Young people who drink or use drugs are mainly influenced by both their parents and peer pressure.

第1题

The website is very___with young people, who like its content and style.A．familiarB．popula

The website is very___with young people, who like its content and style.

A．familiar

B．popular

C．similar

D．interested

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第2题

The songs of Bob Dylan are very popular among young people, who regard him ______ other mu

sicians.A.as more superior than B.as more superior toC.as superior toD.as superior than

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第3题

"A lost generation" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to______.A．a generation f

"A lost generation" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to______.

A．a generation full of hope

B．the sad and confused young men

C．a big crowd of young men

D．a group of people who have lost their way

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第4题

These programs are designed for those young people who want to ______ higher educatio

A.persist

B.purse

C.purchase

D.pursue

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第5题

For some employers, the policy of lifelong employment is particularly important because it

means that they can put money and effort into their staff(职员)training and make them loyal to the company. What they do is to select young people who have potential(潜能)and who can be trained, They then give the young people the kinds of skills that will make them suitable employees for the company. In other words, they adjust their training to their particular needs.

One recently employed graduate says that she is receiving a great deal of valuable training from the company. "This means that I will be a loyal employee，"she says, "And it also means that the company will want to keep me. I am an important investment for them. So the policy is a good one because it benefits both the employer and the employee. "

Recently, however, attitudes towards lifelong employment are beginning to change. Employees are slowly beginning to accept the idea that lifelong employment is not always in their best interest and that changing firms can have career advantages.

The purpose of lifelong employment is to______

A．adjust the needs of the company to its employees

B．make employees loyal to their company

C．select the best skilled young employees

D．keep the skilled staff satisfied

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第6题

Millions of words have been written about young people in the United States. There are rea

sons for this great interest in the ideas, feelings, and actions of youth.

Today there are about seven million Americans in the colleges and universities. Young persons under twenty-five make up nearly half of the American population. Many of these will soon be in charge of the nation. Naturally, their ideas are important to everyone in the country, and it is necessary for older people to understand what they think and feel.

College students today have strong opinions about right and wrong. They are deeply interested in making a better life for all people, especially for those who have not been given a fair chance before now. They see much that is wrong in the lives of their parents. It is hard for them to see what is right and good in the older ways. As a result, there is often trouble in American families.

Which of the following statements is true？

A．People haven' t written much about American youth.

B．Writers have wasted a great deal of their effort to write about American youth.

C．Much has been written about American youth.

D．Young people' s ideas are not important enough to the USA.

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第7题

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All hi

gh school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become "better" people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out—often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that's a c6ndemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn't explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We've been, told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds either.

Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn't make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—maybe it's just the other way around', and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.

What does the author believe according to the passage？______

A．People used to question the value of college education

B．People used to have full confidence in higher education

C．All high school graduates went to college

D．Very few high school graduates chose to go to college

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第8题

Young people who drink or use drugs are mainly influenced by both their parents and their

pressure.

Other reasons they take that first drink are to be rebellious (反抗的), for curiosity or "kicks" (刺激) or to escape an unpleasant environment. And young people drink and use drugs because alcohol (酒精) and drugs are at hand.

After first experimental use, young people continue to drink or use drugs because they believe these substances can relieve boredom, increase energy, decrease anxiety, solve problems, or help them socially. They may simply like the "high" they get in the early and middle stages of substance use. After continued use, they will drink or use drugs because they become physically and psychologically (心理地) addicted (上瘾的).

Now that we have admitted that we have to solve this problem. We must decide how to deal with this challenge. Winning this will take a great effort involving local, state, and national government. It will require the effort of schools, but it cannot be done by schools alone. It will take family and com munity involvement. Already a great amount of time, energy and expert knowledge has been directed toward dealing with it but the problem continues.

Which of the following is not mentioned as the reason of drinking and using drugs in the passage？

A．the selling of alcohol and drugs

B．pressure from their parents and relatives

C．curiosity

D．their eagerness to experience what is not permissible to them

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第9题

Most Americans don't like to get advice from members of their family. When they need advic

e, they don't usually 【61】 people they know. 【62】 , many Americans write letters to newspapers and magazines which give advice 【63】 many different subjects, including family problems, sex, the use 【64】 the language, health, cooking, childcare, clothes, and how to buy a house or a car.

【65】 newspapers regularly print letters 【66】 readers with problems. Along 【67】 the letters there are answers written 【68】 people who are supposed to know how to 【69】 such problems. Some of these writers are doctors; 【70】 are lawyers or educators. But two of the most famous writers of advice 【71】women without special training 【72】 this kind of work. One of them answers letters 【73】 to " Dear Abby". The other is addressed 【74】 " Dear Ann Landers". Experience is their preparation for 【75】 advice.

There is one writer who has not lived long 【76】 to have much experience. She is a girl named Angel Cavaliere, who started writing 【77】 for newspaper readers 【78】 the age of ten. Her advice to young readers now 【79】 regularly in the Philadelphia Bulletin in a column 【80】 DEAR ANGEL.

(61)

A．talk

B．ask

C．tell

D．speak

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第10题

The young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are talking nothing but nonsense,

as in their hearts they must surely know.

No, the village is not dead. There is more life in it now than there ever was. But it seems that "village life" is dead. Gone forever. It began to decline(衰落) about a hundred years ago, when many girls left home to go into service in town many miles away, and men also left home in increasing number in search of a work, and home was where work was. There are still a number of people alive today who can remember what "village life" meant in the early years of the present century. It meant knowing and being known by everybody else in the village. It meant finding your entertainment in the village of within walking distance of it. It meant housewives tied to the home all day and every day. It meant going to bed early to save lamp-oil and coal.

Then came the First World War and the Second World War. After each war, new ideas, new attitudes, new trades and occupations were revealed to villagers. The long-established order of society was no longer taken for granted. Electricity and the motorcar were steadily operating to make "village life" and "town life" almost alike. Now with the highly developed science and technology and high-level social welfare for all, there is no point whatever in talking any longer about "village life". It is just life, and that a better life.

Finally, if we have any doubts about the future, or about the many changes, which we have seen in our lives, we have only to look in at the school playground any mid-morning; or see the children as they walk homeward in little groups. Obviously these children are better fed, better clothed, better educated, healthier, prettier and happier than any generation of children that ever before walked the village street.

By saying that village is not dead, but "village life" is dead, the writer suggests that______.

A．those young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are wrong

B．the two statements are against each other

C．village life today is rather uninteresting

D．village life today is no longer like what it is used to be

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第11题

Today, moving and changing are as much a part of a modern business way of life as they are

a part of the native American's or the early pioneer's way of life. And the trend is toward even greater mobility, particularly within the management sector of American business.

In the early fifties, only eight or nine out of a hundred young men changed their jobs within the first three years with the company. In the past few years, almost thirty-five percent of the college-graduated work force changed jobs within the same period. These people want to intensify their management training. Since most jobs take only a year to a year and a half to master, in order to continue learning, they have to make a job change. Even company presidents tend to be seen as mobile specialists, staying with one company an average of only five years.

Company presidents in the United States today tend to be young men who begin their careers with educational backgrounds in engineering science, or business management. They have worked for a few years as technical specialists and quickly moved into higher management positions. Most of them were making ＄ 30 000 per year by the time they reached thirty. On an average, these men have only twenty years working experience at management level when they become company presidents. On the way to the top, they have an average of eleven promotions and seven city transfers.

Friendships remain casual and are usually derived from business contracts. Families of these career men have little time to put down roots in and become part of a community.

In the past, a few men attained high positions through family and social connections; today, high positions go to men who are mobile, and have good educational, backgrounds.

According to the passage, an increasing number of future company presidents might be ______.

A．people who have spent a number of years with one company

B．young people who do not want to move often, but are steady and dependable

C．people who have spent a long time concerned with community affairs

D．young people who have good education and are willing to move around

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