美国研究生入学考试难句解读-10(在线收听) |
It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements regarding socioeconomic class and support for the rebel and Loyalist causes during the American Revolutionary War? 插入语多 Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced (20) what manufactures and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. 尽管有可能从实际制造的商品和服务中可推知制造商和服务业认为他们的顾客所需要的是什么,但只有对由实际顾客撰写的相关的个人文件进行一番研究,方能提供一幅精确的图画,藉以说明“什么样的人”需要什么样的东西。 Such philosoph- ical concerns as the mind-body problem or, more generally, the nature of human knowledge they believe, are basic (10) human questions whose tentative philosophical solutions have served as the necessary foundations on which all other intellectual speculation has rested. 他们相信,诸如灵与肉的问题,或更普遍而言,人类知识的性质等此类哲学关注,均是一些基本的人类问题,其探索性的哲学答案已构成一个必要的基础,其它所有的智力思辩均赖以建立其上。 The idea of an autonomous discipline called (20) "philosophy," distinct from and sitting in judgment on such pursuits as theology and science turns out, on close examination, to be of quite recent origin. 细作审视,我们便不难发现,一种被称为“哲学”的独立学科——既有别于神学和科学诸般学科,并高高在上地对其予以评判——的思想,其渊源却是甚为近期的事。 But the recent discovery of detailed similarities in the skeletal structure of the flippers in all three groups undermines the (10) attempt to explain away superficial resemblance as due to convergent evolution-the independent development of similarities between unrelated groups in response to similar environmental (15) pressures. 但是,最近在所有这三类动物身上,对鳍肢的骨骼结构所存在的细致共同点的发现足以削弱这样一种企图,即把表面上的近似作为趋同进化所致的结果来将其解释掉。而所谓的趋同进化convergentevolution),是指在互不相关的生物群体之间,作为对类似的环境压力作出的反应, 彼此独立的发展形成某些相同特征。 Human genes contain too little information even to specify which hemisphere of the brain each of a human’s 10’’ neurons should occupy, let alone the hundreds of (10) connections that each neuron makes. 人类因基所包含的信息是如此之少,以致于就连去具体规定人类1011的神经细胞中任意一个细胞应占据大脑的哪个半脑都无法做到,更不用提每个神经细胞所会形成的数百种连接。 |
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