Demonstrators from all over Italy gathered in a Rome square Saturday for the Family Day rally. They listened to songs like this one whose words evoked the need for children to have both a mother and a father. Married couples with their children raised their voices to protest a proposed law that would give greater rights to unmarried couples, including gays and lesbians. This woman says the family is important because society is based on the ～family and it is a value for everyone, not just Christians. Lay Catholic groups and family associations organized the rally. They stressed the importance of policies that will favor the traditional family unit and family values based on marriage between a man and a woman. Thousands of supporters of the controversial bill organized a counter-rally in Rome’s famed Piazza Navona square. They said Italy would be a more civilized country if it gave rights to unmarried and gay couples. The draft legislation still requires parliamentary approv
A. Married couples.
B. Demonstrators.
C. Children.
D. Family associations.
Demonstrators from all over Italy gathered in a Rome square Saturday for the Family Day rally. They listened to songs like this one whose words evoked the need for children to have both a mother and a father. Married couples with their children raised their voices to protest a proposed law that would give greater rights to unmarried couples, including gays and lesbians. This woman says the family is important because society is based on the ～family and it is a value for everyone, not just Christians. Lay Catholic groups and family associations organized the rally. They stressed the importance of policies that will favor the traditional family unit and family values based on marriage between a man and a woman. Thousands of supporters of the controversial bill organized a counter-rally in Rome’s famed Piazza Navona square. They said Italy would be a more civilized country if it gave rights to unmarried and gay couples. The draft legislation still requires parliamentary approv
A. Married couples.
B. Demonstrators.
C. Children.
D. Family associations.
Genghis Khan was not one to agonize over gender roles. He was into sex and power, and he didn’t mind saying so. "The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him." The emperor once thundered. Genghis Khan conquered two thirds of the known world during the early 13th century and he may have set an all-time record for what biologists call reproductive success. An account written 33 years after his death credited him with 20,000 descendants.
Men’s manners have improved markedly since Genghis Khan’s day. At heart, though, we’re the same animals we were 800 years ago, which is to say we are status seekers. We may talk of equality and fraternity. We may strive for classless societies. But we go right on building hierarchies, and jockeying for status within them. Can we abandon the tendency Probably not. As scientists are now discovering, status seeking is not just a habit or a cultural tradition. It’s a
A. that he is a man who enjoys great victory m possessing land.
B. the astonishing number of his offspring in the world.
C. how cruel and arrogant an emperor can be in the past.
D. males have a long history of craving for power.
During the Olympic Games, people from all over the world come together in peace and friendship. The first Olympic Games that we have (21) of were in Greece in 776 B.C. The games lasted one day. The only (22) in the first thirteen Olympic Games was a race. Men ran the length of the stadium. In 1896 the games were (23) again in Athens, Greece. The Greeks (24) a new stadium for the competition. 311 (25) from thirteen countries (26) in many events. The (27) became national heroes. After 1896, the games were held every four years during the summer in different cities around the (28) . In 1908, in London, England, the first gold (29) were given to winning athletes. The Olympic Winter Games (30) in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Athletes competed in (31) events such as skiing, ice skating and ice hockey. Today the Winter Games take place (32) four years. Until recently, Olympic competit
A. people
B. players
C. teams
D. athletes
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