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1、真题阅读长难句分析1. Scott Hahn, cofounder with Gregory of Rogan and Loomstate, which uses all-organic cotton, says high-quality sustainable materials can still be tough to find. 2. Most designers with existing labels are finding there arent comparable fabrics that can just replace what youre doing and what

2、your customers are used to,” he says.3.Last year the influential trade show Designers & Agents stopped charging its participation fee for young green entrepreneurs (公司家) who attend its two springtime shows in Los Angeles and New York and gave special recognition to designers whose collections are at

3、 least 25% sustainable. 4. This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional (过渡型的) cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material.5. Scientists have devised a way to determine rough

4、ly where a person has lived using a strand (缕) of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.6. Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt

5、Lake.7. He had a perfect rsum and gave good responses to her questions, but the fact that he never looked her in the eye said “untrustworthy,” so she decided to offer the job to her second choice. 8. When we begin to question our assumptions and challenge what we think we have learned from our past,

6、 from the media, peers, family, friends, etc., we begin to realize that some of our conclusions are flawed (有缺陷的) or contrary to our fundamental values. 9. We need to train ourselves to think differently, shift our mindsets and realize that diversity opens doors for all of us, creating opportunities

7、 in organizations and communities that benefit everyone. 10. They only come in when a friend drops dead on the golf course and they think, Geez, if it could happen to him, 11.He believes most diseases that commonly affect men could be addressed by preventive check-ups.12. Shoppers seldom complain to

8、 the manager or owner of a retail store, but instead will alert their friends, relatives, coworkers, strangers and anyone who will listen.13. This guidance eliminated the need for customers to circle the parking lot endlessly, and avoided confrontation between those eyeing the same parking space. 14

9、.Customers can also improve future shopping experiences by filling complaints to the retailer, instead of complaining to the rest of the world. 15. A code of conduct is hard to create when youre living in a world in which everyone is exhausted from overwork and lack of sleep, and a world in which ni

10、ce people are perceived to finish last. 16. This jumping to our childrens defence is part of what fuels the “walking on eggshells” feeling that surrounds our dealings with other peoples children. 17. Assuming you make it to the end of your natural term, about 78 years for men in Australia, youll die

11、 on average five years before a woman. 18. Two months ago Gullotta saw a 50-year-old man who had delayed doing anything about his smokers cough for a year. 19.Store managers are often the last to hear complaints, and often find out only when their regular customers decide to frequent their competito

12、rs, according to a study jointly conducted by Verde Group and Wharton School. 20. “Retailers whore responsive and friendly are more likely to smooth over issues than those who arent so friendly,” said Professor Stephen Hoch. 21. But the real truth is that we dont know enough to relieve global warmin

13、g, and without major technological breakthroughs we cant do much about it. 22. We need economic growth unless we condemn the worlds poor to their present poverty and freeze everyone elses living standards. 23. The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when its

14、really an engineering one. 24. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked. 25. Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that its important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate ti

15、mes. 26. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths (收费站) to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. 27. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get thei

16、r hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon (优惠券). 28. When you consider that nearly three out of four Americans have seen the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? you can understand the power of television to communicate with a large audience. 29.Global warming may or may not be the great environm

17、ental crisis of the 21st century, but regardless of whether it is or isnt we wont do much about it. 30. Al Gore calls global warming an “inconvenient truth”, as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. 31. The digital bread crumbs(碎屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for stran

18、gers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. 32.Only when its gone do you wish youve done more to protect it. 33. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for gl

19、obal integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability. 34. Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to international students. 35. In response to t

20、he same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that

21、 address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative (合作的) research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.36.Yale professor and Harvard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human disease at Shanghais

22、Fudan University in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools.37. In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapor

23、e and the U.K.38. While the kinds of instruction offered in these programs will differ, DL usually signifies a course in which the instructors post syllabi (课程大纲), reading assignments, and schedules on Websites, and students send in their assignments by e-mail39.Telling myself that I was merely an e

24、xperienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales.40. While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give he

25、r room but close enough to help if asked.41. Not only do we evaluate the cause of the pain, which can help us treat the pain better, but we also help provide comprehensive therapy for depression and other psychological and social issues related to chronic pain. 42. Then one day a few years ago, out

26、of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations: I dont talk about that anymore. 43. The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing.” 44. While you need to employ both to get t

27、o a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so. 45. Unlike physical energy, which is limited and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or upbringings. 46. “Wellness” may perhaps best be viewed not as a stat

28、e that people can achieve, but as an ideal that people can strive for. 47. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die.48. Regardless of how its sold, the popularity of bottled water taps

29、 into our desire for better health, our wish to appear cultivated, and even a longing for lost purity.49. According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, some of the more shameless tactics include placing attractive bottles on the table for a visual sell, listing brands on the menu without price

30、s, and pouring bottled water without even asking the diners if they want it. 50. Built with safety in mind, the highways have wide lanes and shoulders, dividing medians or barriers, long entry and exit lanes, curves engineered for safe turns, and limited access. 51. But since water is much cheaper t

31、han wine, and many of the fancier brands arent available in stores, most diners dont notice or care. 52. He must use the sounds of speech to identify the words spoken, understand the pattern of organization of the words (sentences), and finally interpret the meaning. 53. Perhaps it was the extreme c

32、ontrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers. 54. As we have seen, the focus of medical care in our society has been shifting from curing disease to preventing disease especially in terms of changing our many unhealthy behaviors, such as poor eatin

33、g habits, smoking and failure to exercise. 55. Reaching new peaks of popularity in North America is Iceberg Water, which is harvested from icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. 56. Ultimately, however, our basic design strategy is focused not simply on being “less bad” but on creating comp

34、letely healthful materials that can be either safely returned to the soil or reused by industry again and again. 57. As you sleep you pass through a sequence of sleep states light sleep, deep sleep and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep that repeats approximately every 90 minutes. 58.You program the clo

35、ck with the latest time at which you want to be wakened, and it then duly(适时地) wakes you during the last light sleep phase before that. 59. Home builders can now use materials such as paints that release significantly reduced amounts of organic compounds that dont destroy the quality of the air, wat

36、er, or soil. 60. Were giving people high-quality, healthful products and an opportunity to make choices that have a beneficial effect on the world. 61. When we designed Americas first so-called “green” office building in New York two decades ago, we felt very alone. 62. The “energy-efficient” sealed

37、 commercial buildings constructed after the 1970s energy crisis revealed indoor air quality problems caused by materials such as paint, wall covering and carpet. 63. So for 20 years, weve been focusing on these materials down to the molecules, looking for ways to make them safe for people and the pl

38、anet. 64. “As sleep-deprived people ourselves, we started thinking of what to do about it,” says Eric Shashoua, a recent college graduate and now chief executive officer of Axon Sleep Research Laboratories, a company created by the students to develop their idea. 65. The headband equipped with elect

39、rodes and microprocessor measures the electrical activity of the wearers brain, in much the same way as some machines used for medical and research purposes and communicates wirelessly with a clock unit near the bed. 66. Interest in pursuing international careers has soared in recent years, enhanced

40、 by chronic(长期的) personnel shortages that are causing companies to search beyond their home borders for talent. 67. Variables included the slope of the land, the ability of the pavement to support the load, the intensity of road use and the nature of the underlying soil. 68. Long-span, segmented-con

41、crete, cable-stayed bridges such as Hale Boggs in Louisiana and the Sunshine Skyway in Florida, and remarkable tunnels like Fort McHenry in Maryland and Mt. Baker in Washington, met many of the nations physical challenges. 69. Not only has the highway system affected the American economy by providin

42、g shipping routes, it has led to the growth of spin-off industries like service stations, motels, restaurants, and shopping centers. 70. An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. 71. His results, to be presen

43、ted at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. 72. And economics, with its emphasis on incentives，provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education. 73. Many in-home jobs that used to b

44、e done primarily by women ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing voluntary work still need to be done by someone. 74. In fact, New Yorks municipal water for more than a century was called the champagne of tap water and until recently considered among the best in the world in terms

45、of both taste and purity.75. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school the prophecy(预言) becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle(恶性循环) of neglect. 76. It starts in the Pacific Ocean and is thought to

46、 be caused by a failure in the trade winds(信风), which affects the ocean currents driven by these winds. 77. A government study recommended a national highway system of 33,920 miles, and Congress soon passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, which called strict, centrally controlled design criteri

47、a. 78. Traffic control systems and methods of construction developed under the interstate program soon influenced highway construction around the world, and were invaluable in improving the condition of urban streets and traffic patterns. 79. By opening the North American continent, highways have en

48、abled consumer goods and services to reach people in remote and rural areas of the country, spurred the growth of suburbs, and provided people with greater options in terms of jobs, access to cultural programs, health care, and other benefits.80. The technological advances made it possible for the middle classes to enjoy what had once been affordable only to the very rich. 81. The clock, called Sleep Smart, measures your sleep cycle, and w