[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.

[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. CFI ha

[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. because there is discrimination and denial of opportunity in the U.S.
B. if we aim at educational and economic equity and parity
C. because it will take 43 years to end job discrimination
D. when there is no reasonable timetable in the U.S.

[单项选择]According to a recent research, listening to music is what most people do to ease pressure; with watching television is a closed second（）
A. 最近一项研究表明，大多数人会借助听音乐和看电视来缓解压力。
B. 通过最近的研究我们了解到，最多的人借助听音乐来缓解压力，其次是借看电视来缓解压力。
C. 通过最近的研究我们了解到，听音乐是缓解压力的最有效的办法，其次是看电视。
D. 最近一项研究表明，大多数人首选听音乐来缓解压力，紧随其后的是看电视。

[单项选择]According to a recent survey, marriage is fattening. Cited as evidence is the survey’s finding that the average woman gains 23 pounds and the average man gains 18 pounds during 13 years of marriage.
The answer to which of the following questions would be most relevant in evaluating the reasoning presented in the survey
A. Why was the period of time studied in the survey 13 years, rather than 12 or 14
B. Did some of the men surveyed gain less than 18 pounds during the time they were married
C. How much weight is gained or lost in 13 years by single people of comparable age to those surveyed
D. Were the women surveyed as active as the men surveyed, at the time the survey was made
E. (E) Will the reported gains be maintained over the lifetimes of the persons surveyed

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