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2004年英语专八考试阅读真题:text K

考研英语  时间: 2019-04-08 14:13:09  作者: 匿名 

  TEXT K

  First read the questions.
  39. Who has written Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory?
  A. Michael G.Zey.
  B. Stephen Bertman.
  C. Don Tapscott, et al.
  D. Marvin Cetron et al.

  40. Which book is a collection of papers?
  A. Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs.
  B. Cheating Death: The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever.
  C. The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny.
  D. The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Future of the University.

  Now go through TEXT K quickly to answer questions 39 and 40.
  Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy.Harvard Business School Press. 2000. 272 pages.
  Electronic business webs have demolished the rules of competition. Innovative partnerships of digitally linked producers, suppliers, service providers, and customers are accelerating productivity and generating wealth in entirely new ways.
  This book offers a behind the scenes look at success stories such as Linux, eBay, and Cisco, and provides a step by step process for implementing an effective business-web strategy.
  Regular Price:$27.50
  The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Future of the University
  edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley.
  Bergin & Garvey/Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. 270 pages.
  This anthology of essays from scholars around the world describes how the forces
  of technology and economic globalization may alter what we think of as higher education. Topics include the virtual university, paying for college, feminist a
  lternative universities, the role of corporations in higher education, and the rise of "multiversities".
  Regular Price:$65.00
  The Future Factor: The Five Force Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny by Michael G.Zey.
  McGraw Hill. 2000. 289 pages.
  This optimistic vision of the human future argues that unprecedented opportunities for growth are emerging from breathtaking innovations in biotechnology, computing, robotics, medicine, energy development, and space technology. Powerful new forces altering society and the global economy include cybergenesis, the merging of humans and smart machines, and biogenesis, the harnessing of genetic technologies to improve ourselves.
  Regular Price: $24.95
  Cheating Death: The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever by Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies.
  St. Martin's Press. 1998. 224 pages.
  With advances in medicine and new gene research, the human life?span could extend hundreds of years. But a future of billions of people "cheating death" could have devastating impacts on societies, the economy, the environment, and family life.
  Regular Price: $21.95
  Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory by Stephen Bertman.
  Praeger. 2000. 176 pages.
  American society is losing its memory: 60% of American adults cannot name the president who ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb, and 42% of college seniors cannot place the Civil War in the correct half of the nineteenth century.
  This loss of culture memory, as insidious as Alzheimer's disease, eats away at the soul of the nation, says Bertman, author of Hyperculture. He argues that, to build a culture worthy of the future, Americans need to move away from their materialistic, present?oriented lives and get more in touch with other dimensions of time.
  Regular Price: $35.00

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