UNIT 1
Learning does not happen passively. It is an activity which a person does. It is a task which can be attempted in various of ways, some of which are 1._____more appropriate than others. When the material to be learned is 2._____a interest to him, effective learning usually proceeds automatically. In the first place, the person at once relates the material to other material which has already securely learned. Subsequently, the relevance 4._____of the newly learned material to his interests assures its being 5.______recalled on many occasions; and one repetition minimizes 6.______the likelihood of remembering. Furthermore, the subsequent use 7.______of the new material is likely to take place in a variety of contexts and, so, the material becomes related to a narrower range of other material. 8.___Because of all this, the material is and recalled with increasingly readiness in a variety of 9._____contexts. Without really trying, the person had fulfilled a 10._____few important conditions of effective learning.
1.第一个 of 去掉
2. is 后加 of
3. with 改为to
4. has改为 is 或者在has后加been
5. assures 改为 ensures
6. one 改为this / the
7. remembering改为 forgetting
8. narrower 改为 wider
9. increasingly改为 increasing
10. had 改为 has
UNIT 2
Almost every new innovation goes through three phases. When initially introducing into the market, the process 1._____ of adoption is slow. The early models are expensive and hard to use, and perhaps even unsafe. The economicimpact is relatively great. 2. _____ The second phase is the explosive one, where the innovation was rapidly adopted by a large number of people. It gets 3. _____ cheaper and easier to use and becomes something familiar. And then in the third stage, diffusion of the innovation slows down again, as if it permeates out across the economy. 4. _____ During the explosive phase, whole new industries spring up to produce the new product or innovation, and to service it. For example, during the 1920s, there was dramatic 5. _____ acceleration in auto production, from 1.9 million in 1920 to 4.5 million in 1929. This boom was accompanied with all 6. _____ sorts of other essential activities necessary for an auto-based nation: Roads had to been built for the cars to 7. _____ run on; refineries and oil wells, to provide the gasoline; and garages, to repair it. 8. _____ Historically, the same pattern is repeated again and again with innovations. The construction of the electrical system requested an enormous early investment in generation and 9. _____ distribution capacity. The introduction of the radio was followed by a buying spree (无节制的狂热行为) by Americans what quickly brought radios into almost half of all households 10. _____ by 1930, up from nearly none in 1924.
1. introducing改 introduced;
2. great 改 small;
3. was 改 is;
4. as 后面的 if 去掉;
5. was 后面加a;
6. with 改 by;
7. been 改 be;
8. it 改 them;
9. requested 改 required;
10. what 改 that.
UNIT 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 theHarlem 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 wor“Harlem” seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.________ easy to forget that “Harlem”was originally the 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.________答案1. want→ wanting?
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