单选题The report shows that poor families spend a large ______ of their income on food.

单选题Children are losing the ability to play properly because they are being given too many toys and games, according to a new research. The studies show that children—especially those under five—are often overwhelmed and actually play less than those with fewer toys. It may even harm their development. Some of the work was done by Claire Lerner, a childhood development researcher with Zero to Three, which is funded by the U.S. government to run pre-school educational programs across America. "Our studies show that giving children too many toys or toys of the wrong type can actually be doing them harm. They get overwhelmed and cannot concentrate on any one thing long enough to learn from it." said Lerner. Her conclusions have been backed up by British researchers looking at children with relatively few toys, whose parents spend more time reading, singing or playing with them. It showed such children surpass youngsters from more affluent (富裕的) backgrounds—even those who had access to computers. Kathy Sylva, professor of educational psychology at Oxford University, reached her conclusions from a study of 3,000 children from the ages of three to five. She said, "There is a complex relationship between children"s progress, the type of toys they are given and the time parents spend with them. When they have a large number of toys there seems to be a distraction element, and when children are distracted they do not learn or play well." Some parents notice the impact early. Orhan Ismail, a researcher from Colchester, Essex, saw a change for the worse in Cameron, his 10-month-old son, after he was given a "deluge" (蜂拥而至) of toys last Christmas. Ismail said, "If there are too many toys in front of him, he will just keep flitting around them and then end up going off and finding something like a slipper (拖鞋) to play with. Now we just get out one or two toys and hide the rest in a box." Experts hesitate to put a figure on the number of toys children should have, but many believe two-dozen is enough for children of pre-school age.

单选题A.Thegirlsgotonwellwitheachother.B.It'sunderstandablethatgirlsdon'tgetalong.C.Shewasangrywiththeotheryoungstars.D.Thegirlslackedthecouragetofight.

单选题Which of the following is NOT mentioned by the author as a criterion(标准) for determining a person's place in a traditional society?

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单选题Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. Each for its own reason, the study of residential mobility has been a concern of three disciplines: sociology, economics, and geography. For the economist, residential shifts provide a means for studying the housing and land markets. Geographers study mobility to understand the spatial distributions of population types. For the sociologist, interest in residential mobility has two sources: one stemming from the study of human ecology and the other, from a concern with the peculiar qualities of urban life. Of course, there are clearly overlapping concerns and it is often difficult to discern the disciplinary origins of a researcher by sole examining the kinds of questions he or she raises about mobility, although it is usually easier to identify a researcher's discipline by noting the methods used and the concepts employed. Urban mobility first appears in the sociological literature as a term expressing rather generalized qualities of urban, as opposed to the nonurban life. Some sociologists refer to the mobility of the city as the considerable sum of myriad and incessant sources of stimulation impinging upon the urban dweller, a sort of sensory overload which produces sophistication, indifference and a lowered level of affection in urban dwellers. There is simply so much to experience that the urban dweller's capacity is reduced to react in a“spontaneous” and“natural”way to urban existence. It is mobility in this sense that produces some of the special qualities of urban life which, on the other hand, appeals to migrants as an escape from the dullness and oppression of rural existence with its lack of change and stimulation, and on the other hand, produces anomie and alienation in a society where men see each other primarily as means to ends rather than as ends in themselves. Of course, mobility in this larger sense of sensory overload is not a concept which lends itself easily to measurement, especially since it is a macro-system property.

单选题According to the text, a drive-in window is a ________.

单选题Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

单选题A．Theeconomicsituationisnotgood.B．Theyoungonlywanteasyjobs.C．Theyoungonlywanthigh-salaryjobs.D．Therearetoomanyyoungpeoplewhoneedjobs.

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单选题The flood did not start to ______ until two days after the rain had stopped. A. retire B. recede C. shrink D. retreat

单选题The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom. On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant. According to paleo-ecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes. The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B, C, followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using. But when the new power from the use of tools had been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable. The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when men began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth. Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated. These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if technology begins to yield fewer innovations. Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end. Either way contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth-population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity. And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.

单选题High corporate leaders seem to be in favor of promoting diversity so as to_____.

单选题Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

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