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Job stress knows no boundariesSTRESS-that tense feeling from having too much to do, too many bills to pay, or not enough time or money - is an emotion that recognizes no borders．
About three-fourths of people in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, South Korea and Britain say they experience stress on a daily basis,(1)________ a recent survey (2) ________(conduct) by the Associated Press and Ipsos, an international research company．And the anxious(3)________(feel)get more intense during holidays．
The poll,(4)________ covered about 1,000 people in each of the 10 countries, showed that the causes of stress are growing in the modern world．They include finances, jobs, long commutes and(5)________(increase)complex technology．
(6)________(Germany)feel stress more intensely than those in other countries polled．People in the US said(7)________(finance)pressure was their top worry．About half the people in Britain said they frequently or sometimes felt that life was(8)________ their control, the highest level in the 10 countries surveyed．
“The idea(9)________ we French lead the good life is totally utopian,”said Pascale Mongay, a counsellor at a private Paris tutoring firm．“We are as stressed as anyone．”
People use various ways to deal with all the pressure bearing down on them．Many say they turn(10)________ friends．Mongay says he has started taking weekly piano and swimming lessons．
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BRITAIN's parents have admitted school is harder today than it was when they were kids.
A poll (民意测验) of 1500 parents shows that those with children who have recently sat(参加…) A-level or GCSE exams believe today's exams are harder than the ones they sat at school.
One in four thought A-levels were getting harder-compared to just twelve per cent who thought they were easier.
The figures for GCSEs were more evenly split with 26 per cent thinking they were harder and 21 per cent believing they were easier. This is the first survey (调查) of the opinion of parents whose youngsters have just sat exams.
They told pollsters they believed the higher pass rate in examinations today were due to the youngsters concerned working harder.
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But another reason given was that they believed today's youngsters felt there was little chance of success in life without qualification (资格) ‘Parents are seeing standards rise and their children working harder and being smarter than their generation,' says Dr Christina Townsend, president of the Edexcel exam board, which commissioned(委托) the survey.
The poll , carried out by Opinion Research Business for the exam board, also showed parents supported government plans to allow students to see their marked papers after they had completed their exams.
The move (行动，步骤) is designed to help them decide whether they should doubt their standard.
1．What do you know about Britain's school education from the text?
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A．Students are burdened with too much homework after school.
B．Students are tired of learning at school.
C．Most students can't pass A-level or GCSE exams.
D．Exams are more difficult today and pupils are working harder.
2．The writer's purpose in writing this text is ______.
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A．to show the result of a poll of 1500 parents
B．to tell parents that their youngsters are working hard
C．to prove that youngsters are smarter than their parents
D．to request that exams be easier
3．We can infer from the text that ______.
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A．the government will take steps to lower the standards of exams
B．students were once not allowed to see their marked papers
C．parents didn't work hard when they were at school
D．more parents think A-levels are getting harder and GCSEs are getting easier
4．The second part of the text mainly shows that ______.
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A．parents support government plans
B．parents don't accept the school education
C．students have less chance of success in life
D．parents probably think well of the school education
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Support in Britain for the Iraq war has fallen to a record low, although about three fifths of interviewees believe Iraqi elections will take place as planned on Jan. 30, according to a poll issued by The Times newspaper Wednesday.
The poll showed that fewer than 29 percent now believe that the war was the right thing to do, compared to 53 percent who think it was wrong.
British support for the war peaked at 64 percent in April 2003 and has been on a steady decline over the past 18 months, contributing to a big fall in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal approval ratings.
It is also for the first time that more Labor voters think that the war was the wrong rather than the right thing to do, by 44 to 37 percent, the poll suggested. However, nearly 58 percent believe that the elections will go ahead and fewer than 29 percent believe that it will postpone.
A random sample of 1,506 adults aged over 18 was interviewed by telephone over the weekend for this poll:
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