AccordingtoStevenYoung,ifscientistsgetthedatathat________,theywouldpetitionforfasttrackstatus.
Because the virus changes its shape.
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Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles. But by the middle of this century, men’s and women’s roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes. In addition, many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier. Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.
In terms of numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But its influence spread to many parts of American society. Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns. Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on “overtime” work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.
In the 1970s, the feminist movement, or women’s liberation, produced additional economic and social changes. Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers. Most of them still took traditional women’s jobs as public school teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work, banking, dentistry, and construction work. Women were asking for equal work, and equal opportunities for promotion.
Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women. Naturally, there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.
1.Which of the following best express the main idea of Paragraph 1?
A.Women usually worked outside the home for wages.
B.Men and women’s roles were easily exchanged in the past.
C.Men’s roles at home were more firmly fixed than women’s.
D.Men and women’s roles were usually quite separated in the past.
2.Which sentence best expresses the main idea of Paragraph 2?
A.The first sentence.
B.The second and the third sentences.
C.The fourth sentence.
D.The last sentence.
3.In the passage the author proposes that the counterculture___.
A.destroyed the United States.
B.transformed some American values.
C.was not important in the United States.
D.brought people more leisure time with their families.
4.It could be inferred from the passage that___.
A.men and women will never share the same goals.
B.some men will be willing to exchange their traditional male roles.
C.most men will be happy to share some of the household responsibilities with their wives.
D.more American households are headed by women than ever before.
5.The best title for the passage may be ___.
A.Results of Feminist Movements
B.New influence in American Life
C.Counterculture and Its consequence
D.Traditional Division of Male and Female Roles.
Directions:
In thissection,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation, you will hear some questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1、 A. The collection of precious metals.
B. A standard measuring weight unit.
C. The value of precious metals.
D. A new metric system of measurement.
2、 A. Checking the accuracy of scales.
B. Calculating the density ofmetals.
C.Observing humidity of atmosphere.
D.Measuring amounts of rainfall.
3、 A. It has been rusty. B. It was not scientific.
C. It was of low quality. D. It was out of date.
4、 A. It is very cheap. B. It is difficult to say.
C. It is too expensive. D. It is reasonable.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5、 A. She is busy writing a biological article.
B. She is busy with a program about endangered species.
C. She is busy reading some books on economics.
D. She is busy with two research papers.
6、 A. Some species are impossible to conserve.
B. People are less conscious of saving endangered species.
C. Funds are difficult to get to conserve endangered species.
D. It is difficult to determine which animals are endangered.
7、 A. The relatives of the tailed toad have been extinct.
B. The varieties of the tailed toad are helpful to the research ofevolution.
C.If the tailed toad is well conserved,many other species will be better saved.
D.If the tailed toad was extinct,some myth about evolution would lose.
8、 A. The man is busy preparing the research paper.
B. The woman should hand two papers in on the same day.
C. The man is reading a hook only about biology.
D. The woman is glad to make a decision on which animal to save.
翻譯訓練：普通話與方言
中國土地廣闊，人口眾多。盡管全國都講漢語，但是不同地區的人說漢語的方式不同，這被稱為方言。方言一般被稱為地方話，是漢語在不同地區的分支，只在特定地區使用。漢語方言非常復雜。它們有以下三方面不同：發音、詞匯和語法。發音的區別最為顯著。2000多年前，中國人發現社交時應該使用統一的語言。和方言相比，普通話(mandarin)能被所有人理解。普通話有利于不同種族、地區人民之間的信息傳遞和文化交流。
翻譯：
Culture shock is caused by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. (Passage Four)
Part IV Translation
By measuring and charting the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive totally different things about the same scene. (Passage One)
