六级改错(附答案)

There are great many reasons for studying what philosophers 1.________

have said in the past. One is that we cannot separate the

history of philosophy from which of science. Philosophy is 2.________

large discussion about matters on which few people are quite 3.________

certain, and those few hold opposite opinions. As knowledge

increases, philosophy buds off the sciences.

?

For an example, in the ancient world and the Middle Ages 4.________

philosophers discussed motion. Aristotle and St. Thomas

Aquinas taught that a moving body would slow down until a force 5.________

were constantly applied to it. They were wrong. It goes on moving

unless something slows it down. But they had good arguments on

their side, and if we study these, and the experiments

which proved them right this will help us to distinguish truth 6.________

from false in the scientific controversies of today.

?

7.________

We also see how different philosopher reflects the social 8.________

life of his day. Plato and Aristotle, in the slave-owning society

of ancient Greece, thought

man’s

highest state was contemplation

rather than activity. In the Middle Ages St. Thomas

believed a regular feudal system of nine ranks of angels. Herbert 9.________

Spencer, in the time of free competition between capitalists,

found the key to progress as the survival of the fittest. Thus 10.________

Marxism is seen to fit into its place as the philosophy for

the workers, the only class with a future.

Passage 2

The white House began to be built in 1792, but it was not

completed until ten years later. Every American president lived

in it except for George Washington, although he did have a 1.________

majority part in designing it.

?

2.________

The government held a competition to choose the best

design for the

president’

s house. The winner was a young man of 3.________

South Carolina, James Hoban. His design was a three-level

house of stone. And President Washington made some changes

in the winning design. He made the house long and wider, and 4.________

changed it into a two- storied house instead of three.

?

The second president, John Adams, was first to live in the 5.________

White House. When he and his wife moved onto the new house 6.________

in November, 1800, work was still going on, although the main

live area was completed. The whole work did not finish until the 7.________

administration of the 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson.

?

Twelve years later, the British army invaded Washington

and burned the White House. The fire completely destroyed the

inside of the building and experts said the White House was so 8.________

dangerous to live in. Later on workers rebuilt the inside of the

White House. More offices were added, most of which underground. 9.________

None of the work, however, changed the appearing of 10.________

the building. Many people asked why the

president’

s house is

called the White House. Historians say it has been so called

simply because it was painted white.

passage 3

When some nineteenth century New Yorkers said

“Harlem”,

they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street.

Toward the end of the century, however, a group

of citizens in upper Manhattan-want perhaps, to shape a closer 1._________

and more precise sense of community

—

designated a section that

they wished to have known as Harlem. The chosen area was the

Harlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the 2.________

new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and

lower blocks of the West Side.

?

As the community became predominantly Black, the very

word

“Harlem”

seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.________

easy to forget that

“Harlem”

was originally the Dutch name

“Harlem”;

the community it described had been founded by 4.________

people from Holland

；

and that for most of its three centuries

—

it

was first settled in the sixteen hundreds

—

it had been preoccupied 5.________

by White New Yorkers.

“Harlem”

became synonymous to 6.________

Black life and Black style in Manhattan. Blacks living there

used the word as though they had coined it on themselves

—

not 7.________

only to designate their area of residence but to express their

sense of the various qualities of its life and atmosphere. As the

years passed,

“Harlem”

asserted an even larger meaning. In 8.________

the words of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., the pastor of the

Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem

“became

the symbol of liberty

and the Promised Land to Negroes

everywhere”.

?

By 1919 Harlem

’

s population had grown by several thousand.

It had received its share of wartime migration from the South,

the Caribbean, and parts of colonial Africa. Some of the

new arrivals merely lived for Harlem; it was New York they had 9.________

come to, looking for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities

of life in the city. To others who migrated to Harlem, New

York was merely the city in which they found themselves:

Harlem was exactly what they wished to be. 10.________

Passage 4

After months of speculation about what would

do with its mysterious search-engine company, A9, Web

surfers finally got their first taste on Apr. 14.

Yet despite of some intriguing new features not yet found 1. ____

on leading sites such as Google and Yahoo! , the site

() -- still in test mode -- rises as many questions 2 ____

as it answers.

The biggest question remains is whether Amazon, 3. ____

through A9, would clash into Google more directly. 4. ____

Google itself is testing a search engine for products

called Froogle

that’s

starting to appeal Web shoppers. 5. ___

At the same time, Amazon clearly

isn’t

looking to limit

A9’s

horizons.

How directly A9 eventually goes up against the reigned 6. ____

search champion, it faced lots of challenges. For one, 7. ____

it may run into some of the same privacy issues that

recently have plagued Google.

A9’s

privacy policy points

out that information provided through entering search term 8. ____

or by signing into

one’s

Amazon account could supply the company

with information that could personally identify the searcher.

Those may be somewhat less intrusive

（打扰的，冒犯的）

than 9. ____

Google’s

upcoming Gmail free e-mail offering, which could search

the contents of messages to pitch personalized ads. But comments

posted on some sites already indicate some people are

uncomfortable with

Google’s

potential threats to privacy. 10.____