第二篇 Employment Opinion polls are now beginning to show an unwilling general agreement that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and work The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought about may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people travelled longer distances to their places of employment until eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and places in which they in which they lived. Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the impractical goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs. The passage tells us that the arrival of the industrial age meant that______.
A. economic freedom came within everyone’s reach
B. patterns of work were fundamentally changed
C. to survive, everyone had to find a job
D. universal employment guaranteed prosperity
胡某系某单位工程师,1996年因老伴去世而导致精神失常。胡某曾因有过发明创造而获得了不少的收入,因而拥有支票账户。1997年4月5日胡某签了一张20万元的转账支票给某家具制造厂订做一套名贵家具。因支票的出票人系个人,某家具制造厂提出应有保证人进行保证。胡某找到其朋友高某(以单独立户)作为保证人提供了保证担保。家具制造厂收到支票后在4月8日以背书的方式将该支票转让给甲木材公司以支付所欠的木材货款。4月12日甲木材公司持该支票向某百货公司购置机器10台,4月16日某百货公司通过其开户银行提出付款时,开户银行以超过提示付款期为由作了退票处理。百货公司只好通知其前手进行追索。在追索过程中,甲木材公司和家具制造厂均以有保证人为由推卸自己的责任,保证人高某则以胡某系精神病人、其签发的票据无效为由而拒不承担责任。经鉴定,胡某确系精神病人,属于无行为能力人。 请问: 甲木材公司和家具厂推卸票据责任的理由是否合法为什么
皮亚杰提出儿童青少年认知发展主要经过四个阶段,即感知运动阶段、前运算阶段、具体运算阶段和______阶段。
阅读下面这篇短文,短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2、4、5、6段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项,分别完成每个句子。 The History of the Fridge 1.The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with he label: "store in the refrigerator."2.In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country. 3.The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast variety of well-tried techniques already existed--natural cooling drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling… 4.What refrigeration did promote was marketing--marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price. 5.Consequently, most of the world’s fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house-while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge. 6.The fridge’s effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant. If you don’t believe me, try it yourself. Invest in a food cabinet and turn off your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers but at least you’ll get rid of that terrible hum. If you stop using the fridge, at least you won’t he troubled by the noise______.