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959.With child care already a solid part of the employee benefits package at many companies, more businesses are focusing on a newer family benefit knownas elder care, servicing for older dependents.

193. Byron possessed powers of observation that would have made him a great anthropologist and that make his letters as a group the rival of the best novels of the time.

703. The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once notedas a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.

704. The brochure notes that in the seminar the importance of communication as a two-way process will be emphasized.

797. The original building and loan associations were organizedas limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions and then took turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

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693. The Audubon Society and other conservation groups, concerned over what they perceiveas the serious threat to the environment posed by the policies of the government, are preparing for a major political effort.

347. Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America since prehistoric times, and they are still prizedas game animals by the campesinos, who typically cook the meat in a heavily spiced stew.

594. Rankedas one of the most important of Europe’s young playwrights, Franz Xaver Kroetz has written forty plays; his works—translated into over thirty languages—are produced more often than those of any other contemporary German dramatist.

49. According to some economists, Japan is in danger of plunging into a depression that, with double-digit unemployment, could severely strain a society that regards lifetime employment as a virtual right of citizenship.

501. Many scholars regard the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Peru as the most impressive in South America.

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517. Most nations regard their airspace as extending upward as high as an aircraft can fly; no specific altitude, however, has been officially recognized as a boundary.

656. Some analysts contend that true capitalism exists only when the ownership of both

property and the means of production is regardedas an individual’s inalienable right, not as a license granted by government and revokable at whim.

967. In the late nineteenth century Annie Besant was widely regardedas one of the greatest living public orators, second only to Gladstone in a culture where oratory was the dominant public medium.

316. Frances Wright’s book on America contrasted the republicanism of the United States with what she sawasthe aristocratic and corrupt institutions of England.

368. In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata women are seenasthe means of bringing peace and good sense to a war-torn world.

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591. Quasars are so distant that their light has taken billions of years to reach the Earth; consequently, we see them as they were during the formation of the universe.

930. While some academicians believe that business ethics should be integrated into every business course, others say that students will take ethics seriously only if it is taughtas a separate, required course.

118. Art museums do not usually think of their collections as capital or consider the interest income that would be generated if a portion of the capital were invested in another form.

221. A consumer may not thinkof household cleaning products as hazardous substances, but many of them can be harmful to health, especially if they are used improperly.

70. After this year’s record-shattering January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble was touted as the country’s best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians.

174. Elephants emit low-frequency sounds, believed to originate from a small area on their foreheads, that they may useas a secret language to communicate with other members of the herd.。

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339. If additional deposits of oil are found, the amount that can be usedas fuel will increase and the price of oil will drop, even if the deposits are not immediately tapped.

770. The key to control over the Eurasian steppes lay in the nomad’s ability to use the horse both as a means of transport and as an effective military tool.

800. The Parthenon was a church from 1204 until 1456, when Athens was taken by General Mohammed the Conqueror, the Turkish sultan, who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as a fortress.

954. Art historians are using a process known as infrared scanning in analyzing the Mona

Lisa to determine whether it has been altered since completion and whether Leonardo da Vinci first sketched the figure in black, a practice employed by many artists of the time.

13. A majority of the international journalists surveyed view nuclear power stations as unsafe at present but think that they will be or could be made sufficiently safe in the future.

959. With child care already a solid part of the employee benefits package at many 169. Because the enemy’s new ship is the quietest and therefore the most elusive submarine, it is being increasingly viewed by the military as a threat to security.

262. During the early years of European settlement on a continent that was viewedas “wilderness” by the newcomers, Native Americans, with their intimate knowledge of the ecology of the land, helped to rescue many Pilgrims and pioneers from hardship, or even death.

575. Pensions are now viewedas a deferred payment of salary, money workers are compelled to put away to take care of themselves in later years.

615. Samuel Sewall, like other seventeenth-century colonists, viewed marriage as a property arrangement rather than an emotional bond based on romantic love.

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“正如”不倒装（前面可能有副词just、even、inasmuch）：

36.According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, as it was of earlier generations.

81. Although fruit can no longer grow once it is picked, it continues for some time to respire, taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide, just as human beings do when they breathe.

171. Because young children do not organize their attention or perceptions systematically, as adults do, they may notice and remember details that their elders ignore.

253. Dr. Hegsted argues that just as polio vaccine is given to every person to protect the few who might actually contract polio, mass dietary change is needed to protect the significant number who are susceptible to the life-threatening effects of press eating habits.

257. During an ice age, the buildup of ice at the poles and the drop in water levels near the equator speed up the Earth’s rotation, just as a spinning figure skater increases speed by drawing in her arms.

279. Even as they never forgavethe Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French for taking territory from them.

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434. International sporting events need not be fiscal disasters, as the financial success of the 1992 Olympic Games demonstrates.

442. It is characteristic of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, asit is of virtually every great American museum, that the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of its collections as have the judgments of the art historian.

474. Legend has it that when the Mohawk Joseph Brant was presented to George III in 1776, he proudly refused to kiss the King’s hand, inasmuch as he considered himself an ally, not a subject.

514. Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days is included in earnings, as they pay to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.

547. On stage, the force of Carrick’s personality and the vividness of his acting disguised the fact that he was, as his surviving velvet suit shows, a short man.

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564. Opened in 1683, the Ashmolean was the first public museum in Great Britain, just as earlier the Bodleian hadbeen the first truly public library.

571. Archaeologists have discovered that, over five thousand years ago, Mesopotamian cooks were preparing chicken with coriander and tamarind, just as Egyptian cooks are still doing today.

641. Consumer and producer prices have been rising, ashave interest rates.

896. Unlike other arachnids, which have their nerve cells evenly distributed along their body, the scorpion has a cluster of nerve cells in its head, as a mammal does.

965. In many upper-class Egyptian homes, French was spoken within the family, just as it had once been among the Russian aristocracy.

697. The bank acknowledged that its difficulties are likely to continue as it attemptsto deal with the precipitous fall of the dollar against the yen and the dislocations reflected in the stock market decline.

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385. In its most recent approach, the comet Crommelin passed the Earth at about the same distance and in about the same position, some 25 degrees above the horizon, aswill Halley’s comet the next time it appears.

549. Once an apolitical confrontation of the world’s best athletes, the Summer Olympics have been increasingly politicized in recent years as the superpowers havedenied many of the best athletes’ access to competition.

691. The aristocratic values expressed in the writings of Marguerite Yourcenar place her within the French classical tradition, asdoesher passionate interest in history, particularly Roman history.

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124. As business grows more complex, students who major in such specialized areas as finance and marketing are becoming more and more successful in the job market.

127. As Hurricane Hugo approached the Atlantic coast, it increased dramatically in strength, becoming the tenth most intense hurricane to hit the United States mainland in the twentieth century and the most intense since Camille in 1969.

128. Asit becomes more common for both husband and wife to work outside the home, companies are beginning to help in finding new employment for the spouses of transferred employees.

129. As litigation grows more complex, the need for experts to explain technical issues becomes more apparent.

132.As more and more people invest their money in savings certificates or money-market funds in order to earn higher interest, they are abandoning traditional low-interest investment havens such as passbook accounts and life insurance policies.

136. As researchers continue to probe the highly expressive vocal and postural language of wolves, the close resemblance between wolves and dogs becomes ever more striking.