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Unit 13 Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. 脑中有知识，胜过手中有金钱。学习内容 题材 数 建议时间 得分统计 做题备忘 Part A Text 1 /10 Text 2 商业经济 385 /10 Text 3 科普知识 494 /10 Text 4 社会生活 428 /10 Part B 文化教育 519 /10 Part C 科普知识 377 /10 Part A Directions：Read the following texts. Answer the questions blow each text by choosing [A],[B],[C] or [D]. Text 1 ’s normal rough-and-tumble is impossible to make, so the argument runs. This position may appeal to our inclination for legalism, but the truth is most of us know quite well when an act of needless savagery has been committed, and sports are little different from countless other activities of life. The distinction is as apparent as that between a deliberately aimed blow and the arm failing of the losing his balance. When a player balls his hand into a fist, when he drives his helmet into an unsuspecting opponent in short, when he crosses the boundary between playing hard and playing to hurt—he can only intend an act of violence. Admittedly, rough acts in sports are difficult to police. But here, too, we find reflected the conditions of everyday life. Ambiguities in the law, confusion at the scene, and the reluctance of witnesses cloud almost any routine assault case. Such uncertainties, however, have not prevented society from arresting people who strike their fellow citizens on the street. Perhaps our troubles stem not from the games we play but rather from how we play them. The 1979 meeting between hockey stars from the Soviet Union and the National Hockey League provided a direct test of two approaches to sport梩he emphasis on skill, grace, and technique by the Russians and the stress on brutality and violence by the NHL. In a startling upset, the Russians embarrassed their rough-playing opponents and exploded a lonig-standing myth: that success in certain sports requires excessive violence. Violence apologists cite two additional arguments. First, they say, sports always have been rough; today things are no