專四閱讀長難句小測（12）

　　56. Supporters of the Star Wars defense system hope that this would not only protect a nation against an actual nuclear attack, but would be enough of a threat to keep a nuclear war from ever happening.

　　57. Neither would it prevent cruise missiles or bombers, whose flights are within the Earth’s atmosphere, from hitting their targets.

　　58. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty establishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies.

　　59. During the nineteenth century, she argues, the concept of the “useful” child who contributed to the family economy gave way gradually to the present day notion of the “useless” child who, though producing no income for, and indeed extremely costly to its parents, is yet considered emotionally “ priceless”.

　　60. Well established among segments of the middle and upper classes by the mid-1800’s, this new view of childhood spread throughout society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as reformers introduced child labor regulations and compulsory education laws predicted in part on the assumption that a child’s emotional value made child labor taboo.

　　56、星球大戰(zhàn)防御系統(tǒng)的支持者們希望它不僅能保護(hù)一個(gè)遭受核攻擊的國家，也希望它能成為使核攻擊永不發(fā)生的足夠威脅。

　　57、它也不能防止軌道在地球大氣層以內(nèi)的洲際導(dǎo)彈和轟炸機(jī)命中目標(biāo)。

　　58、人民活動(dòng)家一直認(rèn)為黑人和拉丁美人難以在生意上立足的原因是因?yàn)樗麄冸y以取得大公司的大宗定單和分包合同。

　　59、她認(rèn)為十九世紀(jì)給家庭經(jīng)濟(jì)作出貢獻(xiàn)的孩子才“有用”的概念慢慢改變了，今天提到那些沒有掙取收入的“無用”孩子，甚至還要花銷很多，仍然在情感上被認(rèn)為是無價(jià)的。

　　60、這種關(guān)于孩子的觀點(diǎn)到19世紀(jì)時(shí)已在中上階級(jí)中建立，并于19世紀(jì)末20世紀(jì)初在社會(huì)上廣泛傳播，當(dāng)時(shí)改革者們推行童工規(guī)定和義務(wù)教育法，部分來源于孩子的情感價(jià)值的假設(shè)，這都使得使用童工被禁止了。