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单选题Popular wisdom has traditionally held that all "normal" women want to marry and have children and that whatever other interests they might pursue are secondary to these family roles. Women who do not want to marry or mothers who do not enjoy being with their children are thought to be unusual or strange. To fill the traditional homemaker role, females have been expected, to develop a capacity for warmth, compassion, sensitivity, and caring. The traditional role of wife and mother has also carried with it a dependency on men, especially on the husband. Society still considers it perfectly reasonable for a woman to depend entirely on her husband for economic support. The traditional woman"s role had a number of benefits. For one thing, in an era of job scarcity, women were not usually obliged to earn a living for their families. In other words, society does not place as much pressure on women to achieve as it does on men. Although a woman may strive to reach the top of her profession, there is less shame for her in failure or in having only moderate success than there is for a man. Finally the female role allows women more emotional freedom than men. Women are permitted to express their doubts and vulnerability (脆弱); and they have more outlets for their tension and anxiety; and they have fewer inhibitions about seeking intimacy with others. But the traditional female role also has its costs. It has denied women full autonomy in most spheres of American life. The dependency taught to girls in childhood often leads to passivity and timidness in later life. In addition, the female role is associated with a higher incidence of certain kinds of emotional problems, such as depression. Perhaps this is partly because the isolation of homemakers have much opportunity for brooding——especially when the children have grown up and left home.

单选题For Questions 11～20, you will hear two passages. Before listening to each one, read the question related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

单选题Which of the following is not part of Britian? A. Wales B. England C. Scotland D. Greenland

单选题In the 400s BC, the Sophists, a group of wandering teachers, began to teach in Athens. The Sophists claimed that they could teach any subject or skill to anyone who wished to learn it. They specialized in teaching grammar, logic, and rhetoric, subjects that eventually formed the core of the liberal arts. The Sophists were more interested in preparing their students to argue persuasively and win arguments than in teaching principles of truth and morality. Unlike the Sophists, the Greek philosopher Socrates sought to discover and teach universal principles of truth, beauty, and goodness. Socrates, who died in 399 BC, claimed that true knowledge existed within everyone and needed to be brought to consciousness. His educational method, called the Socratic method, consisted of asking probing questions that forced his students to think deeply about the meaning of life, truth, and justice. In 387 BC Plato, who had studied under Socrates, established a school in Athens called the Academy. Plato believed in an unchanging world of perfect ideas or universal concepts. He asserted that since true knowledge is the same in every place at every time, education, like truth, should be unchanging. Plato described his educational ideal in The Republic , one of the most notable works of Western philosophy. Plato"s Republic describes a model society, or republic, ruled by highly intelligent philosopher-kings. Warriors make up the republic"s second class of people. The lowest class, the workers, provide food and other products for all the people of the republic. In Plato"s ideal educational system, each class would receive a different kind of instruction to prepare for their various roles in society. In 335 BC Plato"s student, Aristotle, founded his own school in Athens called the Lyceum. Believing that human beings are essentially rational, Aristotle thought people could discover natural laws that governed the universe and then follow these laws in their lives. He also concluded that educated people who used reason to make decisions would lead a life of moderation in which they avoided dangerous extremes. In the 4th century BC Greek orator Isocrates developed a method of education designed to prepare students to be competent orators who could serve as government officials. Isocrates"s students studied rhetoric, politics, ethics, and history. They examined model orations and practiced public speaking. Isocrates"s methods of education directly influenced such Roman educational theorists as Cicero and Quintilian.

单选题The percentage of immigrants (including those unlawfully present) in the United states has been creeping upward for years. At 12.6 percent, it is now higher than at any point since the mid1920s. We are not about to go back to the days when Congress openly worried about inferior races polluting America"s bloodstream. But once again we are wondering whether we have too many of the wrong sort newcomers. Their loudest critics argue that the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, fit in as previous generations did. We now know that these racist views were wrong. In time, Italians, Romanians and members of other so-called inferior races became exemplary Americans and contributed greatly, in ways too numerous to detail, to the building of this magnificent nation. There is no reason why these new immigrants should not have the same success. Although children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional attainment, than their parents UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains don"t continue. Indeed, the fouth generation is marginally worse off than the third James Jackson, of the University of Michigan, has found a similar trend among black Caribbean immigrants, Tells fears that Mexican-Americans may be fated to follow in the footsteps of American blacks-that large parts of the community may become mired (陷入) in a seemingly permanent state of poverty and Underachievement. Like African-Americans, Mexican-Americans are increasingly relegated to (降入) segregated, substandard schools, and their dropout rate is the highest for any ethnic group in the country. We have learned much about the foolish idea of excluding people on the presumption of the ethnic/racial inferiority. But what we have not yet learned is how to make the process of Americanization work for all. I am not talking about requiring people to learn English or to adopt American ways; those things happen pretty much on their own, but as arguments about immigration hear up the campaign trail, we also ought to ask some broader question about assimilation, about how to ensure that people, once outsiders, don"t forever remain marginalized within these shores. That is a much larger question than what should happen with undocumented workers, or how best to secure the border, and it is one that affects not only newcomers but groups that have been here for generations. It will have more impact on our future than where we decide to set the admissions bar for the latest ware of would-be Americans. And it would be nice if we finally got the answer right.

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单选题You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. Questions 11—13 are based on an interview with Peter Wilson, who works for Green peace.

单选题Questions 14—16 are based on the following passage. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14—16.

单选题Revolutionary innovation is now occurring in all scientific and technological fields. This wave of unprecedented change is driven primarily by advances in information technology, but it is much larger in scope. We are not dealing simply with an Information Revolution but with a Technology Revolution. To anticipate developments in this field, the George Washington University Forecast of Emerging Technologies was launched at the start of the 1990s. We have now completed four rounds of our Delphi survey -- in 1990,1992,1994,and 1996 -- giving us a wealth of data and experience. We now can offer a reasonably clear picture of what can be expected to happen in technology over the next three decades. Time horizons play a crucial role in forecasting technology. Forecasts of the next five to ten years are often so predictable that they fall into the realm of market research, while those more than30 or 40 years away are mostly speculation. This leaves a 10-to 20-year window in which to make useful forecasts. It is this time frame that our Forecast addresses. The Forecast uses diverse methods, including environmental scanning, trend analysis, Delphi surveys, and model building. Environmental scanning is used to identify emerging technologies. Trend analysis guides the selection of the most important technologies for further study, and a modified Delphi survey is used to obtain forecasts. Instead of using the traditional Delphi method of providing respondents with immediate feedback and requesting additional estimates in order to arrive at a consensus, we conduct another survey after an additional time period of about two years. Finally, the results are portrayed in time periods to build models of unfolding technological change. By using multiple methods instead of relying on a single approach, the Forecast can produce more reliable, useful estimates. For our latest survey conducted in 1996, we selected 85 emerging technologies representing the most crucial advances that can be foreseen. We then submitted the list of technologies to our panel of futurists for their judgments as to when ( or if) each technological development would enter the mainstream, the probability that it would, happen, and the estimated size of the economic market for it. In short, we sought a forecast as to when each emerging technology will have actually "emerged. /

单选题How does AT&T fit into the picture of the At Home-Excite deal?

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单选题What makes a good conversation? Firstly, it is a mutual search for essence of things. It is a zestful transaction, not a briefing or a lecture. Russian poet Alexander Pushkin identified the willingness to listen as one of the vital ingredients of any exchange. When two people are talking at the same time, the result is not conversation. Nothing is more destructive of good talk than for one participant to hold the ball too long, like a basketball player playing to the gallery. Pity the husband or wife with a garrulous mate who insists on talking long past the point where he or she has anything to say. To be meaningful, a conversation should head in a general direction. It need not be artfully plotted, but it should be gracefully kept on course. It has been said that if speech is silver, silence is golden. Certainly silence is preferable, under most circumstances, to chat. Why is it then, that so many people are discomfited by the absence of human sound waves? Why are they not willing to sit with each other, silently enjoying the unheard but real linkages? "Making conversation" should not be a necessity among intimates. If there is nothing to say, don"t say it. It is true that strangers" meeting for the first time seem to feel uncomfortable if they do not engage in small talk. Usually this is harmless and even necessary if strangers are to size each other up. But, small talk aside, what are elementary rules for general conversation? In the first place, certain subjects should be taboo. Kitchen topics, the best cleaners, bus schedules, and other dull things should be barred from general discussion. Next, our illness is not something to be offered gratuitously to friends at conversation time. Then there is the conversationalist who must be right—who always has to win the game. Conversation need not always be purposeful, but it must at least be for pleasure. It should be aiming at knowing better one"s conversation partner. Above all, it should be joyful and amiable, as Joseph Addison put it: "Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit." I do not object to enforced conversation, but I am less tolerant of those who would arbitrarily halt a good conversation with a flat "Come, now, let"s stop all this." A good conversation is a fragile thing that must be nurtured carefully.

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