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赢家不会让他们的生命局限在自己“理当”成为何种人的观念中。事实上，他们顺应天性行事。所以，他们不会费尽心思地装模作样，故作姿态、玩弄他人。他们十分清楚爱与装爱，傻与装傻，真才实学与故作高深之间的差别。赢家没有必要藏在面具后面掩饰自己。赢家不害怕独立思考和运用自身的知识，他们既懂得辨别事实与想法，又不会装作通晓一切。他们倾听他人的意见，衡量他人的言论，最后得出自己的判断。尽管赢家懂得尊重和敬佩他人，却不会彻底为他人所限制、摧垮、束缚或吓倒。

Translate the .following short paragraphs into English本世纪初，小麦简直就是加拿大西部的命脉。小麦收成好，经济则繁荣；小麦歉收，经济则萧条。城市中大街小巷的人们都在关注着小麦的收成和价格，这种心情就好像他们就是种植者一样。小麦的市场行情成了人们的热门话题。战争使西部粮食市场发生了许多戏剧性的变化。多年以来，农民们不信任在粮食交易所从事的粮食投机买卖。秋季的麦价一般都较低，但是农民们等不到市场好转。他们常常在小麦一收割后就卖掉，过后则眼睁睁看着小麦涨价，投机者从中发财。在各种时机，农民团体曾多次要求政府对市场严加控制，但政府不想卷入其中，直到战争期间，麦价有失控的危险时，政府才介入。由于迫切需要控制通货膨胀和生活费用上涨，联邦政府设立了一个粮食监督委员会来处理从1917年至1918年的粮食收缴工作。

Read the following passage into Chinese The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty limes longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring, and reheating iron ore.Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would bum out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted, to steel. The Bessemer converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a matter of minutes.

Teenagers are spending more money than ever. Just last year, 31.6 million teens spent 155 billion, according to the Northbrook, Illinois-based market research group Teenage Research Unlimited. Much of that money, of course, comes from parents.Shocked at how much money kids spend? Maybe you haven't cheeked the price tags lately on some of the younger generation's must-haves.To some, such extravagant spending on the notoriously fickle young might seem outrageous. Why do some parents give in?One factor is surely the sheer power of marketing through mass media. According to the group Adbusters, teenagers are exposed to an estimated 3,000 advertisements each day. Combine the ads with programming itself, like the fashion-, music-, and skin-filled shows on MTV and you’ve got a barrage of messages telling kids what they should own if they want to fit in."The pressures on parents today are enormous,n says Tom Vogele, a single father of twin 18-year-old girls in Newport Beach, Calif. "I truly believe it is harder today to raise children without spoiling them, not because parents are less capable or lazy, but because so many forces are working against me.’’Many working parents probably compensate by spending money on their kids, says Timothy Marshall, an associate professor of developmental psychology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. For some, there is probably some guilt involved in not spending enough time at home. But, adds Marshall, spending money is also often more convenient in our fast-paced society than going to baseball games or other activities."It's easier to say let’s go out and spend some money, in terms of finding time in a busy schedule to spend with kids,55 Marshall said.For many families, of course, keeping up with their children's costly demands for designer clothing, CDs, and concert tickets is a financial impossibility. Even for those families who can afford such lavish spending, striking a compromise between spoiling the kids and denying them is tricky, but possible.Teaching kids how to budget and save is key, Marshall says. Instead of just giving children the toys or clothing they desire, give them an allowance and show them how they can save up for whatever they want, he says.And don’t be afraid to just say no, Marshall adds. "We need to step up and tell kids where the boundaries are, that is parts of our responsibility as parents," he said.1.In the first paragraph, “Northbrook" is most probably （）.2.Some people find it outrageous that （）. 3.What is the effect of marketing through mass media?4.According to Marshall, parents prefer to spend money on their children mainly because （）. 5.What does Marshall think parents should do with the children's spending habit?

The Du Pont Company, the 13th largest employer in the U.S.，routinely gives pre-employment blood tests to all blacks who apply for jobs to determine who might be a carrier of the trait for sickle-cell anemia, even though the trait is regarded as largely harmless. Although there are other genetically transmitted blood diseases and metabolic disorders that predominate in racial or ethnic groups, blacks are the only ones to be identified with a disease and examined for it at Du Pont. In a three month study of genetic screening in the American workplace, the New York Times found no other instance of an ethnic or racial group singled out in an organization or company. Du Pont officials emphasize that the sickle trait tests do not represent discrimination and are only an effort to help them avoid potentially harmful exposure to certain chemicals. Yet the officials can offer no firm evidence that the trait ― not the disease, but only a single abnormal gene — makes blacks more vulnerable. Du Pont, which employs well over 100,000 workers, is in the vanguard of American companies doing genetic screening and thus is at the center of the debate over this area of science, debate so intense, so broad, that even medical directors from other companies who believe the possibilities of genetic screening want no part of it. At least, now the officials at Du Pont Company, a leader in the chemical industry with annual gross sales of more than $ 10 billion, feel they have the money and the scientists to turn the distrust into achievement. If some chemicals are highly toxic and the workplace is less than pure, company officials reason, it is only logical to try to determine why some workers get sicker faster and why others seem to have more tolerance for industrial poisons. And so the company is looking beyond the skills and loyalty of its workers to genetic structure.The sickle-cell trait is not the same as sickle-cell anemia. The anemia is rare but debilitating disorder found in fewer than 50,000 American blacks, about two-tenths of a percent of the black population. Perhaps two million other blacks are carriers of the trait — they are heterozygous. Virtually all the carriers can lead very active lives and show no symptoms of the disease.1.What does the author say about Du Pont?2.What do Du Pont officials say?3.What is true about genetic screening?4.The underlined word "toxic" in the third paragraph probably means （）.5.What can we learn about the carriers of sick-cell trait?

Tests of reaction times seemed to back up the notion that the two hemispheres differed in their processing styles. Researchers used to believe that an image goes to one hemisphere first, and then to the opposite side of the brain. If the nature of the stimulus and the preference of the hemisphere match up, then the person can respond slightly more quickly and accurately in identifying the local or global image.Still more startling, researchers found that the same appeared to hold for the brains of chimps and perhaps other primates. The assumption has always been that handedness and brain asymmetry are strictly human traits---part of the great brain reorganization that allowed our ancestor to use tools, speak and perhaps even think rationally. But handedness is now widely claimed for primates and even birds, amphibians and whales. And in the past few years, some psychologists have tested chimps and baboons and suggested their two hemispheres also differ in processing style.Now researchers have come to see the distinction between the two hemispheres as a subtle one of processing style, with every mental faculty shared across the brain, and each side contributing in a complementary, not exclusive, fashion. A smart brain became one that simultaneously grasped both the foreground and the background of the momentThe next problem was to work out exactly how the brain manages to produce these two contrasting styles. Many researchers originally looked for the explanation in a simple wiring difference within the brain. This theory held that neurons in the left cortex might make sparse, short-range connections with their neighbors, while cells on the other side would be more richly and widely connected The result would be that the representation of sensations and memories would be confined lo smallish, discrete areas in the left hemisphere, while exactly the same input to a corresponding area of the right side would form a sprawling even impressionistic pattern of activity.Supporters of this idea argued that these structural differences would explain why left brain language areas are so good at precise representation of words and word sequences while the right brain seems to supply a wider sense of context and meaning. A striking finding from some people who suffer right-brain stokes is that they can understand the literal meaning of sentences-their left brain can still decode the words•—but they can no longer get jokes or allusions. Asked to explain even a common proverb, such as "a stitch in time saves nine", they can only say it must have something to do with sewing. An intact right brain is needed to make the more playful connections.1.The local or global image is more quickly and accurately identified in the brain if（）. 2.Handedness and brain asymmetry are strictly human traits, as is shown in （）.3.According to the text, a smart brain has all the following characteristics EXCEPT （）. 4.What is the problem of the people who suffer right-brain strokes?5.The best title for the text may be（）.

Although, recent years have seen substantial reductions in noxious pollutants from individual motor vehicles, the number of such vehicles has been steadily increasing. Consequently, more than 100 cities in the United States still have levels of carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and ozone (generated by photochemical, reactions with hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust) that exceed legally established limits. There is a growing realization that the only effective way to achieve further reductions in vehicle emissions—short of a massive shift away from the private automobile—is to replace conventional diesel fuel and gasoline with cleaner burning fuels such as compressed natural gas liquefied petroleum gas, ethanol, or methanol.All of these alternatives are carbon-based fuels whose molecules are smaller and simpler than those of gasoline. These molecules bum more cleanly than gasoline, in part because they have fewer, if any, carbon-carbon bonds, and the hydrocarbons they do emit are less likely to generate ozone. The combustion of large molecules, which have multiple carbon-carbon bonds, involves a more complex series of reactions. These reactions increase the probability of incomplete combustion and are more likely to release uncombusted and photochemically active hydrocarbon compounds into the atmosphere. On the other hand, alternative fuels do have drawbacks. Compressed natural gas would require that vehicles have a set of heavy fuel tanks—a serious liability in terms of performance and fuel efficiency and liquefied petroleum gas faces fundamental limits on supply.Ethanol and methanol, on the other hand, have important advantages over other carbon-based alternative fuels; they have hither energy content per volume and would require minimal changes in the existing network for distributing motor fuel. Ethanol is commonly used as a gasoline supplement, but it is currently about twice as expensive as methanol, the low cost of which is one of its attractive features. Methanol's most attractive feature, however, is that it can reduce by about 90 percent the vehicle emissions that form ozone, the most serious urban air pollutant.Like any alternative fuel, methanol has its critics. Yet much of the criticism is based on the use of "gasoline clone” vehicles that do not incorporate even the simplest design improvements that are made possible with the use of methanol. It is true, for example, that a given volume of methanol provides only about one-half of the energy that gasoline and diesel fuel do; other things being equal, the fuel tank would have to be somewhat larger and heavier. However, since methanol-fueled vehicles could be designed to be much more efficient than "gasoline clone" vehicles fueled with methanol, they would need comparatively less fuel. Vehicles incorporating only the simplest of the Engine improvements that methanol makes feasible would still contribute to an immediate lessening of urban air pollution.1.The author of the passage is primarily concerned with （）. 2.According to the passage, incomplete combustion is more likely to occur with gasoline than with an alternative fuel because: （）.3.The passage suggests which of the Following about air pollution?4.The author describes which of the following as the most appealing feature of methanol?5.It can be inferred that the author of the passage most likely regards the criticism of methanol in the last paragraph as（）.

Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bacteria are usually from two to four microns long, while rounded ones are generally one micron in diameter. Thus, if you enlarged a rounded bacterium a thousand times, it would be just about the size of a pinhead. An adult human magnified by the same amount would be over a mile (1.6 kilometers) tall.Even with an ordinal microscopy, you must look closely to see bacteria. Using a magnification of 100 times, one finds that bacteria are barely visible as tiny rods or dots. One cannot make out anything of their structure. Using special stains, one can see that some bacteria have attached to them wavy-looking "hairs" called flagella. Others have only one flagellum. The flagella rotate, pushing the bacteria through the water. Many bacteria lack flagella and cannot move about by their own power, while others can glide along over surfaces by some little-understood mechanismFrom the bacterial point of view, the world is a very different place from what it is to humans. To a bacterium, water is as thick as molasses is to us. Bacteria are so small that they are influenced by the movements of the chemical molecules around themBacteria under the microscope, even those with no flagella, often bounce about in the water. This is because they collide with the water molecules and are pushed this way and that. Molecules move so rapidly that within a tenth of a second the molecules around a bacterium have all been replaced by new ones; even bacteria without flagella are thus constantly exposed to a changing environment.1.Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?2.Bacteria are measured in （）.3.Which of the following is the smallest?4.According to the passage, someone who examines bacteria using only a microscope that magnifies 100 times would see （）. 5.The relationship between a bacterium and its flagella is most nearly analogous to which of the following?

Spread across the United States are about 500,000 doctors, cheeked by jowl, in the big cities and thin on the ground in isolated small towns. In June 1986, the secretary of health and human services, Dr. Otis Bowen, passed on a view of his experts: 5%-15% of America’s 500,000 doctors should be candidates for disciplinary action, many of them because of drug taking or alcoholism. Others give their patients poor care because they are senile, incompetent, guilty of misconduct or out of touch with developments in medicine.The granting, or withdrawal, of licenses to practice is in the hands of state medical boards, but they are overwhelmed with complaints and lack the money to handle even a fraction of them. Recently, however, things have been changing. In 1985, 406 doctors lost their licenses (compared with 255 in 1984), nearly 500 were placed on probation and nearly 1,000 received reprimands or had their right to practice curtailed. The federal inspector general demanded, and won the right for the states and the federal government, which provide health care for the elderly and for the poor under the Medicare and Medicaid programme, to refuse payment to the doctors considered unsatisfactory.Yet putting these powers into practice is proving to be far from easy. Of the 35 doctors so far denied reimbursement from Medicare, almost all work in lightly populated rural areas. On March 27th, their indignation and that of their patients were a sympathetic hearing by the Senate Finance Committee. Rural doctors may not be as up to date as those in the big towns, but they are often the only source of medical help for miles around and their patients are loyal to them. Members of the review boards, which are paid by the government, insist, however, that elderly and poor people should not be forced to receive (and the state to pay for) inferior care.An innovation is on the horizon in Texas, the most under-doctored state in the country (with only one doctor for every 1,100 residents). Lubbock University is setting up a computer network that will enable country doctors to obtain medical expertise and access to medical records in a hurry. The aim is to reduce the isolation of the country doctors and thus, in the long run, to attract more young doctors to rural areas.1.The main topic of the passage is （）.2.According to the text, disciplinary action should be taken against those who give patients poor care because of the following reasons EXCEPT （）. 3.Which of the following is true about the unfit doctors?4.It can be inferred from the text that in the near future （）. 5.The paragraph following the text would probably discuss（）.

It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it（1）. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often （2） . So it is with happiness. If you pursue it （3） drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursue it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, （4） by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more （5） . For most people the pursuit of happiness, （6） supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be （7） as a personal rule of life. But I think that （8） personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be （9） with happiness.There are a great many people who have all the （10） conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, （11） , are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the （12） must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on （13） , and are happy as long as external conditions are （14） .If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an （15） night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too （16） to be forgotten. People proposed to themselves someone paramount objective and （17） all impulses that do not minister to it. A business man may be so （18） to grow rich that to this end he （19） health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no （20） remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate this noble example.

The （）of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed in understanding the universe.

There are not many teachers who are strong （）of traditional methods in English teaching.

More than 85 percent of French Canada's population speaks French as a mother tongue and （）to the Roman Catholic faith.

Language, culture and personality maybe considered （）of each other I thought, but they are inseparable in fact.

Technology has （）the sharing information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people.

This pair of boots cost much less than yours for I bought them when the department store made a （）of the stored goods.

The robbers broke into the bank, （）the clerks with revolvers and forced them to give money just as they were about to knock off.

The （）effects of many illnesses made him a weak man and he still didn’t want to do sports every day.

It is a （）that in such a rich country there should be so many poor people who could hardly keep their body and soul together.

Japanese leaders aboard the U. S. battleship Missouri and signed the （）surrender, which ended World War Two in 1945.

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