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阅读材料，回答题： New Changes in American LifeOnce it was possible to define male and fem

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New Changes in American Life

Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of laB．or. Menworked outside the home and earned the income to support their families, while women cooked themeals and took care of the home and the children. __________ (46) but by the middle of this centu-ry, men&39;s and women&39;s roles were becoming less firmly fixed.

In the 1950s, economicand social success was the goal of the typical American. but in the1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. __________(47)The counterculture presen-ted men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to sharechild-raising tasks with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communalhomes or farms where the economiC．and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both se-xes.__________(48) Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Viet-nam.

In terms of numB．ers, the counterculture was not A．very large group of people. __________ (49)Working men of all classesbegan to change their economicand social patterns. Industrial workersand business executives alike cut down on "overtime" work so that they could spend more leisuretime with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers turned away from high paying situa-tions to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.

In the 1970s, the feminist movement, or women&39;s liB．eration, produced additional economicand social changes. Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force ingreater numbers. __________ (50) but some women began to enter traditionally male occupations :

police work, banking, dentistry, and construction work. Women were asking for equal work, andequal opportunities for promotion.

Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of menand women. Naturally, there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.

A．In addition, many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.

B．Most of them still took traditional women&39;s jobs as publicschool teaching, nursing, andsecretarial work.

C．These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not much opportunity forwomen to exchange their roles.

D．but its influence spread to many parts of American society.

E．The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals.

F．A．great many jobs that used to belong to men are now taken by women.

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A.A

B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

F.F

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阅读材料，回答题。 Internet-based InstructionBy almost any measure, there is a boom in Int

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Internet-based Instruction

By almost any measure, there is a boom in Internet-based instruction. In just a few years, 34 percent of American universities have begun offering some form. of distance learning (DL ) , and among the larger schools, it&39;s closer to 90 percent. If you doubt the popularity of the trend, you probably haven&39;t heard of the University of Phoenix. It grants degrees entirely on the basis of online instruction. It enrolls 90 000 students, a statistic used to support its claim to be the largest private university in the country.

While the kinds of instruction offered in these programs will differ, DL usually signifies a course in which the instructors post syllabi (课程大纲) , reading assignments, and schedules on Websites, and students send in their assignments by e-mail. Generally speaking, face-to-face communication with an instructor is minimized or eliminated altogether.

The attraction for students might at first seem obvious. Primarily, there&39;s the convenience promised by courses on the Net : you can do the work, as they say, in your pajamas (睡衣 ) . But figures indicate that the reduced effort results in a reduced commitment to the course. While drop-out rates for all freshmen at American universities is around 20 percent, the rate for online students is 35 percent. Students themselves seem to understand the weaknesses inherent in the setup. In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good

as the classroom course.

Clearly, from the schools&39; perspective, there&39;s a lot of money to be saved. Although some of the more ambitious programs require new investments in servers and networks to support collaborative software, most DL courses can run on existing or minimally upgraded (升级) systems. The more students who enroll in a course but don&39;t come to campus, the more the school saves on keeping the lights on in the classrooms, paying doorkeepers, and maintaining parking lots. And, while there&39;s evidence that instructors must work harder to run a DL course for a variety of reasons, they won&39;t be paid any more, and might well be paid less.

What is the most striking feature of the University of Phoenix？

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A.All its courses are offered online

B.Its online courses are of the best quality

C.It boasts the largest number of students on campus

D.Anyone taking its online courses is sure to get a degree

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阅读材料，回答题： My Life at Renda1 learned very quickly that being a teaching assistant

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My Life at Renda

1 learned very quickly that being a teaching assistant (TA) at the University of Iowa would be differen from a teacher at Renmin University_______(46) Eyes staring, mouths open, students examining my big nose, hands nerv0us,people whispering while I wrote my name on theblackboard.

At Iowa, when my first classes began, half my students still hadn&39;t arrived. When everyone finally found a seat, ringing cellphones and loud yawns (哈欠) interrupted my opening remarks. It is not that American students were disrespectful. ______ (47) They were, however, far more skeptical than the students I had at Renda. The truth is I couldn&39;t fault them for their skepti- cism. Undergraduates at large US universities--especially freshmen and sophomores--often have several classes a semester handled by TAs. In some. cases, the TA sets the course content. ______ (48) Most have good intentions, but only a few are as effective as flesh-and-blood pro- fessors.

Every teacher has to confront obstacles to learning--no matter what the culture. Students who talk during lectures, students who cheat, students who question the grade they get for a paper or project dealing with these is all part of the job. ______ (49)

The difference, I think, is that in the US I had to swallow more of my pride.______ (50) I had a responsibility to teach them, of course, but I had to do so indirectly as a guide who himself had a few things to learn from the students.

A．Back at Renda, I had walked into my first classes feeling like a celebrity.

B．In my students&39; minds, I had little to offer them, except perhaps some sample questionsfor the mid-term exam.

C．In others, the TA works as a grader and discussion leader.

D．I encountered these in China, and I faced them in the US.

E．On the other hand, being taught by a graduate student is not necessarily bad.

F．Most were polite, or at least, indifferent.

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A.A

B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

F.F

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阅读材料，回答题： A Biological ClockEvery living thing has what scientists call a b

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A Biological ClockEvery living thing has what scientists call a biological clock that controls behavior. The bio- logical clock tells______ （51 ）when to form. flowers and when the flowers should open. It tells ______ （52） when to leave the protective cocoons and fly away， and it tells animals and human beings when to eat， sleep and wake.

Events outside the plant and animal ______ （53）the actions of some biological clocks. Scientists recendy found， for example， that a tiny animal changes the color of its fur______（54） the number of hours of daylight. In the short______（55） of winter， its fur becomes white. The fur becomes gray brown in color in the longer hours of daylight in summer，

Inner signals control other biological docks， german scientists found that some kind of internal clock seems to order birds to begin their long migration（56） twice each year. Birds______ （57） flying become restless when it is time for the trip， ______（58）they become calm again when the time of the flight has ended.

Scientists say they are beginning to learn which______ （59） of the brain contain biological clocks. An American researcher， Martin Moorhead， said a small group of cells near the front of the brain ______ （60） to control the timing of some of our actions. These______ （61） tell a person when to______ （62）， when to sleep and when to seek food. Scientists say there probably are other biological clock cells that control other body activities.

Dr. Moorhead is studying ______ （63）our biological clocks affect the way we do our work. For example， most of us have great difficulty if we must often change to different work hours.

______ （64） can take many days for a human body to accept the major change in work hours. Dr. Moorhead said industrial officials should have a better understanding of biological clocks and how they affect workers. He said______ （65） understanding could cut sickness and accidents at work and would help increase a factory"s production.

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A.animals

B.plants

C.humans

D.scientists

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阅读材料，回答题。 The Jobless Rate in U. S.There are only a couple of ways to explain how

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The Jobless Rate in U. S.

There are only a couple of ways to explain how the capacity of U.S. workers to claim their accustomed share of the nation&39;s income has so stunningly collapsed. Outsourcing is certainly a big part of the picture.

As Stephen Roach, a famous economist, has noted, private-sector hiring in the current recovery is roughly ？million jobs shy of what would have been the norm in previous recoveries and U.S.corporations, high-tech as well as low-tech, are busily hiring employees from lower-wage nation instead of from our own.

The jobless rate among U.S. software engineers, for instance, has doubled over the past three years.In Bangalore, India, where American companies are on a huge hiring spree for the kind of talent they used to scoop up in Silicon Valley, the starting annual salary for top electrical engineering graduates, says Business Week, is $ 10,000 compared with $ 80,000 here in the States.Tell that to a software writer in Palo Alto and she&39;s not likely to up her boss for a raise.That software writer certainly doesn&39;t belong to a union, either.

Indeed, the current recovery is not only the first to take place in all economy in which global wage rates are a factor, but the first since before the New Deal to take place in an economy in which the rate of private-sector unionization is in single digits just 3.5 percent of the workforce.

The current administration is not responsible for the broad contours of this miserably misshapen recovery, but its every action merely increases the imbalance of power between America&39;s employers and employees.But the Democrats&39;prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity need some tweaking, too.With the globalization of high-end professions, no Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line that Bill Clinton used so often : What you earn is a result of what you learn.This year&39;s crop of presidential candidates is taking more seriously the importance of labor standards in trade accords, and the right of workers to organize.But they&39;ve got a way to go to make the issue of stagnating incomes into the kind of battle crying it should be in the campaign against Bush.If they&39;re not up to it, I say we outsource them all and bring in some pools from Bangalore.

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A.The New Deal.

B.The globalization of eco.nomy.

C.The economic policies adopted by the Bush administration.

D.U.S.workers are no longer capable of sharing the increase of nation"s income.

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根据以下材料，回答题Native American PotteryThere are several American Indian groups in the

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Native American Pottery

There are several American Indian groups in the Southwest that still make beautiful pottery.

Some of this pottery may be sold at fairly high prices. But the makers consider their work as more than a commercial enterprise. By using methods handed downfor generations， the potters express their pride in their cultural inheritance （遗产） .

Some of the most interesting pottery is made by the Pueblo Indians. There are 21 individual pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico. Several are famous for their craftsmanship.To make a pot，these potters use a clay base and add long thin coils of clay toit in a spiral pattern. When they have reached the size they want， they use an implement such as a rock or shell to smooth the surfaces of the pot.

How a pot is decorated and fired depends on the traditions of the group making it. Traditional pottery produced by the Acoma， who have lived for centuries on a high mesa in NewMexico， is first painted with a clay slip. The resulting pots: which are prizedfor their delicacy and strength，may be left white. They may also be painted with black and white patterns or with a combination of black， orange， and brown.

Very distinctive （忒别的，有特色的） black pottery comes from the Sail Ildefonso and Santa Clara pueblos. The black color is the result of carbon being released from the animal manure （粪肥） in which the pot is fired. Some artisans hand -rub this ware to a shiny gloss. Others cut patterns into it: resulting in a part shiny: part fiat surface. Potters at Sail lldefonso make many types of wares. Potters at Santa Clara are especially known for wedding jars-jars with two necks connected by a handle.

Other groups such as the Hopi and the Cochiti also make pottery. Each group uses distinctive methods and produces distinctive .forms and designs.

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A.advertising products on TV

B.selling and business

C.large-scale

D.artistic

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根据下面内容，回答题：0 If consumers in Hillsborough County could limited their spending on

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0 If consumers in Hillsborough County could limited their spending on one Saturday

00 to independent， locally owned businesses instead of chain stores， more than

34 $ 17 million would even remain in the local company instead of being shipped to

35 outside corporations as overnight deposits. So it say representatives of the

36 Tampa Independent Business Alliance， who base their calculation on studies that

37 made by the American Independent Business Alliance. The national study found

38 that since locally owned businesses began to use goods and services of other

39 business in the community， a consumer"s spending circulates 3 up to 31/2

40 times longer locally than if it is spent on at a chain. On Saturday， the local group

41 will be working with the national organization and more than all 25 other

42 communities across the country to broadcast the benefits coming of the

43 shop-local movement. The educational event， "American Unchained"， will be

44 promoted at independent business such as Inkwood Books in Tampa， "We

45 want people to think about where their dollars actually end up to，" said Carla Jimenez， coowner of Inkwood and president of Tampa Independent Business Alliance.

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根据下面材料，回答题。Florence NightingaleIn 1837， to the age of seventeen， Florence Nightin

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Florence Nightingale

In 1837， to the age of seventeen， Florence Nightingale decided to become a nurse，___51____ horrified her dear mother. In ___52____ days， nurses were little more than doormen， and hospitals were places of dirtiness and ___53____. Nightingale pressed on and in 1853 she became president ___54____ a small London hospital. She went on to the Crimea when war ___55____ there between Britain and Russia. She ___56____ the first of what we now know ___57 ____war hospitals: sanitary，safe， and stocked with supplies. Her tireless ministrations （照料） to the ___58 ____soldiers made her famous all ___59 ____the world. Following the War， Nightingale ___60____ fame and continued to train nurse， ever battling ___61____ what she herself declared "a commonly received idea..， that it requires nothing ___62____ a disappointment in love， or incapacity in other things， to turn a woman ___63____ a good nurse." Since 1921， her birthday ___64____ the centerpiece of National Hospital Week，___65____ in British and American hospitals with special exhibitions， workshops， and publicity drives.

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B.who

C.what

D.that

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根据以下材料，回答题American SocietyWhen foreigners are sometimes asked what seems most str

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American Society

When foreigners are sometimes asked what seems most strange about American society，somewhere on the top of the list will be the fact the average citizen is allowed to possess guns.

Although it is true that many people carry guns legally in the United States， it is also known that many who possess guns carry illegally. Others， who don"t have guns， feel that guns can be acquired quite easily. A recent survey indicated that many high school students， especially in the inner cities， can acquire gun with little difficulty.

Although most people would never want to own a gun， others have taken up hunting as a sport and enjoy hunting wild game in season. Hunting for deer and duck in fall and winter is very much a part of the American culture.

Also， some farmers in rural areas who raise cattle and sheep feel they need to protect their animals against wolves that attack their herds and flocks at night. To defend and support their rights to possess firearms the National Rifle Association （NRA） was founded in 1871. The main importance of this organization has been its efforts to prevent strict gun control legislation. The NRA has great political support in small towns and rural areas， especially in the West and the South，where hunting is especially popular. Those who favor the right to possess guns insist that the Constitution provides the right of people "to keep and bear arms". They believe that gun control laws will not solve the problem of crime and violence in America.

Recent events in America， however， have shown that the question of gun possession is now out of control and strong voices have called for immediate action to be taken. In seemingly peaceful schools students have gone into classrooms and opened fire upon their classmates.

America has been shocked by such incidents which seem to occur with greater frequency. The periodic deaths of innocent citizens and even foreign visitors from guns have forced legislators to pass laws to stop these senseless killings.

The day may not be far off when America will be transformed from a gun culture to one which controls their use and possession.

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A.Many Americans acquire guns illegally.

B.Ordinary people can possess guns legally.

C.The average citizen does not try to possess guns.

D.Many school children carry guns legally.

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根据以下材料，回答题American DreamsThere is a common response to America among foreign writ

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American Dreams

There is a common response to America among foreign writers: the US is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst. This is a cliche （陈词滥调）.

In the land of black and white， people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world. But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone. __________ （46） No class system or government stands in the way.

Sadly， this old argument is no longer true. Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy.

The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened. __________ （47）Over the past 25 years the median US family income has gone up 18 percent. For the top 1 per cent， however， it has gone up 200 percent.Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth. __________ （48）

Inequalities have grown worse in different regions.In California， incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 percent since 1969. __________ （49） This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans.The wealthiest 1 per cent of households now control a third of the national wealth.There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty.At 12.7 percent of the population， it is the highest percentage in the developed world.

Yet the tax burden on America"s rich is falling， not growing. __________ （50） There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole.But clearly that theory has not worked in reality.

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A.Nobody is poor in the US.

B.The top 0.01 percent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage points since 1980.

C.For upper class families they have risen 41 percent.

D.Now it is 9.8 times.

E.As it does so， the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller.

F.All one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.

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阅读材料，回答题： American DreamsThere is a common response to America among foreign writ