| Last week 29 earnest American high
school students were invited to an evening of receiving good words, small talk,
warm toasts and fancy silverware. "Find out something about the person sitting next to you," advised former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. "Eventually, you’ll discover they always have something interesting to say. And you should always use the proper silverware in the proper order. " Albright was the guest of honor at the imitated Official Dinner, which was a lot like a real official dinner in Washington minus the soft money. The evening was sponsored by the St. Albans School of Public Services to introduce its first class to the fine art of social survival. More than 84 guests, including students, teachers, school donors and speakers, gathered to replicate the lifestyle of the rich A. to see the life style of the rich and political B. to discuss international and public policy issues C. to learn to survive in different social situations D. to learn to become the future leaders of the White House [单项选择]
A. He met the woman’s friend in the street. B. He heard from their friend. C. He met their friend in the street. D. He telephoned the woman’ s friend. [单项选择]Last year Mary earned ______ her brother, who has a better position.
A. twice as much as B. twice more than C. twice as many as D. twice as more as [单项选择]Last week oil prices finally stopped rising. They now hover around $43 a barrel, a 20-year high. The average American family will spend about $2,700 on gasoline this year (driving 22,000 miles). That’s twice as much as it spent on gas two years ago. These prices are having a predictable consequence. The consumer price index has risen by 4.9 percent to date, versus 1.9 percent last year. And last week President Bush’s economic adviser, Gregory Mankiw, acknowledged that a $10 rise in the price of oil probably translates into a half-percentage-point drag on economic growth. For countries like Japan, China and India, the effect is even greater. How did this happen And can Washington—or anybody—to much about it
The answer that flashed on our television screens is instability in the Middle East. Pipeline explosions in Iraq, tensions with Iran and terror attacks in Saudi Arabia all contribute to what analysts call the "security premium" on the price of oil. But that premium might be A. Pipeline explosion in Iraq. B. Tensions with Iran. C. Terror attacks in Saudi Arabia. D. A massive increase in deman [单项选择]
The Choice Myth Last week, The Washington Post ran a front-page story that said most stay-at-home moms aren’t SUV-driving, daily yoga-doing, latte-drinking white, upper-middle-class women who choose to leave their high-powered careers to answer the call to motherhood. Instead, they are disproportionately low-income, non-college educated, young and foreign-born; in other words, they are women whose horizons are greatly limited and for whom the cost of child care, very often, makes work not a workable choice at all. These findings, drawn from a new report by the Census Bureau, really ought to lead us to reframe our public conversations about who mothers are and why they do what they do. It should lead us away from all the moralistic bombast(大话) about mothers’ "choices" and "priorities". It should get us thinking less about choice, in fact, and make us focus more on the objective conditions that drive women’s lives. And they should A. more housework to do B. cultural conflict C. the demanding child-rearing D. their confined employment 我来回答: 提交
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