The founders, as was the case of almost all their successors, were long on exhortation and rhetoric regarding the value of civic education, but they left it to the textbook writers to distill the essence of those values for school children.
It's time for us to （ ）the traditional Chinese architecture.
It is useful to be able to predict the extent （ ）which a price change will affect supply and demand.
They have developed computers that can understand things people say, and can now give a [A]meaning answer. But human intelligence is better than having a [B]good memory. It may be [C]possible to build computers that can remember a lot more than the human brain. [D]But humans can do a lot more.
Rarely （ ）a technological development （ ）an impact on many aspects of social, economic，and cultural development as greatly as the growth of electronics.
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An aesthetic sense, an instinct for beauty, is one of the universal attributes of human beings. …（1）While at its lowest level aesthetic appreciation is merely of anthropological or sociological interest, at its highest level, perhaps, it duplicates artistic creation and exists on the same plane. But certainly that “plane” is multi-dimensional. …Many possible reasons why human beings are responsive to beauty and need art in their lives can and have been adduced.（2）My own theory is that art concentrates and channels emotions and experiences that would otherwise be inchoate and unformed in the psyche; that is to say, it brings into sharp focus and gives form to shadowy promptings, conflicting emotions, and half-glimpsed impressions of universal situations such as love, loss, questions of life's origins and end, and so forth, and it allows us to see and feel these impressions clearly and intently. …Judging from the evidence of the media, however, the emotional nature of aesthetic pleasure is a well-kept secret.（3）Almost every time run across a mention of aesthetics in the large circulation cultural organs and opinion magazines, the discussion centers around the deep appreciation of art as art. It's as if the only aesthetic pleasure there is in poetry or fiction or music is in the recognition oftechnical devices and form. …Everything that makes art a powerful instrument in human life is dependent upon its being a medium for life, not a thing in itself.…（4）When the so-called aesthetic temperament wishes to expel from the holy citadel all that is extraneous to art, it ends up actually reducing art to the dry abstraction of mathematics. No, it cannot be emphasized enough: poetry is not words, music is not notes, painting is not brush strokes. Poetry is feeling: all art is feeling. The quality that makes apiece of art a great work is simply and only the depth of its humanity. While technical devices, form and genre are the flesh and bones ofan art, emotions are its soul. …Ultimately all aesthetic moments, like the art that draws them forth, are individualistic. … the aesthetic moment, then, requires two equal partners.（5）The artist must present an intrinsically moving subject universal in scope, and the appreciator must bring to the work the
