A.performance
B. feats
C. events
D.acts
Piaget has only been widely known in this country since the 1960s, when his works were translated from their original French. But he has been recognized as an expert in the field of cognitive development in Europe since the 1930s. In fact, Piaget's publishing career can be traced to the year 1906, when as a child of ten, he published his careful notes on the habits of an albino sparrow he observed near his home in Switzerland. After his precocious debut as an ornithologist, he took an after-school job at the local natural history museum, soon becoming an expert on mollusks. At the age of sixteen he was recommended for a curator's position at the natural history museum in Geneva, but declined in favor of continuing his education.
He studied natural science at the University of Neuchatel, obtaining his doctorate at the age of twenty-one. His readings in philosophy stimulated an intense interest in epistemology - the study of humans acquire knowledge. Convinced that cognitive development had a genetic basis, Piaget decided that the best way to approach epistemology would be through its behavioral and biological components. Psychology appeared to be the discipline that best incorporated this approach.
1. According to the passage, Piaget went to the mountains every summer to（）
A. collect data for his research.
B. avoid the city heat and enjoy the cool weather.
C. live in his cabin where he could analyze the data he collected there.
D. analyze his research data he had collected before.
2. The data Piaget was analyzing in his cabin in the Alps was mostly concerning（）
A. his findings of the wild life in the mountains.
B. his experiments on the plants and wild life in the mountains.
C. his past experiments on how human beings obtain their knowledge.
D. his working experience at his Center.
3. Which of the following statements is true？（）
A. When the weather became cool, he went down the mountain and started writing books and articles.
B. When the weather was hot, he went up the mountain and began writing.
C. When the weather was cool, he took long walks on the mountain trails.
D. He liked to walk in the cool evening, thinking about his experiments.
4. According to the passage, Piaget must have published（）
A. several articles on his observation of sparrows.
B. a few books and articles on the data he had collected.
C. a variety of books and articles on his experiments.
D. a great many books and articles on his observations and research.
5. Piaget's main academic interest was in（）
A. how human beings learn through observations.
B. the genetic and cognitive basis for humans' cognitive development.
C. analyzing research data through scientific method.
D. behaviorists' views on acquiring knowledge.
6. Piaget can be best regarded as a psychologist who（）
A. emphasizes the mental processes.
B. stresses the importance of the biological basis.
C. places more emphasis on the behavioral components.
D. sees observations as being more important than others.
A.stories
B. voyage
C. adventures
D.trips
A.sustainable
B. adequate
C. strong
D.positive
Statistics from China ____(1) be mind boggling: 1.2 billion ____(2), 1.73 trillion cigarettes smoked in a year, 7,000 different ____(3) of woody plants. But amid all of these staggering sums, one factoid stands ____(4) for both its audacious size and for what it says about China's future: there are 630 million Chinese under the age of 24. That's a lot of ____(5) energy to burn. Materialism may be the ____(6) preoccupation among China's young people these days, but just beneath the surface lies a feeling ____(7) wounded nationalist pride and an ever-deepening spiritual hunger. It isn't clear where China's young people are headed. But this is a generation that, by its ____(8) size and certain talents, will ____(9) the world's destiny.
Here's another sobering statistic: this is Terry McCarthy's 22nd, and final, cover ____(10) for TIME Asia - he's leaving the region ____(11) three years to become TIME's Los Angeles ____(12) chief. McCarthy, who has indefatigably crisscrossed Asia out of his twin bases of Hong Kong and Shanghai, was the main driver ____(13) this week's superb special report on young China. He developed the story list, guided much ____(14) the reporting and wrote some of the articles. All ____(15) planning a swank black-tie masked ball last weekend in Shanghai. "I was ____(16) by the willingness of individual Chinese to write for us or talk about their ____(17)," McCarthy says about the special ____(18). "These are the guys ____(19) are going to be running the country in 20 ____(20)." If we're lucky, McCarthy will be back in the region long before then.
1. What would be the topic of the paragraph that would follow this one？（）
A. How to gather family folklore
B. History of the Smithsonian Institution
C. A description of genealogy
D. Useful books on family folklore
2. What can be inferred about the researchers who conducted the interviews？（）
A. They were mathematicians and physicists.
B. They were historians and sociologists.
C. They had children.
D. They wrote books.
3. The purpose of this passage is to（）
A. motivate
B. berate
C. instruct
D. cajole
4. The assumption of this passage is that（）
A. anyone can successfully interview people about their family folklore without prior training.
B. American history is inherent in the family folklore of Americans.
C. American history and folklore of Americans have no connections.
D. no guidelines are needed in the interviews.
5. According to the passage, which kind of instructional guide was NOT consulted as a source？（）
A. Clinical sociology
B. Genealogy guides
C. Oral history
D. Folklore fieldwork
A. recovered
B. relapsed
C. reexamined
D.re-diagnosed
