单选题Steel works are encouraged to purchase ______ iron so as to reduce the consumption of natural resources.

单选题Most American magazines and newspapers reserve 60 percent of their pages for ads. The New York Times Sunday edition (1) may contain 350 pages of advertisements. Some radio stations devote 40 minutes of every hour to (2) . Then there is television. According to one estimate, American youngsters sit (3) three hours of television commercials each week. By the time they graduate from high school, they will have been (4) 360,000 TV ads. Televisions advertise in airports, hospital waiting rooms, and schools. Major sporting (5) are now major advertising events. Racing cars serve as high speed (6) Some athletes receive most of their money from advertisers. One (7) basketball player earned $ 3.9 million by playing ball. Advertisers paid him nine times that much to (8) their products. There is no escape. Commercial ads are displayed on wails, buses, and trucks. They decorate the inside of taxis and subways—even the doors of public toilets. (9) messages call to us in supermarkets, stores, elevators—and (10) we. are on hold on the telephone. In some countries so much advertising comes through the mail that many recipients proceed directly from the mailbox to the nearest wastebasket to (11) the junk mail. (12) Insider's Report, published by McCann-Erickson, a global advertising agency, the estimated (13) of money spent on advertising worldwide in 1990 was $275.5 billion. Since then, the figures have (14) to $ 411.6 billion for 1997 and a projected $434.4 billion for 1998. Big money ! What is the effect of all of this? One analyst (15) it this way: "Advertising is one of the most powerful socializing forces in the culture. Ads sell more than products. They sell images, values, goals, concepts of who we are and who we should be. They shape our attitudes and our attitudes shape our behavior. /

单选题In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition (学会) of each new skill—the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry 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 encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters. Others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness. As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and exeuse it the next is no foundation for morality (道德). Also, parents should realize that "example is better than precept". If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled. A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.

单选题The European Union countries were once worried that they would not have______.

单选题Television commercial have been under constant scrutiny for the last few years.

单选题Life is more important than the pressures and stresses that we place on ourselves over work and other {{U}}commitments{{/U}}.

单选题The insults from the reporters Uignited/U her anger to the point where she became speechless.

单选题A: Do you want a bit more apple pie, sweetie?B: ______

单选题UVast/U amounts of money are being invested in the local market.

单选题We should never {{U}}underestimate{{/U}} influence we can have on the children we love.

单选题They believe that the merchants had conspired to {{U}}undermine{{/U}} the nation's economic independence.

单选题Man: Hello? I'd like two seats for this evening's show. Woman: Sorry, but the performance is already sold out. Would you be interested in something later this week? Question: What does the woman imply?

单选题According to Krom, the Egypt's old Kingdom fell______.

单选题The university offered several more courses for the purpose of furthering the career {{U}}aspirations{{/U}} of its students.

单选题A: This vase is 200 years old. Be very careful in carrying it. B: ______.

单选题The guilty Uverdict/U was widely expected, although harsher than many had predicted.

单选题Awarding scholarships to students for their athletic ability is condemned by many people.

单选题When he first started in university, he really felt at ______ with his major—economics.