阅读能力训练难句理解70例
1. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty establishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies. 2. Fascination with this idea has made Americans defy the “old world* categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quon defined or attacked. 3. The nonstarters are considered the ones who want stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm the manic speculation; an authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatorily staggered “starting lines.“ 4. “Re” in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, “a piece of the action“, as it were, for the disenfranchised. 5. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away from them. 6. The traditional view supposes that the up mantle of the earth behaves as a liquid when it is subjected to small forces for long period and that differences in temperature under oceans and continents are sufficient to produce convection in the mantle of the earth with rising convection currents under the mid-ocean ridges and sinking currents under the continents. 7. This view may be correct: it has the advantage that the currents are driven by temperature differences that themselves depend on the position of the continents. 8. The enclosed seas are an important feature of the earth s surface and seriously required explanation because, in addition to the enclosed seas that are developing at present behind island arcs, there are a number of older ones of possibly similar origin, such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Black Sea, and perhaps the North Sea. 9. Furthermore, neutrinos carry with them ination about the site and circumstance of their production: therefore, the detection of cosmic neutrinos could provide new ination about a wide variety of cosmic phenomena and about the history of the universe. 10. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market. 11. Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price-fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both “normal“ and having a valuable economic function. 12. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it requires. 13. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid sellin