[填空题]The Family Then and Now
　　Things were never easy within the family. But at a time
when the family was oriented toward the production of goods,
which alone made the survival of its members possible there
was an obvious necessity and a rational base for their living (1) _________
and working together. Dire necessity did not permit putting into
question the very existence of the family, despite of the great (2) _________
emotional demands living together made to each of its (3) _________
members.
　　Today the main economic activities of the family are in
the nature of consumption—how productive may be what some (4) _________
of its members do in society. And from an early age on, each
member of the family could survive without its support—since
society at large is ready to provide support. Also, it is quite (5) _________
easy to put the existence of t

[填空题]The Family Then and Now
　　Things were never easy within the family. But at a time
when the family was oriented toward the production of goods,
which alone made the survival of its members possible there
was an obvious necessity and a rational base for their living (1) _________
and working together. Dire necessity did not permit putting into
question the very existence of the family, despite of the great (2) _________
emotional demands living together made to each of its (3) _________
members.
　　Today the main economic activities of the family are in
the nature of consumption—how productive may be what some (4) _________
of its members do in society. And from an early age on, each
member of the family could survive without its support—since
society at large is ready to provide support. Also, it is quite (5) _________
easy to put the existence of t

[单项选择]Things were never easy within the family. But at a time when the family was oriented toward the production of goods, which alone made the survival of its members possible, there was an obvious necessity and a rational basis for their living and working together. Dire necessity did not permit putting into question the very existence of the family, despite the great emotional demands living together made on each of its members.
Today the main economic activities of the family are in the nature of consumption—however productive may be what some of its members do in society. And from an early age on, each member of the family could survive without its support—since society at large is ready to provide support. It is quite easy to put the existence of the family into question. This happens very frequently, not just as families separate, or fail to be formed, but also within families which to all outer appearance are still intact. But once the family needs seriously to justify its exist
A. strong emotional demand
B. necessity of survival
C. blood relationship
D. habits in existence

[单项选择]A man had several sons who were always fighting with each other. Try as he might, he could not get them to live together in peace. He decided to show them how foolish they were. He told them to bring a bundle of sticks. He tied the sticks together. He told each son to break off the bundle across his knee. They all tried and they all failed. Then the father undid the bundle. He handed them the sticks one by one. The boys broke the sticks easily.
"You see, my boys," said the father, "When you are together, you are strong. You are more than a match for your enemies. If you quarrel and separate, you are weak and can be broken./

The sons were always ______.
A. fighting
B. peaceful
C. strong

[简答题]Hackers never were part of the mainstream establishment, but their current reputation as villains of cyberspace is a far cry from the early days when, first and foremost, they were seen as ardent if quirky programmers, capable of near-miraculous, unorthodox feats of machine manipulation. True, their dedication bordered on fanaticism, and their living habits bordered on the unsavory. But the shift in popular perception to hackers as deviants and criminals is important not only because it affects the hackers themselves and the extraordinary culture that has grown around them (fascinating as a subject in its own right), but because it reflects shifts in the development, governance, and meaning of the new information technology. These shifts should be questioned and resisted. They unfairly cast hackers in a disreputable light and, more important, they deny the rest of us a political opportunity. In the early decades- 1960s and 1970s- although hacker antics and political ideology frequ

[单项选择]Freshwater life itself has never come easy in the Middle East. Ever since The Old Testament (旧约全书), God punished man with 40 days and 40 nights of rain. Water supplies here have been dwindling The rainfall only comes in winter and drains quickly through the semiarid land, leaving the soil to hake and to thirst for next November.
The region’s accelerating population, expanding agriculture, industrialization, and higher living standards demand more freshwater. Drought and pollution limit its availability. War and mismanagement waste it. Said Joyce Start of the Global Water Summit Initiative, based in Washington, D.C. "Nations like Israel and Jordan are swiftly sliding into that zone where they are suing all the water resources available to them. They have only 15 to 20 years left before their agriculture, and ultimately their food security, is threatened."
I came here to examine this crisis in the making, to investigate fears that "water wars" are imminent, that water has
A. nations in that region are just fighting for water
B. people there are thirsty for peace instead of water
C. water is no problem as long as there is peace
D. those nations have every reason to fight for water