destructive impact on the have-nots. 
            [参考译文]信息技术使电子经济成为可能，而电子经济将进一步加强富国对全球市场的控

 

制，从而给穷国家带来毁灭性的影响。 13. Home 
            schoolers habor few kind words for public schools, charging 
            shortcomings that range from lack of religious perspective in the 
            curriculum to a herdlike approach to teaching children. 
            [参考译文]家庭教育的倡导对学校教育鲜有褒奖，他们指责学校教育的种种弊端，从课和

 

表上没有宗教课到放牧的教育方法，不一而足。 14. 
            Finally, advertisers try to begin commercials with sounds that are 
            highly different from those of programming within which the 
            commercial is buried. [参考译文]最后，广告人员还运用各种方法使广告节目的声音

 

不同于其他节目的声音。 15. 
            The act, designed to protect species’ living areas, and policies 
            that preserve land and forests compete with economic interests. 
            [参考译文]这一旨在保护动物生活场所的法案以及一些保护土地及森林的政策却与经济利

 

益相抵触。 16. Once again, the 
            scientists have caught us mouthing pieties while acting just the 
            contrary. [参考译文]你会说以貌取人不是美国人的做法，这不公平，令人难以置信然而，

 

科学家们又一次证明我们言行不一。 17. 
            Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our 
            own population, the factory farming industry also argues that 
            “hungry nations are benefiting from advances made by the poultry 
            industry.” 
            [参考译文]

“

工厂养殖业已不满足于我国人口提供廉价食物的可疑说法，进一步提出了 让贫

”

 

困国家从家禽养殖业的发展中受益 的论调。 18. 
            then came the weakening of the U.S. dollar against major currencies. 
            [参考译文]

 

其次，美元对世界其他主要货币的比价下跌。 19. Bottom retail prices

—anywhere from 
            30% to 70% lower than those in Europe and Asia—have attracted some 
            47 million visitors, who are expected to leave behind $79 billion in 
            1994. 
            [参考译文]比欧洲和亚洲低 30%~70%的零售价价格吸引了约四千七百万的游客于 1994 年

涌入美国，而这些游客为美国留下了 79

 

亿美元的收入。

            20. It is said that the public and Congressional concern about 
            deceptive（欺骗性的）packaging rumpus（喧嚣）started because Senator 

Hart 
            discovered that the boxes of cereals consumed by him, Mrs. Hart, and 
            their children were becoming higher and narrower, with a decline of 
            net weight from 12 to 10 1/2 ounces, without any reduction in price. 
            [参考译文]参议员哈特一家在购买合装麦片时发现，包装盒变高了，变窄了，食品的分量

也减少了，然而价格却分文未降。据说，由此在公众和议会中引发了一场关于欺骗性商品包装的轩然大波。 
            21. The producers of packaged products argue strongly against 
            changing sizes of packages to contain even weights and volumes, but 
            no one in the trade comments unfavorably on the huge costs incurred 
            by endless changes of package sizes, materials, shape, art work, and 
            net weights that are used for improving a product’s market position. 
            [参考译文]生产包装产品的商家极力反对在改变了包装上原有分量的商品，但他们却丝毫

不反对为了扩大产品的市场优势，用于不断改变包装的大小、用料、形状、制作工艺以及商品的净重的大笔

 

花费。
            22. If the bottom half can’t effectively staff the processes that 
            have to be operated, the management and professional jobs that go 
            with these processes will disappear. 
            [参考译文]如果生产工人不能有效地完成有关的生产过程，那么，与这些过程相关的管理

 

和专业职位亦将不复存在。 23. The 
            biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to 
            the subject. 全句的字面意思是：传记作家不得不在与传主所处的摇摆不定位置之间跳

 

来跳致病去。
            

 

隐含之义为：传记作家必须与传主保持适当距离，并要时常调整与传主间的距离。 24. In 

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