Many great men have risen from poverty---Lincoln, for example.(英译中)
听力原文: The United States is full of automobiles. There are still many families without cars, blt some families have two or even more. However, cats are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.
Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.
Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile from the school. When the children are too young to walk that far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays, taking her own children and her neighbors' children as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays, and so on. This is called "forming a car pool". Men also form. car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work. More cur pools should be formed in order to put fewer automobiles on the road and to use less gasoline. Parking is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.
(23)
A.To get supplies.
B.To get to their jobs.
C.To carry their products.
D.To enjoy themselves.
听力原文: There are many reasons why family life in Britain has changed so much in the last 50 years. The liberation of women in the early part of the 20th century and social and economic effects of the World War Two had a great impact on traditional family life. Women became essential to industry and the professions. During the war, they had worked in factories and proved their worth. Now, with the loss of millions of men, their services were indispensable to the nation. More recently great advances in scientific knowledge, and particularly in medicine have had enormous social consequences. Children are better cared for and are far healthier. Infant death rate is low. Above all, parents can now plan the size of their family if they wish through more effective means of birth control. Different attitudes to religion, authority and tradition generally have also greatly contributed to changes in family life. But these developments have affected all aspects of society. It is particularly interesting to know that the concept of the family as a social unit has survived all these challenges.
(30)
A.The liberation movement of British women.
B.Rapid economic development in Britain.
C.Changing attitudes to family life.
D.Reasons for changes in family life in Britain.
Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and bring forth a different response from every man who hears these words. Some feel pride when they receive the news, while others worry, wondering whether they will be good father. Although there are some men who like children and may have had considerable experience with them, others do not particularly care for children and spend little time with them. Many fathers and mothers have been planning and looking forward to children for some time. For other couples, pregnancy (怀孕) was an accident that both husband and wife have accepted willingly or unwillingly.
Whatever the reaction to the birth of a child, it is obvious that the shift from the role of husband to that of father is a difficult task. Yet, unfortunately, few attempts have been made to educate fathers in this resocialization process. Although numerous books have been written about American mothers, only recently has literature focused on the role of a father.
It is argued by some writers that the transition to the father’s role, although difficult, is not nearly as great as the transition the wife must make to the mother’s role. The mother’s role seems to require a complete transformation in daily routine (生活规律) and highly innovative (创新的) adaptation, on the other hand, the father’s role is less demanding and immediate. However, even though we mentioned the fact that growing numbers of women are working outside the home, the father is still thought by many as the breadwinner in the household.
第26题:According to the author, being a father ________.
A) brings a feeling of excitement to some men
B) has a different meaning for those who have daughters
C) makes some men feel proud and others uneasy
D) means nothing but more responsibilities
A prince, being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast, must imitate the fox, and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps. And the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent(小心谨慎的) ruler ought not to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interest, and the .reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept (戒律,准则) would not be a good one; but as they are had, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them. Nor have legitimate grounds ever failed a prince who wishes to show colorable excuse for the nonfulfilment of his promise. Of this one could furnish an infinite number of examples, and how many times peace has been broken, and how many promises rendered worthless, by the faithlessness of princes, and those that have best been able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler, and men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that the one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
The word "recourse"(para.1) probably means ______
A.method
B.resort
C.follow
D.change
【T17】
A.STOCKS AND SHARES
B.GET INTO THE STOCK EXCHANGE
C.FROM THE OLD ONE
D.OF TIME A.NEITHER ALLOWED TO BECOME PARTNERS IN STOCKBROKING FIRMS,NOR TO BE AUTHORIZED DEALERS IN【T13】______
B.THE NEW FLOOR IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT【T14】______
C.IT IS ONLY A MATTER【T15】______
D.WOMEN HAVE BEEN TRYING TO【T16】______FOR MANY YEARS THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE HAS BEEN FAMOUS AS A PLACE FOR MEN ONLY, AND WOMEN USED TO BE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO ENTER.BUT THE WORLD IS CHANGING DAY BY DAY, AND EVEN THE STOCK EXCHANGE, WHICH SEEMED TO BE A MEN"S CASTLE, IS GRADUALLY OPENING ITS DOORS TO THE OTHER SEX ON 16 TH NOVEMBER 1971, A GREAT DECISION WAS TAKE
N.THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNCIL (THE BODY OF MEN THAT ADMINISTERS THE STOCK EXCHANGE) DECIDED THAT WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED ONTO THE NEW TRADING FLOOR WHEN IT OPENED IN 1973.BUT THE "CASTLE" HAD NOT BEEN COMPLETELY CONQUERE
D.THE FIRST GIRLS TO WORK IN "THE HOUSE" WERE NOT BROKERS OR JOBBERS.THEY WERE【T17】______.THEY WERE SIMPLY JUNIOR CLERKS AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS. 【T18】______.SEVERAL VOTES HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN "THE HOUSE" TO SEE WHETHER THEMEMBERS WOULD BE WILLING TO ALLOW WOMEN TO BECOME MEMBERS, BUT THE ANSWER HAS ALWAYS BEEN "NO".THERE HAVE BEEN THREE REFUSALS OF THIS KIND SINCE 1967.NOW WOMEN ARE ADMITTED, ALTHOUGH IN A VERY JUNIOR CAPACITY.TWO FORMS OF JOBBERS MADE AN APPLICATION TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNCIL TO BE ALLOWED TO EMPLOY GIRL CLERKS.PERMISSION WAS FINALLY GIVE
N.A MEMBER OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE EXPLAINED AFTER THIS NEWS HAD BEEN GIVEN, "【T19】______.ALL THE JOBBERS WILL HAVE THEIR OWN STANDS, WITH SPACE FOR A TELEPHONE AND TYPEWRITERS , THEREFORE THERE WILL HAVE TO BE TYPISTS AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS.SO WOMEN MUST BE ALLOWED I
N." THIS DECISION DID NOT MEAN A VERY GREAT VICTORY IN THE WAR FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOME
N.HOWEVER, IT WAS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTIO
N.THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW BUILDING WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO WOMEN BEING ALLOWED TO HAVE FULL MEMBERSHIP OF THE STOCK EXCHANG
E.【T20】______; IT MUST HAPPE
N.
Everyone has creative ability to some extent. Creative thinking involves posing oneself a problem and then finding a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves drawing new comparisons, discovering new combinations, and/or new applications of things that are already known.
It follows, then, that a creative person will exhibit great intellectual curiosity and imagination. He will be alert and observant with a great store of information which he will be able to sort out and combine, in the solution of problems. He will be emotionally receptive(善于接受的)to new and unconventional ideas and will be less interested in facts than in their implications. Most important of all, he will be able to communicate freely and will not be too concerned about other people's reaction to his apparently "crazy" ideas. People called the Wright brothers mad but it did not stop them from becoming the first men to construct and fly a heavier-than-air craft.
According to the passage, it is generally believed that ______.
A.only Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Pablo Picasso are creative
B.only successful people are creative
C.only a few people are creative
D.everyone can be creative
Changes of Women's Role
The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, (51) in the last twenty years. The main change has been (52) giving women greater equality with men. Up to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had (53) fights. They could not vote and were kept at home. (54) , as far as we know, most women were happy with this situation. Today, women in Britain certainly (55) more rights than they used to. They were (56) the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal (57) of wealth in the case of divorce, (58) the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year.
Yet (59) these changes, there are still great difference in status between men and women. Many employers seem to (60) the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is (61) to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job. (62) a survey, at present, only one-third of the country's workers are (63) women. This small percentage is partly (64) a shortage of nurseries. If there were (65) nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work.
(51)
A.certainly
B.especially
C.apparently
D.practically
The average untrained native speaker at University of Minnesota______.
A.reads at about 245 w. p. m.
B.reads at 600 w. p. m.
C.reads at about 300 w. p. m.
D.cannot read difficult works in translation