【答案解析】1. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country"s excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.
2. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia"s Northera Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.
3. Some have breathed sighs of relied, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.
4. There are, of course, exceptions. Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the U.S. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.
5. He is a defiant protector of his ideas. Any rivaling thought would become his target. With his persuasive skills he can provide hours of justification that nobody could bear. Battered and tortured, the contester would be left with no choice, but to comply with him.