sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words:.
出自-2009年考研阅读原文
When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.
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When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.
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What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it.
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Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.
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But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.
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When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.
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Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on \worthless\species.
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We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.
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The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.
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Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.
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It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.
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Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.
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When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up.
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Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.
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But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.
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When Hoffa’s Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.
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Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.
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The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.
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The company, a major energy supplier in New England, provoked justified outrage in Vermont last week when it announced it was reneging on a longstanding commitment to abide by the strict nuclear regulations.
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That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.
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When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.
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There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.
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When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.
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Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.
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It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.
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The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.
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The US$3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March.
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How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground? Typically, they survey and sample ( ' , make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine where excavation will yield useful information.
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But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above “mere” politics and “embody” a spirit of national unity.
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They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.
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The court has ruled that police don’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they sift through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.
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How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.
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At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.
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When we don't understand the value of mental health and we don't know how to gain access to it, mental health will remain hidden from us.
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There will eventually come a day when The New York Times ceases to publish stories on newsprint.
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The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper—printing presses, delivery trucks—isn’t just expensive; it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial constraints.
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So how do we navigate this? How do we know when to invest in an upgrade? And what’s the best way to pull off one that enhances our goals? Here are some tips:.
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Nor does it reveal how much companies are banking on the halo effect, rather than the other possible benefits, when they decide their do-gooding policies.
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New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies—at least when they are prosecuted for corruption.
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Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate.
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But we’re going to have questions like that where we have things we’re doing that don’t make sense when the market changes and the world changes.
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But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.
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This is a lesson that rich countries can learn : When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country’s success, the world looks very different.
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The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.
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When Shakespeare was twelve years old, the first public playhouse was built in London.
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When the EEOB was finished, it was the largest office building in Washington, with nearly 2 miles of black and white tiled corridors.
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The data of an individual there gains its value only when it is compared with the data of countless millions more.
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The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.
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So when young people are critical of an over-tweeting president, they reveal a mental discipline in thinking skills - and in their choices on when to share on social media.
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Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?.
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\Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns,\ said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter and Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of tide, Crest and other products last year.
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\When Dr.Epley and Mr.Schoreder asked other people in the same train station to predict how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their ride would be more pleasant if they sat on their own,\ the New York times summarizes.
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\When I come home from a hard day's work, I often feel tired,\ Danaher says, adding,\In a world in which I don't have to work, I might feel rather different\ - perhaps different enough to throw himself into a hobby or a passion project with the intensity
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A deal is a deal-except, apparently,when Entergy is involved.
2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
A more practical goal is to try, to the best of your ability, to be as tolerant and composed as you can when faced with trying situations involving your children.
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According to accounts of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed.
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Among other weaknesses, the measures cities must employ when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.
2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?
2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
And I felt like that again, to a certain degree, when people responded to the blog so well.
2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
And the stock market reacts positively when companies tie CEO pay to, say, stock prices, a sign that those practices build up corporate value not just for the CEO.
2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
And this becomes more of a problem when colleges don't talk about the class advantages and disadvantages of different groups of students.
2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.
2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
At a time when Thomas piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.
2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.
2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But in some cases, one marketer's owned media become another marketer's paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.
2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But it can also be antagonistic such as when a political candidate tums toward their competitor during a debate and makes eye contact that signals hostility.
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But the Nobel Foundation's limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to ack
2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But we're going to have questions like that where we have things we're doing that don't make sense when the market changes and the world changes.
2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.
2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But, when one considers the obstacles to achieving the meritocratic ideal, it does look as if a fairer world must be temporarily ordered.
2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.
2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Even when you win, you end up no better off.
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Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.
2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Half of the pens would deliver an electric shock when clicked.
2018年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground?
2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
How do we know when to invest in an upgrade?
2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
However, a comparison with data for weeks when there was no experimentation showed that output always went up on Mondays.
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However, when done too often, this habit can sometimes hurt more than it helps.
2019年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face, we can take a moment before buying.
2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
In fact, the ability to emotionally regulate or maintain emotional control when confronted by stress is one of the most important of all life's skills.
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In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.
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Infants are wired to look at parents' faces to try to understand their world, and if those faces are blank and unresponsive-as they often are when absorbed in a device——it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.
2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.
2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry because they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow.
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It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a comfortable life for their children even though neither had completed college when he was young.
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Madrid was hailed as a public health beacon last November when it rolled out ambitious restrictions on the most polluting cars.
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Neuroscientist Bonnie Augeung found that the hormone oxytocin increased the amount of eye contact from men toward the interviewer during a brief interview when the direction of their gaze was recorded.
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.
2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
A more direct finding is that people who scored high for negative emotions like anxiety looked at others for shorter periods of time and reported more comfortable feelings when others did not look directly at them.
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Our findings indicate that people do not only feel different when they are the centre of attention but that their brain reactions also differ.
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overall, Europe's wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
People are, on the whole, poor at considering back around information when making individual decisions.
2013年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they've apparently learned is when to stop.
2009年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations, at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.
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