believe
or
hope
that
this
“simple”explanation is the true one.
2 According to Time magazine,a conference was held recently in which the participants tried to come up with an appropriate name for the age we live in.
3 Creating and maintaining a healthy scientific culture is the aim of science management,and it involves tending to both the intellectual and the institutional conditions of basic resesrch.
4 Now there is a lot of quarreling between people who uphold the truth of old weather rthymes and people who are reluctant to believe in them. 5 Primarily,the banker-customer relationship is one of/is that of debtor and creditor-who is which depending on whether the customer”s account is in credit or is overdrawn.
6 Teenagers”acceptance of the idea that they must get a college degree stems partyly from the advice they get in high school.
7 The Higher Eduacation Institute has found that students with a C average in high school were six times as likely to drop out of college as those with an A average.
8 Piling up debts from students loans hurts those who never finish college or who finish but were unemployed.
9 However, their ultimates success will require improvements in their academic preparation, as well as changes in the attitudes of parents, high schools and colleges.
10 There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person’s true abilities. 1. Book publishers find it even harder than Hollywood film producers to come up with new scripts and new stars that catch the public imagination.
2. One reason why science is so respected these days is that the image of the scientist is of one who dispassionately collects data in an impartial search for truth.
3. Burdened with a population that is aging quickly,
eating badly, smoking too much, not taking enough exercise and suffering the consequence, Japan’s national health service is on the brink of bankruptcy.
4. During the first year of his coalition government, Mr Jospin who made honesty a central theme of his campaign has appeared repeatedly to have gone back on his word.
5. The theatre is mainly concentrated in London, where there are at least forty theatres functioning, and a successful play can continue to run for many months or even years.
6. Daniel Yankelovich, a prominent opinion researcher, considers the most distinctive change in American values of the last twenty years to have been an increasing emphasis on the pursuit of self-fulfillment.
7. No one would object to seeing these problems solved if the solutions were simple and inexpensive of effort and if we were fully in accord with social goals.
8. Faced with rapid change and fear and uncertainty to go with it, individuals as well as nations sometimes seek to return to the ways of the past as a solution.
9.The Great Society Democratic coalition was built from the top among the best educated and those most committed to expanding individual rights, and from the bottom among those with the lowest incomes and disadvantaged minority voters who faced widespread discrimination.
10. The crowd, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the soccer team, pressed against the fence separating them from the playing field.
1：It is absurd to spend more money on highways .the wise solution for overcrowded roads is public transportation.
2：Americans have not thought their cities worthy of receiving financial support from the federal government.
3:MR.fleming was surprised to see me sitting behind his desk. He gave me a startled look,then smiled and said “I didn’t know you were in town”. 4:His behaviour became more and more unusual
until,just as his family was on the verge of sending him to a mental hospital,he recovered.
5:Cancer of the mouth and throat is more likely to occur in heavy smokers and drinkers than in nonsmokers and nondrinkers.
6:When peoper understand the importance of work,they lend their mental strengths But when they get excited about the work,all their energy gets poured into the job.
7:Public opinion is still largely unaware of or indifferent to the need to preserve rare species,whether for cultural or for scientific reasons.
8:The exponential growth of population and its attendant assault on the environment is so recent that it is difficult for people to conceive how much damage is being done.
9:Because migration on a scale large enough to alleviate the pressure is out of the question,there are no other possibilities.
10:The fundamental problem is that no one,not doctors,or social workers or even addicts themselves,really understands what it is that drivers a person to addiction.
1. Most conservationists believe that humans thrive best in ecological health and that the sign of this health is the survival of a diversity of wild animals. 2. Mr. Smith produced abundant evidence to indicate that we, to some extent, diminish ourselves if we diminish nature.
3. Many cities in Western countries have switched to a new gasoline formula that reduces the pollution content. This is also true of some cities in China.
4. As depicted in a poem written by the English poet Edmund Spenser, nature is not only a mother buta judge, having jurisdiction over and doing justice to all creatures.
5. A government study concludes that besides overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems the city is up against are noise and pollution.
6. Unlike all other creatures, humans have the ability to act on their judgment.
7. Don't you agree with the statement that health without wealth is preferable to wealth without health.
8. Even those defenders of industrial economy have to acknowledge openly that any conflict between humans and nature often occurs at the expense of both.
9. If your friend kindly points out a fault you have, take what is said not merely pleasantly, but thankfully.
10. One of the differences between humans and wild animals is that (or lies in that) the former can make a wise choice as to the kind and scale of the change they make to nature.
1. The greater the reputation of the business school ,the greater the risk that its graduates will rely on management theory instead of personal creativity
2. Among men, the typical worker between the ages 45 and 54 has been with his present employer 12 years and about a third have been there 20 years or more.
3. From the viewpoint of the insured person, an insurable risk is one for which the probability of loss is not so high as to require excessive premiums.
4. The software is ideal for situation where companies need to keep an accurate track of which members of the staff have taken courses and how they perform on themselves.
5. The absolute increase in population, coupled with such trend as urbanization and greater mobility, clearly presents serious threats, especially for the less developed countries.
6. The greater American supermarket is a wonderful place with a much greater variety of healthy food than has ever been available before. 7. Witnesses from the neighborhood find it difficult to explain why they didn’t call the police.
8. Acquiring education is the principal way of gaining status in a culture that generally stresses skillfulness and upward mobility.
9. With the doctor’s encouragement, the patient took heart and pulled himself together to follow the
doctor’s advice.
10. The purpose of much of the current zoological research is to find ways to preserve endangered animals whose species are on the edge of extinction.
By the 1950s,children in America came to be highly valued.However,the last 20 years has evidenced very sharp changes in values toward children.As women entered the work force they moved
away
from
strong
motherhood
responsibilities that had prevailed in the past.Closely associated with the increase of women in the work force have been sharply reduced fertility rates.When this element is added to a longer life span,many women now spend a smaller percentage of their lives raising children.In1979,as few as 19 percent of U.S.households were ones where the husband worked,the wife was at home,and there were one or more children at home.In general, it can be argued that the child-centered approach to childrearing is rapidly disappearing.This means that an increasing number of young couples are planning their families with an eye to their careers.The willingnes of most mothers to put their children into day-care centers and full-time preschools reflects a middle-class
attitude
toward
children
and
childrearing.Parents today,particularly women,see themselves as having personal rights—rights to self realization through meaningful,productive work.In a family where both parents work,the children soon learn that they are not the center of the universe no matter how much they may want to be. There are many parents who believe that their emotional needs are as important as their’s.This is reflected in the increased proportion of divorces that involve children.
1. It is required by law that a husband has to pay the debts of his wife until formal notice is given that he no longer has to pay them. 2. Much as I have traveled, I have never seen anyone to equal her in thoroughness, whatever the job.
3. Einstein’s advocacy of civil disobedience and
public encouragement of people to refuse conscription did little to endearing himself to his colleagues.
4. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, high-technology firms are those companies whose research and development expenditures and number of technical employees are twice as great as the average for all manufacturing firms. 5. The text and dialogues below focus on cultural differences between Chinese and Western societies which can create misunderstanding if ignored. 6. Although we arrived at roughly the same conclusion, Mr. Sanders saw the thing quite differently from the way I saw it. 7. The problem of making a robot respond to the presence of objects in different places such as steps of the staircase has already been solved.
8. Without a degree and with no experience of doing office work, the young man was no more fit to be a secretary than any of us.
9. One sign that she is making progress in art courses such as painting or photography is that she begins to realize how much there is to learn. 10. Since I once learned English in Canada and later on visited Canada a number of times, my colleagues and the university students have been asking me
again
and
again
about
the
characteristics of Canada English.
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