PETS英语

Passage One （Clinton Is Right）President Clinton’s decision on Apr.8 to send Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji packing without an agreement on China’s entry into the World Trade Organization seemed to...

Passage Two （Europe’s Gypsies, Are They a Nation?）The striving of countries in Central Europe to enter the European Union may offer an unprecedented chance to the continent’s Gypsies （or Rom...

Passage Three （Method of Scientific Inquiry）Why the inductive and mathematical sciences, after their first rapid development at the culmination of Greek civilization, advanced so slowly for two th...

Passage Four （It Is Bush）On the 36th day after they had voted, Americans finally learned Wednesday who would be their next president: Governor George W. Bush of Texas.Vice President Al Gore, his l...

Passage Five （Women’s Positions in the 17th Century）Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress women’s voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions constructed them ...

Passage Six （The Present Is the Most Important）Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselv...

Passage Seven （Forecasting of Statistics）Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus become part of the greatest story ever told. Many things have changed in th...

Passage Eight （Wakefield Master’s Realism）Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field Master is uniformly consi...

Passage Nine （The Continuity of the Religious Struggle in Britain）Though England was on the whole prosperous and hopeful, though by comparison with her neighbors she enjoyed internal peace, she co...

Passage Ten （Photography and Art）The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph’s fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machin...