【阅读判断】The first principle is that people are more likely to follow someone who is similar to them than someone who is not. Wise managers, then, ask peers to help make their cases. Second, people are more willing to cooperate with those who are not only like them but who like them, as well.Q: People are more likely to cooperate with those who like them.

【阅读判断】The Watsons live in a small apartment in a suburb of New York City. The offices where Elizabeth works are in downtown New York, and she has to take a bus and two subway trains to go to work every day. It takes her about one hour to get there. She finds the trip boring and tiring.Q: Elizabeth enjoys going to work in downtown New York.

【阅读判断】Zimbabwe, troubled by political insecurity and hunger, is rated the gloomiest (最差的), picking up only 3.89 points. Q: Family life in Zimbabwe is not stable.

【阅读判断】Since 1939, numerous studies have been conducted to determine whether smoking is a health hazard. The trend of the evidence has been consistent and indicates that there is a serious health risk. Research teams have conducted studies that show beyond all reasonable doubt that tobacco smoking is associated with a shortened life expectancy.Q: Smoking reduces one's life expectancy.

【阅读判断】The attraction of collecting solar power in space is the almost uninterrupted sunshine available in geosynchronous(与地球同步的)orbit. Earth-based solar cells, by contrast, can only collect sun-light during daytime and when skies are clear. Q: Space-based solar cells could collect solar power only when skies are clear. 

【阅读判断】Ok, enough negative talk. If you notice, you have some people reacting negatively while others are acting positively. Here's what makes the difference. You get what you focus on. You can either think about how bad you have it and feel like a victim, or you can use these challenges as a reason to step up and grow from them.Q: Difficulties are bound to make people become victims.

【阅读判断】As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than the death of a child anywhere else, and that it doesn’t take much to make an immense difference in these children’s lives.Q: To Bill Gates’ mind, there is a big difference between the death of the poor’s children and the death of the rich’s children.

【阅读判断】Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and special weekend issues of their newspapers, just as Americans do. But here, with the marriage season approaching, many of them quickly turn to a Sunday feature that is particularly Indian - the columns of marriage advertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives. This is relatively(相关地)modern change in the age-old custom of the arranged marriage. The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society. For example, although women are still described in terms of appearance, or skill in “the wifely arts,” information about her earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements. This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife.Q: India’s society is changing.

【阅读判断】Like Antarctica, the Arctic is a land of ice and snow. Antarctica holds the record for a low temperature reading - 125 Fahrenheit below zero. Readings of 85 degrees below zero are common in both the Arctic and Antarctica. Winter temperatures average 30 degrees below zero in the Arctic. At the South Pole the winter is about 73 degrees below zero.Q: The lowest temperature that man has ever known was recorded in Antarctica.

【阅读判断】The index of the countries uses data on incomes, health, unemployment, climate, political stability, job security gender equality as well as what the magazine calls "freedom, family and community life".Q: Job security is the least important measure of life quality.