以下是机经:
ISSUE: The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority
ARGUMENT: memo for the CEO of a food company:写两个pest control company, Fly Away&Buzzoff
there was a damage worth of $20,000 of the fast-food stored in warehouse monitored by Fly-Away
but only a damage worth of $10,000 of the food stored in warehouse monitored by Buzzoff
conclusion: Buzzoff is the best means of minimizing cost of pest-control
阅读还记得一些
阅读也好难啊。。。。so sad。。。
短文章:讲Elizabeth Bxxxxx的poems..the prominence of EB's work for most of the time makes it hard not to lose sight of the small size her work. However, EB always deems the small size of her work as a failing(vaguely moral for complexion)【有一题就是问这里complexion的意思】In addition, the small size of her work is an indication of her resistance to the literal culture of her generation.
长文章:讲the difference between the ways British and Whites' handled the Native American territory west of xxxx mountain Before and After the American Revolution
第一段讲某个人认为:British are nicer than Whites in the way that before the American Revolution they negotiate with the Native Americans, arguing for them as to denote territory west of xxxx mountain to be an individual area under their own control(主要就是说British很好)但是 On the other hand, the White settlers brutally try all means to acquire Native American land to be themselves' (就是说白人不好 很粗暴地占领土地)
第二段讲另一个人相对的结论:the reason why British did not try to acquire Native American territory is not out of mercy but out of the lucrative benefits they wanted to maintain by maintaining trades with Native Americans(British是出于自身利益对印第安人好)and the reason Whites behave in such a brutal way is that British behaved in such a way before the American Revolution, and thus the Whites were just following the tradition(Whites对印第安人这么粗暴是因为原来British对他们那么粗暴when they colonized united states)
长文章:讲the complexity of organisms and the complexity of the environments around them
第一段讲the relationship between complexity&complexity is always controversial. First of all, the definition of complexity is not settled. One group thinks the complexity should be defined as the various types of cells in the organism, while the other group thinks it should be defined by the organism's ability to conduct complicate behaviors.
第二段讲several studies have found that the complexity of organisms do not necessarily constantly progress through lineage(有的生物会变得更复杂 有的生物会退化)
第三段讲possible reasons for the results in p2: the natural selection could explain it 生物因环境而变化 有的环境可能让生物变复杂 有的环境可能让生物退化
中长文章:讲newborns' ability to imitate behaviors such as protruding tongue and blah blah
第一段讲某某某发现newborns have the ability to imitate behaviors such as protruding tongue and blah blah
第二段讲该某某某的发现被批判了 因为后续的studies发现newborns dont demonstrate such abilities beside protruding tongue; and such behaviors die out after two months, and don't reappear until 8 months and later