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Lately social scientists
have begun to ask if culture is found just in humans, or if some animals have a
culture too. When we speak of culture, we mean a way of life a group of people
have in common. Culture includes the beliefs and attitudes we learn.
It is the patterns of behaviour that help people to live together. It is
also the patterns of behaviour that make one group of people different from
another group.
Our culture Lets us make up for having lost our
strength, claws, long teeth, and other defenses. Instead, we use tools,
cooperate with one another, and communicate with language. But these aspects of
human behaviour, or "culture", can also be found in the lives of certain
animals. Animals Can Make Tools
We used to think that the
ability to use tools was the dividing line between human beings and other
animals. Lately, however, we have found that this is not the case. Chimpanzees
can not onl
A. Tool making.
B. Cooperation.
C. Recreation.
D. Communication.
[填空题]Great changes in a country’’s social structure have always caused stresses.
A. A．一个国家社会阶层的重大变化总会带来压力。
B．一个国家社会结构的压力总引起巨大的变化。
C．一个国家社会结构的巨变总会导致紧张状态。
D．一个国家社会阶层的重大变化总是很突然的。
[填空题]Australian schools and social institutions may have contributed to the problem of suicide among boys by focusing on giving girls more opportunities while leaving boys on their own.
[单项选择]With the population explosion, scientists will have to（）new methods of increasing the world’s food supply.
A. come up with
B. carry out
C. lead to
D. stick to
[填空题]With the help of computer programs, scientists have predicted that the earth will continue to get warmer in the future.
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B. don’t refer to
C. not refer to
D. doesn’t refer to
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| As regards social conventions, we must
say a word about the English class system. This is an embarrassing subject for
English people, and one they tend to be ashamed of, though during the present
century class-consciousness has grown less and less. But it still exists.
Broadly speaking, it means there are two classes, the "middle class" and the
"working class" (We shall ignore for a moment the old "upper class", since it is
extremely small in numbers; but some of its members have the right to sit in the
House of Lords, and some newspapers take a surprising interest in their private
life.) The middle class consists chiefly of businessmen and professional people
of all kinds. The working class consists chiefly of manual and unskilled
workers. The most obvious difference between them is in their
accent. Middle-class people use slightly varying kinds of "received
pronunciation" which is the kind of English spoken by BBC announcers and taught
to overseas pupils. Typical working-class people speak in many different local
accents which are generally felt to be rather ugly and uneducated. One of the
biggest barriers of social equality in England is the two-class education
system. To have been to a so-called "public school" immediately marks you out as
one of the middle class. The middle classes tend to live a more formal life.
Their midday meal is "lunch" and they have a rather formal evening meal called
"dinner", whereas the working man’s dinner, if his working hours permit, is at
midday, and his smaller, late-evening meal is called supper. It
has been government policy to reduce class distinctions. Working-class students
commonly receive a university education and enter the professions, and
working-class incomes have grown so much recently. However, regardless of one’s
social status, certain standards of politeness are expected of everybody, and a
well-bred person is polite to everyone he meets, and treats a laborer with the
same respect he gives an important businessman. Servility inspires both
embarrassment and dislike. Even the word "sir", except in school and in certain
occupations (e.g. commerce, the army etc.) sounds too servile to be commonly
used. |
The "upper class" in England today______.
A. are extremely small in number so that media pays no attention to them
B. still uses old words like "sir" in their everyday life
C. can sits in the House of Lords
D. refers only to the royal family
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The number of scientists
and engineers going to America to study and work is dropping precipitously. An
important reason is the length of time it now takes to get a visa. This is both
deterring would-be visitors from coming, and hindering some of those who try.
Not only may this lead to a decline in America’s scientific strength, it
is also an undeserved obstacle for many students.
Things are
getting a little better--delays in visa processing, according to both America’s
State Department and academic observers, are shorter than a year ago. And only a
small percentage of student-visa applications are held up for extremely long
periods. Nonetheless, since the summer of 2003, applicants for student visas
have been required to appear at an American consulate for an interview. Because
consular staffs have not been expanded, this has led to delays of several weeks
in order to sit for an interview that often lasts
A. prove that foreign experts are important for the U. S.
B. prove visa system used to be more effective in the past
C. show that visa system was not really necessary in the past
D. explain that countries have always been competing for professions
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“There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman,a Nobel prize-winning economist “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” But even if you accept Fiedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders money,things may not be absolutely clear-cut.New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies –at least when they are prosecuted for corruption.
The largest firms is America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR , according to an estimate by EPG,a consulting firm ,This could add value to their businesses in three ways.First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality.Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes is helps. And third, through a more diffuse “halo
A. more effective.
B. less controversial.
C. less severe.
D. more lasting.
