What is the Jazz Age?
第1题
What may give rise to the changes in marriage age?
A.Sharply rising divorce rate.
B.Greater work participation of men.
C.Increased college education of women.
D.Narrowed gender gap in the labor market.
第2题
What are speakers mainly discussing?()
A.The effect of the atmosphere on rainfall.
B.How conditions on Earth support life.
C.How water originated on Earth.
D.A new estimate of the age of Earth.
第3题
What does Alex Winston think of her age?
A.She desires to look younger.
B.She is excited that she looks mature.
C.She doesn"t have a problem with her age.
D.She wishes she could go back to her teenage years.
第4题
What did governments do to discourage the employment of older workers in the 1970s?
A.Offer early retirement to all employees.
B.Set specific age limits for employment.
C.Only employ younger trainees.
D.Offer incentives to businesses to take on younger employees.
第5题
A、The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would turn out well for them.
B、But what are an individual’s chances for a “good” old age in America, with satisfying final years and a dignified death?
C、And though I’m as leery of certain polls as anyone, this margin of credulity is too wide to be discounted.
D、He stands there, his feet braced, his head high from the soaring mountain of his huge neck, and he wonders where he is.
第6题
Speech is (12)_____ to be affected by reductions in the (13)_____ of the vocal organs. The muscles of the chest (14), the lungs become less elastic, the ribs (15)_____ mobile: as a result, respiratory efficiency at age 75 is only about half (16)_____ at age 30, and this has (17)_____ for the ability to speak loudly, rhythmically, and with good tone In addition, speech is affected by poorer movement of the soft palate and changes in the facial skeleton, especially around the mouth and jaw. There are other, more general signs of age. Speech rate slows, and fluency may be more erratic. Hearing (18)_____, especially after the early fifties. Weakening (19)_____ of memory and attention may affect the ability to comprehend complex speech patterns. But it is (20)_____ all had news: vocabulary awareness may continue to grow, as may stylistic ability—skills in narration, for example. And grammatical ability seems to be little affected.
A.speech
B.terms
C.ways
D.cases
第7题
A.Jazz
B.Rap
C.Bluse
D.Trip-Hop
第8题
Youth is a time when there are few tasks to make life difficult.If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved.It is impossible that he will again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return.In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child— things that have lost their interest for older people.But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong.
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably.If he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison.If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up his position in society.
1.People can experience happiness if they ________.
A.always think of the past and regret it
B.value the present
C.are no longer young
D.become old and have much experience
2.When people were young, they used to _______.
A.be in charge of many business
B.have few things to think about and take on
C.look after their younger sisters and brothers
D.face a lot of difficulties
3.The pains of children lie in the fact that _______.
A.no one helps them make right decisions
B.they are not allowed to do what they like to do
C.they cannot be accepted and praised by others
D.they are often beaten by their parents
4.Children are usually happy because _______.
A.old people lose interest in them
B.they are free to do wrong
C.they are familiar with everything going on around them
D.things are new to them
5.The author presents the passage in a(n) _____ tone.
A.hostile
B.enthusiastic
C.critical
D.instructive
第9题
此题为判断题(对,错)。
第10题
A.In contrast to
B.In connection with
C.In comparison with
D.In regard to