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The interesting thing is that female promiscuity seems to be a reproductively advantageous trait, which may explain why it prevails in the animal world. The more males a female prairie dog mates with, for example, the more likely she is to conceive and the larger her litters. Angier reports on data, still disputed, that suggest human females are more likely to get pregnant for sex with an adulterous lover than from sex with their spouse.
So, to the extent that females relied on male help in raising a family, the smartest female reproductive strategy may have involved no less treachery than the male one: behave promiscuously, so you'll be sure to get pregnant, but pretend to be monogamous professing undying love -- so that at least one of the fellows will think the kids are his and possibly take an interest in them. Hey, it fooled the evolutionary psychologists!
Men fall for pretty faces, women fall for healthy portfolios？ Here's another object lesson sometimes drawn from the evolutionary allegory of Monica and Bill: men go for beautiful women, while women are attracted to power and money, even when it comes in a fat, gray-haired middle-bound millionaire husband, there are more cases like ex-playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her late, wheelchair-bound millionaire husband, there are like elementary school teacher Mary Letourneau and her 13-year-old boyfriend. But since men tend to accrue wealth and power as they age, it's a bit odd, as zoologist Desmond Moils once noted, that baleness doesn't necessarily activate the feminine positive response. It may be smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. For example, Juliet fell for a scion of the enemy clan. In rock-and-roll tradition and movies from The Wild One to Shakespeare in Love. It's the penniless who makes the girls scream -- and did anyone see Titanic？
There is in fact a respectable evolutionary rationale for such "irrational" female choices. Women may want loyal, provider-type mates to help them raise their children. But if their sons are not attractive to other women -- and hence keep the lineage thriving -- it might help if dad is a heartbreaker himself. Unfortunately, though, physical attractiveness is not a reliable guide to reproductive "fitness", as in health and wealth. Consider the peacock, its gorgeous tail renders it fairly vulnerable to predators, so any peahen with a concern for her sons' longevity should opt for a more modestly cute one.
According to the information given in the first paragraph, we can infer that ______.
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听力原文： ALAKMED by the non-stop reduction in the amount of total arable land, the ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture have jointly issued a notice to protect basic farmland.
The notice issued last week requires the governments at different levels, especially those at county and village levels, to include the farmland as stipulated by the regulations in their respective basic arable-land protection zones.
The arable land along highways and railroads, and on the outskirts of the cities, villages and townships should all be taken into account in the establishment of basic farmland protection zones, according to the notice.
Cases of illegally occupying and destroying farmland will be strictly checked and the responsible persons and units should be punished severely, the notice said.
China has had a legal system to protect its basic farmland since 1994, according to Tang Mingcai, director of the Farmland Protection Department of the Ministry of Land and Resoures.
The land administrations are in charge of protecting the quantity of basic farmland, while the agricultural administrations are responsible for conserving the quality.
The newly revised State Land Administration Law and the National Regulations on protecting the Basic Farmland, which took effect earlier this year, have pat 80 percent of the country's farmland under strict protection.
The national overall plan on land use says the country's basic arable land under protection amounts to 108,562 million hectares in total area.
Nearly 397,000 hectares of the farmland have been lost to economic expansion and severe natural disasters in the past two years, according to statistics from the Ministry of Land and Resources.
In 1998, 261,300 hectares of farmland were lost because of floods.
The grass-roots governments are largely responsible for approving farmland for other use, thus reducing the amount of land available for growing crops, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources.
The notice issued by the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry Agriculture requires that ______.
单位负责人有责任和义务保证内部会计监督制度的建立和健健全并发挥有效作用。()
A．Fred likes the beautiful scenery along the way to Canada.B．Fred usually flies to Can
More than 2,300 universities in over 100 countries have introduced Chinese courses to their curricula, and young overseas nationals flock to China each year to learn Chinese. In 2004, the number of international students in China was 400,000, with an annual increase of 20 percent in the past five years, according to the Chinese .Ministry of Education.
The Rise of China's Economy
Monsieur Label and his wife, both respected architects living in Paris' Sixth Quarter, have enrolled their daughter in a nearby school where Chinese classes start at kindergarten. Monsieur Label says of China: "I and my colleagues witnessed the country's amazing development when we .attended a recent seminar in Shenzhen. I believe that China is the economic superpower of the future. My wife and I speak French, English and Spanish, but my daughter should also learn Chinese because it will be useful to her when she grows up."
Since Chinese courses were added to the curricula of 132 French junior and senior high schools their enrollment has doubled. That at the Oriental Language and Culture College, one of France's largest Chinese teaching colleges, has skyrocketed in recent yearn, according to Xu Dan, dean of the Chinese Department. She confirms that Chinese and Japanese are now the two most studied Asian languages.
French junior student Beida says totally fluent in Chinese. "I'm learning Chinese because I want to be an international lawyer in China, "he explains.
Young French entrepreneur Petrie Penia established his Beiyan Consultancy Company in Paris, and it now works together with China Central Television in introducing French traditions and culture to Chinese audiences. Patric also cooperated with Beijing's University of Finance and Economies and Central University of Finance and Economies in launching a three-week crash course in Chinese in Beijing. In 2005, he initiated the "Chinese people and business management" training course in Paris, which consists of seminars to help French businessmen understand how Chinese business operates.
Germany has also caught on to the benefits of Chinese language learning, and has added Chinese to its high school graduation exams. Many international corporations also hold introductory Chinese courses for employee's assigned work in China. "English isn't enough," says Herr Gerck, president of Siemens China, "We need to equip our staff with the ability to deal with Chinese merchants in their own language."
In Britain, a Chinese teaching program that will form. part of the national curriculum has been formulated and approved by the Department of Education and Skills. In the U. S. , Chinese is part of the Advance Placement Program for American high school students. This means that students can take college-level Chinese in the same way as they learn French, Spanish and German and gain credits if they get good test results. More than 2,500 primary and high schools now offer AP courses in the Chinese language.
Cultural Echoes
Chinese characters, along with the Confucian philosophy, have always had profound influence on Hah cultural circles in Asia, and after a brief hiatus, Chinese language teaching is in demand once more in the Singapore, Japan and Vietnam.
"Singaporeans rushed to learn English in the 1970s, when it was believed to be the most useful language for the future. Now, in the 21st century, a lack of Chinese-speaking skills is seen as a disadvantage," says one Singaporean student, who recently graduated from Beijing University with a BA in international relations.
The German ambassador to the ROK once told vice minister of Education Zhang Xinsheng: "Nowadays, high school teachers of German and French must also learn Chinese if they want to keep their jobs."
In the ROK, a high HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi -- the Chinese Language Proficiency Test
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