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Stanford University
1．Stanford University, famous as one of northern California's several institutions higher learning, is sometimes called "the Harvard of the West"．The closeness of Stanford to San Francisco, a city thirty-two miles to the north, gives the university a decidedly cosmopolitan (世界性的) flavor.
2．The students are enrolled mainly from the western United States． But most of the fifty states send students to Stanford, and many foreign students study here as well.．And standards for admission remain high．Young men and women are selected to enter the university from the upper fifteen percent of their high school classes.
3．Not only because of the high caliber (素质，才干) of its students but also because of the desirable location and climate, Stanford has attracted to its faculty some of the world's most respected scholars．The university staff has included many Nobel Prize winners such as Dr．Felix Bloch,Dr．Robert Hofstadter, and Dr．William Shockley in physics, Dr．Author Kornberg and Dr． Joshua Lederberg in medicine, and Dr．Paul J．Flory and Dr．Linus Pauling in chemistry．The Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenistsyn has been in residence． Stanford's undergraduate school of engineering and its graduate schools of business, law, and medicine are especially well-regarded.
4．What is student life like on "the Farm"？ Culturally, the campus is a magnet for both students and citizens of nearby communities．Plays, concerts, and operas are performed, in the university's several .auditoriums and in its outdoor theater, where graduations are also held．Several film series are presented during the school year．Guest lecturers from public and academic life frequently appear on campus: In the evenings, many students gather to socialize in the Student Union's coffee house; here the beverages (饮料) and the atmosphere both have a decidedly European flavor．For the sports-minded, the Sranford campus offers highly developed athletic facilities．Team sports, swimming, and track and field activity are all very much part of the Stanford picture．So are bicycling and jogging.
5．In addition to financial support from alumni (校友), Stanford receives grants from the government and from private philanthropic (慈善的) foundations．In recent years, government grants have made possible advanced studies in the fields of history, psychology, education, and atomic energy．At present Stanford is carrying out an ambitious building program, financed in part by the Ford Foundation's 25 million grant．Recently added to the campus are a new physics building, new school of business, new graduate school of law, new student union, and undergraduate library.
第 23 题 Paragraph 2_________
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The title of the passage implies that
Looking to the Future
When a magazine 'for high school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years．they said.. Machines would' be run by solar power (太阳能). Buildings' would rotate (旋转) so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat．Walls would "radiate (发射) light" and "change color with the push of a button". Food would be replaced by pills. School would be taught "by electrical impulse (脉冲) while we sleep". Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000？ Actually．the article was written in 1958 and the question was． "what will life be like in 19787"
The future is much too important to simply guess about．the way the high school Students did，so experts are regularly asked to predict accurately. By carefully studying the present．skilled businessmen．scientists．and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. But can they？ One expert on cities wrote: Cities of the future would not be crowded．but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in "airbuses"．large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car (投币后即可驾驶的车) equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents "almost unheard of". Does that sound familiar？ If the expert had been accurate it would． because he was writing in 1957. His subject was "The City of 1982".
If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students．it's probably because future study is still a new fielD．But economic forecasting．or predicting what the economy will do．has been around for a long time. It should be accurate．and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in this field．too. In early 1929．most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market. In October of that year．the stock market had its worst losses ever．ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.
One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant errors. In 1957．H. J. Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year2000. "Only one thing is certain．" he answered．"Children born today will have reached the age of 43".
第 36 题 The high-school students' answers to "what would life be like in 1978" sound _______
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