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[简答题] In some societies people want children for what might be called familial reasons: to extend the family line or the family name, to propitiate the ancestors; to enable the proper functioning of religious rituals involving the family. Such reasons may seem thin in the modern, secularized society but they have been and are powerful indeed in other places.
In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the following category, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage; to hold the husband or occupy the wife; to repair or rejuvenate the marriage; to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way. The point is underlined by its converse: in some societies the failure to bear children (or males) is a threat to the marriage and a ready cause for divorce.
Beyond all that is the profound significance of children to the very institution of the family itself. To many people, husband and wife alone do not seem a
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Some people
might want a "double tall skinny hazelnut decal latte", but Howard Schultz is
not one of them. The chairman and "chief global strategist" of the Starbucks
coffee chain prefers a Sumatra roast with no milk, no sugar and poured from a
French press—the kind of pure coffee, in fact, favored by those coffee snobs who
sneer at Starbucks, not just for its bewildering variety of choice and flavors
(55,000 different drinks, by the company’s count), but for its very
ubiquity—over 10,500 locations around the world, increasing at a rate of five a
day, and often within sight of each other.
Starbucks knows it
cannot ignore its critics. Anti-globalization protesters have occasionally
trashed its coffee shops; posh neighborhoods in San Francisco and London have
resisted the opening of new branches; and the company is a favorite target of
internet critics, on sites like www. ihatestarbucks, com. Mr. Schultz is
wa
[单项选择]Some people want only real flowers on their tables while others like to have （）ones.
A. fashionable
B. synthetic
C. false
D. artificial
[填空题]Even difficult people have some truth in what they say.
[填空题]Some people want to slow down the rate of progress, ______.(但谁也不能阻止时代的前进).
[填空题]Many people wonder why some men want to live on the moon. It is (1) not the kind of place where most men would choose to live. But man has always moved to new areas.
Some scientists hope that continued work will be done on the moon. Many experiments will be done there more (2) . Some large (3) are very easy to do in a place without air. Matter can be heated to very high temperatures without (4) change when it is in such a place. Air, dust, and clouds cannot (5) man’s view of space from the moon. The very high or very low temperatures and low gravity on the moon will be used for many experiments. One very important use of the moon will be to (6) spaceship.
Man might be able to learn much about his own body by living on the moon. He would be living in a habitat that he made for himself. Man would be in control of the (7) of life in which he lives. (8) could be removed from the air in this
