[填空题]the fact that some companies were the victims of strict government policy

[填空题]the fact that some companies have learnt from the mistakes of others

[单项选择]Despite the fact that they were（）when they married, after 30 years they live together harmoniously.
A. contradictory
B. incompatible
C. contrary
D. compatible

[填空题]Some improvements were made in radio communication during World War Ⅱ.

[填空题]Some of the searchers were the woman’s ______ and fellow students.

[单项选择]Some Tourists were surprised to see a woman driving a huge orange tractor down one of Rome’s main avenues. Italy’s political leaders and some of its male union chiefs are said to have been even more puzzled to see that the tractor was followed by about 200,000 women in a parading procession that took more than three hours to snake through central Rome.
Shouting slogans, waving flags and dancing to drumbeats, the women had come to the capital from all over Italy to demonstrate for "a job for each of us, a different type of job, and also city without violence." So far, action to improve women’s opportunities in employment has been the province of collective industrial bargaining. "But there is a growing awareness that this is not enough," says a researcher on female labor at the government-funded institute for the Development of Professional Training for Workers.
Women, who constitute 52 percent of Italy’s population, today represent only 35 percent of Ital
A. There are more women than men in Italy.
B. In Italy, women are chiefly employed in services.
C. In Italy women are still at disadvantage in employment.
D. In Italy about two-thirds of the jobs are held by men.

[填空题]The paleontologists were puzzled by the fact that the early mammals had high-crowned teeth be cause the grasses at that time were ______.

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Some heartening statistics were reported last year by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute: the mortality rate for breast cancer dropped nearly five percent between 1989 and 1992, the Largest decline since 1950. The numbers were even more dramatic for young women: between 1987 and 1992, the mortality rate plummeted nearly 18 percent among white women younger than 40.
But discouraging news also surfaced: the mortality rate among black women has gone up, and the number of reported breast cancer cases is rising as well. Twenty years ago a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer was one in 12; now it’s one in eight.
Nevertheless, we’re on the verge of a revolution in treating this disease. Researchers now have a clear picture of how a cancer cell becomes a tumor -- and how cells break free from a tumor and glide through the bloodstream to seed a new one in another part of the body. And they better understand how the female hormone estrogen mak
A. The mortality rate for breast cancer dropped.
B. The mortality rate among black women has increased.
C. The number of reported breast cancer cases is rising.
D. A woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is rising.

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Some people were just born to rebel；Charles Darwin was one of them． 21 Nicholas Copernicus，Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates．They were 22 “laterborns”-that is，they had 23 one older sibling-brother or sister-when they were born．
24 ，laterborns are up to 15 times more likely than firstborns to 25 authority and break new 26 ，says Frank J．Sulloway，a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology．
In his book“ Born To Rebel” being 27 this week，Sulloway claims that 28 someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important 29 shaping personality more significant than gender，race，nationality 30 class．
He spent 26 years 31 the lives-and birth orders-of 6，566 historical 32 to reach his conclusions．
A laterborn himself，Sulloway first 33 how birth order affected personality 34 a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University．
A. questionable
B. indifferent
C. traditional
D. revolutionary