[简答题]John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high.

[简答题]John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high.

[单项选择]Many A decade ago, at a time when plaices like Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea were being largely ignored by the petroleum world majors in favor of proven mega-sources like Nigeria and Angola--and when their drilling sites could thus be leased for a relative song--Joe Bruso helped put these states back on the map. Bruso was part of a small team working for United Meridian Corp. (later acquired by Ocean Energy) that helped discover and develop the big Zafiro field off Equatorial Guinea. The impact for that country of half a million people, Bruso said in a phone interview from Houston, "has been extraordinary", it was not uninteresting for United Meridian either. Meantime, Ivory Coast, where Bruso and his partner, Coy H. Squyres, discovered the Panthere gas condensate and Lion oil fields, went within a few years from being a net energy importer to a net exporter, and from being an overlooked bit of West African real estate to a place where "you just can’t get acreage" for drilling.

A. New finds in West Africa set off an offshore land rush.
B. Bruso helped the development of West African oil.
C. Full-fledged makeover of the U.S. strategic relationship with Africa is badly needed.
D. West Africa’s petroleum potential: a classic win-win situation.

[单项选择]John left home twenty minutes ago. It is usually half an hour’s drive from his home to the office here. So he （　） soon.
A. should have arrived
B. need arrive
C. must have arrived
D. may arrive

[单项选择]Six months ago the World Health Organization recommended that cigarette smoking and the use of plywood and particle board ______ in enclosed areas.
A. be restricted B. should restrict
C. will be restricted D. must be restricted

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Improve Computer-research Skills Like many college students, Jose Juarez carries around a pocket-sized computer that lets him watch movies, surf the Interact and text-message his friends. He’s part of "Generation M"—those born after 1985 who （） up connected to everything from video game to cellphones. "For us, it’s everyday life," said Juarez, 18, a freshman （） California State University at Sacramento (CSUS). （） , educators are now saying that not all Generation M-ers can synthesize the piles of information they’re accessing. "They’re geeky, but they don’t know what to （） with their geekdom. " said Barbara O’Connor, a Sacramento State communications studies professor who has been involved in a nationwide （） to improve students’ computer-research skills. In a recent nationwide test to （） their technological "literacy" their ability to use the Interact to complete class assignments-only 49 perc
A. brought
B. built
C. stood
D. grew

[单项选择]Like many other social problems in contemporary America, the wide gap between men and women in jobs and earnings is often regarded as an （） fact of life.
A. inevitable
B. inferior
C. initiative
D. inherent

[简答题]Like many concepts in social psychology, aggression has many definitions, even many evaluations. (1)Some think of aggression as a great virtue(e, g. "the aggressive businessperson"), while others see aggression. The fact they we do keep the same word anyway suggests that there is a commonality: Both positive and negative aggression serve to enhance the self. (2)The positive version, which we could call assertiveness, is acting in a way that enhances the self, without the implication that we are hurting someone else. The negative version, which we might call violence, focuses more on the" disenchantment of others as a means to the same end. Although the life of animals often seems rather bloody, we must take care not to confuse predation--the hunting and killing of other animals for food-with aggression. (3)Predation in carnivorous species has more in common with grazing in vegetarian species than with aggression between members of the same species. Take a good look