Recently some scientists have concluded that meteorites found on Earth and long believed to have a Martian origin might actually have been blasted free of Marss gravity by the impact on Mars of other meteorites. This conclusion has led to another question: whether meteorite impacts on Earth have similarly driven rocks from this planet to Mars.
According to astronomer S. A. Phinney, kicking a rock hard enough to free it from Earths gravity would require a meteorite capable of making a crater more than 60 miles across. Moreover, even if Earth rocks were freed by meteorite impact, Marss orbit is much larger than Earths, so Phinney estimates that the probability of these rocks hitting Mars is about one-tenth as great as that of Marss rocks hitting Earth. To demonstrate this estimate, Phinney used a computer to calculate where 1,000 hypothetical particles would go if ejected from Earth in random directions. He found that 17 of the 1,000 particles would hit Mars.
17. The passage is primarily concerned with
presenting an argument to support a particular hypothesis
suggesting an answer to a theoretical question
questioning the assumptions of a research project
criticizing experimental results
explaining the origin of certain scientific data
18. According to the passage, which of the following events may have initiated the process that led to the presence on Earth of meteorites from Mars?
A meteorite struck the Earth with tremendous velocity.
A meteorite collided with Mars.
Approximately 1,000 rocks were ejected from Mars.
The orbits of Earth and Mars brought the planets to their closest points.
Rocks from a meteorite impact broke free of Earths gravity.
19. The passage suggests that which of the following is true concerning the probability that a rock, if ejected from Mars, will hit the Earth?
The probability is increased when particles are ejected from Mars in random directions.
The probability is increased by the presence of large craters on the surface of Mars.
The probability is decreased when Marss orbit brings the planet close to Earth.
The probability is greater than the probability that a rock from Earth will hit Mars.
The probability is less than the probability that a rock from Earth will escape Earths gravity.
20. Which of the following, if true, would cast most doubt on Phinneys estimate of the probability of Earth rocks hitting Mars?
Rather than going in random directions, about 25 percent of all particles ejected from Earth go in the same direction into space.
Approximately 100 meteorites large enough to make a noticeable crater hit the Earth each year.
No rocks of Earth origin have been detected on Mars.
The velocity of rocks escaping from Earths gravity is lower than the velocity of meteorites hitting the Earth.
No craters more than 60 miles across have been found on Mars.
A scientistic view of language was dominant among philosophers and linguists who affected to develop a scientific analysis of human thought and behavior in the early part of this century. Under the force of this view, it was perhaps inevitable that the art of rhetoric should pass from the status of being regarded as of questionable worth to the status of being wholly condemned. If people are regarded only as machines guided by logic, as they were by these scientistic thinkers, rhetoric is likely to be held in low regard; for the most obvious truth about rhetoric is that it speaks to the whole person. It presents its arguments first to the person as a rational being, because persuasive discourse, if honestly conceived, always has a basis in reasoning. Logical argument is the plot, as it were , of any speech or essay that is respectfully intended to persuade people. Yet it is a characterizing feature of rhetoric that it goes beyond this and appeals to the parts of our nature that are involved in feeling, desiring, acting, and suffering. It recalls relevant instances of the emotional reactions of people to circumstancesreal or fictionalthat are similar to our own circumstances. Such is the purpose of both historical accounts and fables in persuasive discourse: they indicate literally or symbolically how people may react emotionally, with hope or fear, to particular circumstances. A speech attempting to persuade people can achieve little unless it takes into account the aspect of their being related to such hopes and fears.
Rhetoric, then, is addressed to human beings living at particular times and in particular places. From the point of view of rhetoric, we are not merely logical thinking machines, creatures abstracted from time and space. The study of rhetoric should therefore be considered the most humanistic of the humanities, since rhetoric is not directed only to our rational selves. It takes into account what the scientistic view leaves out . If it is a weakness to harbor feelings, then rhetoric may be thought of as dealing in weakness. But those who reject the idea of rhetoric because they believe it deals in lies and who at the same time hope to move people to action, must either be liars themselves or be very naive; pure logic has never been a motivating force unless it has been subordinated to human purposes, feelings, and desires, and thereby ceased to be pure logic.
21. According to the passage, to reject rhetoric and still hope to persuade people is
an aim of most speakers and writers
an indication either of dishonesty or of credulity
a way of displaying distrust of the audiences motives
a characteristic of most humanistic discourse
a way of avoiding excessively abstract reasoning
22. It can be inferred from the passage that in the late nineteenth century rhetoric was regarded as
the only necessary element of persuasive discourse
a dubious art in at least two ways
an outmoded and tedious amplification of logic
an open offense to the rational mind
the most important of the humanistic studies
23. The passage suggests that the disparagement of rhetoric by some people can be traced to their
reaction against science
lack of training in logic
desire to persuade people as completely as possible
misunderstanding of the use of the term scientistic
view of human motivation
24. The passage suggests that a speech that attempts to persuade people to act is likely to fail if it does NOT
distort the truth a little to make it more acceptable to the audience
appeal to the self-interest as well as the humanitarianism of the audience
address listeners emotions as well as their intellects
concede the logic of other points of view
show how an immediately desirable action is consistent with timeless principles
25. The passage suggests that to consider people as thinking machines is to consider them as
beings separated from a historical context
replaceable parts of a larger social machine
more complex than other animals
liars rather than honest people
infallible in their reasoning
26. Which of the following persuasive devices is NOT used in the passage?
A sample of an actual speech delivered by an orator
The contrast of different points of view
The repetition of key ideas and expressions
An analogy that seeks to explain logical argument
Evaluative or judgmental words
27. Which of the following best states the authors main point about logical argument?
It is a sterile, abstract discipline, of little use in real life.
It is an essential element of persuasive discourse, but only one such element.
It is an important means of persuading people to act against their desires.
It is the lowest order of discourse because it is the least imaginative.
It is essential to persuasive discourse because it deals with universal truths.
答案:17-27:BBDABBECAAB
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