American women usually identify their best friend as someone () they can talk frequently.
A.who
B.as
C.about which
D.with whom
D、with whom
A.who
B.as
C.about which
D.with whom
D、with whom
第1题
Before 1920s, the American women were ______ the right to vote in a large extent.
A、deprived of
B、depriving of
C、persuade of
D、persuading of
第2题
听力原文: Decreasing circulation has been a problem for newspapers for some years. The Internet is just the most recent competitor for people's time.
American media are privately owned. Newspapers get some of their money from renders. But mostly they depend on businesses to buy advertising space in their pages. The larger the circulation, the more a newspaper can charge advertisers. But recently, several newspapers have admitted lying about their number of readers.
The Tribune Company announced that it had overstated sales of two of its papers. These were Newsday and the Spanish-language paper Hoy. The Tribute Company also owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. In July, the Audit Bureau of Circulations punished Newsday and Hoy. The two newspapers will have to report their circulation numbers more often than usual for the next two years.
Recently the Belo Corporation announced it had overstated the circulation of the Dallas Morning News, in Texas. The publisher will repay 23 million dollars to advertisers. It will also provide four million dollars in free advertising. Other publishers that falsely reported their circulations will also be repaying advertisers trillions of dollars.
An Audit Bureau spokeswoman says eases like these recent ones appear to be ram. But the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it would expand its investigation to oilier newspapers.
(33)
A.The decreasing circulation of American newspapers.
B.The investigation on American newspapers.
C.The false circulation reports of American newspapers.
D.The punishment on American newspapers.
第3题
Living alone has become more acceptable in American society.In the past people sometimes think those who lived alone were a little strange.These days,however,several of the most popular TV shows tell the story of men and women who can't meet "the right person" and who plan to be single forever.Many such single people (especially women) feel that they are more free to pursue (追求) their careers (事业) than those who are married.In a way these people are married to their jobs.
1.About 23 million people over the age of 21 were not married in America by 1996.
A.T
B.F
2.Most of men usually get married at the age of 27 in America.
A.T
B.F
3.In the past,people thought it was impossible to live alone.
A.T
B.F
4.Some people in America wouldn't like to get married,because they can't meet "the right person".
A.T
B.F
5.More and more people in the U.S.choose not to marry.
A.T
B.F
第4题
Others, however, refused to change. Now these schools are popular again.
e president of Smith College in Massachusetts says a women’s college permits women to choose classes and activities freely. For example, she says that in a women’s college, a higher percentage of students study mathemat ics than in a college with men and women.
Educational experts say men students in the United States usually speak in class more than women students do. In a women’s college, women feel freer to say what they think. Women’s schools also bring out leadership ca pabilities in many women. Women are represented everywhere. For example, at a women’s college every governing office is held by a woman. Recent studies reportedly show that this leadership continues after college. The studies show American women who went to women’s colleges are more likely to hold successful jobs later in life.
41、Women’s colleges were established to().
A.give women the same right to education that men enjoy
B.make changes to traditional educational system
C.defy men’s privilege in the society
D.train women in particular fields
42、Studying at the same school with men does not mean that().
A.women can do the same thing as men
B.women are given the same chance as men
C.women are allowed more freedom to develop themselves
D.the present educational system does not allow other choices
43、According to the passage, in women’s schools().
A.women are much freer than if they study at the same school with men
B.women could do anything they want
C.they teach things peculiar to women
D.men are hated widely
44、Which of the following is NOT true about women’s college?()
A.Women feel freer to say what they think.
B.More women can participate in the management of the college.
C.Women who attend a women’s college are more likely to be successful in their later careers.
D.A very high percentage of women will become leaders later.
第5题
All mothers deserve our support--those who care for children at home and those who have joined the work force. But many working mothers continue to believe that they are shortchanging (少找钱)their children. They shouldn't. Research tells us that kids do just fine when mothers work.
Suzanne Bianchi a scientist of the University of Maryland, has found that mothers today spend as much if not more time with their children than they did in 1965, even though the percentage of mothers who work rose from 35 percent to 71 percent. Then there are the obvious financial benefits. For many children, these earnings are the difference between living in poverty—or out of it.
The kids are all right. Studies conducted by the University of Michigan have consistently demonstrated that a child's social or academic competence does not depend on whether a mother is employed. In my research four out of five children (nine out of ten in single parent families) told me that having a working mother was their preferred arrangement. My study found that children with working mothers are no more likely to drop out, take drugs, break the law, or experiment with sex prematurely than children with non-employed mothers. Children have taken their mothers' example to heart. Ninety percent of the young women I interviewed said they hoped to combine work with motherhood, while two-thirds of the men said they wanted to share parenting and work.
Sadly, children support working mothers more than we do as a society. Parental leave and child-care benefits in the United States remain inadequate, particularly when compared to what's offered in other countries. Children thrive when their mothers have satisfying, well-paid jobs when they can count on other caretakers to share the load. The challenge facing us is thus not whether good workers can also be good mothers, but whether we can create the conditions that enable working mothers and fathers to be good parents.
From the first paragraph, we can see that ______.
A.now more American mothers are working than any time in American history and anywhere else in the world
B.more than half Americans think that before going to school, children need their mothers' whole-hearted care
C.a majority of Americans believe that once working outside home mothers think of their own work more than their children
D.more American mothers work than ever before, but this problem of working mothers has not been solved satisfactorily
第6题
Cigarette Makers See Future (It's in Asia)
—By Philip Shenon
New York Times Service
The Marlboro Man has found greener pastures.
The cigarette-hawking (兜售香烟的) cowboy may be under siege back home in the United States from lawmakers and health advocates determined to put him out of business, but half a world away, in Asia, he is prospering, his craggy (毛糙的) all-American mug slapped up on billboards and flickering across television screens.
And Marlboro cigarettes have never been more popular on the continent that is home to 60 percent of the world's population.
For the world's cigarette-makers, Asia is the future. And it is probably their savior.
Industry critics who hope that the multinational tobacco companies are headed for extinction owe themselves a stroll down the tobacco-scented streets of almost any city in Asia.
Almost everywhere here the air is thick with the swirling gray haze of cigarette smoke, the evidence of a booming Asian growth market that promises vast profits for the tobacco industry and a death toll measured in the tens of millions.
At lunchtime in Seoul, throngs of fashionably dressed young Korean women gather in a fast-food restaurant to enjoy a last cigarette before returning to work, a scene that draws distressed stares from older Koreans who re member a time when it would have been scandalous for women from respectable homes to smoke.
In Hong Kong, China, shoppers flock into the Salem Attitudes boutique (时装商店), picking from among the racks of trendy sports clothes stamped with the logo of Salem cigarettes.
In Phnom Penh(金边), the war-shattered capital of Cambodia, visitors leaving an audience with King Sihanouk are greeted with a giant billboard planted right across the street from his ornate (装饰华丽的) gold-roofed pal ace. It advertises Lucky Strikes.
According to tobacco industry projections cited by the World Health Organization, the Asian cigarette market should grow by more than a third during the 1990s, with much of the bounty going to multinational tobacco giants eager for an alternative to the shrinking market in the United States.
American cigarette sales are expected to decline by about 15 percent by the end of the decade, a reflection of the move to ban public smoking in most of the United States. Sales in Western Europe and other industrialized countries are also expected to drop.
But no matter how bad the news is in the West, the tobacco companies can find comfort in Asia and throughout the Third World, markets so huge and so promising that they make the once all-important American market seem insignificant. Beyond Asia, cigarette consumption is also expected to grow in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and in the nations of the former Soviet Union.
Status appears to matter far more than taste. "There is not a great deal of evidence to suggest that smokers can taste any difference between the more
expensive foreign brands and the indigenous (本地产的) cigarettes," said Simon Chapman, a specialist in community medicine at the University of Sydney. "The difference appears to be in the packaging, the advertising."
He said that researchers had been unable to determine whether the foreign tobacco companies had adjusted the levels of tar, nicotine and other chemicals for cigarettes sold in the Asian market. "The tobacco industry fights tooth and nail to keep consumer
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
第7题
Which of the following is the best tide for the passage?
A.American Soldiers in World War II.
B.American Civil Rights Movement.
C.The Tuskegee Airmen.
D.Racial Discrimination in the U. S.
第9题
She was (sitting up) late, waiting for Pa.
A、working hard
B、sitting in an upright position
C、not going to bed after the usual bedtime
D、being very careful
第10题
Women all over the world are ______ equal pay for equal jobs.
A.calling on
B.calling about
C.calling off
D.calling for