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1、Captain 256 germsonThe Family 1. Another good title for this passage would be What Makes a Family? 2. A nuclear family is defined as a married couple with their minor children .3. The information in this passage would most likely be found in an anthropology textbook .4. The information in the first
2、paragraph ispresented mainly through pointing out similarities.5. The word mobility means readiness to move.Tales of the Terrible Past 1. This passage is mostly about two novels that deal with slavery. 2. Beloved is set in Ohio after the Civil War. 3. The writer seems to feel that the books are wort
3、hwhile but challenging. 4. The writer emphasizes that the two books are similar in their portrayal of violence. 5. The word appalling means terrible.Seeing the World Centuries Ago 1. This passage is mostly about where three early travel writers went and wrote about, 2. Ibn Battutah traveled througho
4、ut the Muslim word. 3. The books bf the three writers were popular because they told of strange and exotic locales. 4. The overall organization of this passage is through chronological order. 5. In this passage attest means to give proof of,“Lucky” Lord Lucan - Alive or Dead 1. The public are still
5、interested in the investigation because Lord Lucan has never been found. 2. It is thought that Lucan killed the nanny because it was dark and he thought she was Lady Lucan. 3. Aspinall thought Lucan killed himself by sinking his boat. 4. Lucan could have been killed because people thought he might t
6、alk to the police about them if he was caught. 5. Ex-detective MacLaughlin claimed that Mr Barry Haplin was really Lord Lucan in disguise.Oseola McCarty 1. This woman shocked and inspired the world because she gave her life savings to help others through university. 2. She managed to save so much mO
7、I1y because she had worked hard ，saved hard and invested carefully. 3. She gave her money away because she wanted others to have the opportunity to escape a hard life. 4. When her generosity was made hundreds of people put money into the fund. 5. McCarty became famous because of her generosity.Teach
8、ing and learning Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for learning lie with the student. If a long reading assignment is given, instructors expect students to be familiar with the information in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or take an examination. The ideal student
9、is considered to be one who is motivated to learn for the sake of learning, not the one interested only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned with brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is responsible for learning the material assigned.
10、 When research is assigned, the professor expects the student to take it actively and to complete it with minimum guidance. It is the students responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the library. Professors do not have the time to explain how a university library works; they expect
11、students particularly graduate students to exhaust the reference sources in the library. Professors will help students who need it, but prefer that their students should not be too dependent on them. In the United Stats professors have many other duties besides teaching，such as administrative or res
12、earch work. Therefore, the time that a professor can spend with a student outside of class is limited. If a student has problems with classroom work ,the student should either approach a professor during office hours or make an appointment. The Difference between Man and Computer What makes people d
13、ifferent from computer programs? What is the missing element that our theories dont yet account for？The answer is simple: People read newspaper stories for a reason: to learn more about what they are interested in. Computers，on the other hand，dont. In fact, computers dont even have interests; there
14、is nothing in particular that they are trying to find out when they read. If a computer program is to be a model of story understanding，it should also read for a purpose.Of course, people have several goals that do not make sense to attribute to computers. One might read a restaurant guide in order
15、to satisfy hunger or entertainment goals，or to find a good place to go for a business lunch. Computers do not get hungry，and computers do not have business lunches.However, these physiological and social goals give rise to several intellectual or cognitive goals. A goal to satisfy hunger gives rise
16、to goals to find information about the name of a restaurant which serves the desired type of food, how expensive the restaurant is，the location of the restaurant, etc. These are goals to acquire information or knowledge，what we are calling learning goals. These goals can be held by computers too；a computer might “want to find out the location of a restaurant, and read a guide in order to do so in
