大学英语：六级阅读难句分析

1、中国人在餐桌上浪费的粮食一年高达2000亿元，被倒掉的食物相当于2亿多人一年的口粮。与此形成鲜明对照的是，我国还有一亿多农村扶贫对象、几千万城市贫困人口以及其他为数众多的困难群众。It is estimated what is wasted on the table amounts to 200 billion RMB, which can meet the yearly food demand of 200 million people in China. By contrast, more than 100 milion people are living below the povert

2、y line in rural areass, and tens of millions of poverished people are still struggling for a living in the urban cities.The same motivation that can push people to exert more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to engage in unethical behaviors.A prime example Sc

3、hweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goalsSchweitzer concedes his research runs counter to a very large body of literature that commends the many benefits of goal-se

4、tting. Advocates of the practice have taken issue with his teams use of such evidence as news accounts to support his conclusion that goal-setting is widely over-prescribedIn a rebuttal (反驳) paper, Dr. Edwin Locke writes:“Goal-setting is not going away. Organizations cannot thrive without being focu

5、sed on their desired end results any more than an individual can thrive without goals to provide a sense of purpose.”Meanwhile, Europe has fallen prey to a different ideological trap: the belief that European governments would always have infinite resources and could continue borrowing as if there w

6、ere no tomorrow.Recently, the UK National Stem Cell Network warned the UK could lose its place among the world leaders in stem cell research unless adequate funding and legislation could be assured,How good are you at saying no? For many, its surprisingly difficult. This is especially true of editor

7、s, who by nature tend to be eager and engaged participants in everything they do. Consider these scenarios:There are a number of familiar theories. Some argue that people are anxious and feel threatened by an inflow of new workers. Others highlight the strain that undocumented immigrants place on pu

8、blic services, like schools, hospitals, and jails. Still others emphasize the role of race, arguing that foreigners add to the nations fears and insecurities. Theres some truth to all these explanations, but they arent quite sufficient.Two world wars and a Great Depression rocked the confidence of m

9、any people that scientific expertise alone could create a prosperous and ordered world.It is almost impossible to imagine our society without thinking of the extraordinary achievements of scientists and engineers in building our complicated world. But try to imagine our world as well without the rem

10、arkable works that have defined our culture and values.To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (不断积累) to the whole of society as todays children become tomorrows productive citizenry (公民).A specialist who performs a procedure in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times more than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patients disea