According to the author, we should reverse our classification of the physical sciences as “hard” and the social sciences as “soft” because ________.

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• 1The word “paradox” (Par

  A.1, Line 1) means “________”.A.implication

  B.contradiction

  C.interpretation

  D.confusion

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• 2The best title for the passage would be ________.

  A.Apple’s Efforts to Stay Ahead of IBM

  B.Apple’s New Computer Technology

  C.Apple’s New personal Computers

  D.Apple’s Research Activities

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• 3It can be inferred from the passage that both Apple and IBM try to gain a competitive advantage by ________.

  A.copying each other’s technology

  B.incorporating features that make their products distinctive

  C.making their computer more expensive

  D.making their computers run much faster

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• 4Apple sells its new computer models at a high price because ________.

  A.they have new features and functions

  B.they are more sophisticated than other models

  C.they have new accessories attached

  D.it wants to accumulate funds for future research

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• 5Apple hopes to increase Mackintosh sales chiefly by ________.

  A.making its new models capable of running IBM software

  B.improving the color graphics of its new models

  C.copying the marketing strategies of IBM

  D.giving the customers what they want

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• 6The author believes that our knowledge of social systems is more secure than that of physical systems because ________.

  A.it is not based on personal experience

  B.new discoveries are less likely to occur in social sciences

  C.it is based on a fairly representative quantity of data

  D.the records of social systems are more reliable

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• 7The chances of the physical sciences being subject to great changes are the biggest because ________.

  A.contradictory theories keep emerging all the time

  B.new information is constantly coming in

  C.the direction of their development is difficult to predict

  D.our knowledge of the physical world is inaccurate

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• 8We know less about the astronomical universe than we do about any social system because ________.

  A.theories of its origin and history are varied

  B.our knowledge of it is highly insecure

  C.only a very small sample of it has been observed

  D.few scientists are involved in the study of astronomy

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• 9What has made the procedure for licensing nuclear power plants a bad dream、

  A.The inefficiency of the Nuclear Regulation commission.

  B.The enormous cost of construction and operation.

  C.The length of time it takes to make investigations.

  D.The objection of the opponents of nuclear power.

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• 10It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that ________.

  A.it is not technical difficulties that prevent the building of nuclear power plants in the U.S.

  B.there are not enough safety measures in the U.S. for running new nuclear power plants

  C.there are already more nuclear power plants than necessary in the U.S.

  D.the American government will not allow Japanese nuclear reactors to be installed in the U.S.

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