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W: Martin had lived in New York for 40 years and never been mugged once. This did not make him confident -on the contrary, it terrified him. The way he saw it, he was now the most likely person in Manhattan to get mugged next."What are the odds in favour of me getting mugged" he asked his friend Lenny."How much are you willing to bet" said Lenny, who was a compulsive gambler."Oh come on, this is too important to bet on!""Nothing is too important to bet on," said Lenny, shocked. That was the end of their friendship."How do you think I can avoid getting mugged" Martin asked his friend Grace. Grace had not been outside her apartment in five years, as a sure-fire way of avoiding being mugged. It had failed; someone had broken in and mugged her."I’ve no idea, Martin," she said. "Most of these guys are on drugs anyway, and they need the money for their addiction."This gave Martin an idea. If the muggers only needed the money for drugs, why didn’t he offer them drugs instead Then possibly they would be so grateful they wouldn’t harm him. Through some rich friends he knew he bought small quantities of heroin, cocaine and LSD. He had never touched the stuff himself, so he had to label them carefully, to make sure he didn’t get them mixed up.One day he was walking in a part of Central Park he shouldn’t have been in (the part where there is grass and trees) when three men leapt out at him. One was black, one was Puerto Rican and one was Caucasian. Well, at least mugging is being integrated he thought."You want drugs" he cried. "I’ve got drugs! Anything you want you can have. Just name it. But don’t touch me!"The three men let go of him respectfully."We almost made a big mistake there," said one of them. "This guy’s a pusher. Hurt him, and we could have the Mafia down on us. Let’s see what you got, Mister."Somewhat to his surprise Martin found himself displaying his wares, to his customers. Even more to his surprise, he found himself accepting money for the drugs, much more than he’d paid for them."How come you guys have all this money" He said. "Why are you out mugging if you er... have money""Well, we’re not real muggers," said the Caucasian embarrassed. "We’re out-of-work actors.""I thought out-of-work show business people always became waiters or barmen," said Martin."Right. But there are so many show business people in catering now that you can’t get work as waiters. So, we had to work as muggers."When Martin got home, he bought some more drugs from his friend. Pretty soon he sold them to some more muggers, pretty soon after that he found he was spending more and more time pushing drugs, and making more and more money at it. Being afraid of muggings had turned him into a professional drug-pusher.One day a man leapt out at him and grabbed him"You want drugs" said Martin, "I got drugs.""I want money," said a famiiiar voice."Lenny!" cried Martin, "How’re you doing""Badly" said Lenny. "I lost everything gambling."He hit Martin over the head and took his money, wallet and all his credit cards, leaving the little packets of white powder behind.M: The moral of this story is it’s no use offering drugs to a money addict. Martin bought some heroin from his old friend.
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Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 to 16.Ladies and gentlemen, today’s lecture is on how not to grow old, because at my time of life, this is a much more important subject than how to grow old. My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather died in the flower of his youth -at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty. Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off. A greatgrandmother of mine lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants. My maternal grandmother had nine children who survived, one who died in infancy. As soon as she became a widow she devoted herself to women’s higher education. She was one of the founders of Girton College, and worked hard at opening the medical profession to women. She used to tell of how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad. She asked him why he was so melancholy and he said that he had just parted from his two grandchildren. "Good gracious," she exclaimed, "I have seventy-two grandchildren, and if ! were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a miserable existence!" Speaking as one of the seventy-two, ! prefer her recipe. After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty getting to sleep, so she habitually spent the hours from midnight to a.m. in reading popular science. I don’t believe that she ever had time to notice she was growing old. This, I think, is the proper recipe for remaining young, and this I’d like to share with you.My second advice ... [fade out] What did the great-grandmother do after losing her spouse().
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M: Let’s move on now to an area that appears to be of great concern to you. I’m talking about the idea of taking a desirable characteristic from one plant and transferring it into another.Well, this has actually been happening for thousands of years, hasn’t it And surely the new techniques are just speeding up the progress of plant and animal breeding that we’ve had for a long time.W: Well, in one sense that’s true, and in another sense, it isn t.There is no doubt that genetic engineering saves us money and time in breeding. But on the other hand, by employing this technique we run the risk of narrowing our genetic diversity. We’re in the process of creating super-breeds with certain strains, and leaving other strains by the wayside. We’ve started to narrow our genetic diversity in... other ways. I’m thinking of how we have monocultured plants and animals in agriculture.M: What else will genetic engineering bring aboutGenetic engineering will make this situation worse by speeding up the monoculturing. Now, this is different from traditional breeding.What men have ever carried out such outrageous experiments, as are being done now For instance, take the growth hormones research. Scientists have taken human growth hormones and place them in mice. Human hormones in mice! So what happened You had super mice, as we call them. Then they had babies and passed these hormones on. Now every generation of mice has human hormones. It’s ridiculous -absurd.There was another experiment: last year scientists took the gene that emits light in the firefly. They inserted it into a tobacco plant, and now.., that plant lights up, day and night.So this technology allows us to go beyond nature’s limits. We can cross totally unrelated species and get who knows what... !W: Well, this creates serious environmental questions. Not only that -it creates grave ethical questions, too. What has genetic engineering brought about besides serious environmental questions().
亏损合同是指履行合同义务不可避免会发生的成本超过预期经济利益的合同。 ( )
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