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天下大事，必昨于细；天下难事，必做于易。 王舰

beneficial to their organizations and that it promotes higher quality decision making than might be achieved in the absence of conflict.

4. There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred to by the term than there is on

how to interrupt or classify them.

5. If American workers, for example, take much longer to learn how to operate new flexible

manufacturing stations than workers in Germany (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in the United States.

6. When it made no difference to the fate of a highwayman whether he had killed his victim or

merely robbed him of a few pieces of silver, there were no more murders then than there were when men like Sir Francis Burdett succeeded in lightening the excessive severity of the penal laws.

Group 9

1.The realization that she can be a good provider may increase the chances that a working wife will choose divorce over an unsatisfactory marriage.

2.For most thinkers since the Greek philosophers, it was self-evident that there is something called human nature, something that constitutes the essence of man.

3.The exact mechanisms involved are still mysterious, but the likelihood that many cancers are initiated at the level of genes suggests that we will never prevent all cancers.

4.The fact that the general literature on interviewing does not deal with the journalistic interview seems to be surprising for two reasons.

5.In 1993, there was an explosion in a population of rodents in southwestern United States that spread hantavirus syndrome, a lung infection, after a drought that killed off the rodents' predators was quickly followed by heavy rains that expanded the rats' food supply.

6.She adds, ―Most women and blacks are so frightened that people will think they’ve gotten ahead because of their sex or color that they play down（使不突出）their visibility.‖

7.If we accept the idea that we won’t ever fully know another person, it enables us to deal more easily with those things that get in the way of accurate such as secrets and deceptions.

8.Whether the eyes are ―the windows of the soul‖ is debatable; that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact.

9.By day, Bille's contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina （视网膜）that the image of a small leaf or the outline of a far distant tree will be formed with a sharpness that surpasses that of conventional vision aids by almost half a diopter ( 屈光度).

10.There were various views about what constitutes it, but there was agreement that such an

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天下大事，必昨于细；天下难事，必做于易。 王舰

essence exists -- that is to say, that there is something by virtue of which man is man.

11.The variety of clothing alternatives to women has also been greater than that available for men.

12.An examination of the history of humanity suggested that man in our epoch is so different from man in previous times that it seemed unrealistic to assume that men in every age have had in common something that can be called \

Group 10

1.Indeed, the human history has not been merely touched by global climate change, some scientists argue, it has in some instances been driven by it.

2.It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before, and that, in many cases, being over-weight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease.

3.In the American economic system it is the demand of individual customers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.

4.Science fiction is not only change speculator but change agent, sending an echo from the future that is becoming into the present that is sculpting it.

5.It is the capacity of the computer for solving problems and making decisions that represent sits greatest potential and that poses the greatest difficulties in predicting the impact on society.

6.Depending upon how the couple reacts to these new conditions, it could create a stronger equal partnership or it could create new insecurities.

7.Thus SF is not only change speculator but change agent, sending an echo from the future that is becoming into the present that is sculpting it.

8.As a consequence, it may prove difficult or impossible to establish for a successful revolution a comprehensive and trustworthy picture of those who participated or to answer even the most basic questions one might pose concerning the social origins of the insurgents.

9.Yet Walzer’s argument, however deficient, does point to one of the most serious weaknesses of capitalism—namely, that it brings to predominant positions those people who, however legitimately they have earned their material rewards, often lack those important qualities which evoke affection or admiration.

10.However, it is those of us who are paid to make the decisions to develop, improve and enforce environmental standards, I submit, who must lead the charge.

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天下大事，必昨于细；天下难事，必做于易。 王舰

11.Yet those who stress the achievement of a general consensus among the colonists cannot fully understand that consensus without understanding the conflicts that had to be overcome or repressed in order to reach it.

Group11

1.Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the assumption that no one who pursued a business career could do without one.

2.In Japan, however, where babies are carried on their mother’s back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes as they do in other cultures.

3.Yet we would do well to remind ourselves that technology is human creation; it does not exist naturally.

Group 12

1. The liberties and the restrictions vary with times and circumstances, and admit to infinite modifications, they cannot be settled upon by any abstract rule; and nothing is so foolish as to discuss them upon that principle.

2. In ancient societies, as people settled into stable patterns of agriculture and trade, it became useful for some of them to read and write in order to keep records, to transact business, and to measure amounts of land, animals, goods, materials, and produce.

3. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection; but their abstract perfection is their practical defect.

4. There is no more difference, but there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person, as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales, and the operations of a chemist in performing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graded weights.

5. The psychology of thought processes concerns itself with activities similar to those usually attributed to the inventor, the mathematician, or the chess player; but psychologists have not reached agreement on any definition or characterization of thinking.

6. Few changes in the domestic American economy in the postwar period appear to me to be as significant and as inadequately recognized, particularly by national policy makers, as those changes—heavily influenced by technology—which increasingly the domestic economy to the rest of the world, and make it a more dependent sub-element of a large and more powerful economic system.

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天下大事，必昨于细；天下难事，必做于易。 王舰

7. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment—although no one had proposed to do so—and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the While House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning.

8. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming ―I wanted to spend more time with my family‖.

9. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of ―juggling your life‖, and making the alternative move into ―downshifting‖ brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.

10. There are a number of best-selling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-’90s equivalent of dropping out.

11. When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal.

12. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month’s stockholders’ meeting, Levin asserted that ―music is not the cause of society’s ills‖ and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.

13. America’s capacity utilization, for example, hit historically high levels earlier this year, and its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen below most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment—the rate below which inflation has taken off in the past.

Appendix

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