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【正文】 ? How long can America remain a worldclass power if we constantly put social skills and physical strength over academic achievement and intellectual ability? Do we really expect to stay afloat largely by bringing in our scientists and intellectuals from abroad, as we have done for a major part of this country without making an effort to also develop a prointellectual (有利于知識分子的 ) culture at home? Not until the words ―nerd‖ and ―geek‖ bee terms of praise rather than insults (侮辱 ) do we have a promising future. 21. What is the meaning of the words ―nerd‖ and ―geek‖ in this passage? A. They are used in the . to describe students from other countries. B. They are insulting terms which are used to describe smart students. C. A nerd is a good student and a geek is a poor student. D. Nerds and geeks are proper descriptions of strange students. 22. What can be learnt from Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4? A. The US government doesn’t mean to spend much money on education. B. Few students work hard for their grade in famous universities like Harvard. C. Antiintellectualism is not popular in industrialized countries in East Asia. D. Professors earn more than professional basketball players on average in the US. 23. What is probably the author’s attitude towards the present society’s antiintellectualism? A. Proud B. Supportive C. Unconcerned D. Anxious 24. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. What is antiintellectualism? B. Why does society avoid nerds? C. Don’t laugh at nerds. D. America needs its nerds. (B) Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most citizens, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors. My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life. I know the feeling. Last December I took my sevenyearold daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest resthouse with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply. Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiberglass. We have televisions, cell phones, papers, electricity, heaters and ovens and airconditioners, cars, puters. Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of which was spent in doors, I thought that before long I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains, and perhaps write, but not in anger. I may bee an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon. 25. The writer felt sorry for himself because ________. A. he usually failed to see the fullest moon B. there was too much pollution C. he didn’t get used to modern inventions D. there were too many accidents on the road[ZXK] 26. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India? A. No modern equipment. B. The nice moon. C. The high mountains. D. Complete silence. 27. Modern things (in Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to ________. A. show that the writer like
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