Group 6
1. The hard test is whether in 50 years Americans will look back at 1998 and say that we raised the bar for public office so high that only saints need apply, or that we dropped it so low that moral authority fell out of the job description.
2. But even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives, or how or why it dies, nor was he able to define the exact social pattern of the family groups, or indicate the final extent of their intelligence.
3. Someone traveling alone, if hungry, injured, or ill, often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest cabin or settlement.
Group 7
1. It is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as “hard”, the social sciences as “soft”, and the biological sciences as somewhere in between.
2. Thus man was defined as a rational being, as a social animal, an animal that can make tools, or a symbol-making animal.
3. New forms of thoughts as well as new subjects for thought must arise in the future as they have in the past, giving rise to new standards of elegance.
4. But as useful as computers are, they’re nowhere close to achieving anything remotely resembling these early aspirations for humanlike behavior.
5. Never mind something as complex as conversation: the most powerful computers struggle to reliably recognize the shape of an object, the most elementary of tasks for a ten-month-old kid.
6. The biographer has to work with the position he or she has in the world, adjusting that position as necessary to deal with the subject.
7. There are those who assert that the switch to an information-based economy is in the same camp as other great historical milestones, particularly the Industrial Revolution.
8. The results of these early efforts are as promising as they are peculiar, and the new nature-based AI movement is slowly but surely moving to the forefront of the field.
9. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the language of his family.
10. Or in order to prove the rationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society, scholars have tried to make a case for acquisitiveness, competitiveness, and selfishness as innate human traits.
11. Adopting a new version of the climate treaty that the Bush administration rejected as harmful to the U.S. economy would save the nation more than $50 billion annually in energy-related costs by 2010 as well as slow global warming, a study for an environmental group says.
Group 8
1. This is because more protein has to be fed to animals in the form of vegetable matter than can ever be recovered in the form of meat.
2. While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work forces, in fact they invest less in the skills of their employees than do either Japanese or German firms.
3. Specifically, managers in not-for –profit organizations strongly believed that conflict was 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 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 "human nature."
