[单项选择]According to a prominent philosopher, intolerance is a ______ to understanding.
A. barrier
B. improvement
C. foundation
D. approach

[单项选择]According to a prominent philosopher, intolerance is a ______ to understanding.
A. barrier
B. improvement
C. foundation
D. approach

[单项选择]According to the passage, British philosopher Bertrand Russell supported the idea that ________.
A. work is virtuous
B. people should work fourteen hours a day in most industrialized countries
C. people should work only four hours a day
D. people should set aside more time to develop personal relationships

[单项选择]The distinguished philosopher maintained that the __________ of virtue, the only good, is self-con- trol and that it is capable of being taught.
A. abundance
B. competence
C. essence
D. resemblance

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In 1637 the French philosopher-mathematician Rene Descartes predicted that it would never be possible to make a machine that thinks as humans do. In 1950, the British mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing declared that one day there would be a machine that could duplicate human intelligence in every way and prove it by passing a specialized test. In this test, a computer and a human hidden from view would be asked random identical questions. If the computer were successful, the questioner would be unable to distinguish the machine from the person by the answers.
Inspired by Turing’s theory, the first conference on AI convened at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 1956. Soon afterwards an Al laboratory was started at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, two of the nation’s leading AI proponents. McCarthy also invented the Al computer language, Lisp; but by the early 1990s Al itself had not been achieved. However,
A. Recognition and computation separately.
B. Recognition and computation simultaneously.
C. Computation followed by checking.
D. Recognition, reasoning and then computation.

[单项选择]The most prominent characteristics of handwriting are {{U}}undoubtedly{{/U}} letter formation and slant.
A. presumably
B. in many cases
C. surely
D. without bias

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A prominent group of British university teachers this week called on the funding councils to stop supporting low-quality research and put money into improving university teaching instead. The National Academic Policy Advisory Group, which includes members from the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Conference of Medical Colleges, insists that all re- search money should be spent on world- class work.
The funding councils’ Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) judges the quality of research carried out in individual university departments, and rates it on a scale of l to 5. In the last assessment, in 1992, departments ranked as low as 2 received funding. The group says this should not happen in this years exercise. Funding councils have not yet announced how they will distribute money from now on.
In a report called Research capability of the University System launched this week the group claims that funds are needed to pay for the “pr
A. To hold back funds for level2 departments.
B. To help the teachers not active in research.
C. To encourage some teachers to be better educators.
D. To attract research money.