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"Ah, yes," replied the manager, "but America has treasures that Japan can never hope to possess."
"You mean our mineral wealth and bountiful farms?
"Ah, no. I was referring to Caltech and MIT."
America's scientific institutions--its technological universities and government laboratories--are the en vy 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 tile 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 a wards 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 tile 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 no where 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
Bear in mind: This recovery won’t have the vitality normally associated with an upturn. Economists now expect real GDP growth of about 1.5 in the first quarter. That’s better than the 0.4 the consensus projected in December, but much of the additional growth will come from a slower pace of inventory drawdowns, not from surging demand.
Moreover, the economy won’t grow fast enough to help the labor markets much. The only good news there is that jobless claims have fallen back from their spike after September 11 and that their current level suggests the pace of layoffs is easing.
The recovery also does not mean the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates soon. The January price indexes show that inflation remains tame. Consequently, the Fed can take its time shifting monetary policy from extreme accommodation to relative neutrality.
Perhaps the best news from the latest economic reports was the January data on industrial production. Total output fell only 0.1, its best showing since July. Factory output was flat, also the best performance in six months. Those numbers may not sound encouraging, but manufacturers have been in recession since late 2000. The data suggest that the factory sector is finding a bottom from which to start its recovery.
Production of consumer goods, for instance, is almost back up to where it was a year ago. That’s because consumer demand for motor vehicles and other goods and the housing industry remained healthy during the recession, and they are still growing in early 2002.
Besides, both the monthly homebuilding starts number and the housing market index for the past two months are running above the averages for all of 2001, suggesting that home-building is off to a good start and probably won’t be big drag on GDP growth this year.
Equally important to the outlook is how the solid housing market will help demand for home-related goods and services. Traditionally, consumers buy the bulk of their furniture, electronics, and textiles within a year of purchasing their homes. Thus, spending on such items will do well this year, even as car sales slip now that incentives are less attractive. Look for the output of consumer goods to top year-ago level in coming months.
Even the business equipment sector seems to have bottomed out. Its output rose 0.4% in January, led by a 0.6% jump computer gear. A pickup in orders for capital goods in the fourth quarter suggests that production will keep increasing—although at a relaxed pace—in coming months.
第31题:American economists are surprised to see that______.
[A]they have to revise the GDP forecasts so often
[B]their government is announcing the end of a recession
[C]US economy is showing some signs of an upturn
[D]GDP growth reflects stronger domestic demand
Whether to【C10】______ with the dominant American culture or to【C11】______ Indian culture has been a longstanding issue in Indian education. After the Civil War full responsibility for Indian education was turned over by the government to churches and missionary groups. The next fifty years became a period of【C12】______ assimilation in all areas of Indian culture, but especially in religion and education .
John Collier, a reformer who agitated【C13】______ Indians and their culture【C14】______ the early 1920s until his death in 1968, had a different idea. He believed that instead of effacing native culture, Indian schools should encourage and【C15】______ it.
Pressure to assimilate remains a potent force today,【C16】______ More and more Indians are graduating from high school and college and becoming【C17】______ for jobs in the non-Indian society. "When Indians obtain the requisite skills, many of them enter the broader American society and succeed." 【C18】______ approximately 90 percent of all Indian children are educated in state public school systems. How well these children compete with the members of the dominant society,【C19】 ______ , is another【C20】______ .
【C1】
A.agreeable
B.regardless
C.familiar
D.sympathetic
【C1】
A.Moreover
B.However
C.Therefore
D.Otherwise
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
Retailers are looking at bigger sales numbers for digital television sets this Christmas sea son, boosting the spirits of federal regulators and the industry. Government and industry analysts alike have worried that this nation of TV viewers is shifting its gaze too slowly to digital from old-fashioned analog sets.
Yet almost 7 million digital television, or DTV, sets will be sold this year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, a trade group for manufacturers and retailers. Roughly 3 million of these sets will be sold during the last three months of the year.
Independent groups also predict a big sales spike.
Homes in the United States will have 12.1 million high-definition or HDTV sets—the most sophisticated form. of DTV sets—by the end of the year, compared with 7 million at the end of 2003, according to the Yankee Group, a Boston technology research outfit.
HDTVs have accounted for the vast majority of about 13 million digital televisions sold since the fall of 1998.
"The numbers are very encouraging. We believe consumers are embracing this technology," says Jenny Miller, the Consumer Electronics Association's spokeswoman.
A boost in sales of digital televisions will be welcome news for major retailers anxiously watching the Christmas shopping season that began yesterday. Many national retailers lured customers into their stores with extra-early hours and deep discounts.
DTV sets still sell behind traditional analog sets. Almost 22 million analog sets are expected to be sold this year, outpacing even the rosiest predictions for DTV sales.
Until recently, consumers who wanted to buy DTV experienced sticker shock. When the sets first reached the market in the late 1990s, they cost several thousand dollars, turning off many consumers.
Now, prices for basic DTV sets generally start at about $500. HDTV sets offer the best-quality picture and sound and can cost as much as $15,000, according to Consumer Reports, published by the nonprofit Consumers Union advocacy group.
"You're talking about a couple of hundred dollars at the very least, unless you go for a flat panel or plasma screen, in which case you're talking thousands of dollars," says Aditya Kishore, senior analyst for the Yankee Group.
In addition to falling prices, analysts credit the sales boost for DTV to an increase in the number of programs broadcast in digitally compatible "high definition" as well as a government-led consumer education campaign.
From the beginning of the text, we can learn that
A.the country has popularly accepted digital TVs.
B.the retailers have a bad sale of DTVs except Christmas.
C.the viewers still pay more money on old-fashioned TV sets.
D.the government and industry are upset by the present market situation of DTVs.
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Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World WarⅡand the people they liberated, the GI. was the 2 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 5 an average guy up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
His name isn't much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 .Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles 8 to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka. Joe Magrac...a working class name. The United States has 10 had a president or vice-president or secretary of state Joe.
G.I. Joe had a 11 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character. or a 12 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of G.I. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers not how many miles were 15 or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports 16 the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was any American soldier, 20 the most important person in their lives.
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[B] served
[C] rebelled
[D] betrayed
Reports from Sudan say unknown armed men ______ (kidnap)two foreign aid workers in the western region of Darfur.
A.reports
B.reported
C.is reported
D.has reported