单选题"I WOULDN"T want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that." So much for Arnold Schwarzenegger"s typically expressive support for Proposition 73, a constitutional amendment requiring doctors to give parents 48 hours" notice before carrying out an abortion on a girl under 18. Will the voters agree with the governor? His own status—erstwhile hedonist tamed responsible father of two teenage girls and two pre-teen boys—reflects his state"s mixed feelings about sexual politics. California is one of the most sexually liberated states in the nation. It also boasts the filthworst rate for teenage abortions and the seventh for teenage pregnancies. In 2000, some 116,000 teenagers in California became pregnant, and almost 44,000 of them chose to have an abortion— including 1,620 under the age of 15. A recent Field Poll showed 45% of respondents in favour of the amendment, 45% against and 10% undecided. The proposition"s advocates are careful to argue that supporting parental notification is not the same as opposing abortion full stop. Mr. Schwarzenegger is a "pro-choice Republican" and the proposition would allow a minor to petition a court to allow her an abortion without notifying a parent. The real point, they say, is that a 17-year-old girl "can"t get an aspirin from the school nurse, get a flu shot, or have a tooth pulled without a parent knowing", but a 13-year-old cart have a surgical or chemical abortion without her parents" knowledge. And since a majority of the prospective fathers are over 21, the current system in effect condones statutory rape. Opponents, including the California Nurses Association and Planned Parenthood, are unconvinced. As an editorial in the Los Angeles Times argued: "It"s nice to think that all girls feel comfortable talking to their parents about sex, birth control and abortion. Nice, but absurd." Equally absurd, add other opponents, is the notion that a pregnant teenager from an abusive family will have the gumption to go to court—rather than to some backstreet operator—to seek her abortion. And they suspect the proposition is the start of an effort to ban ah abortions: instead of speaking of a fetus, the proposition defines abortion as causing the "death of the unborn child". Just how parental notification would affect the rate of teen pregnancies and abortions is an open question. Some 34 states require some parental involvement in a minor"s decision to end a pregnancy, but there is no hard-and-fast correlation with the number of abortions. For example, New Mexico and New Hampshire require no parental notification, but according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, they ranked 18th and 25th in the rate of teen abortions in 2000. By contrast, Wyoming and Florida, which do have notification laws, ranked 14th and 7th. And even if notification laws deter abortions, they do not seem to deter teen pregnancies: Texas, for example, is ranked 26th in abortions for girls aged 15-19 but fifth in pregnancies for that age group. This last statistic matters for California, where the main problem is teens getting pregnant in the first place. Roughly a quarter of California"s 14-year-olds and three-fifths of its 17-year-olds have had sex True, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, birth rates fell from 73 tor every 1,00015-19-year-olds in 1991 to just 44 in 2001. But California"s teenage girls become mothers at between 4 and 12 times the rate of their peers in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan; the figures for blacks and Latinas in the state are particularly appalling. Whatever your views on abortion, these statistics add up to an awful lot of heartache.

单选题Developing countries — where the costs of labor and raw materials are low — will continue to ______ the advanced nations in the production not only of basic industrial goods, but relatively sophisticated products, ranging from consumer electronics to automobiles.

单选题______we wish him prosperous, we have objections to his ways of obtaining wealth.

单选题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. There are countries where the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by setting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in favor of violence — as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed, the suffering mean nothing. No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us. The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution. Our strength is sapped by having to mop up the mess that violence leaves in its wake. In a well-directed effort, it would not be impossible to fulfill the ideals of a stable social program. The benefits that can be derived from constructive solutions are everywhere apparent in the world around us. Genuine and lasting solutions are always possible, providing we work within the framework of the law. Before we can even begin to contemplate peaceful co-existence between the races, we must appreciate each other's problems. And to do this, we must learn about them: it is a simple exercise in communication, in exchanging information. "Talk, talk, talk," the advocates of violence say, "all you ever do is talk, and we are none the wiser." It's rather like the story of the famous barrister who painstakingly explained his case to the judge. After listening to a lengthy argument the judge complained that after all this talk, he was none the wiser. "Possible, my lord," the barrister replied, "none the wiser, but surely far better informed." Knowledge is the necessary prerequisite to wisdom: the knowledge that violence creates the evils it pretends to solve.

单选题After the Arab state won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys ______ to go to school.

单选题What a sad sight, with all the shops ______ and the people gone.

单选题______ we would like to close the business with you, we find your bid unacceptable.

单选题The______on this apartment expires in a year's time.

单选题A brilliant writer can ______ a whole scene effortlessly.

单选题The terrified hunter, ______ in the arms of a huge bear, fought desperately to loosen its grip.

单选题The committee members resented ______ them of the meeting.

单选题In spite of the increasing ______ of their opinions, the group knew they had to arrive at a consensus so that the award could be presented.

单选题Published in 1957, John Cheever"s first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, earned______the National Book Award.

单选题The company is reported to have______of nearly $ 90, 000.

单选题I had never seen so many people with so many disabilities. I returned home, silently ______. thinking how fortunate we really were.

单选题Galena, the chief ore of lead, is a brittle mineral with a metallic luster.

单选题______ an answer, they decided to send an express telegram to them.

单选题______ the boys say, it is unreasonable to ask me to work overtime without pay.

单选题He possessed a(n) ______ intelligence that put him in company with the greatest social thinkers of the day.

单选题The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important ______ for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.