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Over the last 25 years, British society has changed a great deal-or at least many parts of it have. In some ways, however, very little has changed, particularly where attitudes are concerned. Ideas about social class-whether a person is "working-class" or "middle-class"-are one area in which changes have been extremely slow.
In the past, the working-class tended to be paid less than middle-class people, such as teachers and doctors. As a result of this and also of the fact that workers’ jobs were generally much less secure, distinct differences in life-styles and attitudes came into existence. The typical working man would collect his wages on Friday evening and then, it was widely believed, having given his wife her "housekeeping", would go out and squander’ the rest on beer and betting.
The stereotype of what a middle-class man did with his money was perhaps nearer the truth. He was-and still is—in clined to take a
A. middle-class ways of spending money
B. working-class ways of spending the weekend
C. working-class drinking habits
D. middle-class attitudes
[单项选择]Over the last 40 years there has been a great increase not only in the number of agricultural pesticides in use but also in the care and sophistication with which they are used by farmers. Nevertheless, the proportion of agricultural crops lost to certain pests worldwide has increased over the same period, even when the pests concerned have not developed resistance to existing pesticides.
Which of the following, if true, best explains how improvements in pesticide use have been accompanied by greater losses to certain pests
A. Some dangerous but relatively ineffective pesticides common 40 years ago are no longer in widespread use.
B. As pesticides have become increasingly pest-specific, controlling certain pests with pesticides has turned out to cost more in many cases than the value of crop losses caused by those pests.
C. Because today’s pesticides typically have more specific application conditions than did pesticides in use 40 years ago, today’s farmers observe their fields more closely than did farmers 40 years ago.
D. Certain pest-control methods that some farmers use today do not involve the use of chemical pesticides but are just as effective in eliminating insect pests as those that do.
E. (E) Forty years ago, much less was known about the effects of pesticides on humans and other mammalian species than is now known.
[单项选择]Over the last five years, Eagle Trust Bank has seen the number of its retail customer accounts drop by over 40 percent. Over this same period, the price of Eagle Trust stock has increased by more than 80 percent. This phenomenon has perplexed certain investors, who believe that a bank’s stock should drop if its number of customer accounts drops.
Which of the following, if true over the last five years, best accounts for the observed movement in the price of Eagle Trust stock ？（）
A. Two years ago Eagle Trust was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting irregularities, but last year the company was cleared of all charges.
B. Eagle Trust recently implemented a highly publicized program for no-fee home mortgages.
C. Eagle Trust is in the process of switching its customer base from retail customers to commercial customers, which now account for over 75 percent of the bank’s revenues.
D. There have been many aggressive new entrants into the retail customer banking business over the last five years.
E. Eagle Trust is known for offering one of the best employee benefits packages in the industry.
[简答题]Over the past ten years, a huge change has taken place in China’s economy. The traditional economic system has been transformed, and a new market economic system has been established. The national economy continued to increase by 10% for five years, Additionally, the Chinese Government has taken effective steps to increase its exports to the United States and European countries.
[单项选择]For the last hundred years the climate has been growing much warmer. This has had a number of different effects. Since the beginning of the 20th century, glaciers (冰河) have been melting very rapidly. For example, the Muir Glacier in. Alaska has retreated 2 miles in 10 years. Secondly, rising temperatures have been causing the snowline to retreat on mountains all over the world. In Peru, for example, it has risen as much as 2,700 feet in 60 years.
As a result of this, vegetation has also been changing. In Canada, the agricultural crop line has shifted 50 to 100 miles northward. In the same way cool-climate trees like birches and spruce have been dying over large areas of Eastern Canada. In Sweden the tree line has moved up the mountains by as much as 65 feet since 1930.
According to the passage, the Muir Glacier has retreated because ______.
A. glaciers have been melting very gradually
B. the climate has been growing much warmer
C. the snowline has retreated on mountains
D. vegetation has been changing
