According to Paragraph 3, the newest group of singles are ________.

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• 1What is said about European society in the passage、

  A.It has fostered the trend towards small families.

  B.It is getting closer to American-style capitalism.

  C.It has limited consumer choice despite a free market.

  D.It is being threatened by irresistible privatization.

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• 2More and more young Europeans remain single because ________.

  A.they are driven by an overwhelming sense of individualism

  B.they have entered the workforce at a much earlier age

  C.they have embraced a business culture of stability

  D.they are pessimistic about their economic future

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• 3From the passage it can be inferred that ________.

  A.human activities will do grave damage to rainforests

  B.Amazon rainforest soils used to be the richest in the world

  C.farming is responsible for the destruction of the Amazon rainforests

  D.there once existed an urban civilization in the Amazon rainforests

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• 4What does Glaser say about the regrowth of rainforests、

  A.They take centuries to regrow after being burnt.

  B.They cannot recover unless the vegetation is burnt completely.

  C.Their regrowth will be hampered by human habitation.

  D.They can recover easily after slash-and-burn farming.

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• 5Glaser made his discovery by ________.

  A.studying patches of fertile soils in the central Amazon

  B.examining pottery left over by ancient civilizations

  C.test-burning patches of trees in the central Amazon

  D.radiocarbon-dating ingredients contained in forest soils

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• 6The author quotes Eppendorf to show that ________.

  A.some modern women prefer a life of individual freedom

  B.the family is no longer the basic unit of society in present-day Europe

  C.some professional people have too much work to do to feel lonely

  D.most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable

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• 7What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage、

  A.To review the impact of women becoming high earners.

  B.To contemplate the philosophy underlying individualism.

  C.To examine the trend of young people living alone.

  D.To stress the rebuilding of personal relationships.

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• 8The passage centers on the controversy ________.

  A.between American and New Zealand biologists over genetic modification

  B.as to whether the study of genetic modification should be continued

  C.over the possible adverse effect of a GM bacterium on plants

  D.about whether Elaine Ingham should be fired by her university

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• 9Ingham insists that her testimony is based on ________.

  A.evidence provided by the EPA of the United States

  B.the results of an experiment she conducted herself

  C.evidence from her collaborative research with German biologists

  D.the results of extensive field tests in Corvallis, Oregon

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• 10According to Janet Anderson, the EPA ________.

  A.has cancelled its approval for field tests of the GM organism

  B.hasn’t reviewed the findings of Ingham’s research

  C.has approved field tests using the GM organism

  D.hasn’t given permission to field test the GM organism

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