[填空题]Today’s students grew up under______.

[单项选择]Today’s students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F. D. R., and they live in a world where amazing innovations (革淅) are common. The current 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having grown up digital (数字的), they are impatient to get on with life.
The easiest way to find kids like these is to check in on entrepreneurship (企业家才能) education, in which colleges and universities try to prepare their students to recognize opportunities and seize them.
A report published last year by the Kauffman Foundation, which finances programs to promote innovation on campuses, noted that more than 50,000 entrepreneurship programs are offered on two-and four-year campuses--up from just 250 courses in 1985. Lesa Mitchell, a Kauffman vice president, says that the foundation is extending the reach of its academic influence, which u
A. in high school
B. in the army
C. in primary school
D. at college

[单项选择]High school and college students today are pushed so much in the direction of specialization （　）little time is left for the further development of the basic reading skills initiated in earlier years.
A. as
B. so that
C. that
D. therefore

[单项选择]Where did the woman grow up
[A] She grew up in Tianjin.
[B] She grew up in New York.
[C] She grew up in Beijing.

[简答题]The adoptees grew up to achieve adult weights that were more similar to their biological parents than their adoptive parents, indicating the influence of a person’s genetic makeup in determining body weight.

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For the generation that grew up during the feminist revolution and the rapid social change of the 1960s and 1970s, it at first seemed achievement enough just to "make it" in a man’s world. But coupled with their ambition, today’s women have developed a fierce determination to find new options for being both parent and professional without sacrificing too much to either role or burning themselves out beyond redemption.
Women have done all of the accommodating in terms of time, energy, and personal sacrifice that is humanly possible, and still they have not reached true integration in the workplace. For a complicated set of reasons—many beyond their control—they feel conflict between their careers and their children. All but a rare few quickly dispel the myth that superwoman ever existed.
For many women, profession and family are pitted against one another on a high stakes collis
A. want to achieve a balance between her loyalties to work and family
B. are stronger advocates of gender equality than the older generation
C. do not want to sacrifice anything at all for the desired liberation
D. are getting no nearer to achieving their ambition

[简答题]The dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp grew up in Los Angeles, California, and hers childhood included comprehensive training in music and dance

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Lisa Fry and Paula Turner grew up across the street from each other in Twin Falls. They never (1) their friendship would last forever. But (2) Fry married, moved to New York City and had a baby, her letters to Turner suddenly went (3) . "Do you think I’ve (4) offended her" Fry asked her husband. Turner, meanwhile, had (5) herself she was no longer important to Fry. "She’s got a family now," she told herself. "We’re just (6) different to be close like before. " Finally, Fry summoned the (7) to call her old friend. At first, the conversation was (8) , yet soon they both admitted that they missed each other. A month later, they got together and quickly fell into their old habit of laughing and (9) secrets. "Thank goodness I finally took (10) ," Fry says. "We both realized we were (11) important to each other as ever. "A. heritage
B. habit
C. legacy
D. custom