问答题 An important variable affecting communication across cultures is fate and personal responsibility. 1. {{U}}This refers to the degree to which we feel ourselves the masters of our lives, versus the degree to which we see ourselves as subject to things outside our control.{{/U}} Another way to look at this is to ask how much see ourselves able to change and maneuver, to choose the course of our lives and relationships. Some have drawn a parallel between the emphasis on personal responsibility in North American settings and the landscape itself. The North American Landscape is vast, with large spaces of unpopulated territory. 2. {{U}}The frontier mentality of "conquering" the wilderness, and the expansiveness of the land stretching huge distances, may relate to generally high levels of confidence in the ability to shape and choose our destinies.{{/U}} In this expansive landscape, many children grow up with an epic sense of life, where ideas are big, and hope springs eternal. When they experience setbacks, they are encouraged to redouble their efforts, to "try, try again." 3. {{U}}Action, efficacy, and achievement are emphasized and expected. Free will is enshrined in laws and enforced by courts.{{/U}} Now consider places in the world with much smaller territory, whose history reflects repeated conquest and harsh straggles: Northern Ireland, Mexico, Israel, Palestine. In these places, there is more emphasis on destiny's role in human life. In Mexico, there is a legacy of poverty, invasion, and territorial mutilation. Mexicans are more likely to see struggles as invasion, and territorial mutilation. Mexicans are more likely to see struggles as inevitable or unavoidable. 4. {{U}}Their fatalistic attitude is expressed in their way of responding to failure or accident by saying "ni modo" ("no way" or "tough luck", meaning that the setback was destined.{{/U}} This variable is important to understanding cultural conflict. If someone invested in free will crosses paths with someone more fatalistic in orientation, miscommunication is likely. The first person may expect action and accountability. Failing to see it, they may conclude that the second is lazy, obstructionist, or dishonest. 5. {{U}}The second person will expect respect for the natural order of things. Failing to see it, they may conclude that the first is coercive or irreverent inflated in his ideas of what can be accomplished or changed.{{/U}}

问答题Distinctive features of speech sounds (中山大学2008研；北师大2003研；北交大2005研，浙江大学2007研)

问答题ECM

问答题Many child psychologists (心理学家) think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. (passage2)

问答题flat character

问答题CPC

问答题想想看，一杯从阴沟和厕所里回收来的饮用水? 这也许是新加坡人很快就要面对的现实。这个城市国家正在寻找替代水源以减少对邻国马来西亚的依赖，新加坡的水半数来自那里。 一个国际专家小组宣称再生水，亦即所谓的“新水”，适合于饮用，公共事业委员会正在对这一发现进行评估，预计将在两个月后向政府提出建议。小组成员美国微生物学家罗斯强调要通过教育来帮助公众克服对饮用曾在下水道和马桶中流淌的水的厌恶感。 专家小组说，他们对新加坡一个实验工厂生产的再生水进行了两年的测试，结果表明再生水具有稳定的高品质，符合世界卫生组织的标准。 这9位科学家和医生中有几位在记者的注视下喝下了几瓶“新水”，以此显示他们的信心。 副总理李显龙称再生水为“重要的替代品”，它将足以取代新加坡按照1961年签订的协议从马来西亚得到的全部水供给，该协议将于2011年到期。 新加坡现在为通过管道输入的每千加仑水付费3马来西亚分(不到1美分)，但马来西亚方面想在几年内把价格提高100倍。

问答题Outline (1)The goal of markets is sometimes related to the protection of environment, but sometimes contradictory to it. (2) The public opinions (3) What I suggest is ...

问答题她说不论他到哪里她都要跟他走。

问答题Perhaps the greatest puzzle of all is not why some people are left-handed, but rather why so few are. (Passage One)

问答题When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing 3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep, President Clinton moved swiftly. 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 haired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning. That group-the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC)—has been working feverishly to put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed on a near-final draft of their recommendations. NBAC will ask that Clinton"s 90-day ban on federal funds for human cloning be extended indefinitely, and possibly that it be made law. But NBAC members are planning to word the recommendation narrowly to avoid new restrictions on research that involves the cloning of human DNA or cells-routine in molecular biology. The panel has not yet reached agreement on a crucial question, however, whether to recommend legislation that would make it a crime for private funding to be used for human cloning. In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be "morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning." Shapiro explained during the meeting that the moral doubt stems mainly from fears about the risk to the health of the child. The panel then informally accepted several general conclusions, although some details have not been settled. NBAC plans to call for a continued ban on federal government funding for any attempt to clone body cell nuclei to create a child. Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos (the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research or to knowingly endanger an embryo"s life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research. NBAC members also indicated that they will appeal to privately funded researchers and clinics not to try to clone humans by body cell nuclear transfer. But they were divided on whether to go further by calling for a federal law that would impose a complete ban on human cloning. Shapiro and most members favored an appeal for such legislation, but in a phone interview, he said this issue was still "up in the air".

问答题兵部尚书

问答题As we enter the 21st century, the gap between the world"s rich and poor is widening, both with in and among countries. 1. The vast majority of the world"s population is receiving an ever-decreasing share of its collective wealth, while the share claimed by a few rich nations and individuals is steadily growing. In 2001 Forbes magazine counted 538 billionaires with a total net worth of 1.7 trillion dollars, while the United Nations identified 2.8 billion people surviving on less than two dollars a day. Overall, the richest 20 percent of the world"s people control 86 percent of global income, while the poorest 20 percent control barely one percent. The impacts of this widening rich-poor gap are varied and worrisome. 2. They include environmental destruction—richer nations and individuals can afford to over-consume resources, poorer nations and individuals are forced to over-exploit the environment just to survive. They include migration—people are forced to, move in search of adequate resources. And they include conflict—wealthier nations and individuals fight to keep what they have, while those suffering a lack of resources fight to obtain them. 3. Because poorer groups typically lack the assets and technology to conduct large-scale conventional war to obtain their goals, they often resort to low-intensity conflict and terrorism. The causes of this global disparity are diverse and complex, but include colonial era trading patterns that favor industrialized nations; the globalization of economies and economic structures, in which poor nations struggle to compete; a growing "digital divide" characterized by lack of access to information technology; inadequate governance and protection of law; and lack of access to education, healthcare, and social safety nets, especially for women and girls. 4. Individuals and nations need not remain in poverty indefinitely, however. With an awareness of the interdependence of our modern world and a concerted political will, it is possible to reverse this trend that threatens to divide the world against itself. And reversing this trend would have powerful and positive impacts on our future. 5. Bringing the nearly 5 billion people of the less industrialized world into a sustainable economy through "pro-poor" policies would provide a tremendous boost to the world economy, as well as to those people. With increased economic opportunities come improved access to nutrition, education, and health care. With those come higher income, greater autonomy—especially for women—and the opportunity to pursue environmentally sound technologies and products.

问答题The purchaser engages an attorney or a title company to search the title to the property. The title company ensures that the seller can convey clear title, the transaction is then closed.

问答题iconicity

问答题How many syllables does the word "kinder" have? What are they? How many morphemes does it have? What are they?

问答题布朗太太上周生病时，她的三个女儿轮流照顾她。

问答题Coarticulation

问答题functional equivalence