One of the women had pretended to be the old woman asleep in bed. A. A governmen

which peoplemake a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to officiate at two funerals onsuccessive days for two elderly women in my communi

A、They lived out a natural life

B、They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride

C、They weren’t accustomed to the change in weather

D、They died due to lack of care by family members

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Every year for more than a decade I"ve gone with some good male friends to the music festi- val. Women are not invited， but they do prepare a picnic for our trip. The better the food， the more likely we are to continue our annual tradition and give them peace at least one week out of the year.

When we"re not eating， we sit around in circles and talk about manly stuff: women， mostly.After years of this special journey I have figured out women are different from us， especially when it comes to how we communicate. Women don"t need to manufacture reasons to chat， but guys need excuses like outings or organized events.

And I"ve noticed that when women are in groups there can be several conversations going on at once. When men are in a group， one man talks， and everybody else listens. It"s like bluegrass jamming in a way; one musician plays the lead， and the rest try to follow.

I"ve had more heartfelt conversations with other men at the festival than I"ve had at any other time in my life， partly because there are no women there， and partly because we"re all a little drunk. It was males bonding over whatever parts we still had left. The festival is also the only place I"ve ever cried in front of other men.

As the years have slipped by， some in our group have lost parents and grandparents， some have divorced， and others have changed careers， not always on purpose. It seems that every year something distressing has happened to at least one member of our crew， and the rest of us are there to listen and offer support.

I hope that this column can offer some comfort to women: if your man heads out on a bowling or poker night with the guys， be happy. Chances are good he"s not fleeing you and the kids， but he"s running toward the conversations he can only have with other men， and he"ll come home the better for it.

It is implied in the first paragraph that 查看材料

A.the trip is a relief for both men and women________

B.the trip will continue in spite of everything

C.the quality of the picnic needs improvement

D.the women can rarely get peace themselves

How's this for unintended consequences？ Some of the biggest beneficiaries(受惠者) of the women's movement have been married men. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, married men have a 60% higher average household income than they did in 1970, even adjusted for inflation. Unmarried men, on the other hand, only got a 16% bump.

One reason for the rise is that more men are marrying women who make more money than they do, mainly because there are more high-income women to go around. In 1970, just 4% of men ages 30 to 44 had wives who brought in more money than they did. By 2007, more than a fifth of men in that age range had wives who out-earned them. Members of this thriving demographic(人口统计学的) are effectively doubling their income or more when they wed, without doubling their costs.

Aside from the increase in white-collar women, the other trend behind the Pew numbers is that marriage rates have declined most sharply among the least educated men and women, which helps explain why the average household income figures for married men have pulled even further ahead of those for their single counterparts. More of the least rich are unmarried than before.

The study, which drew on household income data from the Decennial Census and the 2007 American Community Survey, showed that the biggest gainers were married college-educated men. The biggest losers were unmarried men who did not complete high school or who only had a high school diploma. After adjusting for inflation, the 2007 unmarried low-income men and women had lower household incomes than their 1970 counterparts. "The steeper decline in marriage among the less educated has contributed to a steeper decline in their income," says one of the study's authors, D'Vera Cohn.

The trend has a dark side, says Dalton Conley, social sciences dean at New York University. "High-income women marrying high-income men is one of the drivers of inequality," he says. "It affects the distribution of income between families." He notes that among college-educated high-income couples, the divorce rate is getting lower, while unmarried low-income men and women tend to partner up and then uncouple more rapidly. "This leads to family instability and a cycle of disadvantage," says Conley.

What do we know about the unmarried men, according to the last sentence of the first paragraph？

A．They got a 16% increase in household income.

B．They got a 16% decrease in household income.

C．Only 16% of them were in financial difficulty.

D．Only 16% of them earned more than in 1970.

set up by family and friends. They might write personal ads to place in newspapers. Or they might use a computer to help them in their search for a soul mate by joining an online dating services. Some people have even tried to find their perfect match through game shows on television. Many of these TV dating shows, including The Bachelor and Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire？ have proved to be ratings blockbusters, with millions of viewers watching each week to find out which of the contestants will find true love. Of all these game shows, perhaps the one with the most unexpected ending was Mr. Right, which was shown in England in 2002. On the show, a bachelor, thirty-five-year-old Lance Gerrard-Wright, dated fifteen women to find the one who was his ideal partner. The host of the show was Ulrika Johnson, an English celerity originally from Sweden. For seven weeks on the show, Gerrard-Wright took turns going on dates with each of the women, taking them to expensive restaurants and exotic locations. He even met the women’s families and introduced them to his own. Then at the end of each episode, he would choose between one and three of the contestants with whom he had felt the least compatible, and say goodbye to them. At one point during the series, one contestant volunteered to leave because she said she didn’t find him attractive. After two dates she said she had had enough, and she couldn’t see it working. “He wasn’t my cup of tea.” In another episode the woman he was on a date with burst into tears when he called her by another contestant’s name. “You called me by another girl’s name. I can’t believe you did that. I really liked you,” she sobbed. But in the final episode, the woman he eventually chose decided she didn’t want to marry him after all. “I think you’ve chosen me because you have to choose someone,” she said. Maybe this was because she already knew he had fallen in love---with the show’s host! After leaving the show, Gerrard-Wright and Johnson were seen dining together and attending parties around London more and more often. Finally, on May 1, 2003, Gerrard-Wright proposed to Johnson on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral. And she accepted his proposal right away, although it was a conditional acceptance. Johnson has two children from previous relationships—an eight-year-old son, Cameron, and a two-year-old daughter, Bo. She had to make sure that they agreed to the marriage. Luckily, they did. Gerrard-Wright said, “In the end the show did work for me. I grabbed an opportunity to get a girlfriend and I did. Ulrika’s gorgeous.” Questions 1-3 Complete the following sentences with information given in the passage in a maximum of 2 words for each blank. 1. Lance Gerrard-Wright went to ____ to go on the show Mr. Right in order to find his perfect match. 2. On the show, Lance had the opportunity to date many gorgeous women among whom there might be one that he was almost ____. 3. Ulrika accepted Lance’s proposal ____ that her children agreed to their marriage as well. Questions 4-5 Choose the best answer according to the passage. 4. Which of the following did NOT happen on the show？ A. Lance went on dates with several women. B. The candidates went to some very good restaurants. C. Ulrika consulted her parents before she made her decision. D. The women met Lance’s family. 5. What happened after seven weeks of doing the show？ A. All of the women found their beloved. B. Lance started to date with the show’s host. C. One of the women on the show couldn’t help crying. D. Ulrika asked Lance to marry her.

. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in their household in Britain, according to a major survey.Researchers said that in many relationships it was no longer assumed that the man would bring in the bigger income，47 in a time of widespread redundancies(裁员)． In a 48 shift in attitudes, four out of ten women said that the career of whichever partner had the highest income would take 49 in the relationship. In one in ten families, a house husband looks after the children and does the 50 while their female partner works full time. Ten percent of women admitted this role 51 had put strains on their relationship and some said it had even led to them 52 company． The Women and Work Survey 2010，commissioned(受……委托)by Grazia magazine，found that almost half of full-time mothers 53 not earning their own money. And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the survey said they wanted to keep working in some way after having children. A 54 higher number of those with children under three said they would prefer to work--preferably part-time----rather than stay at home. Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Women are getting good jobs when they graduate, and working up the career 55 faster than they have ever done." This means that there has to be more 56 between the roles of men and women in a relationship and when they have children. A．precedence I．especially B．connection J．parting C．prospect K．opposite D．slightly L．chores E．ladder M．disliked F．favored N．fluidity G．plan Ｏ．significant H．reversal 47.__________

ce near a big hotel. They were having a good time.

Suddenly the ice __21__. One of the boys fell into the water. The children shouted, "Help! Help!" They didn't know what to do. The two Canadian friends heard them and skated over to get the boy out of the water.

The ice was thin. The two Canadians fell into the water, too. But they tried their best to __22__ the little boy. They knew they must be quick. If they didn't push him up onto the ice, he would soon __23__.

Many people ran over to help. Some of them had ropes and poles. A young man __24__ the water to save the three people.

The boy and the two Canadian women were out of water at last. One of the women didn't feel well. She was sent to the __25__ at once. But she felt very happy because the boy was safe.

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【T17】

A.STOCKS AND SHARES

B.GET INTO THE STOCK EXCHANGE

C.FROM THE OLD ONE

D.OF TIME A.NEITHER ALLOWED TO BECOME PARTNERS IN STOCKBROKING FIRMS,NOR TO BE AUTHORIZED DEALERS IN【T13】______

B.THE NEW FLOOR IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT【T14】______

C.IT IS ONLY A MATTER【T15】______

D.WOMEN HAVE BEEN TRYING TO【T16】______FOR MANY YEARS THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE HAS BEEN FAMOUS AS A PLACE FOR MEN ONLY, AND WOMEN USED TO BE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO ENTER.BUT THE WORLD IS CHANGING DAY BY DAY, AND EVEN THE STOCK EXCHANGE, WHICH SEEMED TO BE A MEN"S CASTLE, IS GRADUALLY OPENING ITS DOORS TO THE OTHER SEX ON 16 TH NOVEMBER 1971, A GREAT DECISION WAS TAKE

N.THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNCIL (THE BODY OF MEN THAT ADMINISTERS THE STOCK EXCHANGE) DECIDED THAT WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED ONTO THE NEW TRADING FLOOR WHEN IT OPENED IN 1973.BUT THE "CASTLE" HAD NOT BEEN COMPLETELY CONQUERE

D.THE FIRST GIRLS TO WORK IN "THE HOUSE" WERE NOT BROKERS OR JOBBERS.THEY WERE【T17】______.THEY WERE SIMPLY JUNIOR CLERKS AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS. 【T18】______.SEVERAL VOTES HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN "THE HOUSE" TO SEE WHETHER THEMEMBERS WOULD BE WILLING TO ALLOW WOMEN TO BECOME MEMBERS, BUT THE ANSWER HAS ALWAYS BEEN "NO".THERE HAVE BEEN THREE REFUSALS OF THIS KIND SINCE 1967.NOW WOMEN ARE ADMITTED, ALTHOUGH IN A VERY JUNIOR CAPACITY.TWO FORMS OF JOBBERS MADE AN APPLICATION TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNCIL TO BE ALLOWED TO EMPLOY GIRL CLERKS.PERMISSION WAS FINALLY GIVE

N.A MEMBER OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE EXPLAINED AFTER THIS NEWS HAD BEEN GIVEN, "【T19】______.ALL THE JOBBERS WILL HAVE THEIR OWN STANDS, WITH SPACE FOR A TELEPHONE AND TYPEWRITERS , THEREFORE THERE WILL HAVE TO BE TYPISTS AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS.SO WOMEN MUST BE ALLOWED I

N." THIS DECISION DID NOT MEAN A VERY GREAT VICTORY IN THE WAR FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOME

N.HOWEVER, IT WAS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTIO

N.THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW BUILDING WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO WOMEN BEING ALLOWED TO HAVE FULL MEMBERSHIP OF THE STOCK EXCHANG

E.【T20】______; IT MUST HAPPE

N.