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Pediatricians from a US university have taken a look at one measure of children’s well-being in Egypt, the Philippines and India, the extent to which children are subject to corporal punishment and abuse. The data revealed interesting cultural differences about what seems to be acceptable when it comes to physically disciplining children. Among the things we learned, for instance, was that in India, slapping a child in the face or head is more common than spanking them, the researchers say. And in Egypt, twenty-five percent of the mothers said that they had beaten their child up, which was defined as hitting them over and over again with a closed fist. And then the other interesting things were like the Philippines, the rate of telling people that evil spirits were going to get them, the kind of emotional, kind of threatening to lock them out of the home, was very high. However, despite the differences in punishment methods, some notable similarities have b
A. India.
B. Egypt.
C. The Philippines.
D. Not mentioned.

[单项选择]This passage might be taken from
A. a text book
B. a science fiction
C. a popular magazine
D. a report of a manufacturer

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[单项选择]Where is the passage most probably taken from
A. A fiction book.
B. A history book.
C. A book on American culture.
D. A book on political scienc

[填空题]Where is the passage likely to be taken from

[单项选择]Read the pieces taken from five letters to a magazine by five people commenting on an article about global warming. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each person ( 61 to 65) to one of the statements (A to G)given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. Mikhil Jaisinghani: After reading your article "The Truth About Global Warming" , I’’m no less concerned about the earth’’s environmental condition. You say "Scientists are still differing with huge gaps in their knowledge." But Lindzen, the writer of the article, is no closer to the truth simply because he can criticize. Global warming may be far from understood, but let us act to prevent it anyway, just in case the effects are real. John Leaver: It’’s shameful that you present Lindzen’’s views on climate change as "The Truth About Global Warming." It seems that your magazine is keeping an open mind, even though you admit that most climate scientists disagree with Lindzen’’s opinions. You characterize the

[填空题]This article begins with an episode taken from a sci-fi story with Jane Hanson as its heroine.

[单项选择] New ice core samples taken from the centre of the Greenland ice-sheet have given a detailed record of the last "interglacial (间冰期)" which rail from about 135,000 to 115,000 years ago. The cores, taken from a depth of 2,780 to 2,870 metres, show that during this period the climate oscillated(摆动) between three states instead of remaining in one, as in the whole of recorded human history. The middle state was like our own, but the others were either’’ much colder or warmer. Worse, it seems that the climate flipped from one condition to another very rapidly. "It apparently took very little time, perhaps less than a decade or two, to shift between the states," Dr. J.C. W. White of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado wrote earlier this year in the scientific journal, Nature: "We humans have built a remarkable socio-economic system during perhaps the only time when it could be built, when the climate was stable enough to let us develop the agricul
A. there is an unseen hand controlling the earth’’ s movement
B. there is an operating manual warning people against air-conditioning in the factory
C. people should prepare operating manuals to tell workers how to get greater comfort
D. people have been enjoying the most comfortable climate in Earth’’ s history.