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[简答题]The adoptees grew up to achieve adult weights that were more similar to their biological parents than their adoptive parents, indicating the influence of a person’s genetic makeup in determining body weight.
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For the generation that grew up during the feminist revolution and the rapid social change of the 1960s and 1970s, it at first seemed achievement enough just to "make it" in a man’s world. But coupled with their ambition, today’s women have developed a fierce determination to find new options for being both parent and professional without sacrificing too much to either role or burning themselves out beyond redemption.
Women have done all of the accommodating in terms of time, energy, and personal sacrifice that is humanly possible, and still they have not reached true integration in the workplace. For a complicated set of reasons—many beyond their control—they feel conflict between their careers and their children. All but a rare few quickly dispel the myth that superwoman ever existed.
For many women, profession and family are pitted against one another on a high stakes collis
A. want to achieve a balance between her loyalties to work and family
B. are stronger advocates of gender equality than the older generation
C. do not want to sacrifice anything at all for the desired liberation
D. are getting no nearer to achieving their ambition
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Don Lucas grew up in poverty. His father died when Don was eight. His mother, with three small children and limited education, was on welfare and had no job prospects. She packed the three kids into an old car and set out from Indiana to California where she had obtained a job as a supermarket checker. Don enrolled in a high school in a tough part of town. He describes his town as the spot where drive-by shootings were invented. Few of his classmates ever went to college, and Don did not think about college until his senior year. He had been working from 4 to 9 pm daily at a gas station helping his family to make ends meet.
Don recalled, “One day this great-looking girl walked in. She said she had run out of gas and asked if I could help her. I told her I couldn’t leave the station, but I gave her a gas can. She came back later to return the can, driving her brother’s old car, a classic Ford 3-window coupe.”
Don and the girl, Sally, became friends. Sally planne
A. why Lucas loves Sally
B. how Lucas made old cars useful
C. how Lucas has become successful
D. why Lucas has remained poor all his life
[单项选择]I grew up knowing that I was different, and I hated it. When I started school my classmates made it clear to me how I must look to others: a little girl with an ugly lip. And I was deaf in one ear. I was sure that no one outside my family could love me. Then I entered Mrs. Green’s second-grade class.
Mrs. Green was round and pretty. Everyone loved her. But no one came to love her more than I did. And for a special reason.
The time came for the annual(一年一度的) hearing test given at our school. The "whisper test" required each child to go to the classroom door, turn sideways, close one ear with a finger, while the teacher whispered something from the desk, which the child repeated. Then the same for the other ear. The teacher usually whispered things like "The sky is blue. " or "Do you have new shoes".
My time came. I turned my bad ear toward her, blocking the other just enough to be able to hear. I waited, and then came the words that God had surely put into her
A. The teacher loved the little girl more than anybody else.
B. The teacher loved the little girl while her parents didn’t.
C. The teacher was loved by the little girl only.
D. The teacher was loved by all the children in her class.
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Russian-born Max Weber grew up in New York, studied art there, and then went back to Europe to familiarize himself with contemporary artistic developments, on returning to the United States, Weber worked in the new styles he had discovered in Paris and soon became recognized as a pioneer of American abstract painting. An example of his work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C. is a 1915 painting entitled "Rush Hour, New York. " Using abstract, geometrical forms, Weber has expressed the movement, noise, and vibrancy of the great metropolis. The picture blends elements of two European styles: cub- ism, which shows subjects from a number of different angles of vision at the same time, and futurism, which portrays speed and objects in motion. Forceful lines and spiky forms throughout the composition convey the energy and vitality of the city, Weber expresses the city’s diversity by juxtaposing forms with rounded and angular shapes to suggest specific ele
A. shows an object simultaneously from many viewpoints
B. portrays objects with geometric exactness
C. leaves all human faces blank
D. represents all forms isolated within boxes
