So if you are in a tea room somewhere and there is a group of high-spirited women wearing red hats and purple dresses, you will know are merely taking advantage of one of the most effective and inexpensive antidotes for aging acceptance laced with humor.
A. we
B. you
C. they
D. the red hats and purple dresses
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. According to the passage, which of the following is true ______.
A. People should start to support themselves by learning a practical skill.
B. The creation of jobs for all is an impossibility.
C. We should help people to get full-time jobs.
D. We must make every effort to solve the problem of unemployment.
下表反映的是我国2002年国际收支平衡表主要项目情况,根据表中内容回答下列问题 单位:亿美元 项 目 贷 方 借 方 货物 3256 2815 服务 397 465 收益 83 232 经常转移 138 8 资本转移 0 1 直接投资 531 63 证券投资 23 126 其他投资 730 771 外汇储备 0 净误差与遗漏 78 0 外汇储备的情况是( )。
A. 达到755亿美元
B. 增加755亿美元
C. 减少755亿美元
D. 达到599亿美元