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1、因为违规使用手机而写的五千字检讨书1.We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, wherepeople first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where evennow people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is torecount it as sagas-legends handed down from on

2、e generation of story-tellersto another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something aboutmigrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what theydid. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesianpeoples now living in the Pacific Islands ca

3、me from. The sagas of these peopleexplain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even theirsagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history norlegends to help them to find out where

4、the first modern men came from.Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, be-cause this is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used woodand skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools oflong ago have remained when even the

5、bones of the men who made them havedisappeared without trace. 2.Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends ? Because they destroy somany insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the humanrace. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they woulddevour

6、all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protectionwe get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eatinsects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyedby spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters,

7、spiders never dothe least harm to us or our belongings.Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.One can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legsand an insect never more than six.How many spiders are engaged in this work on our be

8、half ? One authority onspiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, andhe estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre, that is somethinglike 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy forat least half the year in killing

9、 insects. It is impossible to make more than thewildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not contentwith only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the in-sects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the totalweight of a

10、ll the human beings in the country.T. H. GILLESPIE Spare that Spider from The Listener 3.Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them goodsport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pioneeringdays, however, this was not the case at all. The

11、early climbers were looking forthe easiest way to the top because the summit was the prize they sought, especi-ally if it had never been attained before. It is true that during their explorationsthey often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equippedin a manner which would ma

12、ke a modern climber shudder at the thought, butthey did not go out of their way to court such excitement. They had a single aim,a solitary goal-the top!It is hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers. Ex-cept for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had r

13、apidlybecome popular, Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut offfrom civilization by the high mountains. Such inns as there were were generallydirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread oftentwelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. Often a

14、 valley boasted noinn at all, and climbers found shelter wherever they could-sometimes with thelocal priest (who was usually as poor as his parishioners), sometimes with shep-herds or cheesemakers. Invariably the background was the same: dirt andpoverty, and very uncomfortable. For men accustomed to

15、 eating seven-coursedinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alpsmust have been very hard indeed. 4.In the Soviet Union several cases have been reported recently of people whocan read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doorsand walls. O

16、ne case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, whohas normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of herskin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. Oneday she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of alo

17、cked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspaperslocked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.Veras curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institutein the town of UIyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was

18、given aseries of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the RussianFederal Republic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper throughan opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a childs game ofLotto she was able to describe the figures and colours pr

19、inted on it; and, in an-other instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot theoutlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other experimentsshowed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. During all thesetests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except

20、when blindfold she lacked theability to perceive things with her skin. lt was also found that although shecould perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her handswere wet. 5.The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene. One thinks oneknows him very well. For a hu

21、ndred years or more he has been killed, captured,and imprisoned, in zoos. His bones have been mounted in natural historymuseums everywhere, and he has always exerted a strong fascination upon scien-tists and romantics alike. He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films andthe adventure books, a

22、nd an obvious (though not perhaps strictly scientific) linkwith our ancestral past.Yet the fact is we know very little about gorillas. No really satisfactory photo-graph has ever been taken of one in a wild state, no zoologist, however intrepid,has been able to keep the animal under close and consta

23、nt observation in thedark jungles in which he lives. Carl Akeley, the American naturalist, led twoexpeditions in the nineteen-twenties, and now lies buried among the animals heloved so well. But even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives, orhow or why it dies, nor was he able to defin

24、e the exact social pattern of thefamily groups, or indicate the final extent of their intelligence. All this and manyother things remain almost as much a mystery as they were when the Frenchexplorer Du Chaillu first described the animal to the civilized world a centuryago. The Abominable Snowman who

25、 haunts the imagination of climbers in theHimalayas is hardly more elusive. 6.People are always talking about the problem of youth . If there is one-whichI take leave to doubt-then it is older people who create it, not the young them-selves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young a

26、re after allhuman beings-people just like their elders. There is only one difference be-tween an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future beforehim and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is wherethe rub is.When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just yo

27、ung and uncertain-that I wasa new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regardedas something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem givesyou a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engagedin seeking.I find young people exci

28、ting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not adreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxioussocial climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems tOme to link them with life, and the origins of things. Its as if they were in somesense cos

29、mic beings in violent an lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous of fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to drearycliches about respect for elders-as if mere age were a reason for respect. Iacc

30、ept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think heis wrong. 7.I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill be-tween the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meetone another at football or cricket, they would have no in

31、clination to meet onthe battlefield. Even if one didnt know from concrete examples (the 1936Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgiesof hatred, one could deduce it from general principles.Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You play to win

32、,and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the villagegreen, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, itis possible to play simply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question ofprestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be dis-graced if you lose, the most savage combative ins