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1、<p>　　2010 TEXT 1</p><p><b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p><b>　　選項(xiàng)單詞、短語</b></p><p><b>　　句子翻譯</b></p><p>　　Of all the changes that have ta

2、ken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.</p><p>　　It is dif

3、ficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.</p><p>　　We are even farther

4、removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an orn

5、ament to the publications in which it appeared.</p><p><b>　　TEXT 2</b></p><p><b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p><b>　　選項(xiàng)單詞、短語</b></p><p><b&

6、gt;　　句子翻譯</b></p><p>　　Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 ye

7、ars ago.</p><p>　　Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called state Street B

8、ank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.</p><p>　　The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court's judges, rather than

9、 a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should "reconsider" its state street Bank ruling.</p><p><b>　　TEXT 3</b></p><p><b>　　

10、課文單詞、短語</b></p><p><b>　　選項(xiàng)單詞、短語</b></p><p><b>　　句子翻譯</b></p><p>　　Social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special

11、 individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-connected.</p><p>　　In their recent work, however, some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials ha

12、ve far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed. In fact, they don’t seem to be required of all.</p><p>　　the principal requirement for what we call “global cascades” – the widespread propa

13、gation of influence through networks – is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people, each of whom adopts, say, a look or a brand after being exposed to a single ad

14、opting neighbor.</p><p><b>　　TEXT 4</b></p><p><b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p><b>　　選項(xiàng)單詞、短語</b></p><p><b>　　句子翻譯</b></p>

15、<p>　　The details may be unknowable, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.</p><p>　　The IASB says it does not want to ac

16、t without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.</p><p>　　The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock opti