TOEFL IBT Reading week 8
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Aggression
1. approaches to understand aggressive behavior.
2. biological
衍生物
offshoot
by-product
spin-off
appendage
Aggression
3. offshoot: sociobiology: aggression is natural & desirable
4. X
5. psychodynamic
6. prevent: encourage less harmful aggression
7. cognitive
8. bad events bad feelings aggressive action, but X automatically
instinctive
inborn
automatic
innate
involuntary
intuitive
plic, plex, ply = fold, weave, tangle
complex
complicate
complexion
employ
replicate
replica
deploy
explicate
explicit
exploit
imply
perplex
接下來
subsequent
following
succeeding
successive
ensuing
連續的
consecutive
successive
succeeding
sequential
in sequence
in turn
mercy killing
euthanasia
… “steam engines.” By holding in rather than venting “steam,” we set the stage for future explosions. Pent-up aggressive impulses demand outlets.
pent-up
held back
suppressed
repressed
bottled up
curbed
press = 壓
repress
suppress
depress
depression
pressure
compress
express
impress
oppress
mand, mend = order, entrust
demand
demanding
amend
amendment
mandatory
command
commend
recommend
For example, people who believe that aggression is necessary and justified – as during wartime – are likely to act aggressively, whereas people who believe that a particular war or act of aggression is unjust, or who think that aggression is never justified, are less likely to behave aggressively.
According to Freud, however, impulses that have been represses continue to exist and demand expression.
man, main = 手
manufacture
maneuver
emancipate
manage
management
manifest
manipulate
manuscript
Artisans and Industrialization
1. before 1815: artisans
2. X factories (industrialization)
3. factory
4. 1st works didn’t suit well
5. Works: organized to protect rights and life (union)
6. workers divided by ethnic and racial antagonisms……….
trade
commerce
barter
transactions
trade
job
craft
occupation
métier
give way to
give in
yield
surrender
relinquish
stimulate
arouse
encourage
impel
incite
spur
Apprentices were considered part of the family, and masters were responsible not only for teaching their apprentices a trade but also for providing them some education and for supervising their moral behavior.
discard
get rid of
abandon
cast aside
dispense with
dispose of
The labor movement gathered some momentum in the decade before the Panic of 1837, but in the depression that followed, labor’s strength collapsed.
This new form of manufacturing depended on the movement of goods to distant locations and a centralized source of laborers.
Swimming machines
1. Some fish swim continuously.
2. adapt to reduce water drag
3. Streamlining: art form
4. adapt to improve hydrodynamics
5. A: keels & finlets near the tail
let = 小
finlet
booklet
leaflet
piglet
Swimming machines
1. Some fish swim continuously.
2. adapt to reduce water drag
3. Streamlining: art form
4. adapt to improve hydrodynamics
5. A: keels & finlets near the tail
Swimming machines
1. Some fish swim continuously.
2. adapt to reduce water drag
3. Streamlining: art form
4. adapt to improve hydrodynamics
5. A: keels & finlets near the tail
One potential problem is that opening the mouth to breathe detracts from the streamlining of these fishes and tends to slow them down.
Swimming machines
1. Some fish swim continuously.
2. adapt to reduce water drag
3. Streamlining: art form
4. adapt to improve hydrodynamics
5. A: keels & finlets near the tail
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