issue提纲 =So What=小组第4次作业 by 2006201652

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13. "Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct."

世界上很多的小语种都快要消失了，因为越来越少的人在使用这些语言。使用这些小语种的国家应该采取行动以防止这样的语言逐渐销声匿迹。

I agree insofar as a country's indigenous and distinct languages should not be abandoned and forgotten altogether. At some point, however, I think cultural identity should yield to the more practical considerations of day-to-day life in a global society.

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On the one hand, the indigenous language of any geographical region is part-and-parcel of the cultural heritage of the region's natives.

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Another important reason to prevent the extinction of a language is to preserve the distinct ideas that only that particular language can convey.

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On the other hand, in today's high-tech world of satellite communications, global mobility, and especially the Internet, language barriers serve primarily to impede cross-cultural communication, which in turn impedes international commerce and trade.

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Moreover, language barriers naturally breed misunderstanding, a certain distrust and, as a result, discord and even war among nations.

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Furthermore, in my view the extinction of all but a few major languages is inexorable--as supported by the fact that the Internet has adopted English as its official language. Thus by intervening to preserve a dying language a government might be deploying its resources to fight a losing battle, rather than to combat more pressing social problems--such as hunger, homelessness, disease and ignorance--that plague nearly every society today.

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116. "With the growth of global networks in such areas as economics and communication, there is no doubt that every aspect of society-including education, politics, the arts, and the sciences-will benefit greatly from international influences."
  
随着全球网络在经济和通讯等领域中的发展，毫无疑问，社会的各个领域--包括教育、政治、艺术和科学--都会从国际影响中获益匪浅。

While those influences will no doubt benefit education and the sciences, the nature of those influences on the arts and on politics will probably be a mixed one-beneficial in some respects yet detrimental in others.

1.        The clearest and most immediate beneficiaries of international influences are students.
2.        The science clearly benefit from international influences as well.
3.        With respect to the arts, however, the speaker’s claim is far less convincing.
4.        The impact of global networking on political relations might turn out to be a mixed one as well.

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197. "The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries."
  
一个国家的物质进步和安定和其他所有国家的物质进步和安定是紧密相关的。
Agree:
1.        Turning first to economic progress and well-being, the economic pursuits of any nation today are not merely connected to but actually interwoven with those of other nations.
2.        In other cases the economic connection between nations is synergic—either mutually beneficial or detrimental.
3.        Nations have also become interconnected in the pursuit of scientific and technological progress.
4.        The world’s nations have become especially interconnected in terms of their public health.

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109. "The purpose of many advertisements is to make consumers want to buy a product so that they will 'be like' the person in the ad. This practice is effective because it not only sells products but also helps people feel better about themselves."
  
很多广告的目的是要消费者去购买一件产品以使得消费者们像广告中的人物。这类的广告很有效因为它不仅是在销售产品更是在帮助人们自我感觉更好。
  
This assertion actually consists of two claims: that this advertising technique is used effectively in selling many products, and that consumers who succumb to this technique actually feel better about themselves as a result. While I agree with the first claim, I strongly disagree with the second one.

1.        As for whether the many, many ads portraying models are effective in selling products, I am not privy to the sort of statistical information required to answer this question with complete certainty. However, my intuition is that this technique does help sell products; otherwise, advertisers would not use it so persistently.
2.        Consumers lured by the hope of "being like" the person in an ad might experience some initial measure of satisfaction in the form of an ego boost. However, this sense of optimism is ephemeral, invariably giving way to disappointment that the purchase did not live up to its implicit promise.

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11. "All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."   

所有的国家都应该支持发展一所全球性的大学，它的主要目的是要让学生们致力于解决世界上最难缠的社会问题。

Disagree

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First, participant nations would need to overcome a myriad of administrative and political impediments.

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A second problem inherent in establishing a global university involves the risk that certain intellectual and research avenues would become officially sanctioned while others of equal or greater potential value would be discouraged, or perhaps even proscribed.

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A final problem with a global university is that the world’s preeminent intellectual talent might be drawn to the sorts of problems to which the university is charged with solving, while parochial social problem go unsolved.