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1、1. Virginia Woolfs provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlight an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the “poetic novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and

2、vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.2. Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold, and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any possible correlation with manifold dimen

3、sions of mental experience.3. It was possible to demonstrate by other methods refined structural differences among neuron types; however, proof was lacking that the quality of the impulse or its condition was influenced by these differences, which seemed instead to influence the developmental patter

4、ning of the neural circuits.4. Thus, for instance, it may come as a shock to mathematicians to learn that the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom is not a literally correct description of this atom, but only an approximation to a somewhat more correct equation taking account of spin, magnetic

5、 dipole, and relativistic effects; and that this corrected equation is itself only an imperfect approximation to an infinite set of quantum field-theoretical equations.5. The physicist rightly dreads precise argument, since an argument that is convincing only if it is precise loses all its force if

6、the assumptions on which it is based are slightly changed, whereas an argument that is convincing though imprecise may well be stable under small perturbations of its underlying assumptions.6. As my own studies have advanced, I have been increasingly impressed with the functional similarities betwee

7、n insect and vertebrate societies and less so with the structural differences that seem, at first glance, to constitute such an immense gulf between them.7. In addition, the style of some Black novels, like Jean Toomers Cane, verges on expressionism or surrealism; does this technique provide a count

8、erpoint to the prevalent theme that portrays the fate against which Black heroes are pitted, a theme usually conveyed by more naturalistic modes of expression?8. Which of the following most probably provides an appropriate analogy from human morphology for the “details versus “constraints distinctio

9、n made in the passage in relation to human behavior?9. Perhaps the fact many of these first studies considered only algae of a size that could be collected in a net (net phytoplankton), a practice that overlooked the smaller phytoplankton (nannnoplankton) that we now know grazers are most likely to

10、feed on, led to a de-emphasis of the role of grazers in subsequent research.10. Studies by Hargrave and Geen estimated natural community grazing rates by measuring feeding rates of individual zooplankton species in the laboratory and then computing community grazing rates for field conditions using

11、the known population density of grazer.11. It can be inferred from the passage that a historian who wished to compare crime rates per thousand in a European city in one decade of the fifteenth century with crime rates in another decade of that century would probably be most aided by better informati

12、on about which of the following?12. Even the requirement that biomaterials processed from these materials be nontoxic to host tissue can be met by techniques derived from studying the reactions of tissue cultures to biomaterials or from short-term implants.13. Islamic law is a phenomenon so differen

13、t from all other forms of law-notwithstanding, of course, a considerable and inevitable number of coincidences with one or the other of them as far as subject matter and positive enactments are concerned-that its study is indispensable in order to appreciate adequately the full range of possible leg

14、al phenomena.14. (Both Jewish law and canon law are more uniform than Islamic law.) Though historically there is a discernible break between Jewish law of the sovereign state of ancient Israel and of the Diaspora (the dispersion of Jewish people after the conquest of Israel), the spirit of the legal

15、 matter in later parts of the Old Testament is very close to that of the Talmud, one of the primary codifications of Jewish law in the Diaspora.15. One such novel idea is that of inserting into the chromosomes of plants discrete genes that are not a part of the plants natural constitution: specifica

16、lly, the idea of inserting into no leguminous plants the genes, if they can be identified and isolated, that fit the leguminous plants to be hosts for nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Hence, the intensified research on legumes.16. Its subject (to use Maynard Macks categories) is “l(fā)ife-as-spectacle, for rea

17、ders, diverted by its various incidents, observe its hero Odysseus primarily from without; the tragic Iliad, however, presents “l(fā)ife-as-experience: readers are asked to identify with the mind of Achilles, whose motivations render him a not particularly likable hero.17. The very richness and complexi

18、ty of the meaningful relationship that kept presenting and rearranging themselves on all levels, from abstract intelligence to profound dreamy feelings, made it difficult for Proust to set them out coherently.18. There have been attempts to explain these taboos in terms of inappropriate social relat

19、ionships either between those who are involved and those who are not simultaneously involved in the satisfaction of a bodily need, or between those already satiated and those who appear to be shamelessly gorging.19. Many critics of Family Brontes novel Wuthering Heights see its second part as a coun

20、terpoint that comments on, if it does not reverse, the first part, where a “romantic reading receives more confirmation.20. This is not because such an interpretation necessarily stiffens into a thesis (although rigidity in any interpretation of this or of any novel is always a danger), but because

21、Wuthering Heights has recalcitrant elements of undeniable power that, ultimately, resist inclusion in an all-encompassing interpretation.21. Portrayals of the folk of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, whom he remembers from early childhood, of the jazz musicians and tenement roofs of his Harlem da

22、ys, of Pittsburgh steelworkers, and his reconstruction of classical Greek myths in the guise of the ancient Black kingdom of Benin, attest to him.22. Apparently most massive stars manage to lose sufficient material that their masses drop below the critical value of 1.4 M before they exhaust their nu

23、clear fuel.23. This is so even though the armed forces operate in an ethos of institutional change oriented toward occupational equality and under the federal sanction of equal pay for equal work.24. An impact (on the Mars) capable of ejecting a fragment of the Martian surface into an Earth-intersec

24、ting orbit is even less probable than such an event on the Moon, in view of the Moons smaller size and closer proximity to earth.25. Because the potential hazards pollen grains are subject to as they are transported over long distances are enormous, wind pollinated plants have, in the view above, co

25、mpensated for the ensuing loss of pollen through happenstance by virtue of producing an amount of pollen that is one to three orders of magnitude greater than the amount produced by species pollinated by insects.26. For example, the spiral arrangement of scale-bract complexes on ovule-bearing pine c

26、ones, where the female reproductive organs of conifers are located, is important to the production of airflow patterns that spiral over the cones surfaces, thereby passing airborne pollen from one scale to the next.27. It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretar

27、ial work, previously seen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880s created a new class of “dead-end jobs, thenceforth considered “womens work.28. The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to

28、 do with the mechanization of housework and increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.29. For one thing, no

29、 population can be driven entirely by density-independent factors all the time.30. In order to understand the nature of the ecologists investigation, we may think of the density-dependent effects on growth parameters as the “signal ecologists are trying to isolate and interpret, one that tends to ma

30、ke the population increase from relatively low values or decrease from relatively high ones, while the density-independent effects act to produce “noise in the population dynamics.31. But the plays complex view of Black self-esteem and human solidarity as compatible is no more “contradictory than Du

31、 Bois famous, well-considered ideal of ethnic self-awareness coexisting with human unity, or fanons emphasis on an ideal internationalism that also accommodates national identities and roles.32. In which of the following does the author of the passage reinforce his criticism of responses such as Isa

32、acs to Raisin in the Sun?33. Despite these vague categories, one should not claim unequivocally that hostility between recognizable classes cannot be legitimately observed.34. Yet those who stress the achievement of a general consensus among the colonists cannot fully understand that consensus witho

33、ut understanding the conflicts that had to be overcome or repressed in order to reach it.35. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements regarding socioeconomic class and support for the rebel and Loyalist causes during the

34、 American Revolutionary War?36. She wished to discard the traditional methods and established vocabularies of such dance forms as ballet and to explore the internal sources of human expressiveness.37. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufactu

35、res and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what.38. Human genes contain too little information even to specify which hemisphere of the brain each of a humans 1011 neuron

36、s should occupy, let alone the hundreds of connections that each neuron makes.39. For the woman who is a practitioner of feminist literary criticism, the subjectivity versus objectivity, or critic-as-artist-or-scientist, debate has special significance; for her, the question is not only academic, bu

37、t political as well, and her definition will court special risks whichever side of the issue it favors.40. These questions are political in the sense that the debate over them will inevitably be less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than an academic power strug

38、gle in which the careers and professional fortunes of many women scholars-only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers-will be at the stake, and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding, a contribution that might be an important influence a

39、gainst sexism in our society.41. However, some broods possess a few snails of the opposing hand, and in predominantly sinistral broods, the incidence of dextrality is surprisingly high.42. Calculations of the density of alloys based on Bernal-type models of the alloys metal component agreed fairly w

40、ell with the experimentally determined values from measurements on alloys consisting of a noble metal together with a metalloid, such as alloys of palladium and silicon, or alloys consisting of iron, phosphorus, and carbon, although small discrepancies remained.43. Is it not tyrannical, in Pascals s

41、ense, to insist that those who excel in “sensitivity or “the ability to express compassion merit equal wealth with those who excel in qualities (such as “the capacity for hard work) essential in producing wealth?44. Yet Waizers argument, however deficient, dose point to one of the most serious weak-

42、nesses of capitalism-namely, that it brings to predominant positions in a society people who, no matter how legitimately they have earned their material rewards, often lack those other qualities that evoke affection or admiration.45. Only in the case of the February Revolution do we lack a useful de

43、scription of participants that might characterize it in the light of what social history has taught us about the process of revolutionary mobilization.46. As a consequence, it may prove difficult or impossible to establish for a successful revolution a comprehensive and trustworthy picture of those who participated, or to answer even the most basic questions one might pose concerning the social origins of the insurgents.47. It has thus genera