1. In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. (NETEM 1999, Passage 2, Paragraph 1)
大约在网上交易的第一年当中，大部分业务活动都是围绕着努力开发消费者市场来进行的。

2. Galileo's greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the Earth.  (NETEM 1994, Translation, 第74题)
伽利略最光辉的业绩在于他在1609年是第一个把新发明的望远镜对准了天空的人，以证实行星是围绕太阳旋转而不是围绕地球旋转的。

3. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real. (NETEM 1998, Passage 2, Paragraph 1)
商人们自认为的他们所领导的生产力革命是否确有其事，这一点更加难以确定。

4. A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and rears. (NETEM 2005, Text 3, Paragraph 1)
一个世纪前，弗洛伊德阐述了革命性的理论，即梦是人们潜意识中欲望和恐惧经伪装后的预示。

5. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they "look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension." (NETEM 2000, Passage 2, Paragraph 3)
达尔文有一句话描述那些对进化一无所知的人，他们"看有机的生命如同野人看船，好像看某种完全不能理解的东西"。

6. Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. (NETEM 2002, Text 4, Paragraph 7)
就在最高法庭对医助自杀进行裁决的前三周，国家科学院公布了一份长达两卷的报告-----临近死亡：完善临终护理。

7. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question. (NETEM 2005, Text 1, Paragraph 5)
但是，这种公平感是在卷尾猴和人类身上各自独立演化而成，还是来自三千五百万前他们共同的祖先，这还是一个悬而未决的问题。
(注：本句主语是whether...or whether（是......还是......）；并且两个whether各自引导一个主语从句。本句谓语是is an unanswered question。as yet是插入语，表"至今，到现在为止"。
whether...or whether这个句型对于写社会问题类作文是个极好的句型，请背诵仿写这句话。)

8. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations. (NETEM 1999, Passage 3, Paragraph 3)
此外，在我们这么大的一个国家里，经济延展到这么多的州，涉及这么多的国际公司，要培养出所需数量的各类专业人员是不太可能的。
(注：本句的地点状语是in a country, country带了两个修饰成分，一个是as large as ours，另一个是where引导的定语从句，在这个定语从句中主语the economy有两个并列的动词is和involves。另外，注意spread的过去式和过去分词不变。)

9. Federal policy is necessarily involved in the technology vs.genius dispute. Whether the Government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa（反之）often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force. (NETEM 1994, Translation, 第75题)
联邦政府的政策必然要卷入到技术与天才之争中去。 政府究竟是以减少对技术的经费投入来增加对纯理论科学的经费投入，还是相反，这往往取决于把哪一方看作是驱动力量。

1. What has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams, as easily and openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar. (NETEM 2000, Passage 5, Paragraph 2)
现在的情况是人们不能像以前那样轻易地、公开地坦陈自己的梦想，惟恐别人认为自己爱出风头、贪婪、庸俗不堪。

2. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. (NETEM 2004, Text 4, Paragraph 3)
鼓励孩子们排斥精神生活使得他们极易被利用和控制。

1. It now appears that they also have an important influence on the geophysical processes that propel the plates across the globe. (NETEM 1998, Passage 5, Paragraph 3)
现在看来，它们还对推动板块在地球表面漂移这一地球物理过程有重要影响。

2. The spooks call it "open-source intelligence", and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. (NETEM 2003, Text 1, Paragraph 2)
间谍们把它称为"公开来源情报"。随着互联网的增长，这样的情报变得越来越有影响力。
(注：spook 在口语中是"鬼；幽灵"的意思；在俚语中表示"行踪秘密的人；间谍"。在上下文显然是"间谍"的意思。)

3. Conversely, some European firms have half or more of their employees fluent in a second language. (CET-4, 1999.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 3)
相反，在一些欧洲公司里，有一半甚至一半以上的员工能流利使用第二语言。

1. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual. (NETEM 1994, Passage 1, Paragraph 3)
在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包括生产资料的所有权，也包括一定的权利，比如，产品价格的决定权或与其他私有个体的自由签约权。

2. This isn't the stuff of gloomy philosophical contemplations, but a fact of Europe's new economic landscape, embraced by sociologists, real-estate developers and ad executives alike.  (CET-6, 2005.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 1)
这并不是悲观哲学家思索的素材，这是欧洲大陆一个真实的新经济景象，被类似于社会学家、房地产开发商和广告公司的经理所拥护。

3. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" or "a touch on the brakes", makes it sound like a precise science. (NETEM 1997, Passage 5, Paragraph 1)
很多用来描述货币政策的词，如"引导经济软着陆"，"触动经济刹车"，听起来像是一门精确的科学。

1. It is surely a mistake to choose our doctors exclusively from A- type stock. (NETEM 1995, Passage 4, Paragraph 5)
只从A型性格的人员中挑选医生的确是个错误。

2. It is important to exclude any underlying illness that may be responsible for the fatigue. (CET-6, 2003.9 Passage 4, Paragraph 4)
排除任何可能导致疲惫的潜在疾病十分重要。

1. The president of the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this key point in the preface to the panel's report. (NETEM 2005, Text 2, Paragraph 2)
国家科学院院长Bruce Alberts在专家团报告的前言中加上了这一重要观点。

2. Unlike most of the world's volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth's surface. (NETEM 1998, Passage 5, Paragraph 1)
和世界上大多数火山不同的是，它们并不总是在构成地球表面的巨大漂流板块之间的边界上出现。

3. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. (NETEM 2000, Passage 1, Paragraph 2)
面对国外竞争，一些大型的美国工业，如消费电子产业，已经萎缩或渐渐消失。

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