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1、一The University of California was chartered in 1868 and established at Berkeley in 1875. South Hall, an ivy-covered Gothic-revival building of red brick, is the only survivor of the nineteenth century campus buildings. Today, the Berkeley campus is the senior member of the nine-campus University of California System. Berkeley offers a full range of academic majors in programs. In a national survey published in fall 1992, Berkeley placed highest of all public universities in ranking that included

2、 five attributes: reputation, selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources, and student satisfaction. More students who earn bachelors degrees at Berkeley complete Ph. Ds than graduates of any other university in the country.Undergraduate students can choose from more than 5,000 different courses and over 100 majors or they can design their own individual majors. The graduate division offers professional and academic degrees in more than 100 majors. Aiding students in their course work is

3、 a campus network of twenty-four libraries, including one especially for undergraduates. There are also many support facilities and services available, such as the Student Learning Center,financial aid counseling, housing assistance, graduate and professional school advising, and career placement assistance. The 1, 200-acre campus stretches from downtown Berkeley through wooded hills that overlook San Francisco Bay. The city of Berkeley (population 105,000) offers the lively background of one of

4、 Americas more culturally diverse and politically adventurous small cities. The surrounding San Francisco Bay area provides an abundance of recreational and cultural events.26. In Paragraph One, the author mainly states about_.A. the greatness and wonderfulness of the Berkeley campusB. the Berkeley campus ranking in all the public universitiesC. the history and the present situation of the Berkeley campusD. the overall impression of the Berkeley campus27. More students have graduated from Berkel

5、ey than from any other university in gaining _degree.A. MBAs B. bachelorsC. Ph. Ds D. masters转载自:考试大 - 28. From the essay, we can know that_.A. the Berkeley campus is the University of CaliforniaB. the Berkeley campus is only an old branch of the University of CaliforniaC. the Berkeley campus is an absolutely independent university, which is built in CaliforniaD. the Berkeley campus is an independent college.29. Which is TRUE according to the essay?A. Now the Berkeley campus is the best public u

6、niversity.B. You can finish bachelors courses or Ph. Ds courses but not masters courses.C. The Berkeley campus does not do well in helping students in their studies.D. The Berkeley campus is not far away from the city of San Francisco.30. The city of Berkeley is_.A. situated within the Berkeley campusB. found to be a melting pot of various culturesC. a recreational placeD. trying to increase its population26. C 27. C 28. B 29. D 30. B一2The Laws of NatureThe phrase A law of Nature is probably rar

7、er in modern scientific writing than was the case some generations ago. This is partly due to a very natural objection to the use of the word law in two different senses. Human societies have laws. In primitive societies there is no distinction between law and custom. Some things are done, others are not. This is regarded as part of the nature of things, and generally as an unalterable fact. If customs change, the change is too slow to be observed. Later on kings and prophets could promulgate ne

8、w laws, but there was no way of revoking old ones. The Greek democracies made the great and revolutionary discovery that a community could consciously make new laws and repeal old ones. So for us a human law is something which is valid only over a certain number of people for a certain period of time.Laws of Nature, however, are not commands but statements of facts. The use of the same word is unfortunate. It would be better to speak of uniformities of Nature. This would do away with the element

9、ary fallacy that a law implies a law-giver. Incidentally, it might just as well imply a parliament or soviet of atoms. But the difference between the two uses of the word is fundamental. If a piece of matter does not obey a law of Nature it is not punished. On the contrary, we say that the law has been incorrectly stated, It is quite probable that every law of Nature so far stated has been stated incorrectly. Certainly many of them have. Nevertheless, these inaccurately stated laws are of immense practical and theoretical value.They fall into two classes-qualitative laws such as All animals with feathers have beaks, and quantitative laws such as Mercury has 13,596 times the density of water(at 0C and 1 atmospheres pressure). The first of these is a very good guide. But it was probably not true in the past. For many bi

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