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[单项选择]The underclass suffers from relatively high rates of unemployment, alcoholism, drug addiction, illiteracy, juvenile delinquency, and crime. For them, schools have deteriorated, and affordable housing is increasingly difficult to find. Neighborhoods lack adequate police protection, fire services, and shops, as well as hospitals, clinics, and other health-care facilities.
Future prospects are especially bleak for the underclass because they are increasingly unable to compete for jobs. Inner-city residents lack the technical skills needed to obtain most jobs, because fewer than half complete high school. The gap between the skills typically demanded by employers and the training of inner-city residents is getting much larger. In the past, people with limited education could become factory workers or filing clerks, but today these jobs require knowledge of computing and handling electronics. Meanwhile, inner-city residents don’t even have access to the remaining low-skilled jobs, such
A. the revival of some North American and European CBDs
B. the problems facing the development of U.S. downtown areas
C. the moving pattern of the U.S. middle class
D. the possible solutions to the fiscal problems
[单项选择]A. The interest rates are high.
B. The man wants some advice on how to invest.
C. The woman suggests investing money in one place.
D. The woman does not want to help him.
[单项选择]Who suffers from heart disease
A. Mrs. Smith
B. Her father’s family
C. Her family
D. Mr. Smith
[单项选择]The reported mortality rates from contemporary African famines are inaccurate, due partly to the difficulties of collecting such information, but also to international agencies’ tendency to___________ figures in order to emphasize need for support.
A. evaporate
B. exaggerate
C. exemplify
D. exempt
[填空题]Everyone who travels in space suffers from feelings of motion sickness initially.
[填空题]We can tell whether someone suffers from depression or not by ______.
[简答题]Today, the majority of mankind suffers from undernourishment, and in view of the population explosion, this situation is likely to grow worse in the coming decades. (Passage 4)
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Passage 5
What our society suffers from most today is the absence of consensus about what it and life in it ought to be, such consensus cannot be gained from society’s present stage, or from fantasies about what it ought to be. For that the present is too close and too diversified, and the future too uncertain, to make believable claims about it. A consensus in the present hence can be achieved only through a shared understanding of the past, as Homer’s epics informed those who lived centuries later what it meant to be Greek, and by what images and ideals they were to live their lives and organize their societies.
Most societies derive consensus from a long history, a language all their own, a common religion, common ancestry. The myths by which they live are based on all of these. But the United States is a country of immigrants, coming from a great variety of nations. Lately, it has been emphasized that an asocial, narcissistic perso
A. lack of serious disagreement over the organizations of social life
B. non-existence of unanimity on the forms the society should take
C. general denying of its conformity with what it was unexpected to be
D. public negation of the consensus on how to conduct social reforms
[单项选择]What our society suffers from most today is the absence of consensus about what it and life in it ought to be; such consensus cannot be gained from society’s present stage, or from fantasies about what it ought to be. For that the present is too close and too diversified, and the future too uncertain, to make believable claims about it. A consensus in the present hence can be achieved only through a shared understanding of the past, as Homer’s epics informed those who lived centuries later What it meant to be Greek, and by what images and ideals they were to live their lives and organize their societies.
Most societies derive consensus from a long history, a language all their own, a common religion, common ancestry. The myths by which they live are based on all of these. But the United States is a country of immigrants, coming from a great variety of nations. Lately, it has been emphasized that an asocial, narcissistic personality has become characteristic of Americans, and that
A. explore certain ways of making for a consensus.
B. spotlight the role of myths in binding a community.
C. interpret the meaning and purpose of modern life.
D. reverse the decline of social standards and values.
