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英语六级阅读关键句141-160
141. Though most dictionary have a system of making words as obsolete, or
in use only as slang, many people, more especially if their use of a particular
word has been challenged, are likely to conclude, if they find it in a
dictionary, that it is accepted as being used by writers of established
reputation.
142. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, and
since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich, public policies will
continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.
143. Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a
mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar
in many ways.
144. In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated
and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, Notions
of male superiority are hard to maintain.
145. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality
more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation
in a world characterized by co-operation rather than by the “battle of the
sexes.”
146. The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to
lay down rules, because each family, needs to work out its own ways for solving
its own problems.
147. Besides serving the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English
is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other
fields are being produced, and not always by native speakers.
148. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into
old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind.
149. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something
larger they work toward.
150. Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs,
yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed.
151. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about
radiation damage –--a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or
her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth
of deformed (畸形) children or even grandchildren.
152. In the end , only 7 out of 19 regular Cola drinkers correctly
identified their brand of choice in all for trails. The diet-Cola drinkers did a
little worse – only 7 of 27 identified all four sample correctly.
153. Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct
preference tests for food.
154. It seems simple enough to distinguish between the organism and the
surrounding environment and to separate forces acting on an organism into those
that are internal and biological and those that are external and
environmental.
155. But in actual practice this system breaks down in many ways, because
the organism and the environment are constantly interacting so that the
environment is modified by the orgainism and vice versa (反之亦然).
156. In the case of man, the difficulties with the environment concept are
even more complicated because we have to deal with man as an animal and with man
as a bearer(持有者) of culture.
157. If we look at man as an animal and try to analyze the environmental
forces that are acting on the organism, we find that we have to deal with things
like climate, soil, plants, and such like factors common to all biological
situations; but we also find, always, very important environmental influences
that we can only class as “cultural”, which modify the physical and biological
factors.
158. We thus easily get into great difficulties from the necessity of
viewing culture, at one moment, as a part of the man and, at another moment, as
a part of the environment.
159. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they
assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect.
160 Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language
is not perceived as a generation phenomenon but rather as something new and
peculiar to today's young people, it natrually follows that today's English
teachers cannot be doing their jobs.
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