France might be described as an "all-round" country, one that has achieved results of equalimportance in many diverse branches of artistic and intellectual activity. Most of great nations of Europe excel (胜过) in some special branch of art or of thought, Italy in the plastic arts, Germany in philosophy and music, England in poetry and the sciences. France, on the contrary, has produced philosophers, musicians, painters, scientists, without any noticeable specialization of her effort. The French ideal has always been the man who has a good all-round knowledge better still, an all-round understanding; it is the ideal of general culture as opposed to specialization. This is the ideal reflected in the education France provides for her children. By studying this education we in England may learn a few things useful to ourselves even though, perhaps indeed because, the French system is very different from our own in its aims, its organization and its results. The French child, too, the raw material of this education, is unlike the English child and differences in the raw material may well account for differences in the processes employed.
The French child, boy or girl, gives one the impression of being intellectually more precocious(早熟的) than the product of the chillier English climate. This precocity is encouraged by his upbringing among adults, not in a nursery. English parents readily adapt their conversation to the child's point of view and interest themselves more in his games and childish preoccupations. The English are, as regards national character, younger than the French, or, to put it another way, there is in England no deep division between the life of the child and that of the grown man. The art of talking to children in the kind of language they understand is so much an English art that most of the French children's favorite books are translations from the English. French parents, on the other hand, do their best to develop the child's intelligence as rapidly as possible. They have little patience with childish ideas even if they do not go so far as to look upon childhood as an unfortunate but necessary prelude (序言) to adult life. Not that they need to force the child, for he usually leads himself willingly to the process, and enjoys the effect of his unexpectedly clever remarks and of his keen judgment of men and things. It is not without significance that the French mother instead of appealing to the child's heart by asking him to be good appeals to his reason by asking him to be wise. Reasonableness is looked for early in France, and the age of reason is fixed at seven years.
According to behaviorism, all human actions ______.
A. are of a great mystery
B. have no bearing on human drives
C. are supposed to be highly motivated
D. are based on stimulus and response
A.Not as good as it was in 1960.B.Better than it was last year.C.Not very good for gra
A. Not as good as it was in 1960.
Better than it was last year.
C. Not very good for graduates.
D. Especially good for graduates in liberal arts.
A.It shows it aims to develop the business value of space vehicle.B.It shows a good co
A. It shows it aims to develop the business value of space vehicle.
B. It shows a good cooperation with Russia.
C. It shows it feels like to send tourists to the space.
D. It shows a reform. in NASA.
听力原文: The cost is going up for just about everything, and college tuition is no exception. According to a nationwide survey published by College Board's Scholarship Service, tuition at most American universities will be an average of 9 percent higher this year than last.
The biggest increase will occur at private colleges. Public colleges, heavily supported by tax funds, will also increase their tuition, but the increase will be a few percentage points lower than their privately sponsored neighbors.
As a follow up, the United Press International did its own study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT advisors recommended that students have $8,900 available for one year's expenses. Ten years ago the tuition was $2,150.
An additional burden is placed on out-of-state students who must pay extra charges raging from $200 to $2,000, and foreign students who are not eligible for scholarships at state-funded universities.
On the brighter side, the survey revealed that college graduates are entering the best job market since the middle 1960s. Job offers am up 16 percent from last year, and salaries are good, at least for graduates in technical fields. For example, a recent graduate in petroleum engineering can expect to make as much as $20,000 per year. A student with a liberal arts degree might expect to make about half that salary.
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Average tuition costs increased by 9 percent.
B. Average tuition costs increased by 15 percent.
C. Average tuition costs increased by 90 percent
D. Average tuition costs increased by 150 percent.