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In Britain today, is it possible to tell a person’s class just by looking at him? Physical details alone tell us about health, diet and the type of work a person does. A hundred years ago the working class often looked unhealthy, small and they were either too thin or too fat. The upper classes were often tall, sporting types who were used to a good diet and looked healthy. Today living and working conditions have improved, and such descriptions are no longer true. People are taller now than a hundred years ago. Everyone in Britain today is able to have free medicine, a good diet, acceptable working conditions and enough rest and leisure. WWW.K**S*858$$U.COM
The clothes people choose to wear, however, do provide information about their backgrounds. Expensive clothes look expensive and show their wearer is rich. Clothes can provide other clues as well. The upper classes appear to be less interested in fashion and wear good quality clothes in non-bright colours, made of natural material like wool, leather and cotton. Lower working-class people often choose clothes in bright colours, made of man-made materials. A sociological explanation for this would be that colour and interest are missing from their lives, and therefore any opportunity to produce this is taken.
Clothes are available at a price within most people’s reach. New clothes make the wearer feel good and show some degree of wealth to the outside world. Today it is the younger people who spend most money on clothes. Fashion is no longer for the upper classes and the rich. Young people from all social classes spend a lot of money on clothes. Some new fashions are started by working-class people who want to look different and feel important. They want people WWW.K**S*858$$U.COMto look at them.
In the past, a person’s appearance could not tell other people about his ________.

A.health B.diet C.occupation (职业) D.habits

The clothes people choose to wear tell us about their ________.

A.education B.richness C.backgrounds D.hobby

A working-class person may start a new fashion because ________.

A.she wants to draw the attention of other people
B.she wants to look different and healthy
C.she wants to show their wealth
D.she wants to show their taste

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.Expensive clothes look expensive and show the wearer is rich.
B.Working-class people prefer clothes in bright colours because they lack colour in their lives.
C.Today, it is still the upper class people who spend most money on clothes.
D.Today, fashion is no longer for the upper classes and the rich.
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Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week.In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told.Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium.He found that lies made up 14 percent of emails, 21 percent of instant messages, 27 percent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 percent of phone calls.
His results, to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists.Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment(非直接接触) of emailing would make it easier to lie.Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practiced at that form of communication.
But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time.People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says.This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.
People are also more likely to lie in real time—in an instant message or phone call, say—than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock.He found many lies are spontaneous(脱口而出的) responses to an unexpected demand, such as: “Do you like my dress?”
Hancock hopes his research will help companies work out the best ways for their employees to communicate.For instance, the phone might be the best medium for sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth.But given his result, work assessment, where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.
57.Hancock’s study focuses on ________.
A.the consequences of lying in various communications media
B.the success of communications technologies in conveying ideas
C.people’s preference in selecting communications technologies
D.people’s honesty levels across a range of communications media
58.Hancock’s research finding surprised those who believed that ________.
A.people are less likely to lie in instant messages
B.people are unlikely to lie in face-to-face interactions
C.people are most likely to lie in email communication
D.people are twice as likely to lie in phone conversations
59.According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain media of communication?
A.They are afraid of leaving behind traces of their lies
B.They believe that honesty is the best policy
C.They tend to be relaxed when using those media
D.They are most practiced at those forms of communication
60.According to Hancock, the telephone is a preferable medium for promoting sales because ________.
A.salesmen can talk directly to their customers
B.salesmen may feel less restrained to exaggerate
C.salesmen can impress customers as being trustworthy
D.salesmen may pass on instant messages effectively

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If there's a woman’s trait(特点) which is the same as men’s aggressiveness, it's what social scientists refer to as the result of "education".Feminists have argued that the caring nature of women is not biological in origin, but rather has been forced into women by a society that wanted to keep them in the home.But the signs that it is at least partly inborn are too numerous to ignore.Just as tiny infant girls respond more readily to human faces, female toddlers(学步者) learn much faster than males how to pick up nonverbal cues(非言语暗示) from others.And grown women are far more skilful than men at interpreting facial expressions: A recent study by University of Pennsylvania brain researcher Ruben Gur showed that they easily read emotions such as anger, sadness and fear.The only such emotion men could pick up was disgust.
What difference do such differences make in the real world? Among other things, women appear to be somewhat less competitive--or at least competitive in different ways--than men.At the Harvard Law School, for instance, female students enter with qualities just as outstanding as those of their male peers.But they don' t qualify for the well-known Law Review in proper numbers, a fact some school officials owe to women' s discomfort in the incredibly competitive atmosphere.
Students of management styles have found fewer differences than they expected between men and women who reach leadership positions, perhaps because many successful women deliberately imitate men.But an analysis by Purdue social psychologist Alice Eagly of 166 studies of leadership style did find one difference: Men tend to be more “autocratic”-making decisions on their own--while women tend to consult colleagues more often. Studies of behavior in small groups turn up even more differences.Men will typically dominate the discussion, says University of Toronto psychologist Kenneth Dion, spending more time talking and less time listening.
53.The passage mainly discusses__________.
A.how sex differences are demonstrated in social relations
B.how hormone determines sex differences
C.why there are differences between males and females
D.why men and women have different social roles
54.According to the writer, women’s caring nature is .
A.not inborn in any sense B.inspired by women’s families
C.caused by social prejudice D.partly biological in origin
55.The Harvard Law School example in paragraph 3 suggests that_________.
A.women are not as competitive as men
B.law is not the fight profession for women
C.women are as excellent as men when they are young
D.academic qualities are not equal to performance
56.We can say from paragraph 4 that ___________.
A.men leaders should consult colleagues and subordinates more often.
B.female leaders' success is due to their imitating male leaders.
C.men and women are different in their leadership style.
D.decisiveness is an important quality for a successful politician.

Brittnie Pemberton listened attentively as Jim Herrick took her and her mother, Tanya, on a brief tour of San Diego State University on Thursday.Her dream is much closer to reality after she received a promise from the university.The university promised that she would get a full four-year scholarship to the school as long as she met the entrance requirements.
Brittnie, 10, laughed.Her mom cried.
They live at the Salvation Army Door of Hope, a living center for homeless women and their children.Photojournalist Linda Solomon met them in August when she came to the facility and taught boys and girls, ages three-and-a-half to 13, how to take pictures.She gave them all disposable cameras and told them to capture images that reflected their dreams.The children's images - a big house, a church, a playground, a backyard and more - are kept.This is a project called“Pictures of Hope" organized by the Salvation Army
"I wish to go to college, so I took a picture of the sign out in front of San Diego State University," Brittnie said last month.The Fletcher Elementary School fifth-grader was pointing to the Christmas card bearing her photograph.
Adrienne Finley, development director at the Salvation Army, hosted a reception for Solomon, who told Finley about the president of a small university who gave a child the scholarship she dreamed of last year.
Finley called his old friend, Herrick, who serves as the SDSU President."We have a wonderful opportunity here to make a difference in a little girl's life," Finley said.Soon her mom and Brittnie were face to face with SDSU President Jim Herrick.
"You must be Brittnie," he said, reaching out to shake her hand.She quickly pulled her hands out of the pockets of the new SDSU sweatshirt she had been given that morning.
They sat down at a table in his office and talked about college, about science, about her love of math and his hope that she and other girls wouldn't lose interest in those subjects, as happens to many girls as they grow older.
Then they talked about how much discipline she would need over the next eight years to make her dream come true.Both signed the paper outlining their agreement to the terms of the scholarship.Back outside on the sunny campus, Brittnie admitted she's tempted sometimes not to do her homework."But not anymore," she said.
49.According to the first paragraph, we can know that________.
A.it is certain that Brittnie will be admitted into SDSU
B.Brittnie will not need to pay for her university education if she can study in SDSU.
C.Jim Herrick promised Brittnie’s mother to offer her a job in SDSU.
D.Brittnie made a promise that she would never give up her dream..
50.The Salvation Army Door of Hope is intended to ______.
A.call on young men and young women to help others
B.provide shelters for homeless moms and their children
C.carry out some projects to help those who are in trouble
D.help homeless people no matter who they are
51.According to the passage, the following statements are true EXCEPT_______.
A.Linda Solomon taught children photography to inspire them.
B.Children told people about their dreams through their pictures.
C.Brittnie took a picture standing at the gate of SDSC.
D.Brittnie’s picture was so good that it was printed on a Christmas card.
52.From what Ferrick said to Brittnie, we can infer that_______.
A.Ferrick has a strong belief that Brittnie will be a scientist in the future.
B.Brittnie, as well as some other girls, is interested in both science and math.
C.some girls would not be so good in science and math as boys as they grow older.
D.Brittnie will never lose interest in science because of her deep love

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But hydraulic (液压的) fracturing can also produce debate and anger over the risk of groundwater pollution.This method of drilling is not federally supervised under the Safe Drinking Water Act.Some in Congress want to end that exemption (豁免) from the law.
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45.We can learn from the first paragraph that ________.
A.natural gas releases methane and carbon dioxide
B.natural gas is considered as the cleanest energy
C.natural gas is more environmentally friendly than other fossil fuels
D.natural gas is a renewable source of energy
46.The word “fracture” in Paragraph 4 probably means _______.
A.create B.break C.change D.decrease
47.Gas shale exploration may cause disagreement because ______.
A.it may cause water pollution B.it brings too high profits
C.it breaks the law D.it is out of states’ control
48.According to Eric Potter, the new gas shale exploration ______.
A.will provide America with about one fourth of their energy
B.will increase demand for energy
C.will make gas producers invest a big sum of money
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We already know the fastest, least expensive way to slow climate change: Use less energy. With a little effort, and not much money, most of us could reduce our energy diets by 25 percent or more—doing the Earth a favor while also helping our wallets.
Not long ago.My wife, PJ, and I tried a new diet—not to lose a little weight but to answer an annoying question about climate change.Scientists have reported recently that the world is heating up even faster than predicted only a few years ago, and that the consequences could be severe if we don’t keep reducing emissions(排放)of carbon dioxide(CO2)and other greenhouse gases that are trapping heat in our atmosphere.
We decided to try an experiment.For one month we recorded our personal emissions of CO2.We wanted to see how much we could cut back, so we went on a strict diet.The average US household produces about 150 pounds of CO2 a day by doing common-place things like turning on air-conditioning or driving cars.That’s more than twice the European average and almost five times the global average, mostly because Americans drive more and have bigger houses.But how much should we try to reduce?
For an answer, I checked with Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.In his book, he had challenged readers to make deep cuts in personal emissions to keep the world from reaching extremely important tipping points, such as the meltingof the ice sheets in Greenland or West Antarctica.“To stay below that point, we need to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent,” he said.
Good advice, I thought.I’d opened our bedroom windows to let in the wind.We’d gotten so used to keeping our air-conditioning going around the clock.I’d almost forgotten the windows even opened.We should not let this happen again.It’s time for us to change our habits if necessary.
41.Why did the author and his wife try a new diet?
A.To take special kinds of food B.To respond to climate change.
C.To lose weight D.To improve their health
42.The underlined words “tipping points” most probably refer to .
A.freezing points B.burning points
C.melting points D.boiling points
43.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A.it is necessary to keep the air-conditioning on all the time
B.it seems possible for every household to cut emissions of CO2
C.the average US household produces about 3,000 pounds of CO2 a month
D.the average European household produces about 1,000 pounds of CO2 a month
44.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A.Saving Energy Strats at Home B.Changing Our Habits Begins at Work
C.Changing Climate Sounds Reasonalbe D.Reducing Emissions of CO2 Proves Difficult

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