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B. introduction
C. way
D. access
A couple of years ago, those who forecast that oil price would reach $ 100 a barrel were seen as doomsters. However, now some are predicting $ 200 a barrel.
Had economists been told that oil price would barely pause at $ 100 before reaching the recent peak of nearly $ 127, they would no doubt have forecast terrible economic consequences. But the global economy, though interrupted by the high price of energy, is still chugging along. Meanwhile, inflation has picked up, but the headline rates of inflation (通货膨胀率) in most developed countries are nowhere near the levels seen in the 1970s and 1980s.
There are three explanations for the oil price’s unclear impact. The first is that nowadays developed economies are more efficient in their use of energy, thanks partly to the increased importance of service industries and the diminished role of manufacturing(制造业). According to the Energy Information Administration, the energy intensity of America’s GDP fell by 42% between 1980 and 2007.
A second theory is that the oil-price rise has been steady, not sudden, giving the economy time to adjust. Giovanni Serio of Goldman Sachs points out that in 1973 there was a severe supply shock because of the oil embargo(石油禁运), when the world had to cope with 10%-15% less crude almost overnight. Not this time.
The third explanation turns the argument on its head; rather than oil harming the global economy, it is global expansion that is driving up the price of oil.
The most important factor is the shift in favor of the developing economies. America has responded to high price in familiar fashion: UBS forecasts that demand will drop by 1.1% this year and will be no higher in 2010 than it was in 2004. But the demand from China and other emerging markets is more than offsetting(抵消) this shortfall.
1.What is the passage mainly talking about?
A.The prediction of economists. |
B.The situation of economy |
C.The increase of oil price |
D.The American response to high price |
2.How many explanations for the oil price’s impact are mentioned in the passage?
A.Two |
B.Three |
C.Four |
D.Five |
3.What can we conclude from the passage?
A.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be very high. |
B.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be higher than it was in 2004. |
C.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be as high as it was in 2004. |
D.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be as low as it was in 2004. |
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The family sphere (范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm. There was the public male realm (领域) of "rational accomplishment" and cruel competition, and the private female and child-rearing sphere of home, intuition (直觉) and emotion. The private realm was supposed to be isolated from the realities of adult life. For both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds. The membrane around the family sphere is much more permeable (可渗透的). TV takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.
Parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world. They could decide what to tell their children and when to tell it to them. Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities. Television destroyed the system that separated adult from child knowledge and separated information into year-by-year slices for children of different ages. Instead, it presents the same information directly to children of all ages, without going through adult filters.
So television presents a real challenge to adults. While a parent can read a newspaper without sharing it with children in the same room, television is accessible to everyone in that space. And unlike books, television doesn't allow us to flip (翻转) through it and see what's coming up. We may think we're giving our children a lesson in science by having them watch the Challenger take off, and then suddenly they learn about death, disaster and adult mistakes.
Books allow adults to discuss privately what to tell or not tell children. This also allows parents to keep adult material secret from children and keep their secret keeping secret. Take that same material and put it on The Today Show and you have 800,000 children hearing the very things the adults are trying to keep from them. "Television takes our kids across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the street."
More importantly, children gradually learn that adults are worried and anxious about being parents. Actually, television has also places families under a lot of stress.
How Television Changes Childhood?
Main comparisons |
Contexts |
Distance between 1 and the outside. |
Homes used to be isolated from the 2 realm. |
Homes nowadays are 3 to the outside world. |
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Media through which children can obtain information |
In the past, children might learn 4 about the outside world with the help of parents and 5 . |
More information is got directly through TV and other electronic media, which breaks down the 6 between adult world and the child world. |
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7 of the information children get |
Traditionally, kids could only knew what they should learn at their age, carefully 8 by their parents. |
Everything can possibly be known by children, including many aspects of 9 life. |
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Effects on family education |
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Parental instruction |
Families are now under greater stress than before. Adults are anxious about being parents and faced with new 10 . |
C
Being able to multitask—doing several things at the same time—is considered a welcome skill by most people. But if we consider the situation of the young people aged from eight to eighteen, we should think again.
What we often see nowadays is that young people juggle an ever larger number of electronic devices(电子产品)as they study. While working, they also surf on the Internet, send out emails, answer the telephone and listen to music on their iPods. In a sense, they are spending a significant amount of time in fruitless efforts as they multitask.
Multitasking is even changing the relationship between family members. As young people around them. They can no longer greet family members when they enter the house, nor can they cat at the family table.
Multitasking also affects young people’s performance at university and in the workplace. When asked about their opinion of the effect of modern gadgets(器具)on their performance of tasks, many young people gave a positive response(反应). However, the response from the worlds of education and business was not quite as positive. Educators feel that multitasking by children has a serious effect on later development of study skills. They believe that many college students now need help to improve their study skills. Similarly, employers feel that young people entering the job market need to be taught all over again, as modern gadgets have made it unnecessary for them to learn special skills to do their work.
1.What does the underlined word “juggle” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?
A.Want to buy |
B.Take the place of. |
C.Use at the same time |
D.Seek for information from. |
2.In Paragraph 3, the author points out that .
A.family members do not cat at the family table |
B.family member do not greet each other |
C.young people live happily in their families |
D.young people seldom talk with their family members |
3.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A.Multitasking is harmful to young people’s development. |
B.Young people benefit a lot from modern gadgets |
C.Multitasking is an important skill to young people. |
D.Young people must learn skills for future jobs. |
4.The author develops the passage mainly by .
A.providing typical examples |
B.following the natural time order |
C.comparing opinions from different fields |
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D.presenting a cause and analyzing its effects |