1999年考研英语真题阅读详解 去百度文库，查看完整内容>内容来自用户:sumingyang121999年阅读真题精解(2011-05-30 10:22:15)转载标签：黄涛考研真题答案教育分类：阅读篇1999 Text 1It'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 burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of comingdisaster,a successfullawsuitmightcompensateyou for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gonesince the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers' misfortunes.外面是一个危险的世界。如果你走出去，可能会滑倒在门垫上，摔伤一条腿。如果你点燃炉灶，可能会把房子烧掉。但是假如门垫或炉灶上没有警示语告诉你可能发生的危害，那么你或许可以就自己所受的伤害通过法律诉讼，成功地获得赔偿。大约自80年代初以来人们就不再（guangxian注：此处“不再”二字应删除！）这样认为了，当时陪审团已开始认为的公司应对其顾客所遭受的不幸负责。Feeling threatened, companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels, trying toanticipateevery possible accident. Today,stepladderscarrylabelsseveralincheslong 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."公司因此