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1.A: Scientists have found that life can survive in boiling pools of toxic water at Yellowstone National Park, something they did not think was possible. The fact that life can thrive in a boiling pool brings up all sorts of ideas about the origins of life. It may be that the first life on earth was in a place more like the hot pools at Yellowstone than in the places humans might consider hospitable. Scientists used to think life needed just the right mix of warmth,sunlight and air. Now they are found that it grows not just in the hot pools, but also in the perpetual darkness of the ocean floor—even in the frozen arctic. “It now expands our possibilities of where we could look for life .”在黄石国家公园毒水沸腾的池塘中，科学家们发现了生命，这一“意外惊喜”使他们对于生命起源有了各式各样的新想法。也许，地球上第一个生命的诞生地不是什么“宜人”的地方，而是像黄石公园里的池塘这样的“凶险”之地。 科学家们习惯认为温度、阳光和空气的适当搭配是生命的必需，但现在他们已经看到生命的踪迹不出不在，从酷热难当的池塘到永恒黑暗的洋底，直至冰封千里的北极地区。专家说，这为我们在宇宙中寻找生命提供了更多的可能。 B:电子邮件使我们会面的时间越来越少。以后可不一定是这样。通过使用一种名为Facemail 的新程序，用户可以让真人大声读出他们的邮件内容。这项程序使电子邮件有了生机，也使我们赋予科技以人性。 E-mail is taking away from face time. It does not have to anymore. A new program called Facemail allows users to have the text of their e-mail read aloud by a virtual person. The program brings e-mail to life and makes us humanize technology as well. 2.A:To the professional anthropologist,there is no superiority of one culture over another,just as to the professional linguist there is no hierachy among languages. People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage,underdeveloped forms if speech,consisting largely of grunts and groans.While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans,it is a fact established by the study of “backward”language that no spoken tongue answers that description today.Most languages of uncivilized groups are ,by most severe standards,extremely complex,delicate,and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas.They fall behind our Western languages not i