The ordinary family in colonial North America was primarilyconcerned with sheer physical survival and beyond that, its own economic prosperity. Thus, Children were valued in the terms of their (1) ______ productivity, and they assumed the role of producer quite early. Until they fulfilled this role, his position in the structure of the family (2) ______ was one of subordination, and their psychological needs and capacitiesreceived much consideration. (3) ______ As the society became more complex, the status or children inthe family and in the society become more obvious, each member (4) ______ must fulfill a number of personal and occupational role and be in (5) ______ constant contact with a great many other members. Consequently,viewing children potentially acceptable and necessarily multifaceted (6) ______ members of society means that they are regarded more as people intheir own right so as utilitarian organisms. This acceptance of (7) ______ children as equal participants in the contemporary family is reflected inthe variety of statutes protecting the rights of children and in the social and public welfare programs devoted exclusively in their (8) ______ wellbeing. This new view of children and the increasing contact betweenthe members of society has also resulted in a surge of interest inchild-rearing technique. People today spend a considerable portionof their time discussing the proper way to bring about children. It is (9) ______ now possible to influence the details of the socialization of anotherperson’s child in spreading the gospel of current and fashionable theories (10) ______ and methods of child rearing.
Are there exactly 3 distinct symbols used to create the code words in language Q ?() (1)The set of all code words in language Q is the set of all possible distinct horizonal arrangements of one or more symbols, with no repetition. (2)There are exactly 15 code words in language Q.
A. 条件(1)充分,但条件(2)不充分.
B. 条件(2)充分,但条件(1)不充分.
C. 条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分,但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分.
D. 条件(1)充分,条件(2)也充分.
E. 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分,条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分.
How Market Leaders Keep Their Edge Research finds that there are three methods with which big companies keep their advantages, and researchers name them three different value disciplines.1. Discipline of 1 Excellence: 1. ______. The company wins through cost. These companies usually try to provide customers with 2 and 2. ______. easy service, or both. They may also try their best to cut cost. Price/Costco is an example. 2. Discipline of Product 3 : 3. ______. This kind of companies usually win with product. These companies attract customers mainly by continuously 4 their product or services. 4. ______. In order to achieve this purpose, they have to challenge themselves in three ways: a. They must be 5 ; 5. ______. b. They must commercialize their 6 quickly; 6. ______. c. They must keep 7 . 7. ______.3. Discipline of Customer Intimacy: Companies of this kind mainly win with intimate 8 . 8. ______. Intimate customer relation is like the relation between close neighbours. These companies usually try to provide what a particular customer wants rather than what the 9 wants in general. 9. ______. These companies regard it important to understand customers and their need. 10 is the greatest assets to these companies. What they value is 10. ______. not instant profit, but relationships. Cable &. Wireless is an example of this type of companies.
St. Paul didn’t like it. Moses warned his people against it. Hesiod declared it "mischievous" and "hard to get rid of it," but Oscar Wilde said, "Gossip is charming." "History is merely gossip," he wrote in one of his famous plays. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.In times past, under Jewish law, gossipmongers might be fined or flogged. The Puritans put them in stocks or ducking stools, but no punishment seemed to have the desired effect of preventing gossip, which has continued uninterrupted across the back fences of the centuries.Today, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light. Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, even evolutionary biologists are concluding that gossip may not be so bad after all.Gossip is "an intrinsic valuable activity," philosophy professor Aaron Ben-Zee states in a book he has edited, entitled Good Gossip. For one thing, gossip helps us acquire information that we need to know that doesn’t come through ordinary channels, such as: "What was the real reason so-and-so was fired from the office" Gossip also is a form of social bonding, Dr. Ben-Zee says. It is "a kind of sharing" that also "satisfies the tribal need—namely, the need to belong to and be accepted by a unique group." What’s more, the professor notes, "Gossip is enjoyable."Another gossip groupie, Dr. Ronald De Sousa, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, describes gossip basically as a form of indiscretion and a "saintly virtue", by which he means that the knowledge spread by gossip will usually end up being slightly beneficial. "It seems likely that a world in which all information were universally available would be preferable to a world where immense power resides in the control of secrets," he writes.Still, everybody knows that gossip can have its ill effects, especially on the poor wretch being gossiped about. And people should refrain from certain kinds of gossip that might be harmful, even though the ducking stool is long out of fashion.By the way, there is also an interesting strain of gossip called medical gossip, which in its best form, according to researchers Jerry M. Sols and Franklin Goodwin, can motivate people with symptoms of serious illness, but who are unaware of it, to seek medical help.So go ahead and gossip. But remember, if (as often is the case among gossipers) you should suddenly become one of the gossipers instead, it is best to employ the foolproof defense recommended by Plato, who may have learned the lesson from Socrates, who as you know was the victim of gossip spread that he was corrupting the youth of Athens: When men speak ill of thee, so live that nobody will believe them. Or, as Will Rogers said, "Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.\ The author’s attitude toward "gossip" can be best described as().
A. neutral
B. positive
C. negative
D. indifferent