江西成考专升本英语阅读难点关键句八(4)

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江西成考网
发布日期
2017年04月19日

摘要:  141. Though most dictionary have a system of making words as obsolete,or in use only as slang,many people, more especially if their use of a particular word has been challenged,are likely to conclude, if they find it in a dictionary,that it is accep

environment concept are even more complicated because we have to deal with man as an animal and with man as a bearer(持有者) of culture.

  157. If we look at man as an animal and try to analyze the environmental forces that are acting on the organism,we find that we have to deal with things like climate,soil,plants,and such like factors common to all biological situations;but we also find,always,very important environmental influences that we can only class as "cultural", which modify the physical and biological factors.

  158. We thus easily get into great difficulties from the necessity of viewing culture,at one moment,as a part of the man and,at another moment,as a part of the environment.

  159. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years,they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect.

  160 Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generation phenomenon but rather as something new a