Something Men Do Not Like to Do Eric Brown hates shopping. "It’s just not enjoyable to me," said the 28-year-old Chicago man who was carrying several shopping bags along the city’s main street, Michigan Avenue. "When I’m out 1 , I basically know what I want to get. I rush in. I buy it. I 2 ." Common wisdom says that guys hate to shop. You can ask generations of men. But people who study shopping say that a number of social, cultural and economic factors are now 3 this "men-hate-to-shop" notion. " 4 social class, ethnicity, age-men say they hate to shop," says Sharon Zukin, a City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they 5 to shop. Men generally like to shop for 6 , music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they’ll say that’s not shopping. That’s 7 ." In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are 8 . Women will 9 through several 1,000-square-metre stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the 10 digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a mission or a 11 to be won. "Men are frequently shopping to win," says Mary Ann McGrath, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the last one and if they do that it 12 them happy." When women shop, "they’re doing it in a way where they want 13 to be very happy," says McGrath. "They’re kind of shopping for love." In fact, it is in clothing where we see a male-female 14 most clearly. Why, grumble some men, are all male clothes navy, grey, black or brown But would they wear light green and pink These days, many guys wear a sort of "uniform" says Paco Underhill, author of Why We Bye. "It’s been hard for them to understand what it means to be fashion. Conscious in a business way. It becomes much easier if you 15 your range of choices."
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Something Men Do Not Like to Do Eric Brown hates shopping. "It’s just not enjoyable to me," said the 28-year-old Chicago man who was carrying several shopping bags along the city’s main street, Michigan Avenue. "When I’m out 1 , I basically know what I want to get. I rush in. I buy it. I 2 ." Common wisdom says that guys hate to shop. You can ask generations of men. But people who study shopping say that a number of social, cultural and economic factors are now 3 this "men-hate-to-shop" notion. " 4 social class, ethnicity, age-men say they hate to shop," says Sharon Zukin, a City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they 5 to shop. Men generally like to shop for 6 , music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they’ll say that’s not shopping. That’s 7 ." In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are 8 . Women will 9 through several 1,000-square-metre stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the 10 digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a mission or a 11 to be won. "Men are frequently shopping to win," says Mary Ann McGrath, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the last one and if they do that it 12 them happy." When women shop, "they’re doing it in a way where they want 13 to be very happy," says McGrath. "They’re kind of shopping for love." In fact, it is in clothing where we see a male-female 14 most clearly. Why, grumble some men, are all male clothes navy, grey, black or brown But would they wear light green and pink These days, many guys wear a sort of "uniform" says Paco Underhill, author of Why We Bye. "It’s been hard for them to understand what it means to be fashion. Conscious in a business way. It becomes much easier if you 15 your range of choices."
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Something Men Do Not Like to Do Eric Brown hates shopping. "It’s just not enjoyable to me," said the 28-year-old Chicago man who was carrying several shopping bags along the city’s main street, Michigan Avenue. "When I’m out 1 , I basically know what I want to get. I rush in. I buy it. I 2 ." Common wisdom says that guys hate to shop. You can ask generations of men. But people who study shopping say that a number of social, cultural and economic factors are now 3 this "men-hate-to-shop" notion. " 4 social class, ethnicity, age-men say they hate to shop," says Sharon Zukin, a City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they 5 to shop. Men generally like to shop for 6 , music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they’ll say that’s not shopping. That’s 7 ." In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are 8 . Women will 9 through several 1,000-square-metre stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the 10 digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a mission or a 11 to be won. "Men are frequently shopping to win," says Mary Ann McGrath, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the last one and if they do that it 12 them happy." When women shop, "they’re doing it in a way where they want 13 to be very happy," says McGrath. "They’re kind of shopping for love." In fact, it is in clothing where we see a male-female 14 most clearly. Why, grumble some men, are all male clothes navy, grey, black or brown But would they wear light green and pink These days, many guys wear a sort of "uniform" says Paco Underhill, author of Why We Bye. "It’s been hard for them to understand what it means to be fashion. Conscious in a business way. It becomes much easier if you 15 your range of choices."
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Early or Later Day Care The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a child’s personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby’s work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion. Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modern societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, the father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone—far from it. Secondly, common sense tells US that day care would not be so widespread today if parents care-takers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neural or slightly positive effect on children’s development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue. But Bowlby’s analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care might lead to say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants. Which of the following statements is NOT an argument against Bowlby’s theory
A. Many studies show that day care has a positive effect on children’s development.
B. The fact that there are so many nursery schools today shows that day care is safe.
C. The separation of young children from their parents is common in some traditional societies.
D. Parents find the immediate effects of early day care difficult to deal with.
Soot and Snow: a Hot Combination 1. New research from NASA scientists suggests emissions of black soot alter the way sunlight reflects off snow. According to a computer simulation, black soot may be responsible for 25 percent of observed global warming over the past century. 2. Soot in the higher latitudes of the Earth, where ice is more common, absorbs more of the sun’s energy and warmth than an icy, white background. Dark-colored black carbon, or soot, absorbs sunlight, while lighter colored ice reflects sunlight. 3. Soot in areas with snow and ice may play all important role in climate change. Also, if snow and ice covered areas begin melting, the warming effect increases, as the soot becomes more concentrated on the snow surface. "This provides a positive feedback, as glaciers and ice sheet smelt, they tend to get even dirtier," said Dr. James Hansen, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York. 4. Hansen found soot’s effect on snow albedo (solar energy reflected back to space), which may be contributing to trends toward early springs in the Northern Hemisphere, such as thinning Arctic sea ice, melting glaciers and permafrost. Soot also is believed to play a role in changes in the atmosphere above the oceans and land. 5. "Black carbon reduces the amount of energy reflected by snow back into space, thus heating the snow surface more than if there were no black carbon," Hansen said. Soot’s increased absorption of solar energy is especially effective in warming the world’s climate. "This forcing is unusually effective, causing twice as much global warming as a carbon-dioxide forcing of the same magnitude," Hansen noted. 6. Hansen cautioned, although the role of soot in altering global climate is substantial, it does not alter the fact that greenhouse gases are the primary cause of climate warming during the past century. Such gases are expected to be the largest climate forcing of the rest of this century. 7. The researchers found that observed warming in the Northern Hemisphere was large in the winter and spring at middle and high latitudes. These observations were consistent with the researchers’ climate model simulations, which showed some of the largest warming effects occurred when there were heavy snow cover and sufficient sunlight. A. Soot’s Role in Changes in the Climate and the Atmosphere B. Observations of Warming in the Northern Hemisphere C. Explanation of Increased Warming Effect Caused by Soot D. Effort to Reduce Snow Albedo E. Ways to Reduce Soot Emission F. Greenhouse Gases as the Main Factor of Global Warming Paragraph 6 ______