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1、2022年12月英语六级阅读备考技巧及词汇(十)Lesson1021.What brought about the decline in the demand for American farm products?A) The impact of the Great Depression.B) The shrinking of overseas markets.C) The destruction caused by the First World War.D) The increased exports of European countries.22.The chief concern o
2、f the American government in the area of agriculture in the 1920s was _.A) to increase farm productionB) to establish agricultural lawsC) to prevent farmers from going bankruptD) to promote the mechanization of agriculture23.The Agricultural Adjustment Act encouraged American farmers to _.A) reduce
3、their scale of productionB) make full use of their landC) adjust the prices of their farm productsD) be self-sufficient in agricultural production24.The Supreme Court rejected the Agricultural Adjustment Act because it believed that the Act _.A) might cause greater scarcity of farm productsB) didnt
4、give the Secretary of Agriculture enough powerC) would benefit neither the government nor the farmersD) benefited one group of citizens at the expense of others25.It was claimed that the new laws passed during the Roosevelt Administration were aimed at _.A) reducing the cost of farmingB) conserving
5、soil in the long-term interest of the nationC) lowering the burden of farmersD) helping farmers without shifling the burden onto other taxpayersIn the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity (紧缩) programs to reduc
6、e their imports. The result was a sharp drop in farm prices. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient. They were paying for machinery, seed, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods. The prices of the item
7、s farmers bought remained constant, while prices they received for their products fell. These developments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1939s.In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized. It established the
8、principle of direct interference with supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers.President Hoovers successor attached even more importance to this problem. One of the first measures proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
9、 when he took office in 1933 was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was subsequently passed by Congress. This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce production through voluntary agreements with farmers who were paid to take their land out of use. A deliberate scarcity of farm
10、products was planned in an effort to raise prices. This law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the grounds that general taxes were being collected to pay one special group of people. However, new laws were passed immediately that achieved the same result of resting soil and provid
11、ing flood-control measures, but which were based on the principle of soil conservation. The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuilding the nations soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens. Later the government guaranteed loan
12、s to farmers so that they could buy farm machinery, hybrid (杂交) grain, and fertilizers.26.The author says that the powerful computers of today _.A) are capable of reliably recognizing the shape of an objectB) are close to exhibiting humanlike behaviorC) are not very different in their performance fr
13、om those of the 50sD) still cannot communicate with people in a human language27.The new trend in artificial intelligence research stems from _.A) the shift of the focus of study on to the recognition of the shapes of objectsB) the belief that human intelligence cannot be duplicated with logical, st
14、ep-by-step programsC) the aspirations of scientists to duplicate the intelligence of a ten-month-old childD) the efforts made by scientists in the study of the similarities between transistors and brain cells28.Conrad and his group of AI researchers have been making enormous efforts to _.A) find a r
15、oundabout way to design powerful computersB) build a computer using a clever network of switchesC) find out how intelligence developed in natureD) separate the highest and most abstract levels of thought29.Whats the authors opinion about the new AI movement?A) It has created a sensation among artifi
16、cial intelligence researchers but will soon die out.B) Its a breakthrough in duplicating human thought processes.C) Its more like a peculiar game rather than a real scientific effort.D) It may prove to be in the right direction though nobody is sure of its future prospects.30.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase the only game
