers the sights and sounds and smells of Africa.

A.convey B.conform C.convince D.convert

Human beings are social (A) animals who usually prefer not living (B) in (C) physical or psychological isolation (D).

s="" findings,="" what="" constitutes="" admissible="" and="" adequate="" proof.Anyone who has followed recent historical literature can testify to the revolution that is taking place in historical studies. The currently fashionable subjects come directly from the sociology catalog: childhood, work, leisure. The new subjects are accompanied by new methods. Where history once was primarily narrative, it is now entirely analytic. The old questions “What happened?" and "How did it happen?" have given way to the question “Why did it happen?" Prominent among the methods used to answer the question "Why" is psychoanalysis, and its use has given rise to psychohistory.Psychohistory does not merely use psychological explanations in historical contexts. Historians have always used such explanations when they were appropriate and when there was sufficient evidence for them. But this pragmatic use of psychology is not what psycho-historians intend. They are committed, not just to psychology in general, but to Freudian psychoanalysis. This commitment precludes a commitment to history as historians have always understood it. Psychohistory derives its "facts" not from history, the detailed records of events and their consequences, but from psychoanalysis of the individuals who made history, and deduces its theories not from this or that instance in their lives, but from a view of human nature that transcends history. It denies the basic criterion of historical evidence: that evidence should be publicly accessible to, and therefore assessable by, all historians. And it violates the basic tenet of historical method: those historians should be alert to the negative instances that would refute their theses. Psycho-historians, convinced of the absolute tightness of their own theories, are also convinced that theirs is the "deepest" explanation of any event, which other explanations fall short of the truth.Psychohistory is not content to violate the discipline of history (in the sense of the proper mode of studying and writing about the past); it also violates the past itself. It denies to the past an integrity and will of its own. in which people acted out of a variety of motives and in which events had a multiplicity of causes and effects. It imposes upon the past the same determinism that it imposes upon the present, thus robbing people and events of their individuality and of their complexity. Instead of respecting the particularity of the past, it assimilates all events, past and present, into a single deterministic schema that is presumed to be true at all times and in all circumstances.1.Which of the following best states the main point of the passage?2.The author mentions which of the following as a characteristic of the practice of psycho-historians?3.It can be inferred from the passage that the methods used by psycho-historians probably prevent them from（ ）.4.The author suggests that psycho-historians view history primarily as （ ）.5.In presenting her analysis, the author does all of the following EXCEPT（ ）.'>

Traditionally, the study of history has had fixed boundaries and focal points ——periods, countries, dramatic events, and great leaders. It also has had clear and firm notions of scholarly procedure: how one inquires into a historical problem, how one presents and documents one's findings, what constitutes admissible and adequate proof.Anyone who has followed recent historical literature can testify to the revolution that is taking place in historical studies. The currently fashionable subjects come directly from the sociology catalog: childhood, work, leisure. The new subjects are accompanied by new methods. Where history once was primarily narrative, it is now entirely analytic. The old questions “What happened?" and "How did it happen?" have given way to the question “Why did it happen?" Prominent among the methods used to answer the question "Why" is psychoanalysis, and its use has given rise to psychohistory.Psychohistory does not merely u

Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-80, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term. Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980.On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies to which heavy industry has shifted have become more energy intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economists commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.1.The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is （ ）.2.It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will go up dramatically if （ ）.3.The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries （ ）.4.We can draw a conclusion from the text that （ ）.5.From the text we can see that the writer seems（ ）.

A.global inflation B.reduction in supply C.fast growth in economy D.Iraq's suspension of exports
问题2：
A.price of crude rises B.commodity prices rise C.consumption rises D.oil taxes rise
问题3：
A.heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive B.income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices C.manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed D.oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP
问题4：
A.oil price shocks are less shocking now B.inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks C.energy conservation can keep down the oil prices D.the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry
问题5：
A.optimistic B.sensitive C.gloomy D.scared

The （ ）of medical knowledge are being pushed farther outwards as time goes on.

A.bounds B.boundary C.frontier D.borders