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Although I was upset, neither of the women was in the least shaken by what I thought an ______ greeting.
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Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature, ( ) is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people, represented by her novel Mary Barton.
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According to the passage 1, what is the most important reason that men die five years earlier on average than women?
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Find out the incorrect parts and put the corresponding letter after the statement. I think that she can to finish the tasks by herself, for she never relies on others’ assistance.
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“Chrysanthemum” by Steinbeck shows the author’s sympathetic view of the limitation women had to face in the United States at that time.
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That's what I call racing. What’s the meaning of this statement? （ ）
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All of the following statements are the effects of smoking on women EXCEPT that
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Most people agree that the present role of women has already affected US society. ______, it has affected the traditional role of men.
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The passage mentions all of the following as difficulties that self-employed women may encounter EXCEPT ______.
A．discrimination form. consumers and suppliers
B．discrimination from financial institutions
C．problems in obtaining good employees
D．problems in obtaining government assistance
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According to the passage, Leonard asserts that women's activities during the Civil War had all of the following positive effects EXCEPT
A．They were lauded as aiding the war cause.
B．They improved women's economic situation.
C．They were considered proof of women's abilities to organize themselves.
D．They created new occupational opportunities for women.
E．They improved women's images of themselves.
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In the US, poll after poll has shown a majority in favour of animal experimentation, even without statements about its value. Why is opinion in Britain so different？ I think that there are two reasons.
The first is the success of antivivisection campaigners in lampooning animal research as outdated, intentionally cruel, "bad" science, which achieves nothing. All drugs and procedures developed with the help of animal tests are said to be dangerous. The occasional failure of animal testing to identify a dangerous drug is developed as an argument for abandoning safety tests involving animals altogether--with no mention of the terrible human suffering that this would cause. They say that "alternative" methods already exist for all animal experiments, but the fact is that the law specifically forbids animal use if there is any alternative.
The second reason is that scientists and doctors have failed to oppose such misrepresentation. In the early 1990s, animal rights campaigning in the US was met with much more forthright defense, not only by the major scientific societies, funding agencies and medical organizations, but also by the US government.
To be positive, there are many encouraging features of the New Scientist poll. Interestingly, the public seems to employ the same kind of utilitarian philosophy that underpins the law in Britain--weighing potential benefits against the species involved (thus, monkeys are more "valuable" than mice) and the likelihood of suffering.
Clearly, people in Britain do not recognize the essential link between animal research and testing and the medical treatments that they receive. Only 18 percent of those who had taken (or had a close family member who had taken a drug prescribed for a serious illness realized that the drug had been tested on animals, as all drugs are. Obviously, a large majority of those surveyed believe that they can happily benefit from medical treatment without taking advantage of animal research. No wonder so many people oppose it when asked the straight yes/no question.
The views of the public must be respected. But this poll tells us that, while they are open to persuasion, their reaction is based on misunderstanding. The responsibility for providing honest evidence for the public lies not just with those who use animals in their research, but with other scientists who depend on that work. It lies with the doctors who benefit from animal research, with the pharmaceuticals and biotech industries, and the medical charities and funding age, les whose work would be crippled without it. But most of all, responsibility rests with government, which should cultivate serious and transparent debate between those of different opinion, and provide the public--especially young people--with the honest evidence they need and deserve.
In the first sentence of Paragraph 3, "such misrepresentation" refers to ______.
A．the idea that other methods can be substituted for animal research
B．the claim that animal experiment is intentionally cruel
C．the belief that all drugs developed with animal tests are dangerous
D．the fact that scientists and medical organizations support animal experimentation
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One of the good things for men in women's liberation is that men no longer have to pay women the old-fashioned courtesies.
In an article on the new manners, Ms. Holmes says that a perfectly able woman no longer has to act helplessly in public as if she were a model. For example, she doesn't need help getting in and out of cars. "Women get in and out of cars twenty times a day with babies and dogs. Surely they can get out by themselves at night just as easily."
She also says there is no reason why a man should walk on the outside of a woman on the sidewalk. "Historically, the man walked on the inside so he caught the garbage thrown out of a window. Today a man is supposed to walk on the outside. A man should walk where he wants to. So should a woman. If, out of love and respect, he actually wants to take the blows, he should walk on the inside--- because that's where attackers are all hiding these days."
As far as manners are concerned, I suppose I have always been a supporter of women's liberation. Over the years, out of a sense of respect, I imagine, I have refused to trouble women with outdated courtesies.
It is usually easier to follow rules of social behaviour than to depend on one's own taste. But rules may be safely broken, of course, by those of us with the gift of natural grace. For example, when a man and woman are led to their table in a restaurant and the waiter pulls out a chair, the woman is expected to sit in the chair. That is according to Ms. Ann Clark. I have always done it the other way, according to my wife.
It came up only the other night. I followed the hostess to the table, and when she pulled the chair out I sat on it, quite naturally, since it happened to be the chair I wanted to sit in. I had the best view of the boats.
"Well," my wife said, when the hostess had gone, "you did it again."
"Did what？" I asked, utterly confused.
"Took the chair."
Actually, since I'd walked through the restaurant ahead of my wife, it would have been awkward, I should think, not to have taken the chair. I had got there first, after all.
Also, it has always been my custom to get in a car first, and let the woman get in by herself. This is a courtesy I insist on as the stronger sex, out of love and respect. In times like these, there might be attackers hidden about. It would be unsuitable to put a woman in a car and then shut the door on her, leaving her at the mercy of some bad fellow who might be hiding in the back seat.
It can be concluded from the passage that ______.
A．men should walk on the inside of a sidewalk
B．women are becoming more capable than before
C．in women's liberation men are also liberated
D．it's safe to break rules of social behaviour
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Which of the following statements is probably TRUE of Japanese educated women？
A．They are more family centered than American women.
B．They may feel frustrated due to the existing barriers.
C．More than half of them have jobs that are insignificant.
D．Most of them can"t bear sexism in the Japanese workplace.
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听力原文：It is my firm belief that men and women are equal. I cannot accept that some roles are more suitable for males than for females. As far as I am concerned, men and women are equally capable of learning all skills.
In my view, parents should share household tasks and childcare. I think the division of labor should depend on individual circumstances. It seems to me that we can learn most things if we try. It's unwise to suggest that women should take care of most of the practical aspects of childcare because they are more patient, more gentle and more skilled at it. Men can be just as skilled in these areas if they have practice!
Of course, I acknowledge that men are often physically stronger than women and are therefore better at doing certain types of physical work. And I don't deny that one individual may be better at cooking, for example, than the other. But I reject the suggestion that cleaning, washing and ironing are women's work. I strongly believe that we should question all types of sexual stereotyping. If you ask me, there's no such thing as "women's work". There's no reason at all why a man shouldn't do the ironing! My husband does all the ironing in our house — and I do all the electrical repairs!
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A．Some jobs are more suitable for men than for women.
B．Women should take care of the practical aspects of childcare.
C．Cleaning, washing and ironing are women's work.
D．There should not be such things as "women's work".
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"Equal pay for equal work" is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are unfairly treated by society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work.
Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man is thought to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. (80) If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time jobs, they will be unable to do the things they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing up children.
Women who disagree say they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and to have freedom to choose between work and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the right not only to equal pay but also to equal chances.
The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to ask society to _________.
A．pay men less than women
B．give Women harder work
C．pay men and women the same amount of money for the same work
D．pay people more who do harder work
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The passage implies that_______is a great favorite of many Americans, men and women, old and young.
A．jogging/running
B．joining running clubs
C．reading books and magazines about running
D．going in for all kinds of sports
此题为多项选择题。
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AID is said _________ the number-one killer of both men and women over the past few years in that region.
A. being
B. to be
C. to have been
D. having been
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It is true, as the movement critics assert, that the present women's liberation groups are almost entirely based among "middle class" women, that is, college and career women; and the issues of psychological and sexual exploitation and, to a lesser extent, exploitation through consumption, have been the most prominent ones.
It is not surprising that the women's liberation movement should begin among bourgeois women, and should be dominated in the beginning by their consciousness and their particular concerns. Radical women are generally the post war middle class generation that grew up with the right to vote, the chance at higher education and training for supportive roles in the professions and business. Most of them are young and sophisticated enough to have not yet had children and do not have to marry to support themselves. In comparison with most women, they are capable of a certain amount of control over their lives.
The higher development of bourgeois democratic society allows the women who benefit from education and relative equality to see the contradictions between its rhetoric (every child can become president) and their actual place in that society. The working class woman might believe that education could have made her financially independent but the educated career woman finds that money has not made her independent. In fact, because she has been allowed to progress halfway on the upward-mobility ladder she can see the rest of the distance that is denied her only because she is a woman. She can see the similarity between her oppression and that of other sections of the population. Thus, from their own experience, radical women in the movement are aware of more faults in the society than racism and imperialism. Because they have pushed the democratic myth to its limits, they know concretely how it limits them.
At the same time that radical women were learning about American society they were also becoming aware of the male chauvinism in the movement. In fact, that is usually the cause of their first conscious 100 verbalization of the prejudice they feel; it is more disillusioning to know that the same contradiction exists between the movement's rhetoric of equality and its reality, for we expect more of our comrades.
This realization of the deep-seated prejudice against themselves in the movement produces two common reactions among its women: 1) a preoccupation with this immediate barrier (and perhaps a resultant hopelessness), and 2) a tendency to retreat inward, to buy the fool's gold of creating a personally liberated life style.
However, our concept of liberation represents a consciousness that conditions have forced on us while most of our sisters are chained by other conditions, biological and economic, that overwhelm their humanity and desires for self-fulfillment. Our background accounts for our ignorance about the stark oppression of women's daily lives.
The basic difference between Middle Class women and other women in the liberation movement is that _____.
A．Middle Class women are not married and have no children.
B．Middle Class women are not afraid of their husbands.
C．other women have less control of their own lives.
D．other women grow up with no rights to vote.
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Aspirin may be the most familiar drug in the world — but its power to heal goes far beyond the usual aches and pains. Exciting new studies suggest that aspirin can help fight a wide range of serious illnesses. "It now seems to be a benefit in so many areas of health," says Dr Debra Judelson, medical director of the Women's Heart Institute in Beverly Hills, California. "I advise most of my patients, as long as they aren't allergic to aspirin and don't have bleeding problems, to take low-dose aspirin."
Some of the major illnesses and conditions that aspirin or aspirin-like drugs might help prevent are. Alzheimer's disease, diabetes-related heart disease, heart attack, cancer and antibiotic-induced hearing loss.
The passage mainly discusses the effects of
A．health.
B．aspirin.
C．hearing loss.
D．heart attack.
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The best statement of the main idea of this passage is that
A．human brains differ considerably.
B．the brain a person is born with is important in determining his intelligence.
C．environment is crucial in determining a person's intelligence.
D．persons having identical brains will have roughly the same intelligence.
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Most people agree that the present role of women has already affectedU.S.society. it has affected the traditional role of men.
A:Above all ;
B:In all;
C:At most;
D:At last
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The financial statement that would be most useful to an analyst in understanding the changes that have occurred in a companys retained earnings over a year is the statement of:
A、Financial position.
B、Comprehensive income.
C、Changes in equity.
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Decide whether the following statements chosen from correspondences are communicating: Thanks for your letter. It has been long time that I did not receive your letter. I was glad to read your letter.
A．facts
B．opinions
C．emotions
D．/
