[简答题]It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Love My Children, I Hate My Life," is arousing much chatter—-nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight. "
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single-morn Sandra Bullock, a

[单项选择]It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter–nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive–and newly single–mom Sandra Bullock, as wel
A. temporary delight
B. enjoyment in progress
C. happiness in retrospect
D. lasting reward

[单项选择]Before the general election many senior citizens signed the（　）against the spreading of nuclear arms.
A. contract
B. petition
C. supplication
D. potential

[单项选择]Where does Jennifer live nowJohnson’s company deals
A. in computer equipment
B. in training courses such as French.
C. in trading with some Canadian companies.

[单项选择]Where does Jennifer live nowJennifer’s cell-phone number is
A. 010—52167898
B. 010—52137818
C. 010—52167818

[单项选择]The recent surprise resignation of the company’s CEO is not expected to affect the share price （）.
A. adversely
B. appropriately
C. unanimously
D. dissentingly

[单项选择]To my surprise, at yesterday’s meeting he again brought （） the plan that had been disapproved a week before．
A. about
B. out
C. back
D. up

[单项选择]Where does Jennifer live nowIs Jennifer satisfied with the working hours
A. Yes.
B. No.
C. It doesn’t say.

[单项选择]Where does Jennifer live nowWhat does Jennifer most concern about the job she is applying for
A. salary and fringe benefits
B. paid vacation
C. bonus at the Chinese New Year

[单项选择]Where does Jennifer live nowWhat does Jennifer complain about her current company
A. The salary is not good.
B. The workload is too heavy.
C. There’s no paid vacation.

[单项选择]Where does Jennifer live nowWhere does Jennifer live now
A. Beijing
B. Shanghai
C. Xia’men

[单项选择]In Bassaria a group of that country’s most senior judges has criticized the uniform mandatory sentences recently introduced for certain specific crimes. The judges argue that such sentences, by depriving them of all discretion in setting sentences, make it impossible for them to consider either aggravating or extenuating circumstances and so make it impossible to achieve true justice — the fitting of the severity of the punishment to the gravity of the particular crime.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest evidence for the claim that in Bassaria the newly introduced mandatory sentences are not necessarily a change for the worse with respect to achieving true justice as defined in the argument
A. Before mandatory sentencing, judges in eastern Bassaria imposed strikingly different sentences from those in western Bassaria for equally grave instances of the same kind of offense.
B. In Bassaria the frequency of crimes that have been made subject to mandatory sentences is lower now than it was just prior to the introduction of mandatory sentencing.
C. The law introducing mandatory sentences was passed in the legislature of Bassaria by a large majority and is unlikely to be repealed in the foreseeable future.
D. There used to be a wide difference between the minimum and the maximum sentences allowed by law in cases of crimes now subject to mandatory sentences.
E. (E) In Bassaria judges are appointed for life and are thus not easily influenced by political pressure groups.

[单项选择]What was Mr. Fayyad’s interaction with senior European Union officials（　）.
A. Attending business parties.
B. Holding talks.
C. Dining together.
D. Texting messages.

[单项选择]______ our great surprise, the new secretary can speak four foreign languages.
A. Of B. In
C. To D. For

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It comes as a surprise, given Microsoft’s notorious tenacity, but the software giant is definitely out to clear its antitrust plate. After its settlement with the Justice Department, the company has now struck an agreement to end more than 100 private class-action suits and signalled that it wants to do the same for the case brought against it by the European Commission. (41)
Yet recent events suggest that it will not be that easy for Microsoft to shrug off its legal woes. For a start, the nine state attorneys-general opposing the federal settlement have asked the trial judge to Impose tougher remedies. (42) . And this week, a Senate committee hearing was dominated by criticism of the federal settlement.
The least of Microsoft’s problems are the class-action suits, filed on behalf of consumers who say they were harmed by the company’s behaviour. Giving money to schools is a good idea. But half of the gift would be in the form of free Microsoft so