美英报刊阅读精选本第三版-课后答案

Lesson one Home at last
1. Not only had China changed dramatically since most of them had left but also the nation could offer more personal freedoms and economic opportunities than ever before.
2. Most of them like to go in for ecommerce.
3. Because IT is the leading industry now.
4. They want to gain experience in the States before they come back.
5. It is the complicated relationship and the uncertainty of our human resource management system.
6. It means some of the HBS elite have made their final decision to return to China to serve their country.
Lesson two
1.Osaka: nearly complet exclusion of non-JP companies from the project , built at the zenith of JP’s
economic power
Guangzhou: nearly completely designed and engineered by foreign companies, developing country with low-wage work force.
2.Openness combined with China’s vast population of 1.3 billion. Potential size of its market.
3.Its immense and low-paid work force.
4.第一小问：Not necessary.
第二：Yes, it is especially susceptible to economic booms and busts. At the same time, China’s one-party system may struggle to adapt to the social tensions brought to the surface by rapid economic
development.
第三：No, China’s strengths and using the experience of JP for reference.
5.Fast development +vast population of 1.3 billion+ military muscle +increasing trade surplus.
第二问：Trade with China. Cheaper labor=Cheaper products=preference of made-in-China=fewer sale of made-in US=fewer products of US factories=fewer job forUS.
第三问;No, China’s strengths,especially the cheap labor advantage are partially the reason of the
unemployment in US. The fast development cannot being undertaking without drawing any attention or attack.
6.Susceptible to economic booms and busts
Economic bubble
Unemployed adults
Acute setbacks
Lesson Three China finds western ways bring news woes
1. The writer thinks that the best way to appreciate how much changed in China has is to examine the people themselves: what they eat and drink now and how dangerously overweight more than one-fifth of adults are.
2. Traditional Chinese lifestyle emphasizes restraint while the Western lifestyle emphasizes indulgence. The change from Traditional lifestyle to Western indulgence will affect public health strongly: deaths from
diet-related illnesses are expected to increase 10 times faster than population growth. And the increase in health care costs could slow down the economic development.
3. Less exercise and more fat in the diet. Because people have more money than before.
4. YES. He believes that increased supplies of alcohol, together with the rising disposable income, have stimulated drinking.
5. YES. Unhealthy eating and drinking may cause diseases like heart attack, stroke and adult-onset diabetes, and the government will have to spend more money to treat these diseases.
Lesson four 保护名胜古迹刻不容缓
1.What activities are harming ancient Buddhist grottoes?
Too many tourists and their breathing are harming them.
2.Who turned the caves into the painted shrines?
It was the travelers along the old silk road.
3.Are murals in good shape.
No, they are not in good shape. Many of them are already sagging or peeling from walls, and their delicate beauty is fading away. Others have deteriorated beyond repair efforts.
4.Why is it difficult for the authorities to prevent them from being destroyed?
Money is at the root of the problem. China is a poor nation. Local governments have little money left over for cultural conservation.
5.Does the Chinese government value the preservation of those historical and cultural sites?
Yes, it does. For instance, it has given award to the Getty Conservation Institute for its contributions to the preservation of them at Dunhuang.
6.Why did Mr. Neville Agn ew say “ tourism and conservation are good partners”?
If you can make a good connection, they are. In other words, if you can allocate part of the money earned from tourism to conservation, and don’t turn to tourism as a cash cow, they will be good partners.
Lesson five The evolution wars
1. in the late fall. This is a challenge to Darwin’s theory which is widely regarded as one of the best-supported ideas in science since it comes from decades of study and objective evidence. Till now Darwin’s theory is the only explanation for the rich variety of life forms on Earth, so scientists fell horrible.
2. Bush supports the idea of introducing both evolutionism and intelligent design in biology class. His attitude will further provoke battles on the topic and even bring more political and competitive pressure on science.
3. NO. Because Darwin’s theory has conflicted with people’s religious convictions. The “monkey trial” was a famous case, in which Tennessee school teacher was convicted of violating the ban of teaching evolution in 1925. That was a big war between creationism and evolutionism.
4. Living things are too exquisitely complex to have evolved by a combination of chance mutations and natural selection. Some pieces in the fossil record that may prove the evolution process are missing.
5. NO. The earlier anti-Darwinists, mostly creationists, regarded evolution as a heresy and they openly claimed the role of God. But the proponents of intelligent design accept some role of evolution and they avoid bringing God into the discussion.
6. They think the intelligent design is faith-based, so the debate about evolution is not a real scientific argument.
7. Because it is difficult for people to argue over such benign and earnest language. This can even make people feel the theory a scientific one and avoid violation against the Constitution.
8. 开放性问题。

Lesson six 最好的教育
1. Why are virtual institutions thought of as best graduate schools?
Because they are the best graduate schools for those who have their career and family. When they pursue advanced degrees, they don’t have to step onto a university campus.
2. Why is the huge upsurge of interest in remote learning?
It is very convenient for anyone to learn at anytime of anyplace.. Therefore it is the best way for working adults to keep on learning.
3. Will the distance education substitute the traditional education? Explain.
No, it won’t. These two modes of instruction are equivalent and complementary as far as student learning is concerned.
4. What’s the advantage of remote learning?
A large number of people who have difficulty in suspending their career and family can pursue advanced degrees without stepping onto a university campus or moving and commuting to get their degrees.
5. What’s the opposite idea about remote learning?
Someone argues there’s a large gap betewwn distance education and traditional education, and education requires a relationship between people because it is a process of identity formation, validation, encouragement, emulation and inspiration. This only happens face to face. In other words, they value face-to-face instruction and relationship.
6. What are the factors you should consider before you choose a distant education school?
They are the accreditation, program history, cost, academic field, residency, and technology.
Lesson seven Is Harvard Worth It?
1.Do researchers agree with each other on the correlation between college selectivity and future income of the graduates?
No. according to Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale, college selectivity does not affect future earnings of the students very much, especially students with affluent backgrounds. But Caroline Hoxby’s research shows that the choice of different colleges makes a great difference to the students’ future income.
2. Are all state-run universities less competitive than private universities? Please give examples.
No. some state-run universities are more competitive than the private ones, such as the University of Michigan, Ohio’s Miami University and the University of North Carolina.
3. If a candidate is admitted to Harvard University, but decides to go to a state university, will his future earnings be affected?
According to the research of Krueger and Dale, a candidate’s future earning will not be affected. His good qualities will be carried to the workplace and he will be duly paid.
4. For students from poor backgrounds, does it affect their future earning to choose an elite university? Why?
Yes. That’ because at an elite university they will have better access to the network of affluent students and alumni, and this will influence their future job hunting.
5. Where do most top companies go to recruit their employees? Why?
The top universities, because that is where the majority of talented students graduate.
6. What has influenced the old pattern of employee recruiting for companiee?
The introduction of the dot-com world has changed the old pattern of employee recruiting for companies. Old companies began to employ students further down the educational food chain, as they can’t hire enough MBAs from Wharton, Harvard and other elite schools.
7. What is the attitude of the author toward the issue of college selectivity?
He keeps a fairly objective point of view. In regard to the correlation between college selectivity and future income, he makes three points:
(1) An elite education gives students – especially less affluent ones – better access to certain kinds of elite jobs;
(2)There is no economic advantage to choosing an expensive, mediocre private school over a top public one;
(3) Talented students rise to the top everywhere.
Lesson ten Hollywood demons
1. When economic experience a steady growth, people are no longer worried about their
material life, they tend their attention to spiritual life.
2. A breakdown of ethical norms.
The attitude of people being free to choose their own lifestyle including non-traditional values or even they developed an anything-I-want-to-do-is-right attitude.It has resulted in the rise in violence, drug abuse, divorce, and out-of-wedlock births.
3. 1.The mind-numbing violence and amorality of commercial television and popular films.
Bob Dole praise some of the films made by Hollywood, such as Independence Day, for it lifts up their country. But in stressing Hollywood’ ability to “shape attitudes and outlooks‘，he
accuses executives of debasing the nation by creating nightmares of depravity.
2. Because the public support Mr.dole’s critique of Hollywood. Mr.clinton follows Dole in order
to win the favor of voters. Mr.Clinton had asked Congress to pass legislation requiring TV sets to contain a V-chip, which allows parents to block offensive material.
4. Plato argued that poetry gratified the passions and established a “bad system of government
in people’s minds”. Their art had a terrifying capacity for deforming even good people.
Therefore he considered that poets such ai Homer ought to be banned.
5. 第二小问：That world view is crude and destructive forms of hedonism.
6. U.S is reacting in a rational fashion. The TV sets are required to contain V-chip, which allows
parents to block offensive material. In this way, the children can be protected from the worst excess of commercial TV, such as sex, violence, drug abuse, etc.
7. 开放性答案
Lesson eleven
1. They are Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI Director Louis Freech and energy secretary Bill
Richardson.
2. Politics forced them to do so. Some politicians such as mr.Cox don’t want to see Sino-American
relation improved, and have shown much discrimination against Chinese in American security organizations, so they turned up the heat on the authorities.
3. A. The authorities wanted to compel him to make a full confession.
B. It was not proper to do so because he made only minor security violation.
4. No, they did not agree.
5. Yes, they have used his minor security violation as accusation against Lee.
6. Christopher Cox is the first to blame because he and his committee have created the atmosphere
of Chinese espionage, and put pressure on the officials on the case. The top decision-makers in the case and the mass media, especially The New York Times, are the second to blame.。