(略)Part Ⅱ VocabularyOld people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders. Events which the older generation remembers vividly are nothing more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer. They don’t like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the young are doing. They are questioning the assumptions of their elders and disturbing their complacency. They take leave to doubt that the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds. What they reject more than anything is conformity. office hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn’t people work best if they were given complete freedom and responsibility And what about clothing Who said that all the men in the world should wear drab gray suits and convict haircuts If we turn our minds to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means Why have the older generation so often used violence to solve their problems Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more material possessions Can: anything be right with the rat-race Haven’t the old lost touch with all that is important in life These are not questions the older generation can shrug off lightly. Their record over the past forty years or so hash’t been exactly spotless. Traditionally, the young have turned to their elders for guidance. Today, the situation might he reversed, The old--if they are prepared to admit it--could earn a thing or two from their children. one of the biggest lessons they could learn is that enjoyment is not "sinful". Enjoyment is a principle one could apply to all aspects of life. It is surely not wrong to enjoy your work and enjoy your leisure; to shed restricting inhibitions, It is surely not wrong to live in the present rather than in the past or future. This emphasis on the present is only to be expected because the young have grown up under the shadow of the bomb: the continual threat of complete annihilation. This is their glorious heritage. Can we be surprised that they should so often question the sanity of the generation that bequeathed it Which of the following would be the best title for this passage
A. Enjoyment will be the only Pursuit in our Life.
B. The Older Generation is Constantly Under Fire.
C. Violence Cannot Apply to All Aspects of Life.
D. The Younger Generation Knows Not the Less.
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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan laid forth the intellectual basis for the likely continued aggressive easing in monetary policy in the weeks ahead in his semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress. The broader point in his prepared testimony is that the improved information and production controls evident in the new economyinduce companies to respond more quickly and in tandem to changes in their business. Mistakes are still made as is evidenced by the unwanted buildup of inventories at the end of last year, but any mistakes are more aggressively addressed than in the past, as is evidenced by manufacturers’ recent slashing of production. Moreover, the increasingly dramatic shifts in economic activity are particularly hard on confidence. Consumers and businesses literally freeze up due to the heightened uncertainty, and run from any perceived risks and curtail their spending and investment. If confidence deflates by enough, then a recession will ensue. Confidence has also been under extraordinary pressure in recent months due to surging energy prices and weaker stock prices. Higher energy bills have acted much like a tax increase, save the checks are largely being written to foreign energy producers. The lower stock prices are having a magnified impact due to the dramatic increase in stock wealth since the mid-1990s. The conduct of monetary policy must adjust to all of this, and thus respond more quickly and aggressively than in the past in an effort to shore up confidence. This explains the dramatic and unprecedented action (at least by a Greenspan-led Federal Reserve) to cut the federal funds rate target by 100 basis points in January: This also suggests that substantially more easing is on the way in the weeks ahead. Just when and by how much will depend on whether confidence continues to fall. The chairman made a point to note that policymakers have significant latitude to ease policy aggressively since inflation remains low and tame. Despite surging energy prices, inflation and inflation expectations remain contained. The Federal Reserve’s economic projections for this year provided as part of the testimony support this non-recessionary view. Real GDP is expected to grow by between 2% and 2. 5% between the fourth quarter of 2000 and the fourth quarter of this year. Since this is below the economy’s potential growth, the jobless rate will rise to approximately 4. 5% by year’s end. Inflation will moderate somewhat in response. Recession risks are rising and as high as they have been since the last downturn almost a decade ago. The key buffer between a soft economy and a recessionary one is confidence, and today’s testimony by the Federal Reserve chairman clearly indicates that policymakers will be as aggressive as they need to be to ensure that confidence erodes no further. With just a bit of luck they will succeed. All of the following may contribute to the deflation of confidence EXCEPT______
A. Lower stock markets.
B. Less production controls.
C. Surging energy prices.
D. More risk perceptions.
Science writer Tom Standage draws apt parallels between the telegraph and the gem of late 20th-century technology, the Internet. Both systems grew out of the cutting edge science of their time. The telegraph’s land lines, underwater cables, and clicking gadgets reflected the 19th century’s research in electromagnetism. The Internet’s computers and high-speed connections reflect 20th-century computer science, information theory, and materials technology. But, while gizmos make a global network possible, it takes human cooperation to make it happen. Standage’s insight in this regard adds depth to his technological history. It underscores the relevance to our own time of the struggles of Samuel Morse in America, William Cooke in England, and other telegraph pioneers. They made the technology work efficiently, sold it to a skeptical public, and overcame national and international bureaucratic obstacles. The solutions they found smooth the Internet’s way today. Consider a couple of technical parallels. Telegrams were sent from one station to the next, where they were received and retransmitted until they reached their destination. Stations along the way were owned by different entities, including national governments. Internet data is sent from one server computer to another that receives and retransmits it until it reaches its destination. Again the computers have a variety of owners. Then there is the social impact. The Internet is changing the way we do business and communicate. It makes possible virtual communities for individuals scattered around the planet who share mutual interests. Yet important as this may turn out to be, it is affecting a world that was already well connected by radio, television, and other telecommunications. The Associated Press, Reuters, and other news services would have spread the Start report quickly without the Internet. In this respect, the global telegraph network was truly revolutionary. The unprecedented availability of global news in real time gave birth to the Associated Press and Reuters news services. It gave a global perspective to newspapers that had focused on local affairs. A provincialism that geographical isolation had forced on people for millennia was gone forever. Some prophets naively hailed this as a force for world peace. They predicted that tensions over cultural and ethnic differences would relax as people interacted in real time. Visionaries say the same about the Internet. While communications can smooth this process, they don’t automatically make it happen. As the experience of the past century and a half has shown, peace takes the will to make it work and sustained effort by all parties. As used in the context, the denotation of "provincialism" (Paragraph 4) is closely associated with______
A. rigidity in thinking.
B. interests in global affairs.
C. limitedness in outlook.
D. residence in the provinces.
林甲为一水果摊摊主,一日其好友白某带着一外地务工姑娘郑某来水果摊买水果,林甲见郑某长得挺俊俏的,且知道白某是专门做人口拐卖“生意”的,就花了2000元钱把郑某买回家,欲让郑某与其弟林乙结婚。到家后,林甲让林乙将郑某骗到地下室,并将地下室的门反锁。期间,林甲帮助林乙强行与郑某发生性关系。林乙多次要求郑某与其结婚,郑某不允,欲自杀,被林乙阻止。林乙见这样拖下去也无望,就打算将郑某卖掉,并将自己的想法告诉林甲,林甲表示同意,并积极寻找买主。一日,趁林甲、林乙不在家,郑某欲逃脱,恰巧被回来的林乙发现,二人争执中林乙推了郑某一下,不料郑某因此心脏病突发死亡,林乙以为自己杀了人。后林甲把所有的事告诉了丈夫郭某,郭某打电话到乡派出所报案,并将林甲带到派出所去投案。林甲在供述自己的罪行过程中始终强调林乙没有过错,并供出了白某多次拐卖妇女、儿童的行为(后白某被抓获)。几日后,林乙欲去派出所自首,走到途中,遇见在派出所任副所长的亲戚包某,林乙告诉包某自己杀了人。包某说:“杀人要偿命,自首也要坐一辈子的牢,不如逃掉,逃过20年就没事了。”林乙听了包某的话就打消了自首的念头,后不知所踪。根据以上内容回答以下96~100题: 对林乙应该以何罪定罪处罚
A. 收买被拐卖的妇女罪
B. 非法拘禁罪
C. 强奸罪
D. 拐卖妇女罪
甲市居民赵某在前往乙市出差期间违反《治安管理处罚法》,被乙市丙区公安分局行政拘留5天,并罚款300元。赵某不服,向乙市公安局申请复议,乙市公安局将处罚结果改为行政拘留5天,罚款200元,赵某仍不服向法院提起诉讼。下列关于行政诉讼管辖问题,说法错误的是:
A. 丙区公安分局和乙市公安局所在的基层人民法院均可以受理此案
B. 赵某居住地甲市的基层人民法院也可以受理此案
C. 若赵某向丙区公安分局和乙市公安局所在的基层人民法院同时提起诉讼,丙区公安分局所在地基层人民法院首先收到起诉状,乙市公安局所在的基层人民法院首先立案,则应由丙区公安分局所在的基层人民法院管辖该案
D. 赵某居住地甲市的基层人民法院可以将该案将移送丙区公安分局或者乙市公安局所在的基层人民法院