From science, modestly pursued, with a due consciousness of the extreme finitude of our in
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Satiric Literature
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective.Satire rarely offers original ideas.Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form.Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies.What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected.Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.None of these ideas is original.Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldoua Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swirl.It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular.It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive.They are stimulating and refreshing because with common sense briskness they brush away illusions and second-hand opinions.With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it.It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus,an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into all awareness of truth, though rarely to any active on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media issanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true.Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold die ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity.Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.
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A.Difficulties of writing satiric literature
B.Popular topics of satire
C.New philosophies emerging from satiric literature
D.Reasons for the popularity of satire
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From Paragraph 3, why will labor migration remain modest?
A.Language barriers.
B.Cultural barriers.
C.Technological barriers.
D.both A and B
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Apart from his liking for luxurious houses Hitler ______.
A.liked a brilliant, aristocratic way of life
B.liked luxury and irresponsibility
C.was fonder of pleasure than of work
D.liked modest and ordinary pleasures
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What do we learn about William from this conversation?
A.William is just starting the violin lessons.
B.William can’t play the violin.
C.William is very modest about his performance.
D.William is very proud of his performance:
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Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
A.Despite the great prospect some scientists hold, artificial intelligence has achieved a modest Success.
B.With its commercial application in medical diagnosis, artificial intelligence has made a greatest breakthrough.
C.Artificial intelligence has found a wide application in almost every field of society.
D.It is too ideal to be true to make a machine think like human beings.
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M: Oh, that's the way he always talks.
Q: What do we learn about William from this conversation?
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A.William is just starting the violin lessons.
B.William can't play the violin.
C.William is very modest about his performance.
D.William is very proud of his performance.
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It can be inferred from the passage that Sir Martin______.
A.has been engaged in science education for years
B.retired as master of Trinity College, Cambridge
C.scolded the irresponsibility of science teachers
D.suggests fiction reading in science education
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This passage is probably taken from ______.
A.a story.
B.a science report.
C.a book review.
D.an advertisement.
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The passage is most probably taken from ______.
A.a news report
B.a science fiction
C.a research paper
D.a collection of experiments
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The Maryland Science Center stays open ______.
A.every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
B.almost all the weekdays and weekends
C.on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day