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奥巴马获诺贝尔和平奖引发争议

巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)昨日荣膺诺贝尔和平奖，此时距离他就任美国总 统只有263天。这一决定更多地是褒奖其承诺而非成就，这在全世界范围内同时引发了 赞扬和怀疑。
诺贝尔委员会称赞奥巴马“为增强国际外交及各国人民间的合作做出了非凡的努 力”，同时赞扬了他在推动无核化方面那些尚显稚嫩的努力以及与阿拉伯世界建立联系 的举动。奥巴马表示，他对于挪威诺贝尔委员会的决定感到“意外和惭愧”，同时补充 称，他感到不配跻身于先前获得该奖项的“历史改革人物”之列。
然而，这个奖金为140万美元的奖项也被视为对奥巴马某种形式的挑战。批评者辩 称，奥巴马迄今未能在外交政策上获得明显的成功。
奥巴马获奖令白宫感到意外。在被一家美国媒体要求就此消息予以置评时，白宫发 言人罗伯特·吉布斯(Robert Gibbs)用电子邮件只回复了一个字：“哇!”
授予奥巴马诺贝尔和平奖的决定受到了世界各国领导人的欢迎。刚刚连任德国总理 的安吉拉·默克尔(Angela Merkel)表示，奥巴马使国际外交的基调向着对话的方向 迅速改变。她表示：“仍有很多事情要做，但可能性的窗口已经开启。”
但有其他人也对该决定颇有微词：奥巴马迄今未能在中东问题上获得任何突破，也 并没有阻止伊朗的核计划，而且还可能很快为阿富汗战争增兵数千人。
曾获得诺贝尔和平奖的波兰前总统列赫·瓦文萨(Lech Walesa)表示，授予这位 48岁的美国总统诺贝尔和平奖为时尚早。“谁，奥巴马这么快就目前而言，奥巴马 只是提出了建议。但有时诺贝尔委员会授予该奖项是为了鼓励人们采取负责任的行动。”

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Senator Barack Obama likes to joke that the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination has been going on so long, babies have been born, and they’ re already walking and talking. That’s nothing. The battle between the sciences and the humanities has been going on for so long, its early participants have stopped walking and talking, because they’re already dead.
It’s been some 50 years since the physicist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow delivered his famous "Two Cultures" lecture at the University of Cambridge, in which he decried the "gulf of mutual incomprehension", the "hostility and dislike" that divided the world’s "natural scientists", its chemists, engineers, physicists and biologists, from its "literary intellectuals", a group that, by Snow’s reckoning, included pretty much everyone who wasn’t a scientist. His critique set off a frenzy of desperation that continues to this
A. qualitative information is more valuable than quantitative observations
B. it is preferable to take the mutual advantage of science and humanities
C. science has more similarities rather than differences than humanities
D. scientists should base their theory on qualitative information

[单项选择]Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama, Sr. , who were 67 young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his (68) left for Harvard, Barack and his mother stayed behind, and his father (69) returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack’s mother (70) an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later (71) Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing (72) to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was (73) up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment--his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother (74) in a bank--but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii’s top prep (75) . His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official (76) for Kenya, he visite

[单项选择]According to the news, US President Barack Obama made a solemn trip to Delaware Tuesday, to honor the troops killed in a helicopter crash in______.
A. Afghanistan
B. Iraq
C. Kosovo
D. Delaware

[单项选择]On Wednesday, Sept. 23, President Barack Obama used his first-ever address to the U.N. General Assembly to try and reverse the impression that his ambitious Middle East peace effort had suffered a reversal at the hand of Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. "I am not naive," Obama told the gathered world leaders. "I know this will be difficult. But all of us must decide whether we are serious about peace or whether we only lend it lip service."
Many a jaded commentator saw Obama’s Tuesday meeting with Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as a symbol of surrender to Netanyahu’s refusal of the U.S. demand that Israel halt all construction on land conquered in 1967. Instead, Netanyahu offered a partial and time-limited freeze and appeared to force the President of the United States to back down. For Abbas, the handshake with Netanyahu orchestrated by Obama was viewed as a humiliating climb down from his refusal to talk to the Israelis until th
A. Obama gave in to Netanyahu’s refusal of the U.S. demand.
B. Palestinian Authority President refused to meet Netanyahu.
C. Netanyahu defeated Obama in Tuesday meeting.
D. Abbas was unwilling to talk to Netanyahu.