Now young people prefer to send e-cards for their new year’s greeting.
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第2题
A.College students like soap operas more than any other social group.
B.Young people of sixties liked soap operas more than people today.
C.Young viewers like enjoyment now more than the seriousness of sixties.
D.The young as a whole like happy love more than studying.
第3题
By saying "you can die old at 30 and live young at 0', Alice Brophy means that ______.
A.people usually die at different ages in the past and at present
B.people died at 30 years old in the past but live happily at 80 now
C.some can die at 30 years old but other people may live until they are 80 years old
D.some can be very old and die at 30 while others stay very young when they are 80
第4题
A.most young people
B.elderly British diners
C.all kinds of overseas visitors
D.upper-class customers
第5题
Americans are now taking steps to solve the problem of alcoholism by ______.
A.giving courses to teach doctors about drugs and treatments for alcoholics
B.teaching young students how to drive safely after drinking alcohol
C.punishing people more heavily for driving after drinking alcohol
D.decreasing the amount of alcohol drunk by drivers
第6题
Questions are based on the following passage.
Young people always suffer in recessions. Employers stop (1) them; and theyoften get rid of new recruits because they are easier to sack. But during the (2) recessionsin the 1970s,1980s, and 1990s, older workers also got fired. This time is different. Duringthe financial crisis in 2008, and since, older people have done better than other age groups.
The researchers (3 )on movements in "non-employment" as a share of the totalpopulation in three age groups between the final quarters of 2007 and 2012. Whereas theaverage non-employment rate in the OECD (经济合作与发展组织) countries has risenby (4)% among young people and by 1.5% among 25- to 54-year-olds, it has 4 by 2%among the 55-64 age group.
Why have older employees done so well? Maybe the job protection mechanismhas played its role, but what has really changed is that firms now (5 )the full costs ofgetting rid of older staff.
Nowadays, older workers are healthier than they used to be and work isless(6)demanding.
They are also more(7) to employers than prior generations for they have receivedbetter education.
Old workers now also have a sharper (8) to stay in employment because ofthe impact of the crisis on wealth. Many will argue that older workers have done betterat the(9) of the young. This is wrongheaded (执迷不悟的 ) . First, it is a false beliefthat a job gained for one person is a job lost for another. Second, young and old people areby and large not substitute in the workplace. They do different types of work in different typesof(10). There are plenty of things that can help the young jobless, but shunting (避开 )older workers out of the workplace is not one of them.
A.attractive
B.bear
C.charge
D.energetically
E.Expense
F.Fallen
G.Focus
H.Hiring
I.Incentive
J.Occupation
K.Physically
L.Previous
M.Productive
N.profitably
O.Sector
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第7题
1.In the past,many young people ______.
A.knew the effects of war
B.went in for politics
C.liked to save the wounded in wars
D.were willing to be soldiers
2.Now with TV people can _____.
A.discus politics at an information center
B.show more interest in politics
C.make their own decisions on political affairs
D.express their opinions freely
3.The author thinks that TV advertisements _____.
A.are not reliable on the whole
B.are useless to people
C.are a good guide to adults
D.are very harmful to the young
4.Which is NOT true according to the passage?_____
A.People have become used to crimes now
B.With a TV set some problems can be solved quickly
C.People now like to read books with picture
D.The adults are less violent than the young
5.From the passage,we can conclude that _____.
A.children should keep away from TV
B.TV programs should be improved
C.children’s books should have pictures
D.TV has a deep influence on the young
第8题
听力原文: The young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are talking nothing but nonsense, as in their hearts they must surely know. The village is not dead. There is more life in it now than there ever was. But it seems that "village life" is dead. Gone forever. It began to decline about a hundred years ago, when many girls left home to go into service in town many miles away, and men also left home in increasing numbers in search of work. There are still a number of people alive today who can remember what "village life" meant. It meant knowing and being known by everybody else in the village. It meant finding your entertainment in the village of within walking distance of it. it meant housewives tied to the home all day and every day. It meant going to bed early to save lamp oil and coal.
Then came the First World War and the Second World War. After each war, new ideas, new attitudes, new trades and occupations were revealed to villagers. The long-established order of society was no longer taken for granted. Electricity and the motorcar were steadily operating to make "village life" and "town life" almost alike. Now with the highly developed science and technology and high-level social welfare for all, there is no point whatever in talking any longer about "village life". It is just life, and a better life.
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A.Because young people can't remember the villages.
B.Because the two World Wars destroyed many villages.
C.Because there are no job opportunities in villages.
D.Because it seems that village life is gone for ever.
第9题
The writers of Generation O (short for Obama), a new Newsweek blog that seeks to chronicle the lives of a group of young Obama supporters, want to answer that question. For the next three months, Michelle Kremer and 11 other Obama supporters, ages 19 to 34, will blog about life across mainstream America, with one twist: by tying all of their ideas and experiences to the new president and his administration, the bloggers will try to start a conversation about what it means to be young and politically active in America today. Malena Amusa, a 24-year-old writer and dancer from St. Louis sees the project as a way to preserve history as it happens. Amusa, who is traveling to India this spring to finish a book, then to Senegal to teach English, has ongoing conversations with her friends about how the Obama presidency has changed their daily lives and hopes to put some of those ideas, along with her global perspective, into her posts. She's excited because, as she puts it, "I don't have to wait [until] 15 years from now" to make sense of the world.
Henry Flores, a political-science professor at St. Mary's University, credits this younger generation's political strength to their embrace of technology. "[The Internet] exposes them to more thinking," he says, "and groups that are like-minded in different parts of the country start to come together." That's exactly what the Generation O bloggers are hoping to do. The result could be a group of young people that, like their boomer(二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) parents, grows up with a strong sense of purpose and sheds the image of apathy (冷漠) they've inherited from Generation X(60 年代后期和70年代出生的美国人). It's no small challenge for a blog run by a group of ordinary—if ambitious—young people, but the members of Generation O are up to the task.
What is the finding of a new study by CIRCLE?
A.More young voters are going to the polls than before.
B.The younger generation supports traditionally liberal causes.
C.Young voters played a decisive role in Obama's election.
D.Young people in America are now more diverse ideologically.
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What has not yet sunk in is that a growing number of older people say those over 50 will not keep on working as traditional full-time nine-to-five employees, but will participate in the labor force in many new and different ways: as temporaries, as part-timers, as consultants, on special assignments and so on. What used to be personnel and are now known as human resources departments still assume that those who work for an organization are full-time employees. Employment laws and regulations are based on the same assumption. Within 20 or 25 years; however, perhaps as many as half the people who work for an organization will not be employed by it, certainly not on a full-time basis. This will be especially true for older people. New ways of working with people at arm's length will increasingly become the central managerial issue of employing organizations, and not just of businesses.
The shrinking of the younger population will cause an even greater upheaval, if only because nothing like this has happened since the dying centuries of the Roman Empire. In every single developed country, but also in China and Brazil, the birth rate is now well below the replacement rate of 2.2 live births per woman of reproductive age. Politically, this means that immigration will become an important and highly divisive issue in all rich countries. It will cut across all traditional political alignments. Economically, the decline in the young population will change markets in fundamental ways. Growth in family formation has been the driving force of all domestic markets in the developed world, but the rate of family formation is certain to fall steadily unless bolstered by large-scale immigration of younger people. The homogeneous mass market that emerged in all rich countries after the Second World War has been youth-determined from the start. It will now become middle-age-determined, or perhaps more likely it will split into two: a middle-age-determined mass market and a much smaller youth-determined one. And because the supply of young people will shrink, creating new employment patterns to attract and hold the growing number of older people (especially older educated people) will become increasingly important.
From the passage, which is the main influence factor in the future?
A.The influence of aging problem.
B.The shrinking of younger population.
C.The changing of working style.
D.The change of consuming pattern.
第11题
听力原文:W: Bob, Have you seen any movies recently?
M: Yes, I've seen a few.
W: Have you noticed any people smoking in the movies?
M: I wasn't paying special attention to that, but I am sure I saw some actors and even actresses smoke in movies.
W: The World Health Organization says young people are likely to think smoking is a good thing if they see actors smoke, and that cigarette companies use movies to sell more tobacco, especially to young people.
M: That's true. Mass media may have some negative effects on viewers.
W: Now, people are calling for moviemakers to remove cigarettes from their films.
M: Do you think it's necessary? Movies reflect social reality, after all. If the actors never smoke in films, the films may seem unreal.
W: You know, the W-H-O estimates that tobacco kills five million people a year, and that number is growing.
M: That's terrible, but do you think we can attribute it solely to the movies or to other media as well?
W: At least partly. In many countries, including India and the United States, it is illegal to try to sell tobacco on television.
M: But it is legal to show smoking and cigarettes in the movies.
W: Yes, it is reported that tobacco companies even give famous actors a free lifetime supply of cigarettes. These actors often have good-looking bodies. That makes young people think smoking will be good for their health.
M: Too bad. That's really misleading.
W: Sure, perhaps, a law should be passed that there shouldn't be too much smoking in mass media.
M: Absolutely.
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A.Movies play an important role in persuading young people not to smoke.
B.Movies fail to reflect social reality and need improvement in this respect.
C.Movies are in many ways competing with TV to gain young viewers.
D.Movies partly contribute to the increasing number of young smokers.