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Some people say that the holiday shows()is important in people's lives.
A.what
B.why
C.where
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A.what
B.why
C.where
Some people say that students' progress in school is ______ by environment.
A.effected
B.affected
C.offered
D.afforded
Some people holding even stronger opinions say that ______.
A.women should be kind to their husbands
B.women are too weak to take full-time jobs
C.home is the best pace for women
D.women should only take part-time jobs
In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bi- cycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines.
For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw bicycle lanes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders must use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.
But no bicycle lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is agood idea--they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too far from downtown to travel by bike.
The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. Only on week- ends, Central Park is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only, but Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown.
According to the passage, bicycles ______.
A.are more convenient than cars
B.are safer traffic tools than cars
C.are ridden by most people in U.S.
D.are the solution to some city problems
A.way
B.answer
C.help
D.means
Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man is thought to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women working at ail. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. (80) If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time jobs, they will be unable to do the things they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing up children.
Women who disagree say they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and to have freedom to choose between work and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the fight not only to equal pay but also to equal chances.
The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to ask society to ______.
A.pay men less than women
B.give women harder work
C.pay men and women the same amount of money for the same work
D.pay people more who do harder work
Other people believe that if they know enough they will find this thing. They study all their lives in search of it. Still others think that if they have power, they will find this thing. They keep telling themselves: when I am a boss, I will no longer have to search for this thing.
What is it that everyone wants more than anything else? What is it that all of us keep working and striving for each day? It is happiness.
Happiness is a strange thing. It does not mean the same to all men. What will make one man happy may not make another man happy. Some men say that happiness comes from helping others; other men say that happiness comes from making life more pleasant for everyone. What do you mean when you say: "That makes me happy?"
Read what different people have said about happiness. Perhaps you will learn something that will bring you peace of mind, comfort, money or it may bring you what you search for -- happiness.
The main idea of the above article is ______.
A.Happiness means the same to everyone
B.Happiness is the thing that everyone wants most of all
C.Money makes one happy, so does helping others
D.Both A and C
Public radio and television stations, on the【65】hand, do not have advertisements and people do not have to【66】to watch them. These stations gain their money from the【67】, from private companies, and from some of the【68】who watch or listen their programs. The【69】government and some large corporations give【70】,large gifts on money, to the public stations.
(66)
A.products
B.programs
C.produce
D.governments
People used to say, "The hand that rocks the cradle (摇篮) rules the world. "And【56】every successful man there's a woman. "
【57】these sayings mean the same thing. Men【58】the world, but their wives rule them. Most of the American women like【59】their husbands and【60】successful,【61】some of them want【62】for themselves. They want【63】jobs. When they work they want to be【64】paid. They want to be as successful as【65】
The American women's liberation (解放) movement was started by women who don't want to【66】successful men. They want to stand【67】men, with the same chance for success. They don't want to be told that certain jobs or offices are【68】to them. They refuse to work side by side with men who do the same work for【69】pay.
A【70】woman must be【71】of being a woman and have confidence (自信)in【72】. If somebody says to her, "You've come a long way, baby. " She' ll smile and answer, "Not nearly as【73】as I' m going to go, baby!"
This movement is quite new, and【74】American women do not agree. But it has already made some important changes in women's【75】and in men's lives, too.
(56)
A.Behind
B.Beside
C.Before
D.Under
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.
Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are______.
A.distorted
B.normal
C.similar to each other
D.different from its own
Are you superstitious? No, of course not. Do you believe in magic (魔法), and luck charms (护身符), and elves or gremlins (小精灵) ? Certainly not, but if I should greet you with the usual How's business?" You'll answer "Oh, just so-so" although your business is profiting greatly. When you are successful in some venture you might say you were just lucky. And yet, you know it was probably due to your a bility and hard work. Why? Sometimes you knock on wood because wood was once a tree and there is a primitive belief that protective gods inhabit trees and knocking on wood attracts their attention so they may be credited with your successes.
If I should sneeze, only the strongest of you could refrain(克制而不) from saying "God bless you". Why bless this unsanitary (不讲究卫生的) habit? Our ancestors believed that a sneeze opened the body to invasion by devils, and invoking (召唤) the name of God made the devils get out in a hurry. You may not realize it, but you express this same "devil invasion" when you say, "Whatever can have gotten into that child?" or "I wonder what possessed me to do that?"
Although they may no longer be believed, evidences of superstitions that have had their origins in the primitive fear of the unknown still exist in modern language and gestures.
The author ______.
A.believe that most people are superstitious
B.believe that very few people are superstitious
C.believes that there are still some evidences of superstitions in what we say and what we do
D.is superstitious
根据以下内容回答题:
People used to say,“The hand that rocks the cradle(摇篮)rules the world.” And“(1)every successful man there’s a woman.”Both these sayings mean the same thin9.Men(2)the world-but their wives rule them. Most of the American women like to take their husbands and(3)successful,but some of them want(4)for themselves.They want good jobs.When they work,they want to be(5)paid.They want to be as successful as men. The American women’s liberation movement was started by women who don’t want to (6)successful men.They want to stand beside men,with the same chance for success.They don’t want to be told that certain jobs or offices are(7)to them.They refuse to work side by side with men who do the same work for different pay. A(8)womari must be proud of being a woman and have confidence in(9).If somebody says to her:“You’ve come a long way,baby.”She’ll smile and answer,“Not nearly as far as Fm going to go,baby!”This movement is quite new,and(10)American women do not agree.But it has already made some important changes in women’s lives and in men’s lives,too.
1.
A.Behind
B.Beside
C.Before
D.Under