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[填空题]We want (product)______a new citizen who in turn will create a new world.
[单项选择]Questions 21-25
We are not who we think we are.
The American self-image is suffused with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable-a place where brains, energy and ambition are what counts, not the circumstances of one’s birth.
The Economic Mobility Project, an ambitious research initiative led by Pew Charitable Trusts, looked at the economic fortunes of a large group of families over time, comparing the income of parents in the late 1960s with the income of their children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is the finding: "The ’rags to riches’ story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the top.
That is right, just 6 percent of children born to parents who ranked in the bottom fifth of the study sample, in terms of income, were able to bootstrap the
A. Children from low-income families are unable to bootstrap their way to the top.
B. Hollywood actors and actresses are upwardly mobile from rags to riches.
C. The rags to riches story is more fiction than reality.
D. The rags to riches story is only true for a small minority of whites.
[简答题]We expend so much energy trying to fix who we are, we rarely get to know ourselves. If we realized how precious the gist of life is, we would not waste a moment trying to improve it. If we really understood how precious we are to the gift of life, we would not waste time trying to fix ourselves.
[单项选择]Things will turn bad if we ______ there on time.
A. not get B. don’t get C. won’t get
[填空题]If we want to get some information about a new country, we could __________.
[单项选择]Why does the man want a new job
A. He’s bored.
B. He quits his job.
C. He wants more money.
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When we learn something new, we tend to store the new information by ______.
A. associating it with something we have already stored
B. deleting the old information in our memory
C. keeping both new and old information in the brain side by side
[填空题]We need people who are (reception) () to new ideas.
[简答题]turn over a new leaf
[填空题]Who will probably read this page
Those who want to ______ in Australia and New Zealand.
[简答题] Generation X
Who are we Why are we called "Generation X" Where did we come from Where are we going What’’s going on here Where’’s the Beef This passage offers some (but only some) of the answers, and points you to other internet sources that can help you find the rest of the answers. Here’’s a brief "FAQ" (Frequently Asked Questions) on Generation X:
How did we get this name, "Generation X" anyway Blame Douglas Coupland of British Columbia, Canada, for one. It was also the name of a British Punk group in the 1970s featuring 1980s soloist Billy Idol.
In a 1995 interview, Coupland denied any connection, saying: "The book’’s title came not from Billy Idol’’s band, as many supposed, but from the final chapter of a funny sociological book on American class structure titled Class, by Paul Fussell. In his final chapter, Fussell named an "X" category of people who wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money, and social climbin