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当人们需要作出可靠判断,以决定在复杂情势中应如何行动时,理性是最可信赖的工具。非理性工具,诸如预感与习惯,虽亦常被使用,但是当事关重大之时,或者 当成败取决于所下判断的关头,诉诸理性无疑最易获得成功。我们已经拥有一些经受了长期检验的合理方法,能够用来判定究竟何者为宜、何者为真;也已拥有一系 列业已得到确立的原理,可以指导我们从已知的东西引申出推论。这段文字所表达的主要意思是()。

A.理性是人们作出判断最可信赖的工具

B.现在已经存在了一套可以帮助人们作出可靠判断的方法

C.非理性工具在人们需要作出可靠判断时不可信赖

D.依理性作出的对复杂情势的判断不会出错

答案

参考答案:A

解析:本题属于主旨概括题。B项只是文中的部分内容,概括不全面,排除。C项表述过于绝对,文段的意思是当人们需要作出可靠判断时,理性更值得信赖,但 这并不意味着非理性工具就不可信赖;并且C项也不是文段所表达的主要意思,文段主要谈论的是理性的作用。D项表述过于绝对,文中的表述是“最可信赖”“最 易获得成功”,依理性作出的对复杂情势的判断也可能出错。故A项是文段所表达的主要意思。

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Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened between. As was discussed before, it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre- electronic (61) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (62) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (63) UP, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in (64) . It is important to do so.

It is generally recognized, (65) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (66) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, although its impact on the media was not immediately (67) . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as (68) , with display becoming sharper and storage (69) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (70) generations, with the distance between generations much (71) .

It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the (72) within which we now live. The communications revolution has (73) both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been (74) view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed (75) "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

(63)是()

A.gathered

B.speeded

C.worked

D.picked