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During the 20th century there was a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle 20s, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was 15, the mother would have been in her early 50s and would expect to live a further 20 years, during which chance and health made it unusual for them to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be 15 when she is 35 and can be expected to live another 35 years and is likely to take paid work until 60.
This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age
A. give up their jobs for good after they are married
B. leave school as soon as they can
C. marry so that they can get a job
D. continue working until they are going to have a baby

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During the 20th century there was a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle 20s, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was 15, the mother would have been in her early 50s and would expect to live a further 20 years, during which chance and health made it unusual for them to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be 15 when she is 35 and can be expected to live another 35 years and is likely to take paid work until 60.
This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age
A. few children died before they were five
B. seven or eight children lived to be more than five
C. the youngest child would be 15
D. many children died before the age of five

[多项选择]During the 20^th century Europe has experienced periods of considerable economic growth and prosperity, and industrial development has proliferated much more widely throughout the continent: but continued economic development in Europe has been handicapped to a large degree by its multi- national character--which has spawned economic rivalries among states and two devastating World wars--as well as by the exhaustion of many of its resources and by increased economic, competition from overseas. Governmental protectionism, which has tended to restrict the potential market for a product to a single country, has deprived many industrial concerns of the efficiencies of large-scale production serving a mass market ( such as is found in the United States). In addition, enterprise efficiency has suffered from government support and from a lack of competition within a national market area. Within individual countries there have been growing tensions between regions that have prospered

[填空题]During the second half of the 20th century academic freedom was recognized broadly in ______.

[单项选择]During the first 70 years of the 20th century, inequality declined and Americans prospered together. Over the last 30 years, by contrast, the United States developed the most unequal distribution of income and wages of any high-income country.
Some analysts see the gulf between the rich and the rest as an incentive for strivers, or as just the way things are. Others see it as having a corrosive effect on people’s faith in the markets and democracy. Still others contend that economic polarization is a root cause of America’s political polarization. Could, and should, something be done
Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, two Harvard economists, think yes. Their book, the Race Between Education and Technology (Harvard, $ 39.95), contain many tables, a few equations and a powerfully told story about how and why the United States became the world’s richest nation--namely, thanks to its schools.
The authors skillfully demonstrate that for more than a century, and at a steady
A. The wage movements in the U.S. are dominated by swings in the demand for education-related skills.
B. The American educational system is what made American the richest nation in the world.
C. Technology raced ahead of education in the first half of the 20th century.
D. American high school graduation rates leveled off at 80 percent in 1970.

[单项选择]During the first decade of the 20th century, ______ became an international tendency.
A. modernism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. pre-modernism

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20th June, 1999
Gentlemen:
I wish to apply for the position advertised in today Herald(《先驱报》). I feel that I am competent to meet the requirements which you have specified.
I am twenty-seven years of age. After graduating from high school I took a two years’ business course in the White Commercial School, one of the best commercial schools in Toledo, studying both bookkeeping and typewriting. Since graduating from business school, I have worked for three years in a lawyer’s office, where I am at present employed.
I now wish to enter an office where the work requires greater judgment than here, and where there is more opportunity for advancement.
I have permission to Mr. John E. White, Principal of the White Commercial School, and Mr James R. McDowell, Principal of the Redbush High School, for statements as to my character and ability.
Yours faithfully,

Where did the applicant see the position advertisement
He r

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20th June,2004
Gentlemen:
I wish to apply for the position advertised in today Herald (《先驱报》). I feel that I am competent to meet the requirements which you have specified. I am twenty-seven years of age. After graduating from high school I took a two years business course in the white commercial school, one of the best commercial schools in Toledo, studying both bookkeeping and typewriting. Since graduating from business school I have worked for three years in a lawyer’s office, where I am at present employed.
I now wish to enter an office where the work requires greater judgment than here, and where there is more opportunity for advancement:,
I have permission to refer to Mr. John E. White, principal of the white commercial school, and MrJames R. McDowell, Principal of the Redbush High School, for statements as to my character and ability.
Yours faithfully,
George H. Swinton

What is the purpose of this

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During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. (76) By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty.
This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually lef
A. plays a greater role in looking after their children
B. helps his wife by doing more housework
C. feels dissatisfied with his role in the family
D. takes a part-time job so that he can help in the home