[单项选择]According to the passage, Charlotte Reed quit her job as a securities lawyer because _________.
A. she is tired of her work as a lawyer.
B. she likes pets more.
C. she thinks pet-sitting may be a more promising career.
D. she wants to have more free time.

[单项选择]The author bases the passage on his or her______the nature of technology.
A. keen insight into
B. prejudiced criticism about
C. unrealistic analysis on
D. exaggerated description about

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Passage 5 When I decided to quit my full-time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family". Curiously, some two - and - a - half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "down shifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "having it all" ,preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the page of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much - publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build - up of stress, that abandon
A. Full - time employment is a new international trend.
B. The writer was compelled by circumstances to leave her job.
C. "A lateral move" means stepping out of full -time employment.
D. The writer was only too eager to spend more time with her family.

[单项选择]The passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in ______.
A. different cities in England
B. different countries
C. the same city
D. the some country

[单项选择]The passage implies that the writer and her boyfriend live in
A. England.
B. different countries.
C. the same city.
D. the same country.

[单项选择]This passage is
A. a study of Korean elite and higher education.
B. a comparison of four different religions in Korea.
C. an introduction to a study of religious influence in Korea.
D. a history of religious impact on Korean higher education.

[单项选择]This passage is mainly
A. C．about the synthesizing interesting DN

[单项选择]The passage suggests that
A. computers have not been very helpful in humanities study until recently.
B. computers were widely used in all kinds of literary texts very long ago.
C. computers were invented by International Business Machines Corporation.
D. computers began to be used for literary study as soon as they were invented.

[单项选择]The passage implies that
A. few people attended the funeral.
B. fishing is a secure vocation.
C. the island is densely populated.
D. the house belonged to the deceased.

[单项选择]The passage mainly discusses
A. how lifetime employment works in Japan.
B. what benefits lifetime employment has brought to Japanese workers,
C. what lifetime employment is.
D. how lifetime employment is viewed.

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[单项选择]The passage mainly talks about
A. the intelligent life of other planets
B. the development of intelligent life
C. the reasons why there may be other intelligent life in the universe
D. the history of human exploration of the outer space

[单项选择]The passage is chiefly about