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• 1Why do people feel squeezed when their average income rises considerably、

  A.Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.

  B.Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation.

  C.The distribution of wealth is uneven between the r5ich and the poor.

  D.Health care and educational cost have somehow gone out of control.

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• 2According to Galbraith, people feel discontented because ________.

  A.public spending hasn’t been cut down as expected

  B.the government has proved to be a necessary evil

  C.they are in fear of another Great Depression

  D.materialism has run wild in modern society

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• 3What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society、

  A.Why statistics don’t tell the truth about the economy.

  B.Why affluence doesn’t guarantee happiness.

  C.How happiness can be promoted today.

  D.What lies behind an economic boom.

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• 4                                       Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

  A.Germany.

  B.Japan.

  C.The U.S.

  D.The U.K.

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• 5                                        Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

  A.Michael’s parents got divorced.

  B.Karen was adopted by Ray Anderson.

  C.Karen’s mother died in a car accident.

  D.A truck driver lost his life in a collision.

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• 6What has affluence brought to American society、

  A.Renewed economic security.

  B.A sense of self-fulfillment.

  C.New conflicts and complaints.

  D.Misery and anti-social behavior.

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• 7The first paragraph describes in detail ________.

  A.the standards set for contemporary Japanese women

  B.the Confucian influence on gender norms in Japan

  C.the stereotyped role of women in Japanese families

  D.the norms for traditional Japanese women to follow

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• 8What change has been observed in today’s young Japanese women、

  A.They pay less attention to their linguistic behavior.

  B.The use fewer of the deferential linguistic forms.

  C.They confuse male and female forms of language.

  D.They employ very strong linguistic expressions.

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• 9How do some people react to women’s appropriation of men’s language forms as reported in the Japanese media、

  A.They call for a campaign to stop the defeminization.

  B.The see it as an expression of women’s sentiment.

  C.They accept it as a modern tren

  D.D.They express strong disapproval.

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• 10According to Yoshiko Matsumoto, the linguistic behavior observed in today’s young women ________.

  A.may lead to changes in social relations

  B.has been true of all past generations

  C.is viewed as a sign of their maturity

  D.is a result of rapid social progress

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