[听力原文]11-15Newspapers are not nearly as popular today as they were in the past. There are not very many people who seriously read a newspaper everyday. Most people read only the sports page, the comics, and perhaps the classified advertisements. Most people don’t take the time to read the real news. Newspaper editors say their readers are lazy. They say nobody really wants to read a newspaper. So they have to trick people into reading the news. They attempt to catch the readers’ interest with the pictures and exciting headlines. What pages or columns of newspapers do most people read?
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In the rarefied world of the corporate board, a good network matters. (1) often involves word-of- mouth recommendations: getting on a (2) is easier if you have the right connections. New research suggests men use (3) better than women.Marie Lalanne and Paul Seabright of the Toulouse School of Economics (4) the effect of a network on (5) using a database of board members in Europe and America. They find that if you were to compare two executive directors, (6) in every way except that one had 200 ex-colleagues now (7) boards and the other 400, the latter, (8) , would be paid 6% more. For non-executives the gap is 14%.The really (9) finding concerns the difference between the sexes. Among executive-board members, women earn 17% less than their male (10) . There are plenty of plausible explanations for this (11) , from interruptions to women’s careers to old-fashioned (12) . But the authors find that this pay gap can be fully (13) by the effect of executives’ networks. Men can leverage a large network into more senior positions or a seat on a more (14) board; women don’t seem to be able to.Women could just have (15) connections with members of their networks. "Women seem more inclined to build and rely on only a few strong relationships," says Mr. Seabright. Men are better at developing (16) acquaintances into a network, and better at maintaining a high personal (17) through these contacts. Women may, of course, also be hurt by the existing (18) of men on boards and a male (19) for filling executive positions with other men. But a tendency to think of other men first will be (20) if talented women don’t stay on the radar. (289 words) 1()
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Mass advertising helped to ___________________ (转移重点) from the production of goods to their consumption.
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The mast fundamental group to which a person belongs is the family. The institution of the family exists in almost every human culture. It is considered by behavioral scientists to be one of the oldest institutions in human history.The family unit serves many important functions. The performance of these functions is the reason for the family’s importance. Above all, the family serves as a mechanism of species survival.Families also have important economic functions. In primitive societies, the tasks of gathering food and providing shelter were divided among family members. Today, both husband and wife may work and share the duties of homemaking and child mating.In addition to its survival and economic functions, the family gives its members social status. In many societies, a person is not considered a complete member until he has married and produces children. Finally, the family helps to meet the basic emotional needs of a person through the love and support received from parents, siblings(兄弟姐妹) and relatives. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage()
A. The family has changed greatly over time.
B. Many of the functions of the family today are being performed by government agencies.
C. The most important role for the family is to gather food.
D. The family has served many useful functions throughout history.