听力原文:M: I'm going to the shop to buy some food for the next few days.
W: Take care and wear more clothes. It's freezing outside.
What does the woman say?
A. She says he should take care of himself.
B. She asks him to buy more.
C. She says it is very cold outside.
D. She wants him to buy some clothes for her.
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The best title for this passage is ______.
A. Criticism of Language Hierarchy
B. Cultural Egalitarianism from the Perspective of Language
C. Expansion of "Backward" Language
D. Criticism of Language Hierarchy
听力原文:M: I hope the school library is open.
W: The school library is open from eight a. m. to five p. m. weekdays, nine a.m. to three p.m. Saturdays, closed on Sundays.
When is the library open on Saturdays?
A. It is closed.
B. It is open from nine a.m. to three p. m.
C. It is from nine a.m. to five p. m.
D. It is open from eight a.m. to five p. m.
Economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the communications revolution has affected the world economy. Information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries, and transnational corporations take full advantage of it. Terms of trade, exchange and interest rates and money movements are more important than the production of goods. The electronic economy made possible by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global markets--with destructive impact on the have-nots.
For them the result is instability. Developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic machine. As "futures" are traded on computer screens, developing countries simply have less and less control of their destinies.
So what are the options for regaining control? One alternative is for developing countries to buy the latest computers and telecommunications themselves—so-called "development communications" modernization. Yet this leads to long-term dependency and perhaps permanent constraints on developing countries' economies.
Communications technology is generally exported from the U. S., Europe or Japan; the patents, skills and ability to manufacture remain in the hands of a few industrialized countries. It is also expensive, and imported products and services must therefore be bought on credit--credit usually provided by the very countries whose companies stand to gain.
Furthermore. when new technology is introduced there is often too low a level of expertise to exploit it for native development. This means that while local elites, foreign communities and subsidiaries of transnational corporations may benefit, those whose lives depend on access to the information denied it.
From the passage we know that the development of high technology is mostly in the interests of ______.
A. the world economy
B. the rich countries
C. scientific development
D. the elite
According to the passage, children are encouraged to do all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A. live in homeless shelter
B. spend time with elders
C. volunteer at a local soup kitchen
D. visit playgrounds where a variety of children are present