On our cycling tour we managed to cover an average （1）of about 25 kilometers（2） day.
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On our cycling tour we managed to cover an average （1）of about 25 kilometers（2） day.
Australia continued the fight to end Japan’s annual whale hunts，warning that its plan to kill humpback whales in Antarctica could （ ）outrage.
Over the past few years, outcries from food activists have changed many Americans' eating habits: Criticism of widespread pesticide use led many consumers to organic foods, and early warnings prompted shoppers to shun irradiated and genetically altered food. （1） Major players have muscled laws through state legislatures. The statutes make it illegal to suggest that a particular food is unsafe without a “sound scientific basis” for the claim. These so-called banana bills are under discussion in several US states.Banana bill backers believe the laws will protect agricultural producers from losses like those following the Alar scare in 1989, when the TV magazine show 60 Minutes publicized a Natural Resources Defense Council report charging that the chemical, which enhances the appearance of apples, causes cancer.（2 ） Banana bill foes say the laws simply serve to repress those who speak out against risky food-produce with “acceptable” levels of pesticides, genetically altered tomatoes, milk from cows injected with the growth hormone rBST, which boosts milk production. （3 ） They call them an insult to free speech and an impediment to covering critical food safety issues, notes Nicols Fox in American Journalism Review (March 1995). Most critics question the laws' requirement that only charges based on “reasonable and reliable” evidence be allowed. （4） After all, it's unlikely that agribusinesses will accept even the best evidence if it threatens their bottom line. Fox notes that even though the Environmental Protection Agency affirmed that Alar posed unacceptable health risks, Washington State Farm Bureau spokesperson Peter Stemberg insists that EPA's science is “subject to second opinion.” —opinions that challenged accepted wisdom.Instead of attacking what they sneer as “junk science”, food producers should be listening to the public's food worries, says Sierra's Rauber, who cites a recent Young &
That's all right, it is better to （ ） the feeling than to let it build up.
There are few things we Americans do that can truly be described as “national”. There’s Thanksgiving, the Super Bowl and, every four years, we elect a president. Sure, voters use a variety of criteria to select their favorite candidates. But it’s arguable that at heart the presidential election is a contest over whom we want to represent not just our nation but our idea of nationhood and who we are as a people.（1）.One way voters decide who we are as a nation is to decide who we are not. Remember what your high school civics teacher taught you? Your rights end right where someone else’s begin. （2）. The very act of asserting an identity involves distinguishing yourself. In politics, it sometimes involves delegitimizing （使失去合法或合理性）the opponent.（3）. Obama is trying to broaden our collective notion of the mainstream. On the one hand，his campaign is running television commercials in Iowa featuring his late mother, who was white. On the other，he touts his biracial, multicultural background as an advantage when it comes to representing the U. S. abroad.In another, not so distant, era, a white candidate like Hillary Clinton could simply have used race as a way to portray her black opponent as being beyond the mainstream.（4）. Instead，some elements of the Clinton campaign have seized on Obama’s ancestral ties to Islam --- the Illinois senator is a Christian and Americans’ wariness of the Muslim world as a way to associate him with something outside of “who we are as a nation”，a way to delegitimize his campaign to represent all Americans.Should all of this come as some sort of shock? No.（5）. But during this primary season，just remember you’re not only selecting your party’s presidential nominee. You’re also, in no small sense，being asked to decide, in national terms, who’s in and who’s out.
Culture is transmitted largely by language and by the necessity for people in close contact to cooperate. The more extensive the communications network，the greater the exchange of ideas and beliefs and the more alike people become—in toleration of diversity if nothing else. Members of a culture or a nation are generally in closer contact with one another than with members of other cultures or nations. They become more like each other and more unlike others. In this way，there develops “national character，” which is the statistical tendency for a group of people to share values and follow similar behavior patterns.Frequently，the members of one culture will interpret the “national characteristics” of another group in terms of their own values. For example，the inhabitants of a South Pacific island may be considered “lazy” by citizens of some industrialized nations. On the other hand，it may be that the islanders place a great value on social relationships but little value on “productivity，” and crops grow with little attention. The negative connotation of the label “lazy” is thus unjustified from the point of view of the island culture.Stereotypes，such as “lazy”，“inscrutable，” and “dishonest” give people the security of labels with which to react to others in a superficial way，but they are damaging to real understanding among members of different cultures. People react more to labels than to reality. A black American Peace Corps volunteer，for instance，is considered and called a white man by black Africans. The “we-they” distinction applies to whatever characteristic the “we” have and the “they” do not have—and the characteristics attributed to the “they” are usually ones with a negative value.The distinction becomes most obvious in times of conflict. For this reason，it is often suggested the only thing that might join all men together on this planet would be an invasion from outer space. “We，” the earthlings, would then fight “them，” the outsiders.Given the great diversities—real and imagined—among people of the world，is there any foundation for hope that someday all men might join together to form a single and legitimate world government? The outcome will probably depend on the political evolution of mankind.1.What makes people more tolerant of diversity between different groups?2.“National character” is built among people who（ ）.3.To some industrialized nations，the mentioned South Pacific islanders are （ ）.4.With stereotypes，people tend to（ ）.5.What is true about the black American Peace Corps volunteer?6.It is possible to form a single and legitimate world government only when （ ） .
