【正文】 re the anti—globalization side gets stuck in(關(guān)注).If these practices replace domestic economic life with an economy that is heavily influenced or controlled from the creation of a globalized economic model and the process of globalization can also be seen as a surrender of power to the corporations，or a means of keeping poorer nations in their place。A New Citizenship Test Last week a sample of the new US citizenship(公民身份)exam was released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services(US—CLS).It will be tried out in 1 0 cities early next year to replace the current test in of asking how many stripes the USflag has，as the current test does，the new one asks why there are 13 stripes。第一篇Centers of the Great European CitiesThe centers of the great cities of Europe are meeting places by traditionPeople gather there to drink coffee and chat late into the mixture of locals and tourists make for an exciting，metropolitan ，plazas(廣場)and arcades(拱廊)form the heart of Europe’s in Italy has the Piazza San Marco—a beautiful square surrounded by shops，churches，restaurants and Barcelona，Spain，LaBosqueria is a lively market with hundreds of stalls selling all kinds of ’s Covent Garden is filled with fruit and vegetable stalls by day and musicians，acrobats(雜技演員)and artists by government buildings at the center of many cities often are architecturally London，they serve as a beautiful backdrop(背景)to the coffee tables that line the streets and the banks of the vibrant(有活力的)hearts are the product of centuries of evolution，social historian Joel Garreau told US News and World Report recently.“The reason people think Venice is so great today is you don’t see all the mistakes，”said Garreau“ Those have all been removed.”Most European cities were laid out before the invention of the car, so and cafes were near to，people’s ，the focus of many Europeans’life has moved away from the live in the suburbs and outskirts，driving to supermarkets to get their on a continent where people treasure convention，there are still those who hold onto traditional ways，living and shopping with tourists，provide the city centers with the reason for culture plays a part in keeping these city centers is Particularly true of Paris whose citizens are famous enthusiastic conversationalists this skill is developed over many hours spent chatting over espressos(濃咖啡)and also plays a role in developing sociable In Roman Catholic countries used to visit the Church on an almost daily munities would gather in the same building and then move out to the and bars In the surrounding enormous example of this relationship between church and society is the Duomo。some were hid food in their warn that it is possible that weight reduction doesn39。 life did Jules Hirsch do to the eight fat people in his study? let them skip supper let them skip let them run every morning and gave them a liquid formula providing 600 calories a happened to the eight fat people after they left the hospital? went killed were back to normal attempted Sims made his subjects their genetic inheritance their from hunger their did scientists think was true? person has a fixed weight person has a weight range of person wants to control his or her person wants to eat to his or her heart’s content第三篇 Shaming PunishmentsLast month，James Connolly，a junior at the University of Massachusetts，stood in front of a local police station wearing a toga(長袍)as crime? He was charged with underage drinking，illegal possession of alcohol and excessive noise while holding a shaming punishment has increased in the US in recent years，mostly imposed by local judges for less—serious crimes，such as drunk driving and believe shame is the best petty crime deterrent(威懾).For example，in Tennessee，Judge James McKenzie has made shoplifters(商店貨物扒手)stand outside Wal — Mart with signs that read，“I am a thief put here by order of Judge McKenzie”，“Alternative punishments like munity service and fines don’t convey moral condemnation(譴責(zé))of the criminal，”said Dan Kahan，a University of Chicago Law School professor ,in an article published on the university’S website.“They aren’t shameful enough。But months after the study were back to normal weight and stayed does not mean that people are pletely without hope in controlling their means that those who tend to be fat will have to constantly baffle their genetic inheritance if they want to significantly lower their weight。Your genes，not your life habits，determine your weight and your body constantly tries to maintain Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania found from experiments that，“80 percent of the children of two obese(肥胖的)parents bee obese，as pared with no more than 14 percent of the offspring of two parents of normal weight.”How can obese people bee normal or even thin through dieting? Well，dieting can be effective, but the health costs are Hirsch，a research physician at Rockefeller University, did a study of eight fat people。Immigrants who pass it are expected to have a better“understanding and respect”for US civic(公民的)values，Gonzalez US isn’t the only country dealing with citizenship tests that aim to get a“ sharedmitment”from immigrants for their adopted country’s“values”，In recent years，Inaddition to the usual requirement of language/work skills and economic statusseveralEuropean countries have adopted citizenship introduced a new citizenshiptest last March，a new Dutch law took effect requiring all would—beimmigrants to take a citizenship involved watching a video showing nude(裸體的)women bathing at beaches and gay(同性戀的)men kissing in aim was toensure that“newers will be fortable with the country’S liberal social mores(風(fēng)俗)”.Europe has been known for weling immigrants for ，today，the fact is that some immigrants are kept apart from local citizens by culture and they beehostile to each integration has bee a major concern for the rioting in Muslim ghettoes(少數(shù)民族聚居區(qū))in France and the killingof Dutch p