57.Which of the following statements is TRUE about Letters Live? A.It is a performance of the moving stories from great letters. B.It is held in the same month every year in London.
C.It was started to encourage people to communicate through letters.
D.It invites outstanding performers and chooses wonderful letters to share with audiences. 58.What does Cumberbatch think of bringing letters alive? A.It shares the feelings and lives behind letters with people.
B.It is the strongest way to share human beings' emotions. C.It shows that letter writing is out of date.
D.Everyone should be given the honor of reading letters on stage. 59.The letter from Tom Hanks showed that_______.
A.George Roy Hill spotted Tom Hanks' acting talent when he was young B.Tom Hanks wanted George Roy Hill to help him become an Oscar winner C.Tom Hanks had his mind set on making his name and fortune in Hollywood D.Tom Hanks dreamed of making friends with his favorite US actor 60.We can conclude from the last two paragraphs that______. A.the letter Carey Mulligan performed is part of the movie Suffragette B.Carey Mulligan usually appears in movies as a feminist activist
C.the letter made a strong and clear argument demanding that women have the right to vote. D.the 1913 note to the Daily Telegraph newspaper carried a very threatening tone
D
At the beginning of the World Series of 1947,I experienced a completely new emotion,when the National Anthem was played.This time,I thought,it is being played for me,as much as for anyone else.This is organized major League Baseball,and I am standing here with all the others;and everything that takes place includes me.
About a year later,I went to Atlanta,Georgia,to play in an exhibition game.On the field,for the first time in Atlanta,there were Negroes and whites.Other Negroes,besides me.And I thought: What I have always believed has come to be.
And what is it that I have always believed?First,those imperfections are human.But that wherever human beings were given room to breathe and time to think,those imperfections would
disappear,no matter how slowly.I do not believe that we have found or even approached perfection.That is not necessarily in the scheme of human events. Handicaps,stumbling blocks,prejudices—all of those are imperfect.Yet,they have to be dealt with because they are in the scheme of human events.
Whatever obstacles I found made me fight all the harder.But it would have been impossible for me to fight at all, except that I was sustained by the personal and deep-rooted belief that my fight had a chance.It had a chance because it took place in a free society.Not once was I forced to face and fight an immovable object.Not once was the situation so cast-iron rigid that I had no chance at all.Free minds and human hearts were at work all around me;and so there was the probability of improvement.I look at my children now,and know that I must still prepare them to meet obstacles and prejudices.
But I can tell them,too,that they will never face some of these prejudices because other people have gone before them.And to myself I can say that,because progress is unalterable,many of today's dogmas（教条）will have vanished by the time they grow into adults.I can say to my children: There is a chance for you.No guarantee,but a chance.And this chance has come to be,because there is nothing static with free people.There is no Middle Ages logic so strong that it can stop the human tide from flowing forward.I do not believe that every person,in every walk of life,can succeed in spite of any handicap.That would be perfection.But I do believe—and with every fiber in me—that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today;and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.
I believe in the human race.I believe in the warm heart.I believe in man's honesty.I believe in the goodness of a free society.And I believe that the society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it—and to fight against whatever imperfections may exist.My fight was against the barriers that kept Negroes out of baseball.This was the area where I found imperfection,and where I was best able to fight.And I fought because I knew it was not doomed to be a losing fight.It couldn't be a losing fight-not when it took place in a free society.And in the largest sense,I believe that what I did was done for me—that it was my faith in God that sustained me in my fight.And that what was done for me must and will be done for others. 61.Why did the author say he had experienced a completely new emotion?
A.Because the National Game was played for him. and won the game.
C.Because he was an American.
B.Because he could compete in the game
D.Because he won game.
62.The author firmly believed that________.
A.humans are imperfect if they all unite together to overcome the difficulties B.humans needn?t approach perfect even if they can C.humans should face the obstacles and fight for it bravely D.humans are becoming kind and honest if they have freedom 63.We can infer from the passage that______. A.in the past Negroes were kept out of baseball
B.the civil war broke out because the Negroes fought for their freedom C.the fight between Negroes and Whites never ends D.the fight ended up with a game
64.The underlined word “vanished” most probably means______. A.disappeared
B.increased
C.appeared
D.happened
65.The best title of this passage may be______. A.Nothing Matters Except Fighting C.Freedom is Everything Difference
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Social Signature
So what did the detailed data that we collected reveal?This question is best answered in terms of a characteristic that we decided to call the “social signature” of an individual,and in particular by looking at how this “social signature” changed over time.Imagine one of our participants during the first six-month observation window call some people very frequently,and others only occasionally,where the people called are likely to include relatives,close friends,and more distant acquaintances.If we now put the people called by our participant,with the person most frequently
B.Success Lies in Hard Work
D.Free Minds and Hearts Make a
called in first position,the second-most frequently called person in second position,and so on,then we can build a profile of how the participant allocated calls between all of their different social relationships.This profile is in fact what we call the “social signature,”and it reflects what fraction of calls a given participant placed to the person they call second-most,right down to the least frequently called person.So what was the “social signature” able to tell us?
First,let me introduce a general property that applied to the “social signatures” of all participants.The number of people that participants called frequently,with whom they had a strong relationship,was comparatively small.We may have five close friends and 20 acquaintances,but we are very unlikely to have 20 close friends and five acquaintances.If we look at the “social signature” in greater detail,we find that there were differences between different participants,so that one individual may have had three close friends and another seven.That is in fact why we chose the term “signature”.
Perhaps most interestingly,if we looked at the “social signature” of a given participant over the three consecutive six-month observation windows,we found that it remained quite stable.It is worth taking a moment to reflect why this should be surprising.The social world of our participants was undergoing a significant transition, with changes in both close and less close friendships.By the end of our study,the identity of some of the close friends of the participants had changed,and so these relationships were now with entirely different individuals,but the fraction of the calls participants placed to a counterpart almost didn?t change.
How can we understand the persistence of an individual?s “social signature”?The key is that the pattern of our social relationships is shaped by a number of critical constraints.
Time: The first very general and quite inescapable constraint is that we only have a limited amount of time to maintain social relationships.
Emotional Capital: The second constraint reflects the fact that a strong social relationship requires considerable emotional investment,and our stock of emotional capital is limited.
Cognitive Limitations: The third constraint is biological in nature,and reflects the fact that they also limit the social relationships.
Can the new social technologies that are accessible significantly change the three factors that we believe shape the patterns of our social interactions?Based on the behavior that we observed for our participants,at this point I would tend to answer no.
