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[单项选择]Passage 5
According to a recent publication of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, at the present rate of progress, it will take forty-three years to end job discrimination--hardly a reasonable timetable.
If our goal is educational and economic equity and parity, it is then we need affirmative action to catch up. We are behind as a result of discrimination and denial of opportunity. There is one white attorney for every 680 whites, but only one black attorney for every 4,000 blacks; one white physician for every 659 whites, but only one black physician for every 5,000 blacks; and one white dentist for every 1,900 whites, but only one black dentist for every 8,400 blacks. Less than ! percent of all engineers or-of all practicing chemists is black. Cruel and uncompassionate injustice created gaps like these. We need creative justice and compassion to help us close them.
Actually, in the U.S. context, "reverse discrimination" is illogical and a contradiction in t
A. one black attorney for ever 4000 blacks
B. a lot more black engineers and chemists
C. education and economic development
D. creative justice and compassion
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Passage 1
According to a recent survey, employees in many companies today work longer hours than employees did in 1979．They also take shorter vacations than employees in 1979．It seems that Americans are working harder today than ever before. Or are they A management consultant, Bill Meyer, decided to find out. For three days, he observed an investment banker hard at work. Meyer wrote down everything the banker did during his long workday, At the end of the three-day period, Meyer reviewed the banker’s activities with him. What did they find out They discovered that the man spent 80 percent of his time doing unnecessary work. For example, he attended unnecessary meetings, made redundant (多余的) telephone calls, and spent time packing and unpacking his two big briefcases.
(76) Apparently, many people believe that the more time a person spends at work, the more he or she accomplishes. When employers evaluate employees, they often consider t
A. Many people work long hours but do not always do a lot of work.
B. Most people can get more work done by working longer hours.
C. Most Americans work 80 hours a week and some work even longer.
D. People can make more money by working longer hours.
[简答题]According to recent calculations, maintaining such a rhythm of growth would result in 60 million billion people on the earth in 900 years, which represents 120 inhabitants per square meter.
[填空题]According to recent surveys， 72% of all Americans believe that the United States
government is （46） hi____ information about UFOs. Almost 68% of people think that the government has secret knowledge of extraterrestrial life. It is not （47） ____ （surprise） that the government has come under more and more（48）pr____ to declassify its UFO records and make them public. A variety of different groups have been involved in these efforts.
One group to become involved is called CFI， the Coalition for Freedom of Information， John Podesta， who was White House Chief of Staff during Bill Clinton’s （49） ____ （president）， is one of the many high-powered people active in this group. CFI’s aim is not to prove the（50）____（exist）of extraterrestrial life，but to make it easier for scientists in general to study unexplained aerial phenomena. Podesta and his group has asked the Pentagon to declassify its UFO records and therefore provide scientists （51） ____ data that will help in the study of UFOs.
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