[单项选择]As the children become financially independent of the family, the emphasis on family financial security will shift from protection to saving for the retirement years.（）
A. 因为孩子们已经与家庭脱离了经济关系，家庭经济得到保障，将从以保护为主过渡到为退休生活而储蓄。
B. 由于孩子们在经济上从家庭中独立出来，家庭经济保障的重心将从保护转移到为退休后的生活储蓄。
C. 随着孩子们在经济上从家庭中脱离出来，家里的财政安全主要靠退休工资，而不是保护措施。
D. 因为孩子们已经不负担家庭，家里在经济上主要靠退休工资，而不只是保护老人。

[单项选择]Which film is for children


A. THE WILD(U)
B. RENT(2)
C. both A and B

[单项选择]Targeting children for advertising is controversial because children ______.


A. are unable to analyze and judge advertisements
B. are unable to give consent since they are too young
C. often give off information that may be dangerous to them
D. are not ready to evaluate advertisements or information requests

[单项选择]The rebels have become notorious for


A. controlling the diamond - mining area
B. killing thousands of civilians
C. maiming thousands of civilians
D. both B and C

[单项选择]Why does further study become indispensable


A. People want to do more jobs.
B. People want to attain this extraordinary level of education.
C. People would not rest on the past achievements.
D. What we know becomes obsolet

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Fiercely independent, 90 year-old Vincenzia Rinaldi wouldn’t consider a home health aide or nursing home. So Louis Critelli, her nephew had to coax the widowed homemaker into assisted living, the nation’s growing long-term care option for the elderly. For $1, 100 a month, Rinaldi became the reluctant resident of an efficiency unit where she could still simmer her much-loved tomato sauce and where caregivers would make sure she took her pills.
Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident’s prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded.
Neither the state nor Loretto told her nephew about the cause of death. Critelli, thinking his aunt had been properly eared for, only learned of the f
A. nursing home industry will ultimately disappear from the society.
B. 24 hour skilled medical care will come into being in the near future.
C. assisted living is the first choice for many seniors with a good income.
D. serious problems have always accompanied the assisted living units.

[单项选择]Researchers said Monday that having more children will run more risks of developing______.


A. heart disease
B. blood deficiency
C. family or financial problems
D. high levels of fat in blood

[单项选择]Many advertisers defend the targeting of children because ______.


A. no actual sales take place
B. it is up to parents to monitor their children
C. children understand what an advertisement is trying to do
D. children are provided a game in return for the information

[单项选择]Thousands of children nowadays prefer doing their homework to a background of pop-music ______ it in a quite room.
A. rather than doing
B. to doing
C. rather than to do
D. to do

[单项选择]How will UNICEF help the African children


A. Build more schools in Africa.
B. Reduce school fees in Africa.
C. Return them to school.
D. Provide them with food and housin

[单项选择]Why did the famous scientists become successful

[单项选择]Traditional values become more difficult for younger generation to accept because

[单项选择]Social scientists have recently become greatly interested in space because ______.


A. space industrialization will create new markets and more jobs on Earth
B. space exploration will be harmful to man
C. space colonization is near at hand
D. otherwise technologists will catch the opportunity to go to space

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Most children with healthy appetites are ready to eat almost anything that is offered to them and a child’ s rarely dislikes food unless it is badly cooked. The (21) a meal is cooked and served is most important and an attractively served meal will often improve a child’ s appetite. Never ask a child (22) he likes or dislikes a food and never discuss likes and dislikes in front of him or allow (23) else to do so. If the father says he hates fat meat or the mother (24) vegetables in the child’ s hearing he is likely to copy this procedure. Take it (25) granted that he likes everything and he probably will. Nothing healthful should be omitted from the meal because of a supposed dislike. At meal times it is a good (26) to give a child a small portion and let him come back for a second helping rather than give him as (27) as he is likely to all at once. Do not talk too much to the child during meal times, but let him
A. whether
B. what
C. that
D. which