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The Different Engine: Rewiring the Brain

It’s a question that’s bothered cultural critics for decades:while we know more than ever, are we getting dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal Reading historical debates, and hearing of the attention paid to them by a thoughtful person, certainly makes one wonder. Speaking in the 1820s of the mechanical Difference Engine he had devised for computing polynomial functions, Charles Babbage, the father of the programmable computer and our web-log’s namesake, told the House of Commons:
On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Sharp-tongued eloquence---in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue---was common fare among Georgians and Vic
A. Policy-makers and parents in America are still skeptical of it.
B. It is still politically difficult to conduct corrective measures.
C. Policy-makers have taken corrective steps to improve it.
D. People have widely accepted and taken corrective measures.

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The Different Engine: Rewiring the Brain

It’s a question that’s bothered cultural critics for decades:while we know more than ever, are we getting dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal Reading historical debates, and hearing of the attention paid to them by a thoughtful person, certainly makes one wonder. Speaking in the 1820s of the mechanical Difference Engine he had devised for computing polynomial functions, Charles Babbage, the father of the programmable computer and our web-log’s namesake, told the House of Commons:
On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Sharp-tongued eloquence---in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue---was common fare among Georgians and Vic
A. He felt it was tricky.
B. He felt it was absurd.
C. He felt it was inevitable.
D. He felt it was ,reasonable.

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The Different Engine: Rewiring the Brain

It’s a question that’s bothered cultural critics for decades:while we know more than ever, are we getting dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal Reading historical debates, and hearing of the attention paid to them by a thoughtful person, certainly makes one wonder. Speaking in the 1820s of the mechanical Difference Engine he had devised for computing polynomial functions, Charles Babbage, the father of the programmable computer and our web-log’s namesake, told the House of Commons:
On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out " I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Sharp-tongued eloquence---in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue---was common fare among Georgians

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[单项选择]The brain’s neurological specialization for language is called linguistic （　）, which is specific to human beings.
A. specialization
B. production
C. lateralization
D. assimilation

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[填空题]According to Conrad, where do human brain’s capabilities stem from
____________

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[填空题]Brain gain or brain drain

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[填空题]America’s Brain Drain Crisis
Losing the Global Edge
William Kurtz is a self-described computer geek. A more apt description might be computer genius. When he was just 11, Kunz started writing software programs, and by 14 he had created his own video game. As a high school sophomore in Houston, Texas, he won first prize in a local science fair for a data encryption(编密码) program he wrote. In his senior year, he took top prize in an international science and engineering fair for designing a program to analyze and sort DNA patterns.
Kunz went on to attend Carnegie Mellon, among the nation’s highest-ranked universities in computer science. After college he landed a job with Oracle in Silicon Valley, writing software used by companies around the world.
Kunz looked set to become a star in his field. Then he gave it all up.
Today, three years later, Kurtz is in his first year at Harvard Business School. He left software engineering partly because hi

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America’s Brain Drain Crisis

Losing the Global Edge
William Kunz is described as a computer geek or a computer genius. When he was just 11, he started writing software programs, and by 14 he had created his own video game. As a high school student in Houston, Texas, he won first prize in a local science fair for a data encryption(编密码) program he wrote. In his senior year, he took up prize in an international science and engineering fair for designing a program to analyze and sort DNA patterns.
Kunz went on to attend Carnegie Mellon, among the nation’s highest-ranked universities in computer science. After college he landed a job with Oracle in Silicon Valley, writing software used by companies around the world. Kunz seemed to become a star in his field. Then he gave it all up.
Today, Kunz is in his first year at Harvard Business School. He left software engineering partly because his earning potenti

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