Group 2

1. Tensions grounded in financial problems often play a key role in ending a marriage.

2. One reason for this change was the increasing emphasis given to the historical approach to man.

3. The more women and minorities make their way into the ranks of management, the more they seem to want to talk about things formerly judged to be best left unsaid.

4. Social security benefits are granted under conditions designed to reduce likelihood of even the boldest of spirits attempting to live on the State rather than work.

5. He envisaged a time when soldiers who are wounded fighting overseas are put in mobile surgical units equipped with computers.

6. An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of education is a technical education justified for reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law.

7. During the transfer, traditional methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed to interpret the new forms of evidence in the historical study.

8. Given the complexities and ambiguities associated with satisfying many diverse constituents executives perceived that conflict led to more considered and acceptable decisions.

9. Growth brought with it increased variety in consumer goods, but not increased flexibility for the home economy in obtaining these goods and services.

Group 3．

1. Future built-in computer systems may be used to automatically get business information over the Internet and manage personal affairs while the vehicle’s owner is driving.

2. One of these ghosts has now been laid, because it seems that even an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to eight times its present value will produce an increase in temperature of only 2℃, which would take place over several thousand years.

3．The coming of age of postwar baby boom and an entry of women into the male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities of teen-ages who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbing Japan’s rigid social ladder to good schools and jobs.

4．Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest breakthroughs and discoverers to take place.

5．In modern industrialized societies, prices of services or goods produced in a context requiring a high service-content are likely to rise more rapidly than prices of goods capable of mass-production on a large scale.

6. The energies of the people of low-income countries are more likely to be harnessed to the task of economic development where the policies of their governments aim to offer economic opportunity for all and to reduce excessive social inequalities.

7. Such chicken-raising demands capital for building and machinery, extensive use of energy resources for automation, and involves feeding chickens with potential famine-relief protein food.

8. They agreed, however, that reliable information on that vital subject was meager and that it would serve the public interest to establish an organization that would undertake objective studies of the size and distribution of the national income

Group 4．

1．Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in particular situation depends, therefore, upon the evidence from experience concerning comparative validity and upon such factors as cost and availability.

2． If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.

3． Out of our emotional experiences with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are good and others are “bad”, and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life-from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept.

4．As a young man in politics, I was trying to figure out how to reconcile my natural desire to have people be civilized and be on good terms with one another and really respect each other and the need to stake out your ground and be in opposition to people who disagree with you.

5. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

6. The urban environment should offer as many recreation activities as possible, and the design of these has to be such that more obligatory activities can also have a recreative aspect.

7．Specifically, managers in not-for-profit organizations strongly believed that conflict was beneficial to their organizations and that it promoted higher quality decision making than might be achieved in the absence of conflict.

8. In parallel with this quick expansion of worldwide communications capacity came the development and volume production of digital computers and related information processing systems, and the rapid development and expansion of the worldwide system of jet transportation.

9. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated in terms of the development of geology in the United Kingdom.

10. Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedeses, and trade stocks, and they’re less likely to go to church, do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community.

11. Furthermore, it is obvious that the strength of a country’s economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry, and that this in turn rest upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds.

12. Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.

13． But he talked as well about the “balanced struggle” between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music.

14. How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends on the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted.

Group 5

1. Everyone agrees a system that is feeling the strain after rapid expansion needs a lot more money –but there is little hope of getting it from the taxpayer and not much scope for attracting more finance from business.

2. I have often tried to conceive of what those pages might contain, but of course I cannot do so because I am a prisoner of the present-day world.

3．The merits of competition by examination are somewhat questionable, but competition in the certain knowledge of failure is positively harmful.

4. It is doubtful whether the radio and the movie are more important than the telegraph and telephone, but they have brought more new words into general use.

5. He has never mixed with them or spoken to them on equal terms, but has demanded and generally received a respect due to his position and superior intelligence.

6. There was a huge library near the riverfront, but I knew that Negroes were not allowed to patronize its shelves any more than they were the parks and playgrounds of the city.

7. There is no evidence that Diana would have behaved other than devotedly to her husband and family if she hadn’t been forced to acknowledge that her husband wasn’t only having a clandestine affair with another man’s wife, but had been having this affair for years.

8． But even if the crime is detected, the criminal may walk away not only unpunished but with a glowing recommendation from his former employers.

9． Advanced learners from this kind background will not only evaluate a dictionary on how user-friendly it is but will also have definite views about the scope and appropriateness of the various socio-cultural entries.

10. Petroleum-related technology has flourished during the postwar period, but the most startling development is the extent to which our nation has failed to use other available and applicable technology in addressing our major energy needs for conservation and supply and early development of new energy-efficient products.