...avellers interpret them as
saying there are spirits everywhere. In our age of machines we are apt to look
for mechanical explanations of everything, yet it is only three hundred years
since machines had been developed so far that Descartes first suggested that
animal and human bodies were machines....
As a discovery claim works its way through the community, theinteraction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery
claim into the community's credible discovery.句子来自2018考研英语阅读真题...
例句：The key is whether school sport organisers emphasise young participants' effort and teamwork over the outcome of competition.如果没有这种表达可能是刊印出错??(不太可能啊，如果是的，）把whether换成rather有可能让句子通顺且易于理解吗？
Raising environmental awareness is important,because this can change the ways people use and dispose of different products.我们需要提高人们的环保意识，因为这会改变人们使用和处理产品的方式后半句“people use ...products”与“the ways”衔接上有语法问题吗...
They sang songs near the campfire.句中 near 是什么词性呢？如何理解 near the campfire 的成分呢？Susan sat on a chair close to the window.句中 close 是不是 adj. ？如何理解 close to the window 的成分呢？