[单项选择]The computer revolution may well change society as （）as did the Industrial Revolution.
A. certainly
B. insignificantly
C. fundamentally
D. comparatively

[单项选择]The computer revolution may well change society as （　） as did the Industrial Revolution.
A. certainly
B. insignificantly
C. fundamentally
D. comparatively

[单项选择]They are endeavoring to change society as a whole.（　）
A. trying
B. working
C. doing
D. making

[填空题]What is considered moral in one society may be ______ in another, depending on different social values. (moral)

[单项选择]Computer technology will ______ a revolution in business administration.
A. bring around
B. bring about
C. bring out
D. bring up

[单项选择]The author may regard the change brought about by the dotcom downdraft as an opportunity to______.

[单项选择]We may infer that a change in class relationships after the close of the Middle Ages produced greater productivity because ______.
A. freemen had incentive to produce more
B. masters had greater incentive to work their workers harder
C. slaves never starved, no matter what they produced
D. productivity could go in only one direction

[单项选择]The purpose of the passage may well be summarized as _________.


A. to illustrate the functional differences of real telephones and Internet telephones.
B. to demonstrate the working of mobile phones.
C. to show the impact of Internet phone calls on real life.
D. to teach how to make an on-line phone call.

[单项选择]It is generally believed that ambition may be well regarded if ______.


A. its returns well compensate for the sacrifices
B. it is rewarded with money, fame and power
C. its goals are spiritual rather than material
D. it is shared by the rich and the famous

[单项选择]From the passage we may well understand that the author ______.

[单项选择]

Text 4
Historians may well look back on the 1980s in the United States as a time of rising affluence side by side with rising poverty. The growth in affluence is attributable to an increase in professional and technical jobs, along with more two career couples whose combined incomes provide a" comfortable living". Yet simultaneously, the nation’ s poverty rate rose between 1973 and 1983 from 11.1 percent of the population to 15.2, or by well over a third. Although the poverty rate declined somewhat after 1983, it was still held at 13.5 percent in 1987, comprising a population of 32:5 million Americans.
The definition of poverty is a matter of debate. In 1795, a group of English magistrates decided that a minimum in come should be "the cost of a gallon loaf of bread, multiplied by three, plus an allowance for each dependent". Today the Census Bureau defines the threshold of poverty in the United States as the minimum amount of money
A. 259 million.
B. 117 million.
C. 175 million.
D. 240 million.