He () human relations.

A.custom

B.relations

C.culture

D.mind

leasant talk.Just give them a telephone call and ask for, say, a daughter, son-in-law and grandchild.They will show up at your door, and greet you emotionally as if they hadn’t seen you for years.

Some 15 couples have so far hired “families”.“We have nearly 80 people on the waiting list.” Said the president of the company that offers such services, “What is common about these senior citizens is that they are thirsty for human love.We are helping them make their dreams come true.”

Where once big families with three or more generations living together were common, now numbers are reducing fast.In cities there are very few indeed.Many old people see their families only rarely, if at all.This may be because the children’s bosses have sent them to a distant city, even abroad, or just because busy family members cannot find time to visit their parents.

“We’ve seen many cases in which parent-children relations are not in a happy state,” company president continues.“When a son finally visits his parents after a long while, it is often just to ask for money or for them to let him have their property(财产)early.”

Loneliness is not a one-way street.“One young mother came to us to ask about grandparents,” he added.

The company is now developing into other fields.Their services include providing “employees” for businessmen to scold and “lovers” for young people unlucky in love.Company’s “lovers” for hire is not a service to be misunderstood, company president makes clear.

“You shouldn’t think about our lover too romantically,” he said, “She’s there to act as an adviser on how to find a girlfriend.”

11.Old couples in Japan hire family members ().

A.to ask for help when they are ill

B.to realize their big-family dreams

C.to seek love and comfort

D.to strengthen parent-children relations

12.In the sentence “what is common about these senior citizens is that they are thirsty for human love”, “senior citizens” could best be replaced by() .

A.high-ranking officials in cities

B.rich old couples living in cities

C.respectable ladies and gentlemen

D.old people

13.Which of the following is not the reason that Japanese grown-ups seldom visit their parents？()

A.They are too busy.

B.They work in distant cities.

C.They can’t afford expensive visits to their parents.

D.Their relations are not very tight.

14.“Loneliness is not a one-way street” means that() .

A.both the old and the young will feel lonely

B.living alone is not a one-way street

C.young mother with a little child will feel lonely

D.one young mother will hire “grandparents” for their child

15.When a Japanese young man hires a “lover”, ()

A.she will be his lover

B.she will offer him valuable advice on love affairs

C.she will bring him a girlfriend

D.she will tell him her own love story

A．Human nature

B．Relationship to natural world

C．Human activity

D．Social relations

rgettable travel experience on a plane in praise of people's fine deeds and the touching human relations witnessed at a critical moment.()

A、简单句

B、并列句

C、主从复合句

D、并列主从复合句

The most fundamental group to which a person belongs is the family. The institution of the family exists in almost every human culture. It is considered by behavioral scientists to be one of the oldest institutions in human history.

The family unit serves many important functions. The performance of these functions is he reason for the family's importance. Above all , the family serves as a mechanism of species survival (生存，幸存) .

Families also have important economic functions. In primitive societies, the tasks of gathering food and providing shelter were divided among family members. Today, both husband and wife may work and share the duties of homemaking and child rearing.

In addition to its survival and economic functions, the family gives its members social status. In many societies, a person is not considered a complete member until he has married and produced children. Finally, the family helps to meet the basic emotional needs of a person through the love and support received from parents, siblings (兄弟姐妹)， and relatives.

21. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage？ ____________.

A. The family has changed greatly over time

B. Many of the functions of the family today are being performed by government agencles

C. The most important role for the family is to gather food

D. The family has served many useful functions throughout history

22. According to the passage, which of the following is an example of the role of the family in giving status？____________.

A. A child is taught to respect his elders

B. A couple work for several years to save for the purchase of a home

C. A politician makes a campaign commercial with his family

D. A mother comforts a child after he skins his knees

23. It can be concluded from the passage that the family is ____________.

A. undergoing many changes

B. the only useful social institution

C. likely to exist in future societies

D. not the same today as it was in the past

24. As it is used in the second paragraph of the passage, the word "mechanism" means ____________.

A. parts of an organism or system which work together

B. racial group united by language, religion, custom, etc.

C. the people living in one place, district or country, considered as a whole

D. a worker skilled in using or repairing machines or tools

25. Based on the information in the passage, you can infer that the passage is 一一一一一一·

A. about the family's mechanism of species survival

B. about the social, economic, and emotional usefulness of family throughout human history

C. about duties of the family shared by both husband and wife

D. about the emotional needs received from parents, siblings, and relations

A.a Theory X manager

B.a Theory Y manager

C.a Theory Z manager

D.a human relations manager

E.needs hierarchy

He said he had no intention of _____ relations with them.

A. breaking up

B. breaking out

C. breaking down

D. breaking off

e been recorded in innumerable myths, folktales, novels, poems, plays, and popular or philosophical essays. Although the full significance of a human relationship may not be directly evident, the complexity of feelings and actions that can be understood at a glance is surprisingly great. For this reason psychology holds a unique position among the sciences. "Intuitive" knowledge may be remarkably penetrating and can significantly help us understand human behavior. whereas in the physical sciences such common-sense knowledge is relatively primitive. If we erased all knowledge of scientific physics from our modern world, not only would we not have cars and television sets, we might even find that the ordinary person was unable to cope with the fundamental mechanical problems of pulleys and levers. On the other hand, if we removed all knowledge of scientific psychology from our world, problems in interpersonal relations might easily be coped with and solved much as before. We would still "know" how to avoid doing something asked of us and how to get someone to agree with us; we would still "know" when someone was angry and when someone was pleased. One could even offer sensible explanations for the "whys" of much of the self's behavior. and feeling. In other words, the ordinary person has a great and profound understanding of the self and of other people which, though unformulated or only vaguely conceived, enables one to interact with others in more or less adaptive ways. Kohler in referring to the lack of great discoveries in psychology as compared with physics, accounts for this by saying that "people were acquainted with practically all territories of mental life a long time before the founding of scientific psychology."

Paradoxically, with all this natural, intuitive, common-sense capacity to grasp human relations, the science of human relations has been one of the last to develop. Different explanations of this paradox have been suggested. One is that science would destroy the vain and pleasing illusions people have about themselves; but we might ask why people have always loves to read pessimistic, debunking writings, from Ecclesiastes to Freud. It has also been proposed that just because we know so much about people intuitively, there has been less incentive for studying them scientifically: why should one develop a theory, carry out systematic observations, or make predictions about the obvious？ In any case, the field of human relations, with its vast literary documentation but meager scientific treatment, is in great contrast to the field of physics in which there are relatively few nonscientific books.

According to the passage, it has been suggested that the science of human relations was slow to develop because______.

A．intuitive knowledge of human relations is derived from philosophy

B．early scientists were more interested in the physical world

C．scientific studies of human relations appear to investigate the obvious

D．the scientific method is difficult to apply to the study of human relations

A.The former is synonymous with the latter.

B.The former is inconsistent with the latter.

C.The former entails the latter.

D.The former presupposes the latter.

As a public relations officer, he is said ________ some very influential people.

A) to know B) to be knowing C)to have been knowing D)to have known

He tried to _______relations with his former wife but he failed

A.measure

B.maintain

C.shelter

D.reply