1、精選優(yōu)質(zhì)文檔-傾情為你奉上5.4Today,widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year. 5.7If you're not convinced of the inherent value in taki

2、ng a year off to explore interests,then consider its financial impact on future academic choices. 5.9Under modern conditions,this requires varying measures of centralized control and hence the help of specialized scientists such as economists and operational research experts.5.11Calls to disass

3、emble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.5.14Rather than just focusing on GDP,over 40 different sets of criteria from healt

4、h,education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.5.16This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in.A fact underlined by statistics shows that out of eighty European television n

5、etworks no less than 50% took a loss in 1989. 5.18Until these issues are resolved,a technology of behavior will continue to be rejected ,and with it possibly the only way to solve our problems.5.21The data suggest ,for example ,that physically attractive 

6、individuals are more likely to be treated well by their parents ,sought out as friends ,and pursued romantically.5.23whether the Government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology

7、or vice versa often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force.5.25It is generally agreed that a person of high intelligence is one who can grasp ideas readily,make distinctions,reason logically

8、 ,and make use of verbal and mathematical symbols in solving problems.5.28Being interested in the relationship of language and thought ,Whorf developed the idea taht the 

9、structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.5.30Especially significant was his view of freedom,which , for him , was associated with the

10、60;rights and responsibilities of the individual:he advocated freedom of thought and of personal expression.6.1"In short," a leader of the new school contends,"the scientific&

11、#160;revolution ,as we call it ,was largely the improvement and invention and use of a series of instrunents that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions&

12、#160;."6.4Creating a "European identity" that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old Continent is no

13、0;easy task and demands a strategic choice.6.6In Europe,as elsewhere,multi-media groups have been increasingly successful groups which bring together television,radio,newspapers,magazines and publishi

14、ngly houses that work in relation to one another. 6.8We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of drugs is pervasive:an aspirin to quiet a 

15、;headache,some wine to be sociable,coffee to get going in the morning,a cigarette for the nerves.6.11However,the world is so made that elegant systems are in principle unable&

16、#160;to deal with some of the world's more fascinating and delightful aspects. 6.13This trend began during the Second World War ,when several governments came to the 

17、conclusion that the specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment cannot generally be foreseen in detail.6.15If ambition is to be well 

18、regarded,the rewards of ambitionwealth,distinction,control over one's destinymust be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on ambition's behalf.6.18Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physic

19、ian-assisted suicide,the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect," a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effectsa good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseenis permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.6.20T

20、ylor defined culture as ".that complex whole which includes belief,art,morals,law,custom,and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."6.22While warnings are often appropriate and necessarythe dangers of drug interactions,for exampleand many are required by

21、state or federal regulations,it isn't clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured.6.25As personal injury claims continue as before,some courts are beginning to side with defendants,especially in cases where a warning label probably would

22、n't have changed anything.6.27Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view.6.29When it comes to the slowing economy,Ellen Spero isn't biting her nails just yet.But the 47-year-old manicurist isn't cutting,filing or polishing as many nails as she'd like to,either.7.2Astrophysicists working with ground-based detectors at the South Pole and balloon-borne instruments are closing in on such structures,and m