[简答题]Additional social stresses may also occur because of the population explosion or problems arising from mass migration movements-themselves made relatively easy nowadays by modem means of transport.

[填空题]Social contacts also provide us with ______.

[单项选择]

An important consequence arises because the social security program is purely pay-as-you-go financed, （） most pension plans, at least in the private sector, are fully funded. Thus, greater contracting-out implies greater prefunding of pension commitments.

A. whereas
B. because
C. so that
D. therefore

[填空题]Australian schools and social institutions may have contributed to the problem of suicide among boys by focusing on giving girls more opportunities while leaving boys on their own.

[填空题]A child with strong social skills may be difficult to get along with.

[填空题]Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many (51) . The simple (52) for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things (53) in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements (54) interest, and more groups and organizations (55) different beliefs. In (56) , there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in (57) societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by (58) more areas of life to decision. In a simple-racial (59) , there are (60) occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for (61) because everything seems to be the same. And (62) conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Social change is also likely to occur more frequently and (63) in