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1. Even if you travel into the wilderness where snowmobiles, motorboats and all-terrain vehicles can’t follow you, noise is still with you.

2. Almost all medical men who have studied noise agree that loss of hearing can and does result from long exposure to noise at a rating of 85 decibels or higher.

3. Loss of hearing resulting from loud noise is bad enough, but some scientists fear our noisy environment plays a wilder role in our physical and mental well-being.

4. Meanwhile more farsighted manufactures, sensing that there will soon be additional laws about noise, are developing quieter machines.

5. One leading acoustics expert believes that scientific device can suppress any noise scientific device has produced in the first place—if society is willing to pay the price.

1. The river features strongly in the novels of such notable English writers as Dickens, Conrad and Joyce Cary, although the two most famous books about the Thames are a comic masterpiece called Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome and a fantasy for children called The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

2. For these people , the Thames will always mirror the ebb and flow of London life.

3. From April to October, it attracts thousands of visitors who come to trace the poet ’s life from the cradle to the grave.

4. Shakespeare never lost touch with his home town, even at the height of his success as a playwright in London.

5. It is no wonder that many critics believes that it was Stratford-upon-Avon, in the heartland of England, that shaped the man who is generally regarded as the greatest poet in the English language.

1. What is about these religions that makes them so fascinating to Western people? Are they really very different from Christianity？

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1. awareness of life such as Brahma(the Hindu name for god)has able to achieve. Like Martin Luther, Buddha started out to reform the existing religion, but when his ideas were rejected he ended up with his own religious movements. The Shinto sect is well known for its many ceremonies and its splendid show, while Zen emphasizes disciplined, quiet meditation. In a period when many people no longer find satisfaction in money, success, power, or material wealth, the meditation and self—disciplined of the Eastern religions offer an alternative with perhaps a deeper meaning than many people find in their present lives. The rules may be tricky, as one woman missionary found when someone finally told her that for a month she had been using a greeting considered appropriate only for men.

2. He coughs once or twice to attract attention to his presence. He then sits down to wait until the appropriate person approaches to greet him and to invite him to enter the village.

3. Unexpected visitors to a Japanese home may be ignored by the host as he leaves the room to prepare himself to receive the guests. If the visitors are well mannered, they do not “see ”the host until the latter returns to the room properly dressed and, for the first time, “sees ” the guests.

4. There are few if any societies in which the partaking of food is a purely casual informal affair , and each society has its own rules for the etiquette regarding food.

5. He should have taken the nut from her with both hands and repeated after the phrase“you shall be blessed.”He should then have returned the nut to her to urge her to take the first sip.

1. Not until after the first third of the twentieth century, when the human population of the continents had surpassed 2000 million, did many people give much thought to the depths of the sea.

2. The existence of this animal communication by sound in the“silent world”of the oceans has been realized widely by scientists only since the 1940s.

3. Fishermen who use the method rely on the fact that fish are, as it now clear from scientific research, “incredibly garrulous”.

4. Of all underwater noises, the most widespread and everlasting come from some small animals living in the sea cracks---not fish but a variety of shrimp that rarely grows much beyond two inches in length.

5. The report appeared in the 1905 Proceedings of the U.S.National Museum um and has stood the test of time, although for almost fifty years few scientists would accept it as a true story.

1. He wanted to study and describe one of the fast—disappearing groups whose ways of living are as yet little touched by the mechanized societies beyond their boundaries.

2. Scientists who make careful, objective studies of the ways groups of people live together are called cultural anthropologists. Those who are interested mainly in the physical characteristics of groups of people are called physical anthropologists.

3. He hoped within the short six months available to him to become acquainted through observation and personal experience with some of the living patterns of one little—known African groups, the Sebei.

4. The heart of this mysterious rite seemed to have to do with a sacred“leopard ”，which approached with roars supplied by a friction drum----whose stick is whirled upright between the palms on top of the drumhead.

5. Soon afterward the anthropologist and his family were repacking their station wagon for the long trek across the continent, back to the port from which they would sail for home.

1. In London more serious crimes were committed; as the work of the constable became more difficult and dangerous, the men who should have done it paid others, less respectable and less capable, to do it for them.

2. Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also a London magistrate, once made a night raid on two known hideouts in this city —within —a —city; he found seventy men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny, stinking rooms.

3. So young, tight—lipped Sheppard, still in his teeth only five feet four inches tall, and very slender and pale, became a petty thief, then a highwayman, with no future to hope for except the gallows or a rival’s bullet.

4. Jack Sheppard, who had robbed for Wild and killed honest men so that Wild might grow rich, was one of those who fell out with the boss and was duly

betrayed to the authorities.

5. It was novelist Henry Fielding who finally thought of equipping regular patrols with arms and uniforms and sending them out to police the streets of London.

1. But no clue, no bit of evidence, had turned up until that fateful flight in 1959 when Cordon Dower man of the D ’A rcy Exploration Company reported his finding at Wheels Air Base in Tripoli, on the northern coast of Libya.

2. The crew’s high altitude clothing had been removed and put away, indicating that the plane had flown at low altitude for some time.

3. He had joined the Army Air Force before World War II and had passed strict physical and mental tests to qualify as one of the comparatively few prewar air force flying officers.

4. In any case, he continued on, on over the mysterious sand sea, the strange formation of waves and ripples that perhaps looked like the white capped Mediterranean to the tired crewmen.

5. The broken fuselage of the Lady remains where she fell, in mute testimony to the courage and undying spirit of the men who flew her.

1. Mice in general are not well—liked, but a mouse named Mickey has won the heart of millions.

2. He made up his mind to find better ways of making the cartoons move, so that the cartoon characters would seem alive.

3. Schickel is impressed by the fact that Disney’s first successful creation was a mouse, “traditionally viewed as an inhabitant of unclean places and, in his natural state, often an unclean creature himself.”

4. Although some adults criticized him for presenting an idealized and untrue view of reality, many were grateful for Disney ’s determination to avoid sex and crime in his films.

5. This is a second huge amusement park outside of Orlando, Florida, designed to thrill east—coast visitors as Disneyland has thrilled those in the west.