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大学英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(三)
Part Writing 30 minutes
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Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay related to the short passage
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given below.In your essay you are to comment on the phenomenon described in the passage and give
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your opinion and reasons. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
Recently there is a hot debate on whether the school campus should be open to the public at any
time or in a limited period of time.Some people favor the former, while others the latter.
Part Listening Comprehension 30 minutes
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Section A
Directions In this section you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation
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you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After
you hear a question you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and
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D . Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
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Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) Your heart rate is lowered. C) You become too tired to sleep.
B) It becomes harder to relax. D) Sleep rhythms are disrupted.
2. A) Having a rest frequently during the day.
B) The lack of sleep on weekends.
C) The lack of exercise in the evening.
D) Eating cheese before going to bed.
3. A) They might actually cause more serious sleeping problems.
B) They help produce a substance that induces sleep.
C) You must not drink milk if you take them.
D) They make it unnecessary to take naps.
4. A) At a doctor’s office. C) At a radio station.
B) In a biology lab. D) In a lecture hall.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) A movie. C) A poem.
B) A book. D) A drama.
6. A) It is as good as the previous ones.
B) It is more fantastic than the previous ones.
C) It is funnier than the previous ones.
D) It is worse than the previous ones.
7. A) The funny dialogues. C) The outstanding actors.
B) The special effects. D) The mysterious roles.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第1页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店8. A) The overall plot. C) The boring writing.
B) The theme song. D) The character development.
Section B
Directions In this section you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage you will hear
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three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a
question you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and D . Then
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mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre
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Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) Improve themselves. C) Follow the cultural tradition.
B) Get rid of empty dreams. D) Attempt something impossible.
10. A) By finding sufficient support for implementation.
B) By taking into account their own ability to change.
C) By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goals.
D) By making detailed plans and carrying them out.
11. A) To show people how to get their lives back to normal.
B) To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.
C) To remind people to check the calories on food bags.
D) To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) Germany. C) The US.
B) Japan. D) The UK.
13. A) By doing odd jobs at weekends.
B) By working long hours every day.
C) By putting in more hours each week.
D) By taking shorter vacations each year.
14. A) To combat competition and raise productivity.
B) To provide them with more job opportunities.
C) To help them maintain their living standards.
D) To prevent them from holding a second job.
15. A) Change their jobs. C) Reduce their working hours.
B) Earn more money. D) Strengthen the government’s role.
Section C
Directions In this section you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or
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four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question you must choose
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the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and D . Then mark the corresponding
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letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre
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Questions 16 to 19 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) Try different classes to make sure which major fits you.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第2页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店B) Never change majors once you’ve just started the course.
C) Change majors once a year to prepare for your future career.
D) Make a right decision about majors before you start college.
17. A) Learning how to change majors.
B) Deciding which professor to follow.
C) Learning how to manage time.
D) Making sure how to learn.
18. A) Different experiences in Europe.
B) Different social and sport organizations.
C) Different majors in your college.
D) Different part-time jobs.
19. A) We can spend most time having fun in college.
B) We are able to find our spouse in college.
C) We can keep healthy mentally and physically in college.
D) We can develop our personalities and make friends in college.
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
20. A) Practising in a friendly environment.
B) Writing articles on relevant subjects.
C) Giving members the chance to practise.
D) Going to different weekly meetings.
21. A) Sending all messages simultaneously to the audience.
B) Learning from a famous public-speaking professor.
C) Simplifying and breaking down the presentation.
Speaking of Speech
D) Using a book named .
22. A) The visual message shown to the audience.
B) The physical message sent through body movements.
C) The three basic messages sent by presenters.
D) The verbal message presenters say to the audience.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
23. A) They affect all agricultural production worldwide.
B) They impact most part of the crops in the field.
C) They destroy up to 22% of the crops before harvest.
D) They destroy about 10% to 16% of the world’s crops in the field.
24. A) Unusual insects. C) Different organisms.
B) Crop pests and diseases. D) Only viruses and bacteria.
25. A) It will put the productive farmland in danger.
B) It may improve conditions for some invasive species.
C) It is a warning sign for people to do something.
D) It may push crop pests moving toward the poles.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第3页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店Part Reading Comprehension 40 minutes
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Section A
Directions In this section there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word
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for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage
through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the
centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once
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As the recent courgette( ) crisis and shortages of lettuces, eggplants and broccoli(
椰菜
) have shown, Spain’s fame as the vegetable garden of Europe is well deserved. The country’s
huge agricultural sector—courgettes, lettuces, tomatoes and strawberries— 26 a huge demand.
There has been a major 27 towards mechanization since the 1950s, but just as in the UK,
many crops still need to be harvested by hand, and many farmers rely on migrant labour. Even where
mechanisation can be used, picking machines tend to be too expensive and 28 for small-scale
farmers.
The tension between locals and migrant workers, 29 from North and Sub-Saharan Africa and
Eastern Europe—is not a big problem, as many of the foreign workers have proper 30 and return to
the same farms year after year. They’re known and that’s important.
Alfrut—a company in the south-western province of Huelva that exports strawberries, raspberries,
and other fruits around the EU—still harvests by hand. “There is a machine that gathers strawberries,
but you have to 31 the crop to the machine,” says Agustin Muriel, a technical and quality control
expert at Alfrut. “If we were to use machines, we would have to 32 our entire infrastructure and it
would require a lot of investment in machinery, which is designed mainly for large areas and really big
companies.”
He adds that the 33 , manual approach is likely to continue for the 34 future, as fruit
prices aren’ t high enough to allow farmers to make big 35 in machinery or spend money
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reconfiguring( ) their operations.
A) adapt I) investments
B) attach J) modify
C) contracts K) predominantly
D) feeds L) preference
E) foreseeable M) shift
F) heralds N) traditional
G) impractical O) unexpectedly
H) inaccessible
Section B
Directions In this section you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each
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statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the
information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked
with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
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2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第4页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店A Best Friend You Must Be Kidding
?
A) From the time they met in kindergarten until they were 15, Robin Shreeves and her friend
Penny were inseparable. They rode bikes, played kickball in the street, swam all summer long and
listened to music on the stereo. They told each other secrets like which boys they thought were cute, as
best friends always do.
B) Today, Ms. Shreeves, of suburban Philadelphia, is the mother of two boys. Her 10-year-old
has a best friend. In fact, he is the son of Ms. Shreeves’s own friend, Penny. But Ms. Shreeves’s
younger son, 8, does not. His favorite playmate is a boy who was in his preschool class, but Ms.
Shreeves says that the two don’ t get together very often because scheduling play dates can be
complicated; they usually have to be planned a week or more in advance. “He’ll say, ‘I wish I had
someone I can always call,’” Ms. Shreeves said.
C) One might be tempted to feel some sympathy for the younger son. After all, from Tom Sawyer
and Huck Finn to Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, the childhood “best friend” has long been
romanticized in literature and pop culture—not to mention in the sentimental memories of countless
adults.
D) But increasingly, some educators and other professionals who work with children are asking a
question that might surprise their parents: Should a child really have a best friend?
E) Most children naturally seek close friends. In a survey of nearly 3,000 Americans aged 8 to
24 conducted last year by Harris Interactive, 94 percent said they had at least one close friend. But the
classic best-friend bond—the two special pals who share secrets and exploits, who attract each other on
the playground and who head out the door together every day after school—signals potential trouble for
school officials intent on discouraging anything that hints at exclusivity, in part because of concerns
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about cliques( ) and bullying.
F) “I think it is kids’ preference to pair up and have that one best friend. As adults—teachers
and counselors—we try to encourage them not to do that,” said Christine Laycob,the director of
counseling at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis. “We try to talk to kids and
work with them to get them to have big groups of friends and not to be so possessive about friends.”
“Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend,” she continued. “We say he doesn’t
need a best friend.”
G) For many child-rearing experts, the ideal situation might well be that of Matthew and Margaret
Guest, 12-year-old twins in suburban Atlanta, who almost always socialize in a pack. One typical
Friday afternoon, about 10 boys and girls filled the Guest family backyard. Kids were jumping on the
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trampoline( ), shooting baskets and playing hide-and-seek. Neither Margaret nor Matthew has ever
had a best friend. “I just really don’t have one person I like more than others,” Margaret said. “Most
people have lots of friends,” Matthew said. He considers 12 boys to be his good friends and he sees
most of them “pretty much every weekend”. Their mother, Laura Guest, said their school tries to
prevent bullying through workshops and posters. And extracurricular activities keep her children group-
oriented—Margaret is on the swim team and does gymnastics; Matthew plays football and baseball.
H) As the calendar moves into summer, efforts to manage friendships don’t stop with the closing
of school. In recent years Timber Lake Camp, a co-ed sleep-away camp in Phoenicia, has started
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第5页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店employing “friendship coaches” to work with campers to help every child become friends with everyone
else. If two children seem to be too focused on each other, the camp will make sure to put them on
different sports teams, seat them at different ends of the dining table or, perhaps, have a counselor
invite one of them to participate in an activity with another child whom they haven’t yet gotten to
know. “I don’t think it’s particularly healthy for a child to rely on one friend,” said Jay Jacobs, the
camp’s director. “If something goes wrong, it can be devastating. It also limits a child’s ability to
explore other options in the world.”
I) But such an attitude worries some psychologists who fear that children will be denied the strong
emotional support and security that comes with intimate friendships. “Do we want to encourage kids to
have all sorts of superficial relationships? Is that how we really want to rear our children?” asked Brett
Laursen, a psychology professor at Florida Atlantic University whose specialty is peer
relationships. “Imagine the implication for romantic relationships. We want children to get good at
leading close relationships,not superficial ones.” Many psychologists believe that close childhood
friendships not only increase a child’s self-esteem and confidence, but also help children develop the
skills for healthy adult relationships—everything from empathy, the ability to listen and console, to the
process of arguing and making up. If children’s friendships are designed and cleaned by adults, the
argument goes: How is a child to prepare emotionally for both the affection and rejection likely to come
later in life?
J) “No one can teach you what a great friend is, what a fair-weather friend is, what a betraying
friend is except to have a great friend, a fair-weather friend or a betraying friend,” said Michael
Best Friends Worst Enemies Understanding the
Thompson, a psychologist who is an author of the book , :
Social Lives of Children.
“When a teacher is trying to tone down a best-friend culture, I would like to
know why,” Dr. Thompson said. “Is it causing misery for the class? Or is there one girl who does have
friends but just can’t bear the thought that she doesn’t have as good a best friend as another? That to
me is normal social pain. If you’re intervening in the lives of kids who are just experiencing normal
social pain, you shouldn’t be.”
K) Schools insist they don’t intend to break up close friendships but rather to encourage courtesy,
respect and kindness to all. “I don’t see schools really in the business of trying to prevent friendships
as they are trying to give students an opportunity to interact socially with other students in a variety of
different ways,” said Patti Kinney, who was a teacher and a principal in an Oregon middle school for
33 years and is now an official at the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
L) Still, school officials admit they watch close friendships carefully for adverse effects. “When
two children discover a special bond between them, we honor that bond, provided that neither child
overtly or covertly excludes or rejects others,” said Jan Mooney, a psychologist at the Town School, a
nursery through eighth grade private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. “However, the
bottom line is that if we find a best friend pairing to be destructive to either child, or to others in the
classroom, we will not hesitate to separate children and to work with the children and their parents to
ensure healthier relationships in the future.”
36. Some psychologists believe that close friendships can offer strong emotional support and
security.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第6页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店37. Ms. Shreeves’s younger son does not play with his favorite playmate very often due to the
complexity of scheduling play dates.
38. Patti Kinney thinks that schools are not against close friendships but trying to help kids
socialize with all fellow students.
39. For school officials, the best-friend bond can be troublesome partly because it may result in
cliques or bullying.
40. According to Dr. Thompson, kids should experience for themselves normal social pain without
the intervention of adults.
41. Christine Laycob believes that adults should discourage kids from being possessive about
friends.
42. Brett Laursen encourages children to have close relationships rather than superficial ones.
43. Many child-rearing experts advocate that children socialize in a pack like Matthew and
Margaret.
44. If an intimate friendship brings about adverse effects, school officials will take measures to
separate the intimate friends.
45. In Timber Lake Camp, campers are prevented from relying on one friend too much.
Section C
Directions There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or
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unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A B C and D . You
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should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single
line through the centre
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Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Police officers may hope that their presence in schools will help them build strong relationships with
students, improving police-community relations over the long term. But achieving that goal may require
rethinking law enforcement’s role in education, a new report suggests.
Education Week
Looking at federal data from the 2013-2014 school year, researchers at found that
students in schools with at least one school resource officer(SRO) were 1.5 times likely to be arrested
than their peers in schools that did not have a police presence. The disparity is particularly stark for
black students, possibly because police presence is concentrated in districts with a higher proportion of
minority students. Black boys were three times more likely to be arrested at school than white boys, the
report found.
Rather than building relationships and improving outcomes, students who are arrested or referred to
law enforcement can see a drop in school performance and are disproportionately more likely to get
involved with the law again as adults, researchers say. Racial bias means that outcomes are particularly
poor in communities of color.
Spurred by rising fears of violent crime during the 1980s and 1990s, some schools began turning to
police to increase safety on campus. With federal funding, their presence only grew. Following
tragedies like the school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, an increasing number of
parents called for security measures like metal detectors and armed officers. By 2013-2014, 44,000
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店“school resource officers” worked in schools on a full-or part-time basis.
In some cases, hiring these officers has resulted in an impressive drop in incidents. But the
national picture is less positive. Particularly in schools with a high proportion of minorities, the SROs
are overused, taking on disciplinary functions that classroom teachers have traditionally performed,
experts say.
Arresting students, rather than having a classroom teacher discipline them, brings financial and
emotional costs. An American Civil Liberties Union report found that arrested students were twice as
likely to drop out of high school—and for those who appeared in court, that figure doubled.
Compounding the problem, the cost of employing school resource officers means many schools with
a police presence are less likely to have school counselors who can keep an eye on the psychological and
Education Week
developmental effects of arrests on children, reported. Detaining students also drains
the budget of money that could be used to educate them.
纪律严明者
So how can police officers help ensure safety without becoming disciplinarians( ) who
grease the school-to-prison pipeline? Training is key, National Association of School Resource Officers
Education Week
executive director Mo Canady told . SROs should see themselves not only as members of
law enforcement, but also embrace their role as educators on issues like drug prevention and as informal
counselors for students, Mr. Canady said.
46. The federal data quoted in Paragraph Two indicate that .
A) schools in minority district are in need of SROs
B) police officers tend to arrest minority students
C) the existence of SROs intensifies campus violence
D) the SROs may have failed to function as expected
47. What may be the negative effect of deploying SROs?
A) It exerted more law enforcement than necessary.
B) It disturbed the normal teaching practices.
C) It posed risks to students’ psychological health.
D) It frustrated the enthusiasm of faculty members.
48. What does the author think of the measure of employing SROs?
A) Its real effect remains to be seen.
B) It should be vigorously promoted.
C) There’s still room for improvement.
D) It causes more harm than good.
49. What does “grease the school-to-prison pipeline”(Line 2, Para. 8) most probably mean?
A) To effectively prevent juvenile crime.
B) To lead more students to be arrested.
C) To help ensure the safety on campus.
D) To tighten the school-to-prison link.
50. In the last paragraph, the author advises the SROs to .
A) work harder to ensure school safety
B) reinforce their roles as disciplinarians
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店C) adjust their function in education
D) care more about students’ mental health
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the
veins in their fingertips.
Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique
vein pattern to identify themselves.
The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in “serious talks” with other major UK
supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
红外线
It works by using infrared( ) to scan people’s finger veins and then links this unique
生物特征识别的
biometric( ) map to their bank cards. Customers’ bank details are then stored with
payment provider Worldpay, in the same way you can store your card details when shopping
online. Shoppers can then turn up to the supermarket with nothing on them but their own hands and use
it to make payments in just three seconds.
It comes as previous studies have found fingerprint recognition, used widely on mobile phones, is
vulnerable to being hacked and can be copied even from finger smears left on phone screens.
But Sthaler claims vein technology is the most secure biometric identification method as it cannot
be copied or stolen.
Sthaler said dozens of students were already using the system and it expected 3,000 students out of
13,000 to have signed up by November.
Vein scanners are also used as a way of accessing high-security UK police buildings and authorising
internal trading at least one major British investment bank.
The firm is also in discussions with nightclubs, gyms about using the technology to verify
membership and even Premier League football clubs to check whether people have the right access to
VIP hospitality areas.
The technology uses an infrared light to create a detailed map of the vein pattern in your finger. It
requires the person to be alive, meaning in the unlikely event that if a criminal hacks off someone’s
finger, it would not work. Sthaler said it takes just one minute to sign up to the system initially and,
after that, it takes just seconds to place your finger in a scanner each time you reach the supermarket
checkout.
Daily Telegraph
Simon Binns, commercial director of Sthaler, told the : “This makes payments so
much easier for customers. They don’t need to carry cash or cards. They don’t need to remember a
PIN number. You just bring yourself. This is the safest form of biometrics. There are no known
incidences where this security has been breached. When you put your finger in the scanner it checks
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you are alive, it checks for a pulse, and it checks for haemoglobin( ). Your vein pattern is
secure because it is kept on a database in an encrypted form, as binary numbers. No card details are
stored with the retailer or ourselves; it is held with Worldpay, in the same way it is when you buy
online.”
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三） 第9页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店51. It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that .
A) the Costcutter store offers the finger vein payment in the world first
B) there are no two identical fingerprints in the world
C) Sthaler has spread its finger vein recognition technology to the overseas market
D) customers have their finger veins scanned at the checkout in British supermarkets
52. Making payments with the finger vein scanners in physical stores and submitting payments
online .
A) show the difference in how to link to shoppers’ bank cards
B) choose the same storage location for users’ bank details
C) yield the same better-than-expected results
D) differ in the degree of difficulty in the payment process
53. Fingerprint identification technology is .
A) widely applied in communication
B) most exposed to cyber attacks
C) likely to be duplicated from finger marks
D) the safest way of biometric recognition
54. The finger vein scanners are already used to authenticate users to get into .
A) universities C) investment banks
B) police stations D) VIP sections
55. As to the technology developed by his company, Simon Binns pointed out that .
A) there was no use paying with someone else’s finger
B) customers didn’t have to waste energy memorizing ID numbers
C) no severe safety accidents arose in its system
D) neither Sthaler nor the sellers preserved customers’ card details
Part Translation 30 minutes
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Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into
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English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2
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中国数千年的传统文化对当代的年轻人来说是一笔宝贵的财富 它既体现在百花齐放
。
的政治学和哲学之中 也融入在精美绝伦的手工制品之内 当代中国正以一种史无前例的
, 。
速度急速发展 它急需寻找其独特的文化根基 同时它又需要中国人对自己的传统文化建立
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起信心和自豪感 此外 传统文化中蕴含的先贤之道可以帮助我们解决旷日持久的棘手问题
。 , 。
儒家 的伦理学教会我们三省吾身的同时又要尊敬别人 而墨家 的兼爱理论
(Confucius) , (Mencius)
可以用来打破今日的战争僵局
。
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