1999年考研英语真题（不区分英语一二）
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1999年全国硕士研究生招生考试
英语
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1999年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
英语试题 . 1 . (共 13 页）
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It's a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat.
Light up the stove and you could bum down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn
of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking
has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers'
misfortunes.
Feeling threatened, compames responded by writing ever longer wammg labels, trying to
anticipate every possible accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn,
among other things, that you might surprise! fall off. The label on a child's Batman cape cautions
that the toy "does not enable user to fly".
While warnings are often appropriate and necessary the dangers of drug interactions, for
example and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn't clear that they actually protect
the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companies
lose when injured customers take them to court.
Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are
beginning to side with defendants, especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldn't have
changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully fought a
lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet.
"We're really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets aren't desied to prevent those kinds of
injuries, " says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason
for the athlete's injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute a group of judges, lawyers, and
academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight issued new guidelines for tort law
stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy
list of possible ones. "Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities, " says a law
professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal
community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of
customers and not as protection against legal liability.
英语试题 . 2 . (共 13 页）
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