Researchers have studied the poor as individuals

The Japanese desire for marriage had been very strong, in the fifth "world youth attitude survey" 1 by the Management and Coordination Agency in 1993, over 70 percent of the Japanese 2 chose the answers "One should get married" or "it's better to get married." Of the 11 countries surveyed, Japan was 3 only by the Philippines in the percentage of those advocating marriage 4 opposed to a single life. In recent years, however, there has been a spreading recognition among the Japanese public that something 5 is happening in people's attitudes toward marriage. When they began to have adequate food, clothing and shelter after years of postwar shortages and thus became able to 6 their attention to other matters, the Japanese for the first time 7 a renewed look at the question of marriage. In the 1990s, people began to ask "What on earth is marriage anyway?" and to talk about marriage itself. In Japan, the proportion of men still unmarried in their thirties reached about 20 percent in the national census taken in 1985, and the 8 apparently exceeded 30 percent in 1995. The proportion of unmarried women in the 25-29 age bracket has been increasing 9 about 5 percent every five years until it is now nearly 50 percent. What are the real reasons women choose not to marry? Early on, two were 10 : women were now better educated and more women were interested in working outside the home. Many women have become 11 independent, acquiring enough self-confidence to 12 a meaningful life outside of marriage. And 13 seems to be a wide gap in the way men and women view marriage. Women generally believe that, 14 women's roles in Japan's postwar society have become diversified, men have essentially remained unchanged. 15 such circumstances, communication between the sexes is, in fact, far from easy. Besides that, in the postwar Japan, individualism has begun to take 16 . The 50 years since the end of the war may be regarded as the process of a 17 society has matured to a point 18 it now tolerates a diversity of marriage styles which were unthinkable not very long ago. In the future, such tolerance is almost 19 to increase. But a headlong plunge toward unbridled individualism is also dangerous. The ideal 20 may be to achieve a complementary fusion of the collectivism of Japan's traditional community and the individualism of the new age.

When there are not enough volunteers for the armed forces, the government ______ additional men.

Concern with money, and then more money

Two teams of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have overturned several decades of conjec

Although it was his first experience as chairman

The ambassador was accused of having ______ on domestic affairs.

em>Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the conversation./em> Which of the statements about the auto show is INCORRECT?

The period of adolescence, i. e.

One of the ______ of the training program is that it enables the young people to be better candidates for employment.

I asked my mother if I could go out

I shall ______ the loss of my reading-glasses in newspaper with a reward for the finder.

The pharmaceutical company insisted that its testing of new drugs was quite ______, more rigorous than the industry standard.

He believes that religion has the capacity to function as the "cement" holding all of a society's institutions together in a ______ whole.

______ enough time and money

This is only a ______ agreement: nothing serious concluded yet by far.

Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies. Since the world's population is expected to double in the next 50 years, many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis. But that doesn't have to be the outcome. Water shortages do not have to trouble the world—if we start valuing water more than we have in the past. Just as we began to appreciate petroleum more after the 1970s oil crises, today we must start looking at water from a fresh economic perspective. We can no longer afford to consider water a virtually free resource of which we can use as much as we like in any way we want. Instead, for all used except the domestic demand of the poor, governments should price water to reflect its actual value. This means charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the supply costs. Governments should also protect this resource by providing water in more economically and environmentally sound ways. For example, often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions and pumping it to nearby cropland. No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently, they must change their institutional and legal approaches to water use. Rather than spread control among hundreds or even thousands of local, regional, and national agencies that watch various aspects of water use, countries should set up central authorities to coordinate water policy. What is the real cause of the potential water crisis?

Directions: em>Write a composition with the title "Is University Expansion a Good Thing?" base

人生没有彩排，每天都是实况直播，不仅收视率低，而且工资不高。