阅读理解Passage 2 Between 1977 and 1981, three groups of American women, numbering 27 in all, between the ages of 35 and 65,were given month-long tests to determine how they would respond to conditions resembling those aboard the space shuttle

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 deicide the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage ThreeThe typical American worker with a four-year college degree earns a lot more money than a similar worker who didn’t go beyond high school—45% more.Education does pay. But in today’s economy, getting a bachelor’s degree is no longer a guarantee of raises big enough to beat inflation.Although the best-paid college grads are doing well, wages of college grads have fallen on average in the past five years. The only group that enjoyed rising wages between 2000 and 2005 were the small slice with graduate degrees.Even though the economy has been growing smartly, lots of workers who played by the rules and went the distance to get a four-year college degree aren’t getting ahead.How come? Labor’s slice of the apples is smaller and corporate profits’ slice is larger. Moreover, labor’s share has been sliced increasingly unevenly. The very best-paid workers are getting the bulk of the raises.Wage inequality has been widening for a couple of decades. But in the past decade, the gap between the bottom and the middle hasn’t widened much while wages at the top have pulled away. The top 1% in the U.S. got 16% of all income in 2014, compared with 9% in 1984.The question isn’t whether the gap between winners and losers in the labor market is widening; it’s why. And it’s no longer as simple as saying. The more education one gets, the more one earns. Something more complicated is driving up pay at the top.There are three explanations, all of which have some merit. One, it’s more socially acceptable than it was a generation ago for the top-tier chief executive, hedge-fund manager or baseball players to make an enormous amount of money. Two, the world has changed in ways that make No.1 or No.2— whether a trial lawyer or a rock star—much more valuable than No.19 and 20. And, three, there’s the influence on supply and demand of globalization and technology. At the high end, sharply rising wages suggest demand for the most-educated workers is growing faster than the supply. It’s changes in demand; combined with the fact that it’s very hard to replicate a lot of that talent, and we haven’t expanded the ranks of those professors as fast as we could.

阅读理解It is impossible to produce spoken language without using some form of communication beyond the literal meaning of the words chosen

阅读理解Passage 1 When you think of a culture, you usually think of things such as art, language, music, literature, and architecture

阅读理解Passage 6 In every known human society the males needs for achievements can be recognizedIn a great number of human societies mens sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice

阅读理解Cheating is nothing new

阅读理解Passage 2 Not too many decades ago it seemed obvious both to the general public and to sociologists that modem society, has changed peoples natural relations, loosened their responsibilities to kin and neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relationships with passing acquaintances

阅读理解In its most abstract sense the perception of a loss of community in modern society refers to changes in both the structure and content of personal relationships

阅读理解Passage 2 By the year 2020 AD, a single silicon chip will contain more components than the number of cells in the human brain

阅读理解Passage 1 Hiking on soft sand proved surprisingly hard graft

阅读理解Passage 1 As falling house prices and tightening credit squeeze Americas economy, some worry that the country may suffer a decade of stagnation, as Japan did after its bubble burst in the early 1990s

阅读理解Text 3 In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned

阅读理解If we were to search through every class of society in China for the one spiritual force that influences and dominates them all, we should find it to be ancestor worship

阅读理解Masterpieces are dumb

阅读理解Technically, any substance other than food that alters our bodily or mental functioning is a drug

阅读理解Passage 3 The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial peepshow format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater

阅读理解Passage 2 Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and the mind

阅读理解There is a great irony of 21st-century global health: While many hundreds of millions of people lack adequate food as a result of economic inequities, political corruption, or warfare, many hundreds of millions more are overweight to the point of increased risk for diet-related chronic diseases

阅读理解Passage C Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotiona world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate

阅读理解Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths