问题 材料题

阅读下列材料:

“当时帝国地跨欧亚非三洲。境内农业、手工业和商业发展起来,海路畅通无阻,陆路纵横交错、四通八达,不仅促进了贸易发展,也有利于信息传递和军队调防。帝国同北欧、印度、中国都有贸易往来,中国的丝绸也传入帝国。”

请回答:

(1)材料中的“帝国”何时达到最大规模?规模如何?

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(2)该帝国同中国进行贸易的通道被称作什么?

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(3)从帝国所处的地理位置,分析它对文化融合的促进作用。

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答案

(1)2世纪;地跨欧亚非三洲,地中海成为它的内湖。

(2)“丝绸之路”。

(3)罗马帝国地跨欧亚非三洲,随着它的对外征服与扩张,罗马文化渗透到其统治下的广大地区。

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For more than two centuries, American’s colleges and universities have been the backbone of the country’s progress. They have educated the technical, managerial, (1) and provided generation after generation of national leaders. Today educators from around the globe are turning to U. S. institutions of higher learning (2) . They are apt to find many reasons for the excellence of American universities, but (3) stand out as watersheds:
Education (4) : In 1862 Congress enacted the Land-Grant College Act, which essentially extended the opportunity of higher education (5) , including such disenfranchised groups as women and minorities. Each state was permitted to sell large tracts of (6) and use the proceeds to endow at least one public college.
(7) : Over the years, the decentralization and diversity of the America’s colleges and universities have promoted competition for students and resources. Competitive pressure first arose (8) . The academy’s impact really grew after World War II, when (9) commissioned by President Roosevelt argued that it was the federal government’s responsibility to (10) for basic research. Instead of being centralized in government laboratories, scientific research (11) in American universities and generated increasing investment. It also gave graduate students research opportunities and helped (12) far and wide, to the benefit of industry, medicine and society as a whole.
(13) : The end of the World War II saw passage of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. The law, which provided for (14) for returning veterans, made an already democratic higher-education system accessible in ways that were (15) in Europe, opening the doors of the best universities to men and women who had (16) of going to college.
(17) : The creation of federal loan guarantees and subsidy programs, as well as outright grants for college students brought (18) to higher education and further helped to democratize access. Since its founding (19) , the Federal Family Education Loan Program has funded more than 74 million student loans worth more than (20) .