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Their lives were now ______ by earthshaking change, by the arrival of the modern world.
A．confined
B．concerned
C．confronted
D．consulted
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A. classification B. compare and contrast C. process analysis D. cause and effect E. problem and solution 4. In recent decades, cities have grown so large that now about 50% of the Earth's population lives in urban areas. There are several reasons for this occurrence. First, the increasing industrialization of the nineteenth century resulted in the creation of many factory jobs, which tended to be located in cities. These jobs, with their promise of a better material life, attracted many people from rural areas. Second, there were many schools established to educate the children of the new factory laborers. The promise of a better education persuaded many families to leave farming communities and move to the cities.
听力原文： Now, it's 10 o'clock and time for a summary of the news.
Schools where children are failing in reading and writing tests will be publicly identified under new government plans. The government also plans to introduce six new tests including mathematics and science for all school children. Education Minister David Kemp said no school should be afraid of being exposed, The main purpose is to inform. parents and schools. They'll have exact information and students' problems will be known.
A psychologist has found 1/10 of students fear injections, blood and injury-- some so much that they run away. from doctors. These young patients may miss out on treatment. They were more likely to have fainted when faced with injections, blood and injury. The fear could disturb appropriate medical care.
Research has been done on kids who were making trouble all the time at school. They made the teachers' lives very difficult, Researchers found that many of those troublemakers were from divorced families. What they really want is the attention from parents and teachers. Once they could get attention from parents and teachers, the kids could be very appealing.
What is the main purpose of introducing the new tests？
A．To inform. parents and schools.
B．To pick out good students.
C．To expose poor schools.
Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.
Questioning and routine double-checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each computer should come with the warning: for all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute for fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.
According to the passage, the initial concern about computers was that they might______.
A．change our personal lives
B．take control of the world
C．create unforeseen problems
D．affect our businesses
"That was inslavery time", says Charlie Smith in one interview. "They sold the colored people. And they were bringing them from Africa. They brought me from Africa. I was a child". The Library of Congress released the collection of recordings, Voices from the Days of Slavey, in January. The recorrdings were made between 1932 and 1975. Speaking at least 60 years after their emancipation(解放), the story teller discuss their experiences as slaves.
They also tell about their lives as free men and women.
Isom Moseley was just a boy at the time of emancipation, but he recalls that things were slow to change. "It was a year before the folks knowed they was free", he says.
Michael Taft, the head of the library's archive of folk culture, says the recordings reveal something that written stores cannot. "The power of hearing someone speak is so much greater than reading something from the page", Taft says. "It's how something is said—the dialect, the low pitches, the pauses—that helps tell the story".
What is new about the slaves stories？
A．They are told in the slaves own voices.
B．People travel around the world to hear them.
C．Colored people were sold.
D．They happened in the slavery time.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to an ancient belief？ In part it must be because astrology--claims to tell us something about ourselves, and all of us are interested in ourselves. I think it is because astrology is presented as if it were a science by its modern practitioner, and many people are misled by this.
In fact, astrology was never a science. It was not a hypothesis or theory developed to describe natural phenomena, and until fairly recent times, there was not attempt to test or verify its predictions. Astrology began approximately three thousand years ago in Babylonia; it was applied to monarchs and kingdoms, but not to individuals. It spread in the 6th century BC as far as India, where it flourishes today. The Egyptians, meanwhile, developed their own kind of astrology. But the astrology now practiced in Europe and America is that developed by the Greeks, who synthesized the ideas of the Babylonians and Egyptians and enriched them with concepts from their own fertile imaginations. The Greeks believed that the earth was composed of four elements, and the heavens of a perfect crystalline material. The planets themselves were variously thought to be gods, residences of gods, or at least manifestations of gods. The gods were immortal, but otherwise had the same attributes of anger, happiness, jealousy, rage and pleasure as we do. Now if what the gods' thought was capricious (变化无常的), at least the planets were predictable in their movements. Because our own lot in life is so unpredictable, it must be purely at the mercy of gods. But if the gods are the planets, or somehow associated with them, then we have only to learn the rules of the motions of the planets to understand the whims of the gods and how they shape our own lives. So the belief developed that each of our lives is preordained by the precise configuration of the planets in the sky at the time of our birth.
Astrology could not, of course, have seemed as incredible to the ancients as it does to us. The role of the sun influencing our daily and yearly lives is obvious; it was a natural extension to attribute other powers to the other planets as well. It wasn't until the time of Newton that we understood that the laws of Nature apply to the celestial worlds as well as to the terrestrial one. During antiquity, however, all great scholars believed in astrology.
Many people are misled by astrology because it is presented by the practitioners as ______.
A．a theory that can describe natural phenomena
B．a magical key to understanding themselves
C．an ancient belief that had long been applied to monarchs
D．a mysterious power beyond the explanation of science
听力原文： Lifestyle. is the way a person lives; it includes work, leisure time, hobbies, other interests, and personal philosophy. (29)One person's lifestyle. may be dominated by work, including few social activities. Another's may involve hobbles, recreational activities, or personal philosophy.
There is little doubt that lifestyle. are changing and that these changes will have an influence on the way business operates in the years ahead. Several factors are causing lifestyle. changes in US society.
First, there is more leisure time than ever before. (30)The workweek is now less than forty hours, as compared to seventy hours a century ago. Some experts believe it will be twenty-five hours or less before the year 2000. Several firms have adopted four-day workweeks with more hours per day. Others have cut the number of hours worked each week. Reduced work schedules mean increased leisure time.
Second, families have fewer children than before and young couples are postponing childbirth instead of having their children early in the marriages. (31)This trend has forced many businesses to modify their competitive strategies. Gerber Products Company used to advertise "babies are our business--our only business." Now Gerber products include infant clothing, stuffed animals, and accessories such as bottles, baby's carriages, and baby powder.
Third, people are better educated and more prosperous now than they were earlier. These advantages bring with them the freedom to question current lifestyles and examine new ones. Inquiries of this nature have sometimes led to personal lifestyle. changes.
(30)
A．The changes of life styles have no influence on business.
B．Different people may have completely different life styles.
C．It's doubtful what life styles are changing.
D．Life styles of different people are the same.
阅读材料，回答题。
In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the early postwar era(战后时期), there was a quite widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are facing with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over trusting (过分信任) of computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons maybe pushed, or that a computer may simply malfunction(失灵).
Obviously, there would be no point in investing(投入) in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong. Questioning and routine double checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre computer days. Maybe each computer should come with the following warning: for all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute for fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.
What is the main purpose of this passage？ 查看材料
A.To look back to the early days of computers
B.To explain what technical problems may occur with computers
C.To discourage unnecessary investment in computers
D.To warn against the blindness to the probable shortcomings of computers
What is the main topic of the talk？
A．Jefferson's views about commercialized agriculture.
B．International trade in the nineteenth century.
C．Improvements in farm machinery in the United States.
D．Farmers' loss of independence.
"That was in slavery time", says Charlie Smith in one interview. "They sold the colored people. And they were bringing them from Africa. They brought me from Africa. I was a child".
The Library of Congress released the collection of recordings, Voices from the Days of Slavery, in January. The recordings were made between 1932 and 1975. Speaking at least 60 years after their emancipation(解放), the storytellers discuss their experiences as slaves. They also tell about their lives as free men and women.
Isom Moseley was just a boy at the time of emancipation, but he recalls that things were slow to change. "It was a year before the folks knew they were free", he says.
Michael Taft, the head of the library's archive of folk culture, says the recordings reveal something that written stories cannot. "The power of hearing someone speak is so much greater than reading something from the page", Taft says. "It's how something is said—the dialect, the low pitches, the pauses—that helps tell the story".
What is new about the slaves' stories？
A．They are told in the slaves' own voices.
B．People travel around the world to hear them.
C．Colored people were sold.
D．They happened in the slavery time.
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