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John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. In his Modern Painters, he argued that the principal role of the artist is ( ).
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（Passage 2） The author argues that __________ .
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John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era . In his Modern Painters , he argued that the principal role of the artist is ( ).
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What does the author argue for in the passage?
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The author wants to argue in the passage
A．that being kind and being smart are not mutually exclusive.
B．whether Harvard"s "freshman pledge" should be adopted or not.
C．that empathy has become the new scapegoat of academic decline.
D．when the debate over Harvard"s "freshman pledge" will be ended.
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The author argues that a teacher's chief concern should be the development of the pupil's ______.
A．personal qualities and social skills
B．total personality
C．learning ability and communicative skills
D．intellectual ability
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The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the student’s _________.
A:learning ability and communicative skill;
B:total personality;
C:personal qualities and social skills;
D:intellectual ability
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The authors argue that more money should be spent on______.
A．maintaining the well-being of the elderly.
B．looking after the sick.
C．extending the life of the dying.
D．developing aging-slowing interventions.
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In the author's opinion, __.
A. developing countries should be responsible for environmental problems
B. overpopulation in the world is created by the developed countries
C. rich countries exercise worse influence on environment than poor countries
D. all countries should bring the population growth under control
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Hagel argues that jobs in the U.S. are often______.
A．performed by innovative minds
B．scripted with an individual style
C．standardized without a clear target
D．designed against human creativity
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The author argues that children______.
A．have to suffer various side effects of abuse
B．have often lost trust in the power of intuition
C．have to trust their parents rather than intuition
D．often say or do things against their inner voice
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The author's tone in talking about fire ants in the US seems to be
A．critical.
B．indifferent.
C．fearful.
D．objective.
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In the author's opinion, the counter-conference
A．rectified the judgment by those carefully selected scholars.
B．offered a brand new reassessment perspective.
C．came up with somewhat favourable conclusions.
D．resulted in similar disparaging remarks on Lincoln.
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The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the student’s ________.
A) personal qualities and social skills
B) total personality
C) learning ability and communicative skills
D) intellectual ability
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What is the author's purpose in writing the passage？
A．To review the impact of women becoming high earners.
B．To contemplate the philosophy underlying individualism.
C．To examine the trend of young people living alone.
D．To stress the rebuilding of personal relationships.
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The author argues that, given the conditions on factory farms,______.
A．we should all be outraged
B．it"s no wonder that disease is common
C．the government should institute new regulations
D．Mad Cow Disease may never be fully controlled
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The author's purpose in writing the text is
A．to indicate the way genetic testing works.
B．to show the power of one's genetic makeup.
C．to introduce genetic testing and its function.
D．to reveal the influence of the environment on genes.
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To refute the idea that wearing a uniform. can avoid envy, the author argues that it would hinder people from working hard for ______.
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This book may not change your life. But if you have a tendency to be messy and have already broken your new year resolutions to be neater in future, it will certainly make you feel better about your natural inclinations. Untidiness, hoarding, procrastination and improvisation are not bad habits, the authors argue, but often more sensible than meticulous planning, storage and purging of possessions.
That is because the tidiness lobby counts the benefits of neatness, but not its costs. A rough storage system (important papers close to the keyboard, the rest distributed in loosely related piles on every flat surface) takes very little time to manage. Filing every bit of paper in a precise category, with colour-coded index tabs and a neat system of cross-referencing, will certainly take longer. And by the end, it may not save any time. Your reviewer's office is easily the most untidy in The Economist (not entirely his own work, it should be said, thanks to the heroic efforts of his even untidier office-mate). But when it comes to managing information, there seems to be no discernible difference in the end result.
The authors of this book trawl the furthest reaches of psychology, management studies, biology and physics to show why a bit of disorder is good for you. Chiefly, it creates much more room for coincidence and serendipity. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because he was notoriously untidy, and didn't clean a Petri dish, thus allowing fungal spores to get to work on bacteria. He remarked wryly on visiting a colleague's spotless lab: "no danger of mould here".
It can also help make sense of things. Hearing depends on random movement of molecules: when they coincide with sounds from outside, they are strong enough to stimulate the inner ear. A bit of background noise on the phone enables our ears to filter out echoes. A slightly mushy photograph can be easier to understand. Music and art depend on mess.
Procrastination makes sense too. America’s Marine Corps, the authors repeat (several times), never makes detailed plans in advance. Leaving important things to the last minute reduces the risk of wasting time on things that may ultimately prove not important at all.
The authors are witheringly contemptuous of the bogus equation of tidiness and morality—for example in corporate "clean desk" policies. Disorder and creativity are so closely linked that any employer who penalizes the first sacrifices the second, they argue. America's professional organizers, a thriving and lucrative cult of tidiness coaches, are merchants of guilt, not productivity boosters.
It's all fine, up to a point. But the book has two weaknesses. One is that it overstates the case. The case for tidiness in some environments—surgery, a dinner table or income tax returns—is really overwhelming. The other is that the book is a bit repetitive and disorganized. Even readers who love mess in their own lives don't necessarily like it in others.
Paraphrase the sentence "the tidiness lobby counts the benefits of neatness, but not its costs". (para. 2)
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Some geologists argue that if oil is as common in unsam-pled areas of the world as it is in those already sampled, our current estimate of reserves that exist underground must be multiplied by a factor of 10,000. From this we can conclude that we can meet the oil needs of the entire world for at least five centuries, even assuming that future consumption grows at an accelerating rate. To reach the stated conclusion, the author must assume which of the following？
A．It is possible to recover the oil contained in unexplored areas of the world.
B．The consumption rate for oil will not grow rapidly.
C．Oil will remain an important energy source for at least 500 years.
D．The world will achieve and maintain zero population growth.
E．New technology will make oil discovery and drilling more feasible than ever before.
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The authors of Race Against the Machine argue that______.
A．technology is diminishing man" s job opportunities
B．automation is accelerating technological development
C．certain jobs will remain intact after automation
D．man will finally win the race against machine
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In this text the author argues that______.
A．the government has not done enough to combat Mad Cow Disease
B．factory farming poses a health threat
C．small farmers are the key to economic success
D．animals should not be treated poorly
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The author argues that we should______.
A．follow our inner guide in everything we do
B．listen to and act upon the channel we select
C．fly up rather than slide down the social scale
D．conform. to the universal mechanism within us
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The author of this passage intends to argue that______.
A．staying healthy is impossible without accumulating much wealth
B．being physically healthy can eventually contribute to your wealth
C．feeling good about your finance is also of health benefit
D．a large fortune will increase the chance of deterioration of health
