【题目】New rules will let millions of Americans know where more of their food comes from. The law is known as COOL-Country of Origin Labeling.

American Congress first passed the law in 2002. Stores have had to label seafood by country-of-origin since 2005. But industry pressure delayed other requirements until last week.

Products that must now be labeled include fresh fruits and vegetables, muscle meats and some kinds of nuts. But the rules are complex, and many foods are excluded. For example, organ meats are free to be labeled. So are processed foods, including cooked or smoked food.

The United States has imported more and more food in recent years to save money and expand choices. Country-of-origin labeling has become more common lately but has still been limited in many stores.

Food safety is one reason why some shoppers pay close attention to where foods came from. For example, when a large number of people recently got sick from salmonella (沙门菌病),officials blamed peppers from Mexico. Yet the last big food scare involved spinach (菠菜)grown in California. But labeling is also a way for people to know they are getting what they want. Some want to buy local foods or foods from a particular country.

The country-of-origin labeling law gives stores 30 days to correct any violations that are found. Stores and suppliers that are found to be deliberately violating the law could be fined 1,000dollars per violation. Federal inspectors are not to take action to en-force the law for six months to give time for an education campaign.

Some food safety activists say they are generally pleased with the law. They call it a good step that will give people more useful information.

【1】 What's the regulation in the new rules?

A. Stores have to label food by its producing date from now on.

B. The country-of-origin labeling has to be marked on more food.

C. Stores have to label seafood by country of origin.

D. Labeling of food should include more useful information.

【2】 Why has more and more food been imported to the United States in recent years?

A. Because it is economical and provides people with more choices.

B. Because the United States is short of food supply.

C. Because Americans need more and more food recently.

D. Because foreign food is of higher quality than native food.

【3】 Consumers are more concerned about where foods came from because __________.

A. they are curious about the country of the food origin

B. they are particular about the tastes of the food

C. they are concerned about food safety and want to get what they want

D. most of the shoppers are food safety activists themselves

【4】 The new rules of the country-of-origin labeling law will come into effect __________.

A. right now

B. in a month

C. in three months

D. in half a year

【5】 Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. Most Americans prefer imported vegetables to the vegetables grown in local places,

B. The government of America will importing peppers from Mexico.

C. The law was not fully carried out until last week because of food industry's resistance.

D. Store owners are most likely to be the supporters of the law.

【题目】The statistics I’ve cited and the living examples are all too familiar to you. But what may not be so familiar will be the increasing number of women who are looking actively for advancement of for a new job in your offices. This woman may be equipped with professional skills and perhaps valuable experience. She will not be content to be Executive Assistant to Mr. Seldom Seen of the Assistant Vice President’s Girl Friday, who is the only one who comes in on Saturday.

She is the symbol of what I call the Second Wave of Feminism. She is the modern woman who is determined to be.

Her forerunner was the radical feminist who interpreted her trapped position as a female as oppression by the master class of men. Men, she believed, had created a domestic, servile role for women in order that men could have the career and the opportunity to participate in making the great decisions of society. Thus the radical feminist held that women through history had been oppressed and dehumanized, mainly because man chose to exploit his wife and the mother of his children. Sometimes it was deliberate exploitation and sometimes it was the innocence of never looking beneath the pretensions of life.

The radical feminists found strength in banding together. Coming to recognize each other for the first time, they could explore their own identities, realize their own power, and view the male and his system as the common enemy. The first phases of feminism in the last five years often took on this militant, class-warfare tone. Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and many others hammered home their ideas with a persistence that aroused and intrigued many of the brightest and most able women in the country. Consciousness-raising groups allowed women to explore both their identities and their dreams—and the two were often found in direct conflict.

What is the stereotyped role of American women? Marriage. A son. Two daughters. Breakfast. Ironing. Lunch. Bowling, maybe a garden club of for the very daring, non-credit courses in ceramics. Perhaps an occasional cocktail party. Dinner. Football or baseball on TV. Each day the same. Never any growth in expectations—unless it is growth because the husband has succeeded. The inevitable question: “Is that all there is to life?”

The rapid growth of many feminist organizations attests to the fact that these radical feminists had touched some vital nerves. The magazine “Ms.” was born in the year of the death of the magazine “Life.” But too often the consciousness-raising sessions became ends in themselves. Too often sexism reversed itself and man-hating was encouraged. Many had been with the male chauvinist.

It is not difficult, therefore, to detect a trend toward moderation. Consciousness-raising increasingly is regarded as a means to independence and fulfillment, rather than a ceremony of fulfillment itself. Genuine independence can be realized through competence, through finding a career, through the use of education. Remember that for many decades the education of women was not supposed to be useful.

【1What was the main idea of this passage?

A. The Second Wave of Feminist.

B. Women’s Independent Spirits.

C. The Unity of Women.

D. The Action of Union.

【2What was the author’s attitude toward the radical?

A. He supported it wholeheartedly.

B. He opposed it strongly.

C. He disapproved to some extent.

D. He ignored it completely.

【3What does the word “militant” mean?

A. Aggressive. B. Ambitions.

C. Progressive. D. Independent.

【4What was the radical feminist’s view point about the male?

A. Women were exploited by the male.

B. Women were independent of the male.

C. Women’s lives were deprived by the male.

D. The male were their common enemy.

【题目】One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is 【1】

Once I heard a bald man said, "whenever I enter a room 【2】 I see is hair. " Once you've 【3】 what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will 【4】 make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different 【5】 , or forget about it and 【6】 the tiles in your life that are not missing.

We all know people who have a relatively 【7】 life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but 【8】 remain happy.

The first 【9】 is gratitude. All happy people are 【10】 Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to 【11】 , but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

The second secret is 【12】 that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most obvious 【13】 are those pursuit (追求) that give our lives purpose—anything 【14】 studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are 【15】 to experience.

Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our 【16】 has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We 【17】 a spiritual faith, or a philosophy, it should 【18】 this truth: if you choose to find the 【19】 in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is 【20】 your decision to make.

A. different B. missing C. short D. broken

A. nothing B. none C. all D. anything

A. determined B. predicted C. assumed D. imagined

A. completely B. naturally C. hopefully D. really

A. tile B. brick C. ceiling D. house

A. look on B. focus on C. count on D. focus on

A. peaceful B. difficult C. easy D. ordinary

A. certainly B. merely C. hardly D. generally

A. secret B. factor C. rule D. key

A. wealthy B. grateful C. proud D. generous

A. upset B. quarrel C. complain D. depress

A. admitted B. assuming C. proving D. realizing

A. sources B. results C. answers D. goals

A. among B. from C. through D. for

A. probable B. possible C. likely D. capable

A. value B. destination C. survival D. existence

A. need B. lack C. demand D. expect

A. involve B. include C. absorb D. mean

A. worst B. best C. positive D. negative

A. absolutely B. totally C. exactly D. largely

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