[单项选择]According to the passage, before the welfare reform was carried out,______.
A. the poverty rate was lower
B. average living standards were higher
C. the average worker was paid higher wages
D. the poor used to rely on government aid

[单项选择]As can be gathered from the passage, before 1910 the normal running time of a film was probably ______.


A. 15 minutes or less
B. between 15 and 30 minutes
C. between 30 and 45 minutes
D. 1 hour or more

[单项选择]From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at______.
A. saving welfare funds
B. rebuilding the work ethic
C. providing more jobs
D. cutting government expenses

[单项选择]According to the passage more government assistance is needed for the Eskimos in______


A. providing schools.
B. safeguarding their traditional means of livelihood.
C. encouraging agricultural production.
D. promoting industrial job possibilities.

[单项选择]Which is true according to the passage


A. We are free to do what we like in our dreams.
B. We forget almost everything when we wake up.
C. We enjoy our dreams most of the tim

[单项选择]According to the passage, electric response audiometry can be used _________.


A. whether a person is awake or asleep
B. only if a person is relaxed
C. particularly if a person hears a loud noise
D. particularly when a person is dreaming

[单项选择]According to the passage, rain prediction requires a quantitative description of droplet collision in turbulence for which of the following reasons


A. The "sling effect" remains unproven and requires experimental corroboration.
B. The degree to which droplets collide is the only reliable method of assessing air flow.
C. The degree of turbulence may help forecast the formation of large-size droplets that precipitate rain.
D. Such factors as warm and cold fronts and individual cloud formations could not be performed otherwise.
E. (E) The laws which govern the formation of concentration heterogeneities still need to be discerned.

[单项选择]According to the passage, pessimists believe that __________.

[单项选择]According to the passage, politicians support dependency because ______.


A. they want to exert their sympathetic power
B. they desire to be reelected
C. they are not interested in doing good things
D. they have a lot of supporters

[单项选择]Why does fashion change according to the passage


A. Because people prefer variety in life.
B. Because some people want to create new business.
C. Because old things are always replaced by new things.
D. Because some persons promote fashion change to make more money.

[单项选择]According to the passage, standardized tests work most effectively when ______.

[单项选择]According to the passage long periods of volcanic inactivity can lead to a volcanic cone's ______.


A. strongest eruption
B. sudden growth
C. destruction
D. unpredictability

[单项选择]According to the passage, children suffering from autism are unable to _______.


A. play musical instrument.
B. interact with other people.
C. recognize their parents.
D. be invited to birthday parties.

[单项选择]According to the passage, globalization takes over the part of empire because it______.
A. promotes the progress of other countries.
B. stimulates the independence of other countries.
C. gives birth to the dependence of America on other countries.
D. integrate the world into a whole.

[单项选择]According to the passage, modern societies control supply and demand______.


A. by fixing prices in specific industries
B. by means of money and the price mechanism
C. by keeping a watchful eye on relative price changes
D. by direct intervention in the pricing of goods and services

[单项选择]According to the passage, the collective unconscious and the personal and unconscious have in common which of the following


A. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious are hereditary, deriving from common cultural experiences, including symbolic archetypes.
B. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious share an extricable link with the conscious that should be made evident.
C. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious contain repressed experiences.
D. Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious share a position at the center of the human ego.
E. (E) Both the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious include dreams, fantasies, and actions that should be made conscious.

[单项选择]According to the passage, universities like Harvard should______

[单项选择]According to this passage, the nineteenth century seems to be an age of ______.


A. enlightenment
B. literature
C. journals
D. homesteaders