听力原文:The traditional American family used to have a working father, a housewife-mother - 赤豆云问答

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听力原文：What is the difference between a traditional IRA and a pension？（31)A．A worker can

听力原文：What is the difference between a traditional IRA and a pension？

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A．A worker can invest ＄ 4,500 into IRA while he can put only ＄4,000 into the pension.

B．The .saver of IRA can decide the investment of the account.

C．In IRA savings can be withdrawn freely and this is not allowed in pension.

D．Money put in IRAs will be taxed and money in pension is tax-free.

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第2题

听力原文：M: What do you think of the prospects for online education？ Is it going to replac

e the traditional school？

W: I doubt it. Schools are here to stay because they are much more than just book learning. Even though more and more kids are going online, I believe fewer of them will quit school altogether.

Q: What does the woman think of the conventional schools？

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A．They will be replaced by on-line education sooner or later.

B．They will attract fewer kids as on-line education expands.

C．They will continue to exist along with on-line education.

D．They will limit their teaching to certain subjects only.

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第3题

听力原文：Today school children in many countries have high rates of failing eyesight. Two

听力原文： Today school children in many countries have high rates of failing eyesight. Two methods have been proposed to prevent near-sightedness, one Western and one Chinese. The Western method was developed by Mr. Bates, a British actor, in the early part of last century. He trained people to relax their eyes frequently during a period of intense reading. His methods included covering open eyes with the palms of the hands and looking at distant objects by moving the eyes from side to side instead of staring at them. Bates also encouraged school children to look frequently at a calendar on the wall of the classroom to relax their eyes. A famous British writer even wrote a book on the beneficial effects of the Bates' method for his vision.

The traditional Chinese method involves pressing certain points around the eyes with the fingers. This also relaxes excessive tension in eye muscles, it is best done by doctors trained in traditional Chinese medicine, but it can also be done by students themselves.

Teachers and parents should encourage pupils to relax their eyes frequently while reading and studying.

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A．He was a doctor.

B．He was a writer.

C．He was an actor.

D．He was a teacher.

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第4题

听力原文：In the United States, the average age of a college student used to be between eig

听力原文： In the United States, the average age of a college student used to be between eighteen and twenty-six years old. Not any more. Over the years, this has changed. Now many colleges and universities boast a large number of non-traditional students.

Many of these non-traditional students are older than the traditional students. Senior citizens are joining the ranks of non-traditional students on campuses throughout the United States. These non- traditional students frequently work during the day and go to school at night or on weekends. They may have started college after they graduated from high school, but later, because of family, or work responsibilities, had their education interrupted.

Traditional Students benefit from having older students in their classes. Senior citizens are excellent role models for some younger students who may not take college as seriously as they should. Senior attend college or the university, not because they have to, but because they want to. Some senior citizens take individual college courses only for personal enrichment. Others attend college to fulfill their lifelong dream of earning college degrees.

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A．Under the ages of eighteen.

B．Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six.

C．Between the ages of twenty-six and fifty-six.

D．Over sixty-five years of age.

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第5题

听力原文：One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people ha

听力原文： One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own lifestyles. In more traditional societies, when children grow up,. they are expected to live in the same area as their parent, to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family home at an early age, marry--or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose occupations different from those of their parents.

In our upwardly mobile society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to find better jobs, to make more money, and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, however, the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the diversion between them. Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other.

Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, elderly people are valued for their wisdom, but in our society, the knowledge of a lifetime may become dated overnight. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.

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A．one.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Four.

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第6题

听力原文：Today school children in many countries have high rates of falling eye-sight. Two

听力原文： Today school children in many countries have high rates of falling eye-sight. Two methods have been proposed to prevent near-sightedness, one Western and one Chinese. The Western method was developed by Mr. Bates, a British actor, in the early part of this century. He trained people to relax their eyes frequently during a period of intense reading. His methods included covering open eyes with the palms of the hands and looking at distant objects by moving the eyes from side to side instead of staring at them. Bates also encouraged school children to look frequently at a calendar on the wall of the classroom to relax their eyes. A famous British writer even wrote a book on the beneficial effects of the Bates method for his vision.

The traditional Chinese method involves pressing certain points around the eyes with fingers. This also relaxes excessive tension in eye muscles. It is best done by doctors trained in traditional Chinese medicine, but it can also be done by students themselves.

Teachers and parents should encourage pupils to relax their eyes frequently while reading and studying.

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A．He was a doctor.

B．He was a writer.

C．He was an actor.

D．He was a teacher.

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第7题

听力原文：M: Oh, Come on! Don't force me to meet her. She is neither obedient nor gentle. S

he is not that type I like.

W: Times are changing, and you'll never find a woman that will shine your shoes and fill your beer mug all the time. Wake up.

Q: What does the woman imply？

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A．A woman cannot shine the man's shoes.

B．A woman cannot allow her man to drink.

C．The man can never find a traditional woman as before.

D．As times are changing, women are no longer gentle.

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第8题

听力原文：Apple's iPod profoundly changed the way people experience music．What will it do f

听力原文： Apple's iPod profoundly changed the way people experience music．What will it do for television？ The industry is intrigued by the announcement that episodes of the hit ABC shows Desperate Housewives and Lost will be available for Apple's new video iPod. Episodes will go on sale for $1.99 on iTunes the day after they are broadcast．For ABC and its parent Walt Disney Co., the bet is that the new technology will bring in more new fans of the programs than will be taken away from watching them on traditional broadcast television. Now the iPod will join digital video recorders and DVDs as another way of seeing television programs other than their regularly scheduled times on the ABC stations．Leon Long，chairman of ABC's affiliate board believes if viewers have the choice of watching Desperate Housewives on their wide-screen television with surround sound or a two-inch iPod screen，they will almost certainly watch it on TV．The iPod option will likely be attractive to people who missed an episode and want to keep up with the story．The downloads might also appeal to techies who want to try out the new product and might not necessarily be fans of the programs, which could bring these shows a new audience.

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A．It changed the source of music.

B．It changed the source of TV programs.

C．It changed the way to appreciate both music and TV programs.

D．It changed people's opinion on traditional broadcast television.

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第9题

听力原文：M: Come in and have a seat please, Ann. Please make yourself at home.W: I am real

听力原文：M: Come in and have a seat please, Ann. Please make yourself at home.

W: I am really grateful for your invitation. I know Thanksgiving is a very traditional family holiday and I am so glad to be with an American family on this occasion.

M: on the fourth Thursday of November every year, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. You know its origin (20) ？

w: Yeah, it has something to do with the first settlers and Indians (20) .

M: Right. The first settlers in Massachusetts started this custom. And large dinners with many relatives are common throughout America on this special day.

W: Do you have traditional dishes that you serve every year？

M: Yes, we do. The traditional foods of Thanksgiving meal include roast turkey, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and bread pudding (20) . I hope you have a good appetite today.

W: What do men do while women are doing the cooking？

M: It's the same every year'--football. We watch one game after another on Thanksgiving (21) . I always think we'd better go out and get some exercise, but every year we fail. We are glued to the tube! When I was young, I always went hunting with my father on Thanksgiving Day morning.

W: What do you do after the meal？

M: After dinner we'd like to go bowling. It's a fan thing to do together as a family (22) . After a couple of games, we go back home and eat the leftovers.

W: I think that Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most important holidays in the States, just like Spring Festival in China.

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A．How to spend Thanksgiving Day.

B．Preparing food on Thanksgiving Day.

C．The origin of Thanksgiving Day.

D．What to do after Thanksgiving meal.

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第10题

听力原文：Not long ago, some of you may have read about the team of mountain climbing scien

听力原文： Not long ago, some of you may have read about the team of mountain climbing scientists who helped to recalculate the elevation of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Of course the elevation of Mount Everest was determined many years ago using traditional surveying methods. But these scientists wanted to make a more precise measurement, using a new method that takes advantage of recent advances in technology; it's called the Glob al Positioning System. The Global Positioning System uses 24 satellites that circle the earth. Each of the satellites is constantly sending out signals, and each signal contains important information that can be used to determine the longitude, latitude and elevation at any point on the earth’s surface. Well in order to use the system to calculate a mount of Everest's elevation, scientists need to put a special receiver on the summit to receive signals from the satellites. The problem with this was that in the past, the receivers were much too heavy for climbers to carry. But now these receivers have been reduced to about the size and weight of a hand-held telephone, so climbers were able to take the receiver to the top of the Everest, and from there, to access the satellite system signals that would allow them to determine the precise elevation. And it turns out that the famous peak is actually a few feet higher than us previously thought.

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A．The advantages of traditional surveying methods.

B．Using satellites to communicate with mountain climbers.

C．Obtaining new information about a mountain.

D．Controlling satellites from the top of a mountain.

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听力原文：The traditional American family used to have a working father, a housewife-mother