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长难句精讲（第二周）
主讲人：朱李
1. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in
Britain and the United States, since conventional measures suggest that both
economies, and especiallyAmerica’s, have littleproductive slack.
2. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to
operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for
themselves —goals that posea real challenge.
3. Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too — and so did bigger crops of
babies as yesterday’s“baby boom”generation reached its child-bearing years.
4. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of
advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the
promiseofhis advertisements.
5. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that,unlike the rises
in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price
inflation andglobal excess demand.更懂考研，更懂你
6. As was discussed before, it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper
became the dominant pre-electronic medium, following in the wake of the pamphlet
and thebookand inthe company oftheperiodical.
7. It was during the same time that the communications revolution speeded up,
beginning with transport, the railway and leading on through the telegraph,the
telephone, radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and
theairplane.
8. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the
assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom
modernmedicine has prolonged thephysical agony of dying.
9. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and
gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and
class.
10. In Australia — where an aging population, life-extending technology and
changing community attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to
consider makinga similar lawtodeal with euthanasia.更懂考研，更懂你
11. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of “ineffectual and
forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying”
as thetwin problems ofend-of-life care.
12. Thus, intheAmerican economic system itis thedemand ofindividual consumers,
coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of
individualsto maximize theirincomes, that together determine what shall be produced
and howresources are used to produce it.
13. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates,
Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow
doctors to takethe lives ofincurably ill patients who wish to die.
14. In its 16 years of operation it has found the first convincing evidence for the
existence of black holes, made observations supporting the theory that the universe’s
expansionis accelerating and confirmed that dark matterexists.
15. The teachers who took part in the program also told me of their worries that they
might be force-feeding their pupils information rather than stimulating the discussion
necessary to ensure they grasped the importance to them of what they were being
taught.更懂考研，更懂你
16. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide,
the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect”, a centuries-old
moral principle holding that an action having two effects — a good one that is
intended and a harmful one that is foreseen — is permissible if the actor intends only
thegood effect.
17. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large
professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly
spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the
energetic founders.
18. Even though there is plenty ofevidence that the quality of theteachers is themost
important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and
promotinggood ones.
19. It is entirely reasonable for auditors to believe that scientists who know exactly
where they are going and how they will get there should not be distracted by the
necessity of keeping one eye on the cash register while the other eye is on the
microscope.更懂考研，更懂你
20. TheAmerican economic system isorganized around a basically private-enterprise,
market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be
produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services
that they want most.
