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^,TO#%$iE 17. Those who _________ women’s liberation movement continue to hope, and work, for a change.
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{H>gtpVy 18. Finding out about these universities has become easy for anyone with Internet ___________.
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.t!x<B 28. Now when talking about economic reform I am very ____________ aware of the shadow
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m Many theories concerning the causes of juvenile delinquency (crimes committed by young people) focus either on the individual or on society as the major contributing influence. Theories 1 on the individual suggest that children engage in criminal behavior 2 they were not sufficiently penalized for previous-misdeeds or that they have learned criminal behavior through 3 with others. Theories focusing on the role of society suggest that children commit crimes in 4 to their failure to rise above their socioeconomic status, 5 as a rejection of middle-class values.
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XwaXdvmK 3. A. interaction B. assimilation C. cooperation D. consultation
}pkzH'$HJ 4. A. return B. reply C. reference D. response
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TWX.D`W 19. A. incidence B. awareness C. exposure D. popularity
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1|=A*T-<M Nz-&MS For the people who have never traveled across the Atlantic the voyage is a fantasy. But for the people who cross it frequently one crossing of the Atlantic is very much like another, and they do not make the voyage for the 1 of its interest. Most of us are quite happy when we feel 2 to go to bed and pleased when the journey 3 . On the first night this time I felt especially lazy and went to bed 4 earlier than usual. When I 5 my cabin, I was surprised 6 that I was to have a companion during my trip, which made me feel a little unhappy. I had expected 7 but there was a suitcase 8 mine in the opposite corner. I wondered who he could be and what he would be like. Soon afterwards he came in. He was the sort of man you might meet 9 , except that he was wearing 10 good clothes that I made up my mind that we would not 11 whoever he was and did not say 12 . As I had expected, he did not talk to me either but went to bed immediately.
6!bsM"F I suppose I slept for several hours because when I woke up it was already the middle of the night. I felt cold but covered 13 as well as I could and tried to go back to sleep. Then I realized that a 14 was coming from somewhere. I thought perhaps I had forgotten 15 the door, so I got up 16 the door but found it already locked from the inside. The cold air was coming from the window opposite. I crossed the room and 17 the moon shone through it on to the other bed. 18 freekaobo .com there. It took me a minute or two to 19 the door myself. I realized that my companion 20 through the window into the sea.
\{NO?%s0p 1. A. reason B. motive C. cause D. sake
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d d;T-wa} 17. A. while doing like that B. as I did like that
@%SQFu@FJ C. as I did so D. at doing so
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g\AY|;T C. It was anyone D. There was anyone
B7%U_F|m 19. A. remind to lock B. remember to lock
LgYq.>Nl9 C. remind locking D. remember locking
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rM"l@3hP C. must have jumped D. could be jumped
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A)~6Im Since flowers symbolize new life, it may seem inappropriate to have them at funerals. Yet people in many cultures top coffins or caskets with wreaths and garlands and put blossoms on the graves of the (1) . . This custom is part of a widespread, long-lived pattern. Edwin Daniel Wolff speculated that floral tributes to the dead are an outgrowth of the grave goods of ancient (2) . In cultures that firmly believed in an (3) , and that believed farther that the departed could enter that afterlife only 4) ___ they took with them indications of their worldly status, it was a necessity to bury the dead with material goods: hence the wives and animals that were killed to accompany (5) rulers, the riches (6) person's eyes as payment for the Stygian ferryman. In time, as economy modified tradition, the actual (7) ______ goods were replaced (8) ___ symbolic representations. In China, for6example, gold and silver paper became a stand-in (9)______ real money. Eventually even the symbolic significance became obscured. Thus, Wolff said, flowers may be the (10) step in "three well-marked stages of offerings to the dead: the actual object, its substitute in various forms, and - finally - mere tributes of respect."
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H:\k}*w It is often claimed that nuclear energy is something we cannot do without. We live in a consumer society where there is an enormous demand for commercial products of all kinds. Moreover, an increase in industrial production is considered to be one solution to the problem of mass unemployment. Such an increase presumes an abundant and cheap energy supply. Many people believe that nuclear energy provides an inexhaustible and economical source of power and that it is therefore essential for an industrially developing society. There are a number of other advantages in the use of nuclear energy. Firstly, nuclear power, except for accidents, is clean. A further advantage is that a nuclear power station can be run and maintained by relatively few technical and administrative staff. The nuclear reactor represents an enormous step in our scientific evolution and, whatever the anti – nuclear group says, it is wrong to expect a return to more primitive sources of fuel. However, opponents of nuclear energy point out that nuclear power stations bring a direct threat not only to the environment but also to civil liberties.
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bN88ua}k{ 1. The writer’s attitude toward nuclear energy is ______.
]{L jRSV A. indifferent B. favorable C. tolerant D. negative
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L.WljNo 3. Some people claim that nuclear energy is essential because ______.
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s9d_GhT%- B. it represents an enormous step forward in our scientific evolution
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&t-kpA|EG A. The demand for commercial products will not necessarily keep increasing.
x3krbUlx B. Nuclear energy is something we cannot do without.
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6MkP |vr6 C. reverse previously expressed thoughts
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Cyberspace, data superhighways, multi media-for those who have seen the future, the linking of computers, television and telephones will change our lives for ever. Yet for all the talk of a forthcoming technological utopia, little attention has been given to the implications of these developments for the poor. As with all new high technology, while the West concerns itself with the “how”, the question of “for whom” is put aside once again.
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Economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the communications revolution has affected the world economy. Information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries, and transnational corporations take full advantage of it. Terms of trade, exchange and interest rates and money movements are more important than the production of goods. The electronic economy made possible by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global markets-with destructive impact on the have –nots.
b>N8F^}~O For them the result is instability. Developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic machine. As “futures” (期货) are traded on computer screens, developing countries simply have less and less control of their destinies.
|H+Wed| So what are the options for regaining control? One alternative is for developing countries to buy in the latest computers and telecommunications themselves-so-called “development communications” modernization. Yet this leads to long-term dependency and perhaps permanent constraints on developing countries’ economies.
:[!j?)%> Communications technology is generally exported from the U.S., Europe or Japan; the patents, skills and ability to manufacture remain in the hands of a few industrialized countries. It is also expensive, andfreekaobo com imported products and services must therefore be bought on credit-credit usually provided by the very countries whose companies stand to gain.
(ICd} Furthermore, when new technology is introduced there is often too low a level of expertise to exploit it for native development. This means that while local elites, foreign communities and subsidiaries of transnational corporations may benefit, those whose lives depend on access to the information are denied it.
\} :PLCKT 1. From the passage we know that the development of high technology is in the interests of _____.
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qeZ? 7#Gf 2. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.
\)?HJ A. international trade should be expanded
`lt"[K< B. the interests of the poor countries have not been given enough consideration
v OpKNp C. the exports of the poor countries should be in creased
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M1iS(x 3. Why does the author say that the electronic economy may have a destructive impact on developing countries? _____
8q}q{8 A. Because it enables the developed countries to control the international market.
7Da` B. Because it destroys the economic balance of the poor countries.
R',rsGd`6j C. Because it violates the national boundaries of the poor countries.
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l&Q`wR5e A. hinder their industrial production
8&`LYdzt B. cause them to lose control of their trade
SmSH2m- C. force them to reduce their share of exports
Q:k}Jl D. cost them their economic independence
8i#2d1O 5. The author’s attitude toward the communications revolution is _____.
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Governments that want their people to prosper in the burgeoning world economy should guarantee two basic rights: the right to private property and the right to enforceable contracts, says Mancur Olson in his book Power and Prosperity. Olson was an economics professor at the University of Maryland until his death in 1998.
\B,@`dw Some have argued that such rights are merely luxuries that wealthy societies bestow, but Olson turns that argument around and asserts that such rights are essential to creating wealth. “ Incomes are low in most of the countries of the world, in short, because the people in those countries do not have secure individual rights,” he says.
~^fZx5 Certain simple economic activities, such as food gathering and making handicrafts, rely mostly on individual labor; property is not necessary. But more advanced activities, such as the mass production of goods, require machines and factories and offices. This production is often called capital-intensive, but it is really property-intensive, Olson observes.
zFff`]^` “No one would normally engage in capital-intensive production if he or she did not have rights that kept the valuable capital from being taken by bandits, whether roving or stationary,” he argues. “There is no private property without government –individuals may have possessions, the way a dog possesses a bone, but there is private property only if the society protects and defends a private right to that possession against other private parties and against the government as well.”
ZyPVy Would-be entrepreneurs, no matter how small, also need a government and court system that will make sure people honor their contracts. In fact, the banking systems relied on by developed nations are based on just such an enforceable contract system. “We would not deposit our money in banks .. if we could not rely on the bank having to honor its contract with us, and the bank would not be able to make the profits it needs to stay in business if it could not enforce its loan contracts with borrowers,” Olson writes.
RF53J yt Other economists have argued that the poor economies of Third World and communist countries are the result of governments setting both prices and the quantities of goods produced rather than letting a free market determine them. Olson agrees that there is some merit to this point of view, but he argues that government intervention is not enough to explain the poverty of these countries. Rather, the real problem is lack of individual rights that give people incentive to generate wealth. “If a society has clear and secure individual rights, there are strong incentives to produce, invest, and engage in mutually advantageous trade, and therefore at least some economic advance,” Olson concludes. (441 words)
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[H^z-6x:0 A. He was a fiction writer.
.P%bkD6M B. He edited the book Power and Prosperity.
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1.{z3_S21: _w+:Dv~*a 2. Which of the following represents Olson’s point of view?
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A,hJIe B. Only in wealthy societies do people have secure individual rights.
{19PL8B~} C. Secure individual rights are brought about by the wealth of the society.
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)<;Y-u.UW >#~& -3 3. What does Olson think about mass production?
xU>WEm2 A. It’s capital intensive.
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THbh%)Zv+ }Jve cRtg1 5. According to Olson, what is the reason for the poor economies of Third World countries?
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dh*ZKI^@( Where one stage of child development has been left out, or not sufficiently experienced, the child may have to go back and capture the experience of it. A good home makes this possible, for example by providing the opportunity for the child to play with a clockwork car or toy railway train up to any age if he still needs to do so. This principle, in fact, underlies all psychological treatment of children in difficulties with their development, and is the basis of work in child clinics.
[vK^Um The beginning of discipline are in the nursery. Even the youngest baby is taught by gradual stages to wait for food, to sleep and wake at regular intervals and so on. If the child feels the world around him is a warm and friendly one, he slowly accepts its rhythm and accustoms himself to conforming to its demands. Learning to wait for things, particularly for food, is a very important element in upbringing, and is achieved successfully only if too great demands are not made before the child can understand them.
TJpD{p} Every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition of each new skill—the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writhing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feeling of failure and states of anxiety in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encourages to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left along too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural zest for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
+L|?~p`V Learning together is a fruit source of relationship between children and parents. By playing together, parents learn more about their children and children learn more from their parents. Toys and games which both parents and children can share are an important means of achieving this co-operation. Building-block toys, jigsaw puzzles and crossword are good example.
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b8VTo lJ B. offers recapture of earlier experiences
cLJ$M`e C. is in the provision of clockwork toys and trains
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R)(T^V`{ A. quickly learns to wait for food
Rz:]\jcIT/ B. doesn’t initially sleep and wake at regular intervals
b-?gw64# C. always accepts the rhythm of the world around him
]^'Kd*x D. always feels the word around him is warm and friendly
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#PW9:_BE A. can never be taken too far
]e^&aR5f" B. should be left to school teachers
3`|@H-c9 C. will always assist their development
0c]/bs{} D. should be balanced between two extremes
,vawzq[oSy a=1@*ID 4. Jigsaw puzzles are ______.
=.U[$~3q% A. too difficult for children
Zw9FJ/Zn@ B. a kind of building-block toy
^Za-`8#`L C. not very entertaining for adults
P [ck84F/ D. suitable exercises for parent-child cooperation
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mh#a#< A. serve a dual purpose
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