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英语六级阅读关键句61-80
61. Of course, it would be as dangerous to overreact to history by
concluding that the majority must now be wrong about expansion as it would be to
re-enact the response that greeted the suggestion that the continents had
drifted.
62. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three
key questions remain: who were the consumers? What were their motives? And what
were the effect of the new demand for luxuries?
63. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services
actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their
customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual
consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what.
64. With respect to their reasons for immigrating, Grassy does not deny
their frequently noted fact that some of the immigrants of the 1630’s, most
notably the organizers and clergy, advanced religious explanations for
departure, but he finds that such explanations usually assumed primacy only in
retrospect.
65. If we take the age-and sex-specific unemployment rates that existed in
1956 (when the overall unemployment rate was 4.1 percent) and weight them by the
age- and sex-specific shares of the labor force that prevail currently, the
overall unemployment rate becomes 5 percent.
66. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “ step up”
toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and
power.
67. Unless productivity growth is unexpectedly large, however, the
expansion of real output must eventually begin to slow down to the economy’s
larger run growth potential if generalized demand pressures on prices are to be
avoided.
68. However, when investment flows primarily in one direction, as it
generally does from industrial to developing countries, the seemingly reciprocal
source-based restrictions produce revenue sacrifices primarily by the state
receiving most of the foreign investment and producing most of the income—namely
,the developing country partner.
69. The pursuit of private interests with as little interference as
possible from government was seen as the road to human happiness and progress
rather than the public obligation and involvement in the collective community
that emphasized by the Greeks.
70. The defense lawyer relied on long-standing principles governing the
conduct of prosecuting attorneys: as quasi-judicial officers of the court they
are under a duty not to prejudice a party’s case through overzealous prosecution
or to detract from the impartiality of courtroom atmosphere.
71. No prudent person dared to act on the assumption that, when the
continent was settled, one government could include the whole; and when the vast
expense broke up, as seemed inevitable, into a collection of separate nations,
only discord, antagonism, and wars could be expected.
72. If they were right in thinking that the next necessity in human
progress was to lift the average person upon an intellectual and social level
with the most favored, they stood at least three generations nearer than Europe
to that goal.
73. Somehow he knows that if our huckstering civilization did not at every
moment violate the eternal fitness of things, the poet’s song would have been
given to the world, and the poet would have been cared for by the whole human
brotherhood, as any man should be who does the duty that every man owes it.
74. The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art
is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise
refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride,
and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.
75. Perhaps he believed that he could not criticize American foreign policy
without endangering the support for civil rights that he had won from the
federal government.
76. Abraham Lincoln, who presided in his stone temple on August 28, 1963
above the children of the slaves he emancipated (解放), may have used just the
right words to sum up the general reaction to the Negroes’ massive march on
Washington.
77. In the Warren Court era, voters asked the Court to pass on issues
concerning the size and shape of electoral districts, partly out of desperation
because no other branch of government offered relief, and partly out of hope
that the Court would reexamine old decisions in this area as it had in others,
looking at basic constitutional principles in the light of modern living
conditions.
78. Some even argue plausibly that this weakness may be irremediable : in
any society that, like a capitalist society, seeks to become ever wealthier in
material terms disproportionate rewards are bound to flow to the people who are
instrumental in producing the increase in its wealth.
79. This doctrine has broadened the application of the Fourteenth Amendment
to other, nonracial forms of discrimination, for while some justices have
refused to find any legislative classification other than race to be
constitutionally disfavored, most have been receptive to arguments that at least
some nonracial discriminations, sexual discrimination in particular, are
“suspect” and deserve this heightened scrutiny by the courts.
80. But as cameras become more sophisticated, more automated, some
photographers are tempted to disarm themselves or to suggest that they are not
really armed, preferring to submit themselves to the limits imposed by premodern
camera technology because a cruder, less high-powered machine is thought to give
more interesting or emotive results, to have more room for creative
accident.
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