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[单项选择]Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a daily paper could be forgiven for having been scared out of his skin.
The reason was crime. It had been rising relentlessly--a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile--and it seemed now to predict the end of the world as we knew it. Death by gunfire, intentional and otherwise, had become commonplace. So too had carjacking and crack dealing, robbery and rape. Violent crime was a gruesome, constant companion. And things were about to get even worse. Much worse. All the experts were saying so.
The cause was the so-called super predator. For a time, he was everywhere. Glowering from the cover of newsweeklies, swaggering his way through foot-thick government reports, he was a scrawny, big-city teenager with a cheap gun in his hand and nothing in his heart but ruthlessness. There were thousands o
A. a young man who was always reported by the newspaper
B. a young man who carried a gun with him
C. the cruel young criminals
D. the young men who hurled the country into deepest chaos
[填空题]The people living in the United States will not be faced with water shortages.
[填空题]Recently, the United States has ceded its early lead in wind development to Asian competitors.
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In the United States the cost of living has been steadily
rising for the past few decades. Food prices, clothing costs, housing expenses,
and tuition fees are{{U}} (36) {{/U}}getting higher and higher. Partly
because of{{U}} (37) {{/U}}need, and partly because of career choices
for personal{{U}} (38) {{/U}}, mothers have been leaving the{{U}}
(39) {{/U}}role of full-time homemaker. Increasingly they have been
going out of home and taking{{U}} (40) {{/U}}jobs in the
society.
Making such a significant role change{{U}} (41)
{{/U}}the life of the entire family, especially the children’s. Some{{U}}
(42) {{/U}}are obvious. For example, dinnertime is at a later hour.
Mothers leave home early in the morning, feeling{{U}} (43) {{/U}}because
they will not be at home when their children return from school. They suppress
their guilt since they believe that their work will benefit everyone in the long
run. {{U}} (44) {{/U}}.
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