[单项选择]Why are today's older middle-aged and elderly becoming the new winners

[单项选择]Why are today's older middle-aged and elderly becoming the new winners
A. Became they contributed a small portion in tax but enjoy more on the welfare system.
B. Because they contributed a lot in tax and now can claim much on the welfare system.
C. Because they made small contributions, but now can make money easily.
D. Because they outnumber younger generation and enjoy more privileges in the present society.

[单项选择]Why more and more people became interested in becoming computer programmers
A. Because the job is very interesting.
B. Because they can get well paid in this profession.
C. Because it takes no great efforts to learn to do it.
D. Because of the high social status of the professionals.

[单项选择]Compared with other age groups, why should older investors be more cautious about their in vestment

[单项选择]Compared with other age groups, why should older 'investors be more cautious about their in- vestment

[单项选择]Why do so many older people fail to remember what happened a day ago though they can remember what happened years ago
A. Because they are more interested in the past.
B. Because their past experiences are always more impressive than the present ones.
C. Because they have difficulty associating memories with meanings.
D. Because old memories and new memories are kept in different regions.

[单项选择]Older video cards used S-video to output to a TV. This standard has been replaced by:（）
A. FireWire.
B. SCSI.
C. coaxial.
D. HDMI.

[单项选择]A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man-the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
This attitude toward manual (体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously (豪华地)furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.From paragraph 1, we can know that in America （）.
A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man
B. people can always rise to the top through their won efforts
C. college professors win great respect from common workers
D. people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors.

[单项选择]After thirty years of television, people have become "speed watchers". Consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience ______.
A. broadens
B. begins
C. varies
D. flags

[单项选择]What's the biggest fear of older parents according to New York psychologist Joan Galst
A. Approaching of death.
B. Being laughed at by other people.
C. Slowing down of their pace of life.
D. Being mistaken for grandparents.

[单项选择]Why does the author refer to Coolidge's maxim as silly

[单项选择]Why did farmers reject Newbold's plow ( )
A. Their horses were frightened by it.
B. They preferred lighter tools.
C. It was too expensive.
D. They thought it would ruin the land.

[单项选择]One reason why Reebok' s managerial personnel don't like their shoes to be called "footwear for yuppies" is that______.
A. they believe that their shoes are popular with people of different age groups
B. new production lines have been added to produce inexpensive shoes
C. "yuppies" usually evokes a negative image
D. the term makes people think of prohibitive prices

[单项选择]Why computer data become imprecise in 1980s
A. The related programs on the computer were out of date.
B. More and more people drew water directly from the lake for drink.
C. A heavy rain happened around 1980.
D. The irrigation from the source water increases.