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[单项选择]One of the many upsetting aspects to being in your forties, is hearing people your own age grumbling about "young people" the way we were grumbled about ourselves. Old friends will complain, "Youngsters today have no respect like we did", and I’ll think: "Hang on. I remember the night you set a puma loose in the soft furnishings section of Pricerite’ s. "
There’s also a "radicals" version of this attitude, a strand within the middle-aged who lament how today’s youngsters, "Don’t demonstrate like we did", because "we were always marching against apartheid or for the miners but students these days don’t seem bothered". It would seem natural if they went on: "The bloody youth of today; they’ve no disrespect for authority. In my day you started chanting and if a copper gave you any lip you gave him a clip round the ear, and he didn’ t do it again. We’ve lost those values somehow. "
You feel that even if they did come across a mass student protest they’d sneer. "That isn’t a prope
A. counterattacked the student protest
B. kept quiet and silent
C. decided to give their support
D. withdrawn from the stance of opposition
[填空题]Being tired is one of the classic flu symptoms.
[单项选择]Heat is always being transferred in one way or another, （ ） there is any difference in temperature.
A. since
B. where
C. after
D. as soon as
[单项选择]It hardly needs （ ） that being alive is one of the prerequisites for enjoying the freedom that Americans value so much.
A. to mention
B. mention
C. mentioning
D. being mentioned
[单项选择]Being safe in your everyday life needs knowledge. If you remember the following information, your life will be much safer.
·Always notice the environment around you. You shouldn’t walk alone outside. Make sure where the public phones are. If anything dangerous happens, you can find them easily.
· Your bag should be carried towards the front of your body instead of putting it on your back When a bus is full of people, it is easy enough for a thief to take away the things in the bag on your back.
· If you are followed by someone you don’t know, cross the street and go to the other way, let the person understand that you know he or she is after you. Next, don’t go home at once. You are safer hi the street than you are alone in your home or in a lift(电梯).
· If you have to take a bus to a place far away, try to get to the stop a few minutes earlier before the bus leaves. This stops other people from studying you. On the bus, don’t sit alone. Sit behind the driver
A. Go home alone late at night
B. Don’t get to the bus stop too early.
C. Always notice the environment around you.
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Losing a job or not being able to find one almost always brings unwelcome changes. If you’’ve lost a job, the first feeling is often one of shock. On top of the loss of income, many people find the whole routine of their life is shattered, their contact with other people reduced, their ambitions halted and their identity as a worker removed. There may be good feelings too — it’’s nice to be able to lie in bed in the morning, to spend more time with children, or to have more time to think — a better job may be just around the corner. But, unless a better job does turn up, chances are the days start getting longer and the time becomes harder to fill. Many people pass through periods of difficulty in sleeping and eating. They feel irritable and depressed, often isolated and lonely. Despite all these problems, unemployment can be a chance for a fresh start. You can discover that it provides an opportunity to sort out or rethink what you want from l
A. makes the decision
B. is responsible
C. has the right
D. is confident
