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According to the passage, the combined efforts by governments, labor unions and big corporations to guarantee economic comfort have led to a significant change in ______.
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听力原文： The European cuckoo is notorious for its odd way of raising its young. The parents normally live in various regions of Asia or Africa, but migrate to England in the warm months. The first cuckoos reach England in April, and each year people write to newspapers to claim that they have heard the first cuckoo. The bird's call "Cue-coo" is regarded in North Europe as a sign that summer has nearly arrived. After the ice and snow of winter, the sound "Cue-coo" is most welcome, so the bird has a special significance for many Europeans.
The female cuckoo manages to reproduce her species by laying eggs which she then abandons. Each cuckoo tends to lay her eggs in the nest of one particular species. It is amazing that the female will lay eggs which have very similar colours and markings to the eggs of the host bird. This ability helps to prevent the host bird from rejecting the cuckoo's egg.
The cuckoo lays about a dozen eggs altogether at about two-day intervals. Each egg is in a different nest. Having laid her eggs for the year, the female's role as mother is completed. In late July or early August, she flies to the south to a warmer climate.
Meanwhile, each young cuckoo is busy looking after itself and doing the job quite well. The chicks hatch after 12 or 13 days, which is usually much sooner than any of the foster-mother's brood. The young cuckoos lift up any other eggs or chicks so that they fall over the side of the nest. In this way, the cuckoo removes any competition for the foster-mother's attention.
The young cuckoo grows much faster than the foster-mother's own chicks. It gets most of the food brought back to the nest by the foster-mother. After a few weeks, the cuckoo chick grows too big to sit in the nest, and much bigger than the foster-mother. But it is still not ready to fly, and remains on the nest, screaming for the food. The foster-mother is stimulated by this noise and has to work hard all day searching for the food.
After about three weeks, the cuckoo chick starts to fly. But it still stays at the nest most of the time for a further one or two weeks, until it is completely independent. And at this time, it can fly well and find its own food. The bird then remains in Britain until September. And then it too, like its parents, migrates for the winter to the warmer countries of the south.
Questions:
16. How long does a cuckoo stay in Britain according to the talk？
17.What does the bird's call "Cuc-coo" suggest for North Europeans？
18.Where does a female cuckoo lay her eggs？
19.When will a young cuckoo leave its foster-mother's nest？
20.which of the following is TRUE about the cuckoos？
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听力原文： BARCELONA
A new study in the journal of Experimental Psychology suggested that it's not just humans that can tell the difference between languages. It turns out that rats can distinguish between Japanese and Dutch. That's what researchers at the Park Scientific Barcelona found. When they trained rats to press a little lever in response to a specific language, some rats were given Japanese while others heard Dutch. When the rats later listened to both languages they ignored the unfamiliar one. Human babies easily pick up on the distinctive rhythm of a language as they are learning to talk. Rats obviously don't use language. So this finding suggests that some of the skills that make human language possible probably evolved for other reasons.
AMERICA
An examination of old bones in America has led scientists to suggest that sperm whales diving deep beneath the surface of the ocean can suffer from decompression sickness or the bends just as human divers do. Researchers found evidence of damage in the bones of whales dating back over a period of more than 100 years. The pitting and erosion of the bones matched the conditions associated with the bends in which too rapid ascent from the ocean depth can cause agonizing pain or death.
JAPAN
Another powerful earthquake has struck Japan's northwestern Niigata Prefecture, site of the quake, Saturday. That was the nation's most deadly earthquake in 9 years. The latest temblor measuring 5.6 on the open-ended Richter Scale occurred early Monday local time. There were no immediate damage reports. On Sunday, Japan's Prime Minister announced he asked parliament for emergency funding to help people recover from Saturday's earthquake which left at least 23 people dead and thousands more injured. The quake forced about 65,000 people to evacuate their homes and cut off power, communications and transportation. It was the worst in Japan since the 1995 earthquake in the city of Kobe.
CHINA
The American Secretary of State is in China for talks expected to focus on the deadlock over North Korea's nuclear program. China has hosted previous six-nation talks aimed at resolving the crisis over what North Korea describes as its nuclear deterrent. Pyongyang has refused to resume negotiation and says US-led international naval exercise due to begin on Monday off the Japanese coast are evidence of Washington's hostile intent. Speaking earlier in Tokyo, Mr. Secretary denied the accusation and said it was urgent to resume the multilateral talks with North Korea.
EUROPE
The US dollar has continued to fall on international currency markets, hitting the lowest level it's reached against the Euro since the European single currency began trading in 1999. It slipped to 1 dollar 34.6 cents against the Euro. That's down more than a third from its highest point in 2002. The head of the European Central Bank described the plunge as brutal and financial analysts say the dollar could soon lose its status as the world's dominant currency. But the United States Treasury Secretary insists that the government is addressing the issue.
Questions:
6. What does this news item mainly suggest？
7.What can sperm whales suffer from when diving deep？
8.Which of the following statements is NOT a feature of the earthquake？
9.What can we infer from the news？
10.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the news？
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