单选题Suppose you are in love with a great guy who happens to be twenty-two years older than you— you are thirty-one and he"s fifty-three. He"s been married and divorced, and has children not much younger than you are. You might ask your friends: "Am I being naive to think our age differences don"t matter?" Yes, you"re naive if you think your age differences don"t matter. They do, but so do all the other differences in your circumstances and personalities. So ignoring this issue, or any issue, won"t work, the more you insist that there aren"t any problems, the more you are probably suppressing your concerns for fear that they will sabotage the relationship. Both you and your partner need to honestly and directly face and discuss all the various problem that have emerged or could emerge round your age difference. Significant age differences between partners can cause serious problems in relationships. The word "significant" is important here. If your partner is four or five years older or younger, it won"t make much of a difference. However, if your partner is ten or more years older or younger than you, it can cause difficulties depending on your ages and other aspects of your personalities. I"ve found that age differences mean less as both partners get older. For instance, a fifteen-year age difference between a thirty-five-year-old man and a twenty-year-old woman will probably create more potential hazards than that age span in a sixty-five-year old man and a fifty-year old woman. The age difference will affect the first couple more, since their maturity and experience levels are usually much more dissimilar than the second couple"s. Here are the most common issues couples face when there is an age difference. If you are significantly older than your mate, you may lose patience with his level of immaturity, lack of life experience, and learning process. This will be especially true if your mate is between twenty and thirty years of age. After all, you"ve already gone through a lot of what she"s dealing with; you"ve realized it"s not the end of the world when you go through a crisis, because it always works out in the end; you"ve made mistakes and figured out how to do things the right way. So it"s not easy watching your younger partner stumble through these same life experiences. When you have ten, twenty or thirty more years of life experience than your partner has, you will find it next to impossible not to offer advice, correct, and direct him or her. After all, you"ve been through this before—you know the best way to do it. Of course your intentions are loving; you"re only trying to help. But the effect can be very destructive to your relationship. You begin acting like a parent and treating your partner like a child. Naturally, your mate feels as if you don"t trust her, you don"t respect her, and responds just like a rebellious teenager world—she becomes resentful and pulls away. And this parent-child game will quickly destroy the passion in your sex life, since your relationship starts taking on incestuous overtones. Most older partners have more financial stability, and therefore, more power in the relationship. You"ve had many more years to build up your income, purchase property and possessions, etc. This financial superiority can create tension between you and your partner in numerous ways—you may feel resentful about being the one who provides more, especially if you are a woman; you may feel like you should make the important decisions(what to spend, where to live, what kind of vacation to take because it"s your money, and your partner might not feel this is fair. You may have difficulty lowering your standards of living to accommodate your mate"s. All of the warning signs above add up to this one—it"s easy when you are much older than your partner to get into a power trip and become controlling. You have more money, success, experience and therefore it"s tempting to "pull rank" on your mate. If your mate is much younger, you may give up interests he or she doesn"t appreciate and take on habits that make you appear younger.

单选题My new issue of Twenty-first Century-School Edition has disappeared. Who______have taken it?

单选题Women on the whole will want to marry men who are either ______ themselves, or their superior, in socio-economic and intellectual attainment.

单选题The Civil Rights Movement happened in______.

单选题The party's reduced vote was______of lack of support for its policies.

单选题All syllables contain a______.(北二外2004研)

单选题The system, furthermore, helps the company in accessing up-to-date publishing information and sales analysis, which have become______of the retail business.

单选题Language acquisition refers to the process involved in creating and expressing meaning through language.

单选题A When asking if their children wanted a call or a text message B requesting that C they be home by curfew, for instance, 58 percent of parents said their children D preferred a text .

单选题Footsteps, that, perhaps another,Sailing o" er life" s solemn main,A forlorn and shipwreck" d brother,Seeing, shall take heart again.Let us then be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.The following selection is from______.

单选题The features that define our human languages can be called distinctive features.

单选题A garden is A an extension of oneself —or selves—and so it B has to be an arena C where striving does not cease, but continues D in other means .

单选题John was______to be found. I looked______for him, but in vain.

单选题Mrs. Clark, dressed in a black woolen cardigan and dark grey trousers, appealed for privacy so that she could rebuild her and her family's lives. "Being separated from my husband for so long has been a living hell," she said. "Being deprived of more than three years of being a mum to our little boy has been even worse. And yet somehow, despite our separation and against all the odds, we have managed to remain a family and stay close. My little boy knows that he has a mummy and daddy who love him very much, and that's what counts."Questions:

单选题Which of the following books deals with American Civil War?

单选题In sociolinguistic studies, speaker are regarded as members of social groups, the social group that is singled out for any special study is called______.

单选题A American literary historians are perhaps B prone to view their own national scene too C narrowly , D mistake prominence for uniqueness.

单选题Stability, relative uninterruptibility and a minimum free form are three factors that help us to identify words.

单选题A group of tales in several languages concerning ______ and his knights developed into a literary tradition around a core of possible historical authenticity.

单选题Even if the US"s massive financial rescue operation succeeds, it should be followed by something even more far-reaching—the establishment of a Global Monetary Authority to oversee markets that have become borderless. Washington recognizes that the crisis has become global. Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary, has said that foreign banks operating in the US will be eligible for federal assistance and he is urging other nations to fashion their own bail-out programs. Central banks have also been synchronizing injections of funds into markets. These should be steps to a more comprehensive international response designed not just to extinguish the current fires, but to rebuild and maintain the capital markets for the longer term. The current global institutional apparatus is woefully incapable of overseeing the financial system that is evolving. The International Monetary Fund is irrelevant to this crisis, the Group of Seven leading industrial countries lacks legitimacy in a world where China, Brazil and others are big players, and the Bank for International Settlement has no operational role. The US Federal Reserve is too besieged to act as a global central bank. That vacuum at the centre is dangerous for everyone. The US"s dependence on massive inflows of foreign capital, roughly $3bn(2bn, ￡1.6bn)a day, will surely increase now as Uncle Sam acquires $1 , 000bn in new obligations from current bail-outs. For years to come, Wall Street and Washington will be unable to manage without strong co-operation from other markets. Beyond that, the international dimensions of finance are mind-boggling. Global assets have increased from $12, 000bn in 1980 to nearly $200, 000bn in 2007, far outstripping the growth of gross domestic product or the expansion of trade. An increasing amount of this capital now resides in Asia and the Gulf, not the US or Europe. A US company such as AIG sold more of its credit default swaps and insurance policies outside the US than within it. UBS employs 30, 000 Americans, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and owns Paine Webber. The capital markets will evolve in the context in which emerging market economies will be growing twice as fast as the rich nations and will, by mid-century, probably account for almost two-thirds of global GDP. Globalization will now also create a clash of philosophies. Most governments and investors outside the US never shared the American system of cowboy capitalism. Now they have good reason to demand that some fundamental changes be made in the way the US manages its financial institutions. This can happen with a conscious, negotiated modification in the US financial model, or it could result from foreign investors shifting their funds elsewhere. All of these considerations point to the eventual need for a new Global Monetary Authority. It would set the tone for capital markets in a way that would not be viscerally opposed to a strong public oversight function with rules for intervention, and would return to capital formation the goal of economic growth and development rather than trading for its own sake. In terms of US and international politics, a Global Monetary Authority is probably an idea whose time has not yet come. That may change as today"s crisis evolves.