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When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 26 to 33 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered 34 to 36 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Why do people marry People divorce often, but they remarry soon enough after they divorce. Now many of them divorce at a much younger age than before. But what many sociologists find difficult to understand is that they seem to be more eager to {{U}} (26) {{/U}} into marriage than get out of it.
In the old days there was every reason to marry young--{{U}} (27) {{/U}} among the working class. In

[单项选择]According to the passage, when are children first expected to study hard
A. Before 6 years of age.
B. Between 6 and 10.
C. After 10 years of age.
D. After 12 years of age.

[单项选择]Passage 1 When young people get their first real jobs,they may face a lot of new,confusing situations. They may find that everything is different from the way things were at school.It is also possible that they will feel uncomfortable and insecure in both professional and social situations.Eventually,they realize that university classes cant be the only preparation for all of the different situations that arise in the working world. Perhaps the best way to learn how to behave in the working world is to identify a worker you admire and observe his behavior.In doing so:you will be able to see what it is that you admire in this person.For example,you will observe how he acts in a crisis.Perhaps even more important,you will be able to see what kind of his approach to daytoday situations is. While you are observing your colleague,you should be asking yourself whether his behavior is like yours and how you can learn from his responses to a variety of situations.By watching and learning
A. what the young people learn in university classes is not adequate for their new life
B. the young men are not well educated
C. the society is too complicated to adopt to
D. they fail to work hard at school

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For the first time, stem cells purified from fat have been used to heal an injury in a living animal. Michael Longaker of Stanford University in California and his team showed in mouse experiments that so-called adipose derived adult stromal (ADAS) cells purified from a rodent’s belly fat could be coaxed to heal a skull fracture too large to mend by itself.
The power of ADAS cells to transform into bone, cartilage and even neurons has been studied for years in test tubes. But Jeffrey Gimble, who studies human ADAS cells at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge says Longaker’s report is an important step forward. "Actually repairing a defect in an animal model had never been done. This is an excellent study." If the same technique works in humans, these cells could be coaxed to mend broken bones and correct other defects in tens of thousands of surgical procedures each year in whic
A. They are easy to operate.
B. Their abstraction causes no pains.
C. They grow fast.
D. Their yields are larg