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复合题Researchers are finding that boys and girls really are from two different planets. Experts say boys and girls have different “crisis points”, stages in their emotional and social development where things can go very wrong. Until recently, girls got all the attention. But boys are much more likely than girls to have discipline problems at school and to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Boys far outnumber girls in special-education classes. They’re also more likely to commit violent crimes and end up in jail.Even normal boy behavior has come to be considered pathological（病态的） in the wake of the feminist movement. An abundance of physical energy and the urge to conquer—these are normal male characteristics, and in an earlier age they were good things, even essential to survival. “If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today,” says Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys, “we’d say they had ADD.” He says one of the new insights we’re gaining about boys is a very old one: boys will be boys. “They are who they are,” says Gurian, “and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.”But what exactly is the essential nature of boys? Even as infants, boys and girls behave differently. A recent study at Children’s Hospital in Boston found that boy babies are more emotionally expressive; girls are more reflective. (That means boy babies tend to cry when they’re unhappy; girl babies suck their thumbs.) This could indicate that girls are innately more able to control their emotions. Boys have higher levels of testosterone（睾丸激素） and lower levels of neurotransmitter serotonin（神经传递素） , which inhabits aggression and impulsivity. That may help explain why more males than females carry through with suicide or become alcoholics.There’s a struggle between a desire and need for warmth on the one hand and a pull toward independence on the other. Boys are going through what psychologists long ago declared an integral part of growing up: individualization and disconnection from parents, especially mothers. But now some researchers think that process is too abrupt. When boys repress normal feelings like love because of social pressure, says William Pollack, head of the Center for Men at Boston’s McLean Hospital, “they’ve lost contact with the genuine nature of whom they are and what they feel. Boys are in a silent crisis. The only time we notice it is when they pull the trigger.”

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复合题There were several reasons why the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain rather than in France, the other great powers of the day. In the first place, Britain had the money necessary to finance the larger enterprises. England’s supremacy on the seas had encouraged commerce and Englishmen had been amassing wealth through there commerce and industry. The newly rich class in that country was not the aristocratic group, but merchants and businessmen who were willing to devote themselves to industry and scientific agriculture. The wealth of France, on the other hand, was largely in the hands of the nobility, and they were not willing to do the necessary work to develop industry. In the second place, Great Britain had undertaken very early the manufacturing of inexpensive and more practical products for which there would be ever-growing demand from the people, especially the new middle class. On the other hand, France produced articles in the luxury class. These could never be turned out in quantities because they demanded individuality. England was the producer of goods that were produced in quantities, and if she could find a cheaper means of producing them, her markets would grow. So she was ready for methods that would make it possible to manufacture in large quantities. In the third place, for a long time England had large-numbers of semiskilled workers. When the feudal system broke down in England and the manors were turned to sheep raising, numbers of Englishmen went to the towns. There they engaged in weaving, making shows, wood carving and many other occupations that developed skills. When the industrial revolution began, these men were available for the work on the new machines. Moreover they were free men who could move from place to place as the need for workers arose. This had not been the case in France, which was still chiefly an agricultural country with peasants bound to their masters in many ways so they could not easily move to the cities. In the fourth place, coal was abundant in Great Britain, and a large amount of this cheap fuel was necessary for running the factories. There was coal in northern France, too, but France was late in tapping such resources because really everyone depended directly or indirectly on farming for his living.

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复合题You probably know more about writing than you realize, but you may not know how to use that knowledge to accomplish the full range of writing you need to do. You may have been discouraged by assignments that seemed silly and pointless. If so, you probably wondered, “Why?” and when you finished, “So what?” what you sensed was that real writing is done for a real purpose: Someone has a motive for writing—a motive stronger than simply wanting to complete an assignment. There are, as you will see, many motives for writing. Whatever the specific motive may be, however, writers write because they understand that writing is a way to satisfy a purpose that is important to them.This book takes the position that successful writing begins with having a motive for writing and understanding how that motive can be fulfilled. The ten chapters that follow this introduction discuss a number of these motives and show how various writers have realized them: to interpret information, to evaluate something, to move others, to persuade others, to amuse others and to experiment with form. The final chapter emphasizes writing to understand reading, but the entire book assumes that reading is intimately connected to writing. Recognizing, through reading, the motives of other writers can help you discover your own sense of what you hope to accomplish when you write and so understand the principles likely to help you succeed.And act of writing involves five elements that together form what is called the rhetorical situation: author, audience, purpose, topic and occasion.As writers pursue different motives, they emphasize certain elements of the rhetorical situation over others. Recording a memory and exploring experience focus mainly on satisfying the needs of the writer. Moving, persuading and amusing others focus mainly on eliciting an appropriate response from the audience. Although reporting and interpreting information, evaluating something, and writing about reading certainly satisfy the writer’s needs and require the writer to think about the reader’s needs, they all focus to varying degrees on the subject matter or topic. Whatever your emphasis, though, you can seldom lose sight of any of these elements of the rhetorical situation for long.

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复合题In the 19th century, the invention of the telegraph and the telephone forever changed how messages moved around the world. In the 20th century, radio, television, computers and the Internet further revolutionized the near-instantaneous processing and transmission of data.【B1】 ___________.Linking it all together? An absence of wires, a wireless age.Every month, it seems, a new cell phone comes out that’s “smarter” than the last in its ability to gather and transmit a growing amount of data: voice, images, news and more.Cell phones, or at least the technology behind them, have been around since the 1960s. By the 1980s, mobile phones had evolved but were still “giant, brick-shaped luxury items for geeks or the rich,” said Norm Rose, head of Travel Technology Consulting.【B2】 ____________.The Internet also played a large role in shaping the wireless world, changing not only how businesses worked but also how information was shared. Laptop computer and PDA users can now sit down and instantly sync （同步） up on the internet at tens of thousands of “hotpots” in homes, cafes and other high traffic areas nationwide.【B3】 ____________.“Everyone is going to be able to tap into this pervasive wireless world,” said Wade Roush, senior editor of Technology Review, pointing to rapidly improving technology and falling prices. “Wireless technologies are going to change the way we communicate with each other.”Those connected with the wireless world say wireless technologies are in their infancy and may just be beginning a significant growth spurt. Telecommunications companies, meanwhile, are hyping （大肆宣传） a significant mobile network upgrade-dubbed 3G or “Third Generation”—that will let cell phones and other such devices transmit more data, and do it faster than ever before.【B4】 ____________.“Smartphones”—cell phones that gather and display information beyond simply sound—have garnered much of the buzz domestically. A new wave of better, faster phones will hit the United States only after 3G or other such networks become a reality, Rose said.【B5】 ____________.You will be able to go down to the store and buy almost any piece of consumer electronics, plug it into your wall, it’ll sense your Wi-Fi network and automatically configure itself. It’s going to be one of those technologies that weaves into all facets of our lives.“We’ll start to think of computing as a natural part of our environment in the same way we might think about heating and air conditioning now,” Roush said, “It’s just always there.”A. Wi-Fi （wireless-fidelity, 无线保真） is also developing, strong pace, at a steady in ways that its inventors never intended. Engineers are working to incorporate Wi-Fi into cell phones, PDAs and other such devices.B. Soon, pundits predict, many more consumer electronics - from computers stereos to coffee makers-could electronically connect with one another, as well as with thermostats, watches and other digital devices.C. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other wireless technologies work under the same general concept, the differentiating factors typically being the speed and distance a user can move from the base station and still maintain the connection.D. Even with the tremendous technological improvements in cell phones—sending images, text messages and, of course, sound -such upgrades become moot （无实际意义的） if mobile users cannot always get a clear connection because of an imperfect network.E. Experts say the 21st century will usher in a second Information Age in which these technologies, and their benefits, will be accessible anytime, anywhere.F. “Think of the Internet, back in 1995-1996,” said Norm Rose. “Wireless and mobile technology is the next boom. When it takes off, it will be even more disruptive than the Internet.”G. In the 1990s, cell phones and laptops became less bulky and expensive, new gadgets like personal digital assistants （PDAs） help people better manage their lives electronically, and a growing number of other devices—from kitchen appliances to televisions—began incorporating digital technology.

复合题Ever since humans have lived on the earth, they have made use of various forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form of oral speech. When there is a language barrier, communication is accomplished through sign language in which motions stand for letters, words, and ideas. Tourists and the people unable to hear or speak have had to resort to this form of expression. Many of these symbols of whole words are very vivid and exact and can be used internationally; spelling, however, cannot.Body language transmits ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either intentionally or unintentionally. A wink can be a way of indicating that the party is only joking. A nod signifies approval, while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction.Other forms of nonlinguistic language can be found in Braille (a system of raised dots read with the fingertips), signal flags, Morse code, and smoke signals. Road maps and picture signs also guide, warn and instruct people.While language is the most common form of communication, other systems and techniques also express human thoughts and feelings.