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①Come on—Everybody's doing it. ②That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure. ③It usually leads to no good—drinking, drugs and casual x. ④But in her new book, Join the Club, Tina Ronberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials u the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the world.
①Ronberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of examples of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze ts out to make cigarettes uncool. 创造适合学生的教育②In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as loveLife recruits young people to promote safe x among their peers.
①The idea ems promising, and Ronberg is a perceptive obrver. ②Her critique of the lameness of many public-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a riously flawed understanding of psychology.
③“Dare to be different, plea don't smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers—teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in. ④Ronberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertirs, so skilled at applying peer pressure.
①But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Ronberg is less persuasive. ②Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful. ③The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it's prented here is that it doesn't work very well for very long. ④Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut. ⑤搞笑大全Evidence that the loveLife program produces lasting changes is limited and mixed.
①There's no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior. ②An emerging body of rearch shows that positive health habits—as well as negative ones—spread through networks of friends via social communication. ③This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we e every day.
①Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can lect our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions. ②It's like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates. ③The tactic never really works. ④小剧本And that's the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.
21.According to the first paragraph, peer pressure often emerges as __________.
[A] a supplement to the social cure
[B] a stimulus to group dynamics
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[C] an obstacle to school progress
[D] a cau of undesirable behaviors
22.Ronberg holds that public-health advocates should __________.
鼠年大吉[A] recruit professional advertirs
[B] learn from advertirs' experience
[C] stay away from commercial advertirs
[D] recognize the limitations of advertiments
23.In the author's view, Ronberg's book fails to __________.
[A] adequately probe social and biological factors
[B] effectively evade the flaws of the social cure
[C] illustrate the functions of state funding
[D] produce a long-lasting social effect
24.Paragraph 5 shows that our imitation of behaviors __________.
[A] is harmful to our networks of friends
[B] will mislead behavioral studies
[C] occurs without our realizing it
[D] can produce negative health habits
25.The author suggests in the last paragraph that the effect of peer pressure is __________.
[A] harmful
[B] desirable
[C] profound
[D] questionable
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①A deal is a deal—except, apparently, when Entergy is involved. 走进千家万户②The company, a major energy supplier in New England, provoked justified outrage in Vermont last week when it announced it was reneging on a longstanding commitment to abide by the state's strict nuclear regulations.
①Instead, the company has done precily what it had long promid it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running. ②It's a stunning move.
①女人第六感The conflict has been surfacing since 2002公文主体，when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon. ②As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to ek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012. ③In 2006，the state went a step further, requiring that any extension of the plant's licen be subject to the Vermont legislature's approval. ④Then, too, the company went along.
