A.His painting is a mess.B.His painting does not belong to art.C.He feels terrible whi
A. His painting is a mess.
B. His painting does not belong to art.
C. He feels terrible while painting his picture.
D. George's mother has made the same comment.
Near the end of a five-day tour of highly automated, high-tech Japanese factories, the American visitor was overwhelmed and feeling a little inferior. Watching a string of gleaming stereo sets move down an assembly line, he turned to the plant manager and said, "Gosh, even your industrial design is better than ours."
"Ah, yes," replied the manager, "but America has treasures that Japan can never hope to possess."
"You mean our mineral wealth and bountiful farms?"
"All, no. I was referring to Caltech and MIT."
America's scientific institutions-its technological universities and government laboratories-are the envy of the world, producing ideas, devices and medicines that have made the U.S. prosperous, improved the lives of people around the globe and profoundly affected their perception of the world and the universe. This tremendous creativity is reflected in the technical reports that are published in scientific journals throughout the world. Fully 35% of them come from scientists doing their research at American institutions.
Yet American dominance can no longer be taken for granted. Many recent U.S. achievements and awards stem in large measure from generous research grants of the past, and any weakening of government and industry commitment to support of basic research could in the next few decades cost the nation its scientific leadership. Some slipping is already divalent. In high-energy physics, where Americans once reigned supreme, Western Europe now spends roughly twice as much money as the U.S. Result: the major high-energy physics discoveries of the past few years have been made not by Americans but by Europeans.
Even so, money alone cannot guarantee scientific supremacy. Freedom of inquiry, an intellectually stimulating environment and continuous recruitment of the best minds must accompany it. That combination has been achieved in many U.S. institutions-educational, governmental and industrial-but perhaps nowhere more successfully than at the National Institutes of Health, Bell Laboratories and Caltech.
America's technological universities and government laboratories are generally______.
A. loved by scientists in other parts of the world
B. disliked by scientists in other parts of the world
C. admired by scientists in other parts of the world
D. jealous of scientists in other parts of the world
听力原文: The non-medical use of certain drugs is forbidden in the United States because they can be dangerous. Many Americans, however, still use drugs illegally without a doctor's permission. In fact, taking drugs has become one of America's most serious social problems.
In America, most people who have become dependent on drugs are young. Why are young people the most frequent users of drugs? The answers are varied. Some young people feel depressed and nervous in a society full of tension and they want to find a means of escape. Others are bored and they think the drug makes their time pass more pleasantly.
Taking drugs can cause only poverty and despair. When a person takes the drug, however, he forgets his misery. The drug takes away the stress and strain of living—until the effect of the drug wears off. Then, the discomfort is very intense and terrible. Because he must. take larger and larger doses, his habit becomes more and more expensive. Such people often turn to crime to get the money they need. They might break in and steal money and other valuable things or rob banks. In this way, taking drugs forces the crime rate up.
In the United States drugs have destroyed many of the young people's minds and ruined their bodies. So it is necessary that a campaign to forbid taking drugs be launched in the United States and other countries.
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A. The housing problem in the U.S.
B. The problem of taking drags in the U.S.
C. The problem of unemployment in China.
D. The problem of the workers' strikes in England.