复合题Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better educated; they have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders. Events which the older generation remembers vividly are nothing more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer. They don’t like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the young are doing. They are questioning the assumptions of their elders: and disturbing their sense of feeling contended. They doubt that the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds.What they reject more than anything is conformity. Office hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn’t people work best if they were given complete freedom and responsibility? And what about clothing? Who said that all the men in the world should wear dull gray suits and convict haircuts? If we turn our minds to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means?Why have the older generation so often used violence to solve their problems? Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives; so obsessed with mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more material possessions? Can anything be right with the rat-race? Haven’t the old lost touch with all that is important in life?These are not questions the older generation can shrug off lightly. Their record over the past forty years or so hasn’t been exactly spotless. Traditionally, the young have turned to the older for guidance. Today, the situation might be reversed. The old—if they are prepared to admit it—could learn a thing or two from their children. One of the biggest lessons they could learn is that enjoyment is not sinful. Enjoyment is a principle one could apply to all aspects of life. It is surely not wrong to enjoy your work and enjoy your leisure; to shed restricting inhibitions. It is surely not wrong to live in the present rather than in the past or future. The world is full of uncertainty and tension. This is their glorious heritage. Can we be surprised that they should so often question the sanity of the generation that passed it down?
复合题While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states—at least in getting people off welfare. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994. In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent-twice the national average.For advocates（ 代言人） for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done. “More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better,” says Kathy Lain, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory. “Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin（ 毒素） that was poisoning the family,” says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. “The reform is changing the moral climate in low income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic（ 道德观） , which is much more important.”Mr. Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.
复合题Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C., and D. You should decide on the best choice and
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复合题Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 2A few years ago, it was fashionable
复合题The heritage of English law brought with it the seeds of American liberty-not the flower and the fruit, which were to be produced after long labor and painful struggle.Nevertheless, the seeds were there and they sprouted, took root and have continued to grow. To this extent, the inheritance was valuable, but it is not to be denied that even though English law gave us the seeds of liberty, it also imposed upon us a vast amount of useless lumber that we have not swept away entirely—after three hundred years of unceasing effort. Even the system of trial by jury, in spite of its enormous value, came to us with burdensome, outworn ideas and unnecessary precautions, on the one hand, and with no adequate means of adaptation to changing conditions, on the other. For one thing, in the early days it was assumed that ignorance of the facts was a guarantee of a juror’s impartiality. At that time, when means of communication were few and slow, there was something to be said for the idea; but today, when means of communication were abundant and almost instantaneous, ignorance of the facts is evidence, not of impartiality, but of extraordinary stupidity, or of extraordinary indifference. The rule that a juror must be ignorant of the facts is, therefore, a rule that operates against, not for the effort to fill the jury box with honest men of ordinary intelligence. It has become so hopeless, indeed, that the courts literally ceased long ago trying to enforce it. It is, nevertheless, still a theoretical part of the system.
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复合题“Smiles are as important as sound bites on television,” insists producer and media coach Heidi Berenson, who has worked with many of Washington’s most famous faces. “And women have always been better at understanding this than men. But the smile I’m talking about is not a cutesy smile. It’s an authoritative smile, a genuine smile. Properly timed, it’s tremendously powerful.”To limit a woman to one expression is like editing down an orchestra to one instrument. And the search for more authentic means of expression isn’t easy in a culture in which women are still expected to be magnanimous smilers, helpmates in crisis, and curators of everybody else’s morale. But change is already floating in the high winds. We see a boon in assertive female comedians who are proving that women can dish out smiles, not just wear them. Actress Demi Moore has stated that she doesn’t like to take smiling roles. Nike is running ads that show unsmiling women athletes sweating, reaching, and pushing themselves. These women aren’t overly concerned with issues of rapport; they’re not being “nice” girls—they’re working out.If a woman’s smile were truly her own, to be smiled or not, according to how the woman felt, rather than according to what someone else needed, she would smile more spontaneously, without ulterior, hidden motives. As Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in The Journal of My Other Self, “Her smile was not meant to be seen by anyone and served its whole purpose in being smiled.”That smile is my long-term aim. In the meantime, I hope to stabilize on the smile continuum somewhere between the eliciting grin of Farrah Fawcett and the haughty smirk of Jeane Kirkpatrick.
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复合题Direction:Readthepassagecarefully,andfillineachblankwiththewordsgivenbelow.Youcan’tuseanywordtwice.ONNOV8AND9,anationalpoliceconferenceonurbantrafficmanagementwasheldinShanghai,accordingtowhichthe【A1】______willputtrafficviolations,especiallyseriousillegalconductsandaccidents,inthecreditrecordsofthedrivers.Thedriversthatcausemajoraccidents,【A2】______thoseinvolvingcasualties,facecriminalchargesorotherdeserved【A3】______,butthepenaltiesforillegalbehaviorthatispotentiallydangerousbuthasnotcausedanaccident,suchas【A4】______aredlight,arefarfromenoughasdriversonlygetafineanddecreasingpointsontheir【A5】______,whichfailstocurbtheirbad【A6】______habits.That’swhythenewmeasure,namelylisting【A7】______drivingconductsintodrivers’【A8】______records,isawelcome【A9】______.Itwillhelpeffectively【A10】______peoplefrombreakingthelaw.Withthe【A11】______ofthisnewmeasure,peopleareexpectedtobemorecareful【A12】______driving.Somecitieshavealreadyadopteda【A13】______policy,namelyraisingtheinsuranceforthosewhohavebeencaught【A14】______therulesoftheroad.Thathasprovedsuccessfulbecausethedatashowadecreaseinthe【A15】______ofdriverscaughtrunningredlightsandbreakingthe【A16】______rules.Ofcourse,citizens’rightsmustbetakeninto【A17】______whenimplementingthepolicyincludingdriving【A18】______ontheircreditrecords.Driversshouldbeabletoappeal,andthepowertoeditpeople’screditrecordsshouldbetransparenttoensureitisnotabused.Onlytheruleoflawcangovernmodernsocietywell,andcreditrecordsbestservethat【A19】______.Thenewmeasureisthereforewelcomeandwehopeitcanbe【A20】______smoothlyandeffectively.
复合题Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then write down t
复合题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of thei
复合题Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.Text 4Every British citizen who is empl
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复合题Do you know that all human beings have a “comfortable zone” regulating the distance they stand from someone when they talk? This distance varies in interesting ways among people of different cultures.Greeks, others of the Eastern Mediterranean, and many of those from South America normally stand close together when they talk, often moving their faces even closer as they warm up in a conversation. North Americans find this awkward and often back away a few inches. Studies have found that they tend to feel most comfortable at about 21 inches apart. In much of Asia and Africa, there is even more space between two speakers in conversation. This greater space subtly lends an air of dignity and respect. This matter of space is nearly always unconscious, but it is interesting to observe.This difference applies also to the closeness with which people sit together, the extent which they lean over one another in conversation, how they move as they argue, or make an emphatic point. In the United States, for example, people try to keep their bodies apart even in a crowded elevator; in Paris they take it as it comes!Although North Americans have a relatively wide “comfortable zone” for talking, they communicate a great deal with their hands—not only with gestures but also with touch. They put a sympathetic hand on a person’s shoulder to demonstrate warmth of feeling or an arm around him in sympathy; they nudge a man in the ribs to emphasize a funny story; they pat an arm in reassurance or stroke a child’s head in affection; they readily take someone’s arm to help him across a street or direct him along an unfamiliar route. To many people—especially those from Asia or the Moslem countries—such bodily contact is unwelcome, especially if inadvertently done with the left hand. (The left hand carries no special significance in the U. S. Many Americans are simply left handed and use that hand more.)
复合题OlympicGamesareheldeveryfouryearsatadifferentsite,inwhichathletes【A1】_____differentnationscompeteagainsteachotherina【A2】_____ofsports.TherearetwotypesofOlympics,theSummerOlympicsandtheWinterOlympics.Inorderto【A3】_____theOlympics,acitymustsubmitaproposaltotheinternationalOlympiccommittee(IOC).Afterallproposalshavebeen【A4】_____,theIOCvotes.Ifonecityissuccessfulingainingamajorityinthefirstvote,thecitywiththefewestvotesiseliminated,andvotingcontinueswith【A5】_____rounds,untilamajoritywinnerisdetermined.TypicallytheGamesareawardedseveralyearsinadvance,【A6】_____thewinningcitytimetopreparefortheGames.Inselectingthe【A7】_____oftheOlympicGames,theIOCconsidersanumberoffactors,chiefamongthemwhichcityhas,orpromisestobuild,thebestfacilities,andwhichorganizingcommitteeseemsmostlikelyto【A8】_____theGameseffectively.TheIOCalso【A9】_____whichpartsoftheworldhavenotyethostedtheGames.【A10】_____,Tokyo,Japan,thehostofthe1964SummerGames,andMexicocity,Mexico,thehostofthe1968SummerGames,werechosen【A11】_____topopularizetheOlympicmovementInAsiaandinLatinAmerica.【A12】_____thegrowingimportanceoftelevisionworldwide,theIOCinrecentyearshasalsotakeninto【A13】_____thehostcity’stimezone.【A14】_____theGamestakeplaceintheUnitedStatesorCanada,forexample,Americantelevisionnetworksarewillingtopay【A15】_____higheramountsfortelevisionrightsbecausetheycanbroadcastpopularevents【A16】_____inprimeviewinghours.【A17】_____theGameshavebeenawarded,itistheresponsibilityofthelocalorganizingcommitteetofinancethem.ThisisoftendonewithaportionoftheOlympictelevision【A18】_____andwithcorporatesponsorships,ticketsales,andothersmallerrevenuesources.Inmany【A19】_____thereisalsodirectgovernmentsupport.AlthoughmanycitieshaveachievedafinancialprofitbyhostingtheGames,theOlympicscanbefinancially【A20】_____.WhentherevenuesfromtheGameswerelessthanexpectedthecitywasleftwithlargedebts.
复合题Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET.The value which society plac
复合题Directions: For passages 1 to 4, each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Decide on the best choice and