【正文】 if he dishonestly takes property belonging to anotherwith the intention of permanently depriving the other of it.13. People argue that if you believe that keeping the money you find is acceptableand other people would do the same, then you are not dishonest.14. A lost and found (American English),or lost property (British English) office,is one in a large public buildingor area where visitors can go to retrieve lost articlesthat may have been found by other visitors.15. Frequently found at museums, amusement parks and schools,a lost and found office will typically be a clearlymarked boxor room in a location near the main entrance.16. Some lost and found offices will try to contact the owners of any lost itemsif there are any personal identifiers available.Practically all will either sell,give or throw away items after a certain period has passed to clear their storage.17. Lost and found offices at large organizations can handle a largeand varied collection of articles.Transport for London’s lost property offices (which handle items lost on the city’s tube,buses and taxis) handles over 130,000 items a year,including 24,000 bags and 10,000 mobile phones.18. In China, the law clearly stipulatesthat lost property should be returned to its rightful owner.Those who find a misplaced article should inform the owner or the person who lost it,or hand it in to relevant authorities, within 20 days of the property being found.19. Those who offer a reward for returned property should pay up as agreed.Lost property reverts to the State if nobody claims it.But some people say it goes against the traditional Chinese virtue of“returning to the owner what one has picked up (拾金不昧).”20. Some Chinese finders feel it is their right to keep property of little value.For more valuable property they thinkthey have the right to claim a certain amount as a handling fee,and would expect to receive a reward.21. A young security guard from the countryside, who earned only 300 yuan a month,found a wallet containing 80,000 yuan in cash and other valuables whilst on duty,and took the trouble to return the wallet to its owner.The young man refused to accept the 5,000yuan reward offered by the owner.22. The website is a research tool which allows you to find people,things or information through a system of classifieds.Because of its easy and ambitious principle, allows you to find anyone or anything, anywhere.UNIT 7The Skeptical Mind1. Having a skeptical mind means keeping an open mind and basing your beliefs far as possible, on the total available evidence.2. You believe that everything is “explainable” in principle, and the only difference between a miracle and a natural phenomenon is that you are not able yet to explain the former in natural terms.3. Skepticism is essentially a way of evaluating other people’s beliefs and forming your own.4. Skeptics believe that in matter of the intellect, we ought to follow our reason so far as it is possible.? Skepticism does not necessarily preclude belief in God or an afterlife. It may be true that most skeptics are atheists and doubt the possibility of an afterlife.5. It is a mistake to think that we ought to either believe in God or not believe in God because of the psychological benefits of doing so.缺少6789. Being a skeptic means being a mature adult who take responsibility for his or her own life and who makes his or her own judgement.10. Sometime people’s opinion are influenced by the media and by what is said over and over again. There are few filter that separate reliable information from false and misleading data.11. The Internet is quickly growing into the largest and most plex web of information our world has ever known.12. We are presented with piles upon piles of ideas, claims and unusual phenomena without a tool kit to help us sort out the good from the bad.13. Skepticism is a primary tool of science, but unbridled disbelief is a threat to the development of science.14. However, it must be admitted that our actual knowledge of natural laws is imperfect and limited, so that the belief in the existence of basic allembracing laws in Nature also rests on a sort of faith.15. Apollo was the name given to any of a series of manned . spacecraft designed to explore the Moon and surrounding space.16. On July 16,1969, the crew of Apollo 11Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Buzz Aldrinheaded off to attempt the first lunar landing.17. In April 1970 Apollo 13 almost ended tragically when an oxygen tank inside the service module exploded.18. On 19th December 1972 the return of the astronauts aboard Apollo 17 after the 6th successful Moon landing marked the end of the Apollo era.19. Over the past thirty years, many people have been persuaded that the Apollo missions never actually took place and therefore represent the largest hoax in history.20. It would be quite easy for me to state that the people who believe that the Apollo Moon landings were faked are wrong or just mad.21. My present interest in Apollo is historical I love the details of how and why the Apollo spacecraft worked as well as the details of the lunar exploration.22. I watch astronauts carrying out experiments, picking up Moon rocks, taking pictures and so forth, especially during the last few flights to the Moon.23. But it wasn’t until later that I really understood how and why they would pick a particular rock to sample or crater to visit.