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1、51支持前/后种观点的人 people / those in fovor of the former/ latteropinion 52有/ 提供如下理由/ 证据 have/ provide the following reasons/ evidence53在一定程度上 to some extent/ degree / in some way54理论和实践相结合 integrate theory with practice55必然趋势 an irresistible trend of近日，广州广东电白县城一对夫妇，因欠院方1500元住院治疗费，在无法筹到资金的情况下，一家四口脱光衣服徒步走上街
2、头求助，此事被多家媒体报道后引起了广大网友的议论。 请看中国日报网的报道： 一家四口裸体上街求助 A couple with their two kids walked nude on the streets and begged for help in Dianbai county, Guangdong province on Nov 27. 11月27日，广东省电白县一对夫妇领着两个孩子裸体走上街头寻求帮助。 文中的walked nude指的就是“裸体”上街求助，nude就是指“裸体的；无装饰的”，比如in the nude （裸体；公开）、nude look（裸妆）；“裸体”还可以用ba
3、re all/bare it all来表示，bare是指“脱去；暴露”，比如bare feet（赤脚；光着脚）、navel-baring shirt（露脐装）。 这起“baring it all（裸体）求助”事件再一次折射出social assistance scheme（社会救助机制）缺失的悲哀，被逼无奈的背后，往往是rights of the weak（弱者权利）救济渠道的稀缺、失效。政府需要健全social security system（社会保障制度），疏浚救济渠道，有关部门也要主动关注peoples livelihood and their sufferings（民生疾苦），及时纾困
4、解难。Nearly two thousand years ago, three elderly Chinese men sat in the gardens of Changle Palace, arguing about what was the greatest invention of all time. “Tools made of rock,” said one, banging his fist on the delicate carved table. “Paper,” said another, slamming the side of his hand. “No, sciss
5、ors!” cried the third, making chopping movements in the air. And so a game was invented. This little tale is an invention too. We do not know exactly when Rock, Paper, Scissors was dreamed up, nor how, since in the time of Han there were fewer ways of recording the events of the day: no photographs
6、(invented by Louis Daguerre in 1836), no sound recordings (the phonautograph was first used in 1857) and no reliable method of storing and passing on information (more of that later). But the fact that the game existed then, and did not before, means that it is an invention. It may not be a contende
7、r for the greatest of all time, but rock, paper and scissors most certainly are. Inventions, for the purposes of this debate, are tangibletechnologies and processes, rather than more nebulous things such as ideas, principles and imaginings. Children might feel that Father Christmas (first recorded i
8、n 1616) is the greatest invention of all time, but we are ruling him out. Tools fashioned of rock, or stone, were probably the earliest inventions worthy of the name. First used in the Paleolithic Age, around 2.6m years ago, they mark an essential progression, from proto-human to human. With simple
9、tools, fashioned by pummelling one piece of rock against another to produce a sharp edge, early man began to shape the world according to his needs, to build rudimentary shelters, to hunt and flay animals for food and clothing. Just about everything else followed from there. There is virtually nothi
10、ng about the way we live today that would have been possible without those first stone tools. But does longevity alone qualify stone tools for the crown? Im not convinced; theirs was a long, slow grind to efficacy, and in most forms theyve long been eclipsed. The blade, howeverof which scissors are
11、just a manifestation, albeit an ingenious onehas been in constant use since it was first invented at the start of the Ages of Metal, some 400,000 years ago. Think of knives, swords, spears, axes, the guillotineuh-oh. Although we depend on the blade for much of what we now take for granted, from cutt
12、ing up our food to making the electronics which crowd our daily life, theres a little too much of the chop and slash about blades to make them my greatest of all time. So how about the third of our Chinese gents suggestions: paper? Invented by an imperial courtier named Tsai Lun in 105AD, it was dee
13、med so precious and important that successive Chinese dynasties kept it secret for six centuries. Not something that the Dragons of todays Den, with their greedy eyes and piles of cash, would be inclined to do. It is thanks to paper that we know about its invention. The ability to keep a written rec
14、ord is the foundation of mass learning. While the alphabet was invented around 2,000BC (at the same time as another useful device, the umbrella), it wasnt easy to pass around heavy stone tablets, or to manufacture and preserve papyrus scrolls in great numbers. The invention of paper led inexorably t
15、o books, the printing press, newspapers and magazines, to sacred texts, art, photography and music scores, handed down through generations. And yet, here we are at the dawn of what may, finally, become a paperless society. Paper may cover stone, but it is cut by scissors and burned by fireanother of
16、 the foundations of our society.考研英语考研英语阅读模板（六十一） Americans today dont place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical educationnot to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive
