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作业练习：
1. As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human language, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressive--- there exists no language in the world cannot convey any complex ideas.
2. Mr. Mc Whorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for example, to be nature and no more regrettable than the loss of case-endings of Old English.
3. An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers.
4. The researchers made great progress in early 1970s, when they discovered that the ontogenes, which is a cancer-causing, are inactive in normal cells.
5. Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate their speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers.
6. Many life’s problems, which were solved by asking family members, friends, and colleagues are beyond the capability of extended family to resolve.
7. In Europe, as elsewhere, multi-media groups have been increasingly successful groups which bring together television, radio, magazine, and publishing house that work relation to one another.
8. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” classes, who had retired on their income, and who had no relation to the rest of community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholder’s meeting to dictate their orders to management.
9. Creating a “Europe Identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old continent is not easy task and demands a strategic choice.
10. The “shareholders” as such had no knowledge of lives, thoughts and needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held share, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.
11. After six months of arguing, and final hot parliamentary debate, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first authority in the world to allow doctors to take lives of incurably ill-patients who wish to die.
12. In Australia—where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitude have played their part—other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.
13. As is true of any developed society, in America a complex set of cultural signals, assumptions and conventions underlies all social interrelationships.
14. New ways of organizing the workplace—all that reengineering and downsizing--- are only one contribution to the productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, and investment in education and training.
15. The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are remainders of where the two continents were once jointed.
16. At the same time, the American Law Institute—a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight--- issued a new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not to warn customer of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.
17. Some companies are limiting risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the company’s private intranet.
18. And the cost of computing power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon.
19. An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job is technical education, justified for the reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law.
20. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed numbers of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.
21. The coming of age of postwar baby boom and an entry of women into male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities of teenagers who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbing Japan’s rigid social ladder to good jobs and schools.
22. Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles, which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer house; the publisher of radical books who takes his meals in the three-star restaurants; the journalist advocating the participatory democracy in all phrase of life, whose own children are enrolled in private schools.
23. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammatical mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.
24. There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalist and their readers, which helps to explain why the “standard templates” of the newsroom seem alien to many readers.
25. International affiliate account for a fast-growing segment of production in economics that open up and welcome foreign investment.
26. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M&A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportations and communication costs; lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that required enlarged operations capable of meeting customers’ demands.
27. And should one country take upon itself the role of “defending competition” on the issues that affect many other nations, as in the US vs. Microsoft case?
28. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner.
29. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely noticed but whose universal existence has removed much human labor.
30. There are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with sub millimeter accuracy---- far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hand alone.
31. The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solution, whose clear advantage was its mastery of electronic world.
32. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge.
33. For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth in recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged reader not to use anything that comes from or is tested in animal---no fur, no meat, and no medicine.
34. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment.
35. But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk of commodities traveling long distance, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat.
36. Slippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases.
37. It is theory to which many economists subscribe, but in practice it often leaves railroad in the position of determining which companies will flourished and which will fail.
38. For retailer, who last year took in 24 percent of their revenues between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time.
39. Hofstadter says our country’s education system is in the grip of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.
倒装句
1. Exceptional children are different in the some significant way from others of the same age. For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those differences.
2. The point is that the players who score most are the ones who take the most shots at the goal—and so it goes with innovation in any field of activity.-
3. Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more region competition, as population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.
4. This development—and its strong implication for US economy and politics in years head—has enthroned the South as America’s most densely populated region for the first time in history of nation’s head counting.
5. Non-stop wave of immigration played a role, too—and so did bigger crop of babies as yesterday’s baby boom generation reaches its child-bearing years.
6. With economic growth has come concentration: fully 75 percent of Japan’s 119 million citizens live in cities where community and extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two generation households.
分隔结构
7. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazines publisher, from gas and electric utilities to milk processor, bring better and more efficient service to consumers through the use of computers.
8. If its message were confined merely to information---and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of shirt is subtly persuasive---advertising would be so absorbing that no one would pay any attention.
9. One place where children soak up A-characteristics is school, which is, by its very nature, a highly competitive institution.
10. Perhaps selection for caring profession, especially medicine, could be made less by grades in chemistry and more by such consideration as sensitivity and sympathy.
11. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC—including ordinary listeners and viewers---to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.
12. But it is the arrival of new satellite channels—funded partly by advertising and partly by viewer’s subscription---which will bring about the biggest changes in a long term.
13. “Scientific” creationism, which is being pushed by some for “equal time” in the classrooms whenever the scientific account of evolution is given, is based on religion, not science.
14. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationist a good beating. He describes their programs and tactics, and for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationist, the extent of deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.
15. There are, of course, exceptions. Small-mind officials, rude writers, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it is deserved comment.
16. It is a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.
17. The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunate, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended the old model that based on historical link between growth and inflation.
18. There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a “disjunction” between the mass business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.
19. The true enemy of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of ozone layer, and other consequences of industrial growth.
20. In May, Julie Nimmons, a president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successively fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet.
21. If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition—wealth, distinction, control over one’s destiny—must be deemed worthy of sacrifices made on ambition’s behalf.
1. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focus narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by values, education, and class.
2. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress promoted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming ”I want to spend more time with my family.”
3. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-published resignation from the editorship of SHE after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of “juggling your life” and making the alternative move into “downshift” brings with far greater reward than financial success and social status.
4. Downshifting---also known in America as “voluntary simplicity”—has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anti-consumerism.
5. For the women of my generation who urged to keep juggling through the 80s, downshifting in the end of 90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life---growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into ones--- as a personal recognition of your limitation.
6. Strengthening economics, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short time.
7. These days the NET, which has already re-made such everyday pastime as buying books and sending email, is reshaping the Donovan’s vocation life as well.
8. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surname begins with a letter in lower half of the alphabet.
省略
9. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flaw of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed, and will be trustworthy and reliable.
10. Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataract removed in a 30-minute surgical procedure.
平行并列结构
11. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also the certain rights, including the right to determine the price of product or to make a free contract with private individual.
12. However, whether such a sense of fairness independently evolved in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
13. They give their owners automatic credit in store, restaurant, and hotel, at home, across the country, and even abroad and they make many banking service available as well.
14. Television is one of the means by which their feelings are created and conveyed--- and perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in recent events in Europe.
15. Discoveries in science and technology are thought by “untaught minds” to come in blinding flashes or as a result of dramatic accidents.
16. Innovation is like soccer; even the best players miss their goal and have their shots blocked much more frequently than they score.
17. The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language--- all these are example of people who have measurably results to show for there efforts.
18. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.
19. In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to confront the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first.
20. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today.
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