考研英语长难句训练题：17. It turns out that peculiar way of conducting theexperiments may have led tomisleadinginterpretations of what happened.18. When work started again on Monday, output duly rose compared wi...
考研英语长难句训练题：13. Instead, the studies ended up giving their name to the “Hawthorne effect“, the extremely influential idea that the very act of being experimented upon changes subjects’ behavior.14. Acc...
考研英语长难句训练题：5. Constitutional law is political because it resultsfrom choices rooted in fundamental social conceptslike liberty and property.6.When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law...
考研英语长难句训练题：9. But because hard laughter is diffficult to suatain, agood laugh is unlikely to have measurable benefitsthe way, say, walking or jogging does.10. It was argued at the end of the 19th cent...
考研英语长难句训练题：1. Yet, in several instances, justices acted in waysthat weaken the court’s reputation for beingindependent and impartial.2. That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court’s deci...
Hauling yourself up by the bootstraps has never been easy. But computers do this every time they are turned on-hence the verb “to boot”。 Booting a computer takes valuable time， compounded by the reboo...
Carly Fiorina， Hewlett-Packard’s chief executive， came out fighting on November 14th. In a conference call with analysts， she announced better-than-expected quarterly results， even though profits were...
Many people think that information technology and biotechnology will rule the 21st century. Robert Birge， a chemist at the University of Connecticut， is trying to combine them， by making computer memo...
Bragging about your fancy new cell phone is a fleeting pleasure; after all， today’s coolest models tend to be next month’s paperweights. By contrast， the half-life of a cordless phone for the home is ...
Las Vegas， where every born loser is told he is a potential winner， has always had a way with words. Prostitution is technically illegal in the city. But a private “dance” in one’s hotel room is not——...