W: It’s always been hard to get this car into first gear. And now the clutch seems to be slipping.
M: If you leave the car with me, I will fix it for you this afternoon.
Americans had always been preoccupied with reforming their society, with "making it over," and between the 1890s and the end of the First World War, the reform spirit intensified. More and more people tried to address the problem of their time directly, to impose order on a confusing world, and, especially, to create a conflict-free society. Their efforts, inspired by a complicated mixture of calculated self-interest and unselfish benevolence, helped what can be called the Progressive era. The urge for reform had many sources. Industrialization had brought unprecedented productivity, awesome technology, and plenty of consumer goods. But it had also included labor struggle, waste of natural resources, and abuse of corporate power. Rapidly growing cities facilitated the accumulation and distribution of goods, services, and cultural amenities but also magnified problems of poverty, disease, crime, and political corruption. Massive inflows of immigrants and the rise of a ne
A. the reasons for the Progressive Movement
B. the problems that American society faced between the 1890s and the end of World War I
C. the causes and contents of the Progressive reform
D. the belief that Americans possessed in their society
| Shopping has always been something of
an impulse activity, in which objects that catch our fancy while strolling are
immediately bought on a whim. Advertisers and sellers have taken advantage of
this fact, carefully positioning inexpensive but attractive items on paths that
we are most likely to cross, hoping that our human nature will lead to a greater
profit for them. With the dawn of the Internet and its exploding use across the
world, the same tactics apply. Advertisers now place "banners", links to commercial web sites decorated with attractive pictures designed to catch our eyes while browsing the webs, on key web sites with heavy traffic. They pay top dollar for the right, thus creating profits for the hosting web site as well. These actions are performed in the hopes that during the course of our casual and leisurely web surf A. has taken the place of more traditional methods of advertising. B. is one of the most effective ways to make profits on the web. C. is paralleling advertising methods in traditional business settings. D. seeks to tempt customers through impulse shopping methods. [单项选择]Scholars and students have always been great travelers. The official case for "academic mobility" is now often stated in impressive terms as a fundamental necessity (47)________ economic and social progress in the world, and (48)________ in the corridors of Europe, but it is certainly (49)________ new. Serious students were (50)________ ready to go abroad in (51)________ of the most (52)________ teachers and the most famous academies. In short, they are (53)________ the likeliest road to mobility of this kind which means also the (54)________ of ideas, the academic movement across frontier, and the great impact upon many (55)________ of people. The point of learning is to share it, (56)________ with colleagues or with other scholars. This exchange has provided for the rapid transmission of knowledge around the world.
WORD BANK
A. boring B. nothing C. search D. while
E. crowds F. for G. something H. exchange
I. whe
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