【正文】 vinced that he could bury Goldwater under an avalanche of votes, thus receiving a mandate for major legislative reforms. One obstacle to his plan was a feud in Vice President Johnson39。s home state of Texas between Governor John B. Connally, Jr., and Senator Ralph Yarborough, both Democrats. To present a show of unity, the President decided to tour the state with both men. On Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, he and Jacqueline Kennedy were in a motorcade riding slowly through downtown Dallas in an open limousine. At 12:30 PM a sniper opened fire.Two rifle bullets struck the president, at the base of his neck and in the head. He was dead upon arrival at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Governor Connally, though gravely wounded, recovered. Vice President Johnson took the oath as president at 2:38 PM. Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24yearold Dallas citizen, was accused of the slaying. Two days later Oswald was shot to death by Jack Ruby, a local nightclub owner, in the basement of the Dallas police station. A presidential mission headed by the chief justice of the United States, Earl Warren, later found that neither the sniper nor his killer was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to assassinate President Kennedy, but that Oswald had acted alone. The Warren Commission, however, was not able to convincingly explain all the particular circumstances of Kennedy39。s murder. In 1979 a special mittee of the . House of Representatives concluded after two years of investigation that Oswald was probably not the only gunman involved in the assassination and that he was part of a conspiracy that may have included figures from organized crime. Kennedy39。s assassination, the most notorious political murder of the 20th century, remains a source of bafflement, controversy, and speculation.John Kennedy was dead, but the Kennedy mystique was still alive. Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children moved from the White House to a home in Georgetown. On Oct. 20, 1968 she married Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy Greek shipping magnate. 5. Moore’s law: Gordon E. Moore is the Intel cofounder and chairman emeritus.In 1965, Moore noted that the number of devices on a microchip (and hence the potential power of a puter) was doubling each year, and he projected that trend would continue for 10 years. Thirty years later, that geometric growth, now canonized as Moore’s law” remains the fundamental economic force driving the puter industry. 6. Bell: Alexander Graham Bell (1847—1922) Scottish born American scientist, the inventor of the telephone and gramophone.Unit6IntroductionThis essay, selected from Survey 20th Century of The Economist, 11th September, 1999, is part of the survey of the past century and mainly focuses on globalization. Globalization, a theme of the past hundred years, and even longer, offers the world a feeling of shrinking of distance and increase in interplay and interdependence. Last century witnesses the degree of integration ebb and flow owing to the up and down of political barriers (—7)Technological revolution has brought about rapid changes, yet rapid change is not a new phenomenon. Cars entered over half of American households from 1877 to 1920 — in about 50 years. Computers will also take approximately 50 years to diffuse widely as a personal aid. Computers are unlikely to generate, as car industry did, a wide range of new products and services. The Internet causes rapid change not because of technology but because of a “ network effect” (—15).Does globalization make the world homogeneous? No. Western culture and capitalism has been washing over the world for a long time, but the world is not being Americanized, and furthermore, various capitalist systems are not converging on the American one and there are no surveys showing that people are being alike (—20).The stronger pressure imposed by globalization is for increasing adoption of American characteristics: freedom, equality and adaptability. The rest of the world should learn the three characteristics from the last century while America should learn: humility (—22).The whole essay, well organized and objective, tells the main idea “ more together, but still defined by our separateness”.Unit6Language Points　1. allembracing (): allinclusive。 including all. —— We are trying to develop an allembracing policy which tackles every aspect of education.—— The system offers an allembracing planning tool enpassing materials and　resources of all types, for example,　equipment, manpower and materials handling　space. 2. charitable (): kind。 tending to consider others in a positive way and not judging them severely。 generous to the needy. —— Some critics said the show was good in parts, but those less charitable said the whole thing was a disaster. —— They are charitable people who always help others. 3. interplay (): the effect that two or more things have on each other。 interaction. —— Permission to build the factory has been delayed by the plex interplay between industrial and environmental interests.—— The interplay of economic factors makes it difficult to predict accurately the likely effect of the tax changes. 4. bete noire (): (French), a thing or person that one particularly dislikes. —— My particular nete noire is cigarette ends being left in halfempty glasses.—— Going to the opera was his personal bete noire because highpitched sounds irritated him. 5. academic: (): one who is a member of an institution of higher learning。 a person who has an academic viewpoint or a scholarly background. —— The government has set up a mittee of industrialists and academics to advise it.—— He was rather flattered that an English academic should be planning a book about him.