[单项选择]People's expectations about the future may have more influence on their sense of well- being than their ______state does.
A. current
B. initial
C. modern
D. primitive

[单项选择]People may have different opinions about Karen, but I admire her.（　）, she is a great musician.
A. After all
B. As a result
C. In other words
D. As usual

[单项选择]Future generations may not find the digital material any more because of all of the following EXCEPT______.


A. the out-of-date preservation method
B. the problem concerning intellectual property rights
C. the nature of short-time online existence 9f the digital information
D. the difficulty in storing vast amount of information available online

[单项选择]Within the foreseeable future there may be a major ______ of species, involving from one-third to two-thirds of all the species now in existence.
A. exhaustion
B. exhibition
C. extension
D. extinction

[单项选择]Future generations of physicists may look at the ------- of their former ideas and see in it, not the relics of some extinct creature, but a crude, early, yet wholly ------- version of their more modern theories.


A. mockery … distinct
B. armature … laughable
C. specter … congruous
D. skeleton … recognizable
E. (E) treatment … suspect

[单项选择]Younger people' s expectations of marriage can be described as______.


A. utopian
B. realistic
C. materialistic
D. tragic

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German Chancellor (首相) Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy (遗产) includes many of today’s social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19th century, Germany, along with other European nations, experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing industrialization. Motivated in part by Christian compassion (怜悯) for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to undercut the support of the socialist labor movement, Chancellor Bismarck created the world’s first workers’ compensation law in 1884.
By 1908, the United States was the only industrial nation in the world that lacked workers’ compensation insurance. America’s injured workers could sue for damages in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers. For example, employees bad to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employer negligence and that th
A. to make industrial production safer
B. to speed up the pace of industrialization
C. out of religious and political considerations
D. for fear of losing the support of the socialist labor movement

[单项选择]Most of the computer criminals have been caught mostly because of ______.
A. chance occurrence
B. systematic inspections and security procedures
C. bad luck
D. both A and B

[单项选择]His government may have appeared to have whitewashed its tone, if not its message, over the weekend, in order to ------- public concern.
A. (A) demonstrate
B. (B) mollify
C. (C) proclaim
D. (D) aggravate
E. (E) coerce

[单项选择]What may man find in the future
A. There will be no place the same as our Earth.
B. There will be many places, better than our Earth.
C. There will be some planets which may be suitable for our human being to live.
D. There will be a planet for man to be used as home in the near futur