The Australian couple ______ six children between 1991 and 1998.
A.adapted
B.adopted
C.altered
D.brought
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A.adapted
B.adopted
C.altered
D.brought
•Choose the best word to fill in each gap.
•For each question 21-30, mark one letter A, B, C or D.
According to certain beer commercials, the contemporary version of success consists in moving up to a premium brand that costs a dime or so more per bottle. Credit-card companies would have you (21) success inheres in owning their particular piece of plastic.
Under the flag of success, modern-style, liberal arts colleges are withering (22) business schools are burgeoning... and yet even business schools are having an increasingly hard time finding faculty members, because teaching isn't (23) "successful" enough. Amid a broad consensus that there is a glut of lawyers and an epidemic of strangling litigation, record numbers of young people continue to flock to law school (24) , for the individual practitioner, a law degree is still considered a safe ticket.
Many, by external standards, will be "successes". Yet there is a deadening and dangerous flaw in their philosophy: It has little room, little sympathy and less respect for the noble failure, for the person who (25) past the limits, who aims gloriously high and falls unashamedly (26) .
That sort of ambition doesn't have much place in a world where success is proved by worldly reward (27) by accomplishment itself. That sort of ambition is increasingly thought of as the domain of irredeemable eccentrics, of people who haven't quite caught on—and there is great social pressure not to be one of them.
The irony is that today's success-chasers seem obsessed with the idea of not settling. Yet in doggedly (28) the rather brittle species of success now in fashion, they are restricting themselves to a chokingly narrow swath of turf along the entire (29) of human possibilities. Does it ever (30) to them that, frequently, success is what people settle for when they can't think of something noble enough to be worth tailing at?
(21)
A.believe
B.believed
C.believing
D.to believe
In many families, parents feel that children should make major life decisions by themselves.A parent may try to influence a child to f ollow a particular profession but the child is free to choose another career.Sometimes children do precisely the opposite of what their parents wish in order to assert their independence.A son may deliberately decide not to go into his father’s business because of a fear that he will lose his autonomy in his father’s workplace.This independence from parents is not an indication that parents and children do not love each other.Strong love between parents and children is universal and this is no exception in the American family.Coexisting with such love in the American family are cultural values of self-reliance and independence.
1.The writer discusses the marriage of young adults in order to show that they ().
A.enjoy the freedom of choosing their spouses
B.want to win the permission of their parents
C.have a strong desire to become independent
D.try to challenge the authority of their parents
2.Most young adults in America would get married for the sake of ().
A.love
B.financial concern
C.their parents
D.family background
3.Based on the passage, it can be inferred that ().
A.American young adults are likely to follow the suit of their parents.
B.most American parents never make major decisions for th eir children.
C.American young adults possess cultural values of independence.
D.when a young adult steps into his twenties, he will leave his home permanently.
4.A son is unwilling to work in his father’s business mainly because he ().
A.wishes to make full use of what he has learnt in school
B.wants to prove his independence
C.likes to do the opposite of what his parents approve of
D.tries to show his love for his parents
5.The subject matter of this passage is ().
A.cultural values in the American family
B.marriage arrangements
C.young adult’s pursuit of a career
D.decision making
A、liking
B、likely
C、like
D、alike
A、survey
B、review
C、convey
D、surfing
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