Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today. [Specific Task Instruction: Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.]
1. 在你的印象中,过去的生活和现在的生活之间有哪些差别?今天有哪些事物是过去没有的?哪些事物一直存在,但是和过去相比,在内涵上发生了改变?请举例并简述。
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changed:
1.search for information
2.get contact with friends--cell phone, facebook
2. 历史对于现在的人们的影响和意义主要体现在哪些方面?影响方式有哪些?人们参考历史的目的是什么?请举例并简述。
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History is the magical crystal ball to tell the future. Humanity, the common characteristics that all human being shares, remains the same after thousands years of history, though out appearance of human has dramatically changed. Therefore, we may conclude that the present or the future society is, to some extent, the consequences of the logical development of the world. Once objectively and reasonably explained and applied, history may provide us models of how the society functions, and predicts the future.
However, the changes and intangibility of the true world decide that what the history researches is not likely to include every tiny detail, but the macro outline of the constitution and characteristics of the society. Thus, we shall pay more attention to analyze the current issue with its paticularity, but not use anything in the history without any change.
1、自然科学领域
Inheriting Copernicus' achievment, Galileo, a scientist who inducted experimental method into scientific researches, invented telescope, which made people learn that the earth is not the center of universe. After many years, on the basis of Galileo's contribution, Newton founded the Law of Gravity, which explains the law of motion. Newton once claimed that If I have seen farther than others, that is because I stand on the shoulders of giants. The giants he referred to is the very knowledge in the field of physics accumulated by prior physicists, which helped him to achieve his systematic law of classical physics.
2、在社会科学领域
Aristotle, a famous philosopher, was believed by Greek citizens to know everything at that time. But where did the wisdom of Aristotle come from? One can find that Aristotle was a student of Plato's and many achievements of Aristotle were inherited, more or less, from Plato. What is more, most of the knowledge and wisdom of Plato came from Socrates, the teacher of Plato, also a famous Greek thinker.
3. 是不是只有和现在完全一样的历史事件才会对今天的生活有指导意义?如果不是?那么怎样的事情是有指导意义的?请举例说明。
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3.Economic theories and systems are improved with every financial crises. After the Great Depression, we realized the role that government can play in the macroeconomic activities. We shall not only rely on the market itselt, but also the manipulation of the government, known as "invisible hands" by Adam Smith. In the recent financial crises, we realized the importance of financial regulation.
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No. There are no exact the same incidents. The analysis of history aims at summurize the abstraction that could be used later. The almost extinction of bison can be an alarm to people in any country that never over-hunting animals even if there were once ten trillions of them, from which we can also realize we shall never abuse the resource on the planet, no matter how abandunt that may be.
Aristotle's view that earth is the center of the universe may be the truth thousands years ago. However, with the development of astronomical observation people like Copernicus gradually realized that the sun, rather than the earth, is more likely to be the center of the universe. Now we know that the Sun is just the center of the Solar system, which belies Copernicus' assumption, but the story enlightens us that the earth is only a normal planet rather than the center of some galaxy, and that we shall dare question the autority to persuit the truth.
4. 你读过什么过去的书籍?你认为它们是过时还是对你现在的生活有指导意义?请举例说明。
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The value of the Holy Bible may never fade with time gone by. It enlightens the spirit of human being, encourages the good and disparages the evil, guiding us to go foward.
5. 你的父母是否曾经用他们过去的经验来给你一些指导?你认为有用么?为什么?请举例说明。
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6. 过去的一些经验或者事情是否会对人造成误导?请举例说明。
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