In a democratic society citizens are encouraged to form their own opinions on candidates. The opinions held by any population are shaped and controlled by several factors: individual circumstances, the mass media, special interest groups, and opinion leaders. Wealthy people tend to think differently on social issues from poor people. Factory workers probably do not share the same views as white-collar workers. Women employed outside their homes sometimes have perspectives different from those of fulltime homemakers. In these and other ways individual status shapes one’’s view of current events. The mass media, especially television, are powerful influences on the way people think and act. Government officials realize that the public tends to "follow the headlines". Whatever is featured in newspapers and magazines and on television attracts enough attention. The mass media have also created larger audiences for government and a wider range of pubic issues than existed before. Prior to television and the national editions of newspapers, issues and candidates tended to remain localized. Today’’s elections are seen as struggles between party leaders and programs. In the United States radio and television have been beneficial to the presidency. Since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his "fireside chats", presidents have appealed directly to a national audience over the heads of Congress to advocate their programs. Special groups spend vast money annually trying to influence public opinion. Public utilities, for instance, tried to sway public opinion in favor of nuclear power plants. Opposed to them were citizens’’ organizations that persuaded to halt the use of nuclear power. Opinion leaders are usually such prominent public figures as politicians, show business personalities, and celebrity athletes. The opinions of these individuals, whether informed and intelligent or not, carry weight with some segments of the population. Some individuals, such as Nobel Prize winners, are suddenly thrust into public view by the media. By quickly reaching a large audience, their views gain a hearing and are perhaps influential in shaping views on complex issues. The author presented the difference in views between factory workers and white-collar workers to show that______.
A. the differences in opinions of these two kinds of people are widely accepted
B. people’s positions in society have obvious influences on their opinions
C. their differences in views are by far more evident than those between women employed outside and fulltime homemaker women
D. status should not be seen as a factor in the formation of views
Man: I heard that Parker Electronics is going to be holding interviews on campus next week. Woman: Yeah What day I’’d like to talk to them and drop off my resume. Question: What does the woman want to do
A. He’d like to have the windows open.
B. He rarely leaves the windows open.
C. He thinks the air is polluted.
D. He’ll help her close the windows.
Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking (搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper, "Thank you dearie —I’’m just going to Brockbourne." Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head, made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn’’t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, something odd, something dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous It was absurd. Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with their thick black hairs. Thick black hairs Hairy arms Andrea’’s blood froze. This wasn’’t a woman. It was a man. At first, she didn’’t know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing, terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid(刹车), and brought it to a halt. "My God!" she shouted, "A child! Did you see the child I think I hit her" The "old lady" was clearly shaken by the sudden skid. "I didn’’t see anything dearie," she said. "I don’’t think you hit anything. "I’’m sure it was a child!" insisted Andrea. "Could you just get out and have a look Just see if there’’s anything on the road" She held her breath. Would her plan work It did. The passenger slowly climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away, and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker. It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity about the man. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea opened the heavy bag curiously. It contained only one item—a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe, and the inside of the bag, were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood. Andrea began to scream. Andrea looked in the passenger’s bag to______.
A. examine what was in it
B. find out where the passenger lived
C. use the passenger’s tools
D. find out who the passenger was
The energy problem is not merely a short-term crisis. Geologists 【1】 that 80 percent of all the oil 【2】 in the US will be used 【3】 before the year 2000. We might even come to the end of our coal reserves, abundant as they are, before another century is over. Americans have been 【4】 this situation suddenly. Many unprepared even to recognize 【5】 , and most of us are unprepared to meet it. We are unprepared 【6】 our habits and traditions, and our national life 【7】 based on a history of material abundance. With about 6 percent of the world’’s 【8】 ,we in the US 【9】 nearly 50 percent of the world’’s energy resources. Such resources within the us 【10】 are still ample by any standards except our own.
A. where
B. itself
C. it
D. there