如题所述
大多数人会同意，虽然我们的年龄在知识上超过了以往所有的年龄。
英语是按照分布面积而言最流行的语言，但母语者数量是世界第三，仅次于汉语、西班牙语。它是学习最广泛的第二语言，是近60个主权国家的官方语言或官方语言之一。与英语为母语的人相比，将其作为第二语言学习的人更多。它是英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰等国家的母语，在加勒比海、非洲和南亚被广泛使用。
现代英语的传播
到18世纪后期，英国已通过其殖民地和地缘政治统治地位传播了英语。商业、科学技术、外交、艺术和正规教育都使英语成为第一种真正的全球语言。英语还促进了世界范围的国际交流。英格兰继续形成新的殖民地，后来这些殖民地发展了自己的言语和写作规范。
北美部分地区，非洲部分地区，大洋洲和许多其他地区都采用英语。当他们获得政治独立时，一些拥有多种土著语言的新独立国家选择继续使用英语作为官方语言，以避免将任何一种土著语言都推崇为另一种土著语言所固有的政治和其他困难。
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第1个回答 2012-04-29
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Most people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no corresponding increase in wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define "wisdom", and consider means of promoting it. There are several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of these I should put first a sense of proportion; the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each of its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind. You have no time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) as modern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant-death rate, not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the parts of the world that have the greatest populations. To take an even more dramatic example, which is in everybody’s mind at the present time: you study the makeup of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge, and by chance place in the hands of a powerful mad man the means of destroying the human race? Therefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom become more necessary, for every such increase arguments our capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise.
相关问题：
1. Disagreement arises when people try to decide ___C_______
A . whether wisdom can be developed or not
B . how much more wisdom we have now than before
C . what wisdom is, and how to develop it
D . if there is a great increase of wisdom in our age
2. According to the author, "wisdom" is the ability to ____B_______.
A . acquire a great deal of complex and special knowledge
B . give suitable consideration to all the possible elements in a problem
C . give each important problem some careful consideration
D . carefully consider the bad effect of any kind of research work
3. Lowering the infant death rate may _A_______.
A . cause food shortage in Asia and Africa
B . raise the living standard of the people in Africa
C . prove to be helpful everywhere in the world
D . give rise to an increase in population in Europe
4. The author uses the examples in the passage to illustrate his point that __B______.
A . it's unwise to be totally absorbed in research in
B . it's extremely difficult to consider all the important elements in a problem
C . success in medical research has its negative effects
D . scientists may unknowingly cause destruction to the human race
5. What is the main idea in the passageD
A . The more knowledge one has, the wiser one becomes
B . Wisdom increases in proportion to one's age
C . It is unwise to place the results of scientific research in the hands of a powerful mad man
D . Any increase of knowledge could lead to disastrous result without the guidance of wisdom
译文：
大多数人都同意，虽然我们的年龄超过了以前所有年龄在知识，智慧一直没有相应增加。但协议终止，只要我们试图定义“智慧”，并考虑促进。有几个因素，贡献智慧。这些我应该首先把分寸;能力采取帐户中的所有问题的一个重要因素，并附加到其应有的重视。这比它曾经是由于各类技术人员所需的专门知识的程度和复杂性变得更加困难。假设，例如，你是在从事科学的医学研究。这项工作是困难的，很可能吸收整个你的心灵。你有没有时间来考虑你的发现或发明的效果可能有医药领域之外。你成功让我们说，现代医学已经成功，极大地降低婴儿死亡率，不仅在欧洲和美国，而且在亚洲和非洲。这使食品供应不足和降低标准的生活有最大的人口在世界的部分完全意想不到的结果。要采取1更为显着的例子，它在每个人的心中是在目前的时间：你学习从1对知识的无私愿望原子的构成，并有机会在1强大的疯狂男子手中的地方破坏人类的手段比赛？因此，每增加知识和技能，智慧，变得更加必要，因为每一个这样的增长参数我们为实现我们的目的的能力，因此，如果我们的目的是不明智的，邪恶的扩充我们的能力。本回答被提问者采纳
Most people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no corresponding increase in wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define "wisdom", and consider means of promoting it. There are several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of these I should put first a sense of proportion; the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each of its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind. You have no time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) as modern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant-death rate, not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the parts of the world that have the greatest populations. To take an even more dramatic example, which is in everybody’s mind at the present time: you study the makeup of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge, and by chance place in the hands of a powerful mad man the means of destroying the human race? Therefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom become more necessary, for every such increase arguments our capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise.
相关问题：
1. Disagreement arises when people try to decide ___C_______
A . whether wisdom can be developed or not
B . how much more wisdom we have now than before
C . what wisdom is, and how to develop it
D . if there is a great increase of wisdom in our age
2. According to the author, "wisdom" is the ability to ____B_______.
A . acquire a great deal of complex and special knowledge
B . give suitable consideration to all the possible elements in a problem
C . give each important problem some careful consideration
D . carefully consider the bad effect of any kind of research work
3. Lowering the infant death rate may _A_______.
A . cause food shortage in Asia and Africa
B . raise the living standard of the people in Africa
C . prove to be helpful everywhere in the world
D . give rise to an increase in population in Europe
4. The author uses the examples in the passage to illustrate his point that __B______.
A . it's unwise to be totally absorbed in research in
B . it's extremely difficult to consider all the important elements in a problem
C . success in medical research has its negative effects
D . scientists may unknowingly cause destruction to the human race
5. What is the main idea in the passageD
A . The more knowledge one has, the wiser one becomes
B . Wisdom increases in proportion to one's age
C . It is unwise to place the results of scientific research in the hands of a powerful mad man
D . Any increase of knowledge could lead to disastrous result without the guidance of wisdom
译文：
大多数人都同意，虽然我们的年龄超过了以前所有年龄在知识，智慧一直没有相应增加。但协议终止，只要我们试图定义“智慧”，并考虑促进。有几个因素，贡献智慧。这些我应该首先把分寸;能力采取帐户中的所有问题的一个重要因素，并附加到其应有的重视。这比它曾经是由于各类技术人员所需的专门知识的程度和复杂性变得更加困难。假设，例如，你是在从事科学的医学研究。这项工作是困难的，很可能吸收整个你的心灵。你有没有时间来考虑你的发现或发明的效果可能有医药领域之外。你成功让我们说，现代医学已经成功，极大地降低婴儿死亡率，不仅在欧洲和美国，而且在亚洲和非洲。这使食品供应不足和降低标准的生活有最大的人口在世界的部分完全意想不到的结果。要采取1更为显着的例子，它在每个人的心中是在目前的时间：你学习从1对知识的无私愿望原子的构成，并有机会在1强大的疯狂男子手中的地方破坏人类的手段比赛？因此，每增加知识和技能，智慧，变得更加必要，因为每一个这样的增长参数我们为实现我们的目的的能力，因此，如果我们的目的是不明智的，邪恶的扩充我们的能力。本回答被提问者采纳
第2个回答 2012-04-29
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