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When she retired she did a lot of（）work for the Red Cross.
A . valid
B . portable
C . prosperous
D . voluntary
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when eduar tried open the coming attractions view. he got the following error message: incorrect data type for operator or @function: text expected. What did he do to cause this to happen?（）
A . entered text in a number field
B . neglected to place a formula in a validation event
C . neglected to place a formula in a translation event
D . combined a text field and a time field in formula
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Why did CK refuse to buy his kids cell phones?
A . He didn‘t like cell phones at all and thought they were poisonous, especially, for kids.
B . He believed that cell phones were ruining kids‘ abilities to experience their own lives.
C . He worried that his kids would play their phones in class and be absent-minded.
D . He was a different kind of father who would like to raise his kids in a different way.
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How did the audiences react when Waiting for Godot was performed in Europe in the 1950s?
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On Forrest’s first day to go to school, why did other kids refuse to offer a seat to Forrest?
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There were lots of kids in my __________ when I was growing up.
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What is appropriate for slightly older kids according to the speaker
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When did Ernest Hemingway awarded Nobel Prize for literature?
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When Forrest Gump was bullied by local kids, what did he do?
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When preparing for a debate speech, we should base our arguments on our personal experience and assumptions. _____
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原文:孩子是上天送给成人的天使;宠物是成人送给孩子的天使。译文:For the adults, kids are the angels sent by God. For the kids, pets are the angels given by the adults.
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原文:Even when we turn off the beside lamp and are fast asleep, electricity is working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms air-conditioned.译文:即使我们关掉床头灯睡觉,电仍然在为我们工作,如启动电冰箱,把水加热,或让室内空调持续开着。
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When we were little kids, we always thought it was interesting to see Mr. White help others _____ ( 拔掉 ) their teeth.
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When did David Copperfield publish?
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Our monitor______a qualification for an Olympic torch carrier when the reporters came to interview him.
A．scarcely gained
B．would scarcely gain
C．had scarcely gained
D．was scarcely gaining
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How did Freling feel when he first planned solar chip irrigation systems for Benin？
A. He was optimistic about the future.
B. He was very excited about the prospect.
C. He didn't know whether it would be feasible or not.
D. He was only worried that the technology was not economical yet.
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How did the brothers get along with each other as kids？
A．They scarcely talked to each other.
B．They often fought each other.
C．They could hardly separate.
D．They tried to stay away from each other.
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When did she arrive？
A．7:45.
B．7:15.
C．0.34375
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After watching my mother deal with our family of five, I can't understand why her answer to the question, "What do you do？" is always, "Oh, I'm just a housewife." JUST a housewife？ Anyone who spends most of her time in meal preparation and clean-up, washing and drying clothes, keeping the house clean, leading a scout troop, playing taxi driver to us kids when it's time for school, music lessons or the dentist, doing volunteer work for her favorite charity, and making sure that all our family needs are met is not JUST a housewife, She's the real Wonder Woman.
Why is it that so many mothers like mine think of themselves as second-class or something similar？ Where has this notion come from？ Have we males made them feel this way？ Has our society made "going to work" outside the home seem more important than what a house wife must face each day？
I would be very curious to see what would happen if a housewife went on strike. Dishes would pile up. Food in the house would run out. No meals would appear on the table. There would be no clean clothes when needed. High boots would be required just to make it through the house scattered with garbage. Walking and bus riding would increase. Those scout troops would have to break up. Charities would suffer.
I doubt if the man of the house would be able to take over. Oh, he might start out with the attitude that he can do just as good a job, but how long would that last？ Not long, once he had to come home each night after work to more household duties. There would be no more coming home to a prepared meal; he'd have to fix it himself. The kids would all be screaming for something to eat, clean clothes and more bus fare money. Once he quieted the kids, he'd have to clean the house, go shopping, make sure that kids got a bath, and fix lunches for the next day. Once the kids were down for the night, he might be able to crawl into an unmade bed and, try to read the morning newspaper.
No, I don't think many males are going to volunteer for the job. I know I don't want it. So, thanks, mom! I'll do what I can to create a national holiday for housewives. It could be appropriately called Wonder Woman Day.
By what means do the children of the author's family go to school？
A．They take school bus.
B．They take a taxi.
C．Their mother drives for them.
D．Scout troop sends them to school.
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In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fighters. We're pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. We say our motives are selfless and sensible. A degree from Stanford or Princeton is the ticket for life. If Aaron and Nicole don't get in, they're forever doomed. Gosh, we're delusional.
I've twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. It's the one-upmanship among parents. We see our kids' college rating as medals proving how well or how poorly we've raised them. But we can't acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So we've contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn't matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.
Admissions anxiety afflicts only a minority of parents. It's true that getting into college has generally become tougher because the number of high-school graduates has grown. From 1994 to 2006, the increase is 28 percent. Still, 64 percent of freshmen attend schools where acceptance rates exceed 70 percent, and the application surge at elite schools dwarfs population growth. Take Yale. In 1994, it accepted 18.9 percent of 12,991 applicants; this year it admitted only 8.6 percent of 21,000.
We have a full-blown prestige panic; we worry that there won't be enough medals to go around. Fearful parents prod their children to apply to more schools than ever. "The epicenters (of parental anxiety) used to be on the coasts, Boston, New York, Washington, Los Angeles", says Tom Parker, Amherst's admissions dean. "But it's radiated throughout the country".
Underlying the hysteria is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All that's plausible and mostly wrong. "We haven't found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters", says Ernest T. Pascarella of the University of Iowa, co author of "How College Affects Students", an 827-page evaluation of hundreds of studies of the college experience. Selective schools don't systematically employ better instructional approaches than less-selective schools, according to a study by Pascarella and George Kuh of Indiana University. Some do; some don't. On two measures professors' feedback and the number of essay exams selective schools do slightly worse.
In the author's eyes, parents pushing their kids to an elite degree are ______.
A．aggressive
B．misguided
C．reasonable
D．failing
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A few years ago it was common to speak of a generation gap between young people and their elders.Parents said that children did not respect and listen to them, while children said that their parents did not understand them at all.What had gone wrong？ Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared？ Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time.Many people argue that it is built into every part of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own ways of life.In a more traditional society, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and like, and often to continue the family jobs.In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose jobs different from those of their parents.
In our society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did, to find better jobs, to make more money and to do all the things that they were unable to do.Often, that is another cause of the gap between them.Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other.
Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is the third cause of the gap between the generations.In a traditional culture, senior people are valued for their knowledge, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become out of date.The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.No doubt, the generation gap will continue in American life for some time to come.
1.The first paragraph tells us that ______.
A、the problem of the generation gap draws much attention from people
B、it is out of date to talk about the generation gap
C、children and parents are trying to understand each other
D、it is very important for people to frequently communicate with each other
2.In a more traditional society, old people_______.
A、have their children respect and listen to them
B、do not care for their children at all
C、expect their children to rebel against them
D、do not live together with their children
3.In American society young people________.
A、do not need to find jobs
B、leave home at an early age
C、have better education than their parents
D、marry people younger than them
4.Which of the following is NOT the cause of the generation gap______.
A、Young people like to depend more on themselves.
B、Parents do not love their children dearly.
C、American society changes rapidly.
D、Parents expect too much of their children.
5.The main idea of the passage is ________.
A、that the generation gap needs considering
B、when the generation gap is necessary in American society
C、why the generation gap exist
D、how we can reduce the generation gap
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“WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her hou
A．Miss Emily was respected in the town
B．Miss Emily was considered as a symbol of the former southern aristocrats
C．Miss Emily was a fallen monument
D．The women were curious about Emily’s old man-servant
此题为多项选择题。
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Why did the father keep digging for his son even when other parents told him to give up？
A．Because his only son was right there under the ruins．
B．Because he heard his son crying for help right under the ruins．
C．Because he remembered the promise he had made to his son．
D．Because his son promised to be with him forever．
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These kids each had three cookies, and when they went out, hardly ____ cookies were left.
A.any
B.some
C.ever
D.few
