While big corporations （ ） global business news, small companies are charging into overseas markets at a faster pace.
A.overtake B.occupy C.dominate D.reflect
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While big corporations （ ） global business news, small companies are charging into overseas markets at a faster pace.
Adolescents are taking longer to become fully productive members of society, Reed Larson, professor of human development, University of Illinois, Champaign, told the World Future Society, Bethesda, Md. “What we expect of young people is （1），” he argued. They must go to school for 12 years or longer without any（2） that their education will mean career success or relevance when they become adults. （3） ，they do so without financial rewards, accept an identity （4） by society, and delay starting a family, all of （5） keeps adolescents in a kind of indeterminate state for years.Larson says that “There should be way stations along the climb （6） adulthood that allow young people to rest, gather themselves, and consider（7） ’’ The success of government, business, and private life in the next 50 years （8） it.Education, literacy, and versatile interpersonal skills （9） the list of necessary preparations for adulthood. Young people negotiating the complex worlds of home, work, and school （10） use these skills in order to do so （11） and competently. “The adolescent who is able to（12） in only one world is increasingly （13） for adult life,” he warns.As the time spent on the road to adulthood increases, so （14） the danger that more youths will fall by the wayside. New and increased opportunities and initiatives will keep more youngsters focused,（15） a smarter, more-versatile generation able to cope with the emerging global, high-tech world.
Many writing experts think that intonation is used to（ ） our feelings and attitudes; the same sentence can be said in different ways.
Fifty is the gateway to the most liberating passage in a woman’s life. Children are making test flights out of the nest. Parents are expected to be roaming in their recreational vehicles or sending postcards of themselves riding camels. Free at last! Women can graduate from the precarious balancing act between parenting and pursuit of a career. That has been the message of my books since I wrote New Passages 15 years ago. What I didn’t see coming was the boomerang.With parents living routinely into their 90s, a second round of caregiving has become a predictable crisis for women in midlife. Nearly 50 million Americans are taking care of an adult who used to be independent. Yes, men represent about one third of family caregivers, but their participation is often at a distance and administrative. Women do most of the hands-on care.It starts with the call. It’s a call about a fall. Your mom has had a stroke. Or it’s a call about your dad — he’s run a red light and hit someone, again, but how are you ever going to persuade him to stop driving? Or your husband’s doctor calls with news that your partner is reluctant to tell you： it’s cancer.When that call came to me, I froze. The shock plunges you into a whirlpool of fear, denial, and feverish action. You search out doctors. They don’t agree on the diagnosis. You scavenge the Internet. The side effects make you worry. You call your brother or sister, hoping for help. Old rivalries flare up.We’d like to think that siblings would be natural allies when parents falter. But the facts are quite different. Brothers bury their heads in the sand. The farther away a sister lives, the more certain she will call the primary caregiver and tell her she doesn’t know what she’s doing. A 1996 study by Cornell and Louisiana State universities concluded that siblings are not just inherent rivals, but the greatest source of stress between human beings.There are many rewards in giving back to a loved one. And the short-term stress of mobilizing against the initial crisis jump-starts the body’s positive responses. But this role is not a short race. It usually turns into a marathon, averaging almost five years. But most solitary caregivers will wait until the third or fourth year before sending out the desperate cry，“ I can’t do this anymore! ”1.As a writer, the author has for years focused on women’s liberation from （ ）.2.The word “boomerang” (boldfaced in Paragraph 1) refers to （ ）.3.To many women, the calls as described would most likely be very （ ）.4.Your brother or sister would be angry with your request for helping to （ ）.5.According to the author, siblings tend to （ ）.6.The author stresses that the process of giving back to a loved one is very （ ）.
In 1998, a Belgian student named Sacha Klein left Brussels and enrolled as a four-year student at a U. S. university, graduating with a computer-science degree, and landing a summer internship at Virginia-based consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where management liked him enough to offer him a full-time position. Today, he designs information systems for Booz Alien, and studies toward a master’s degree in business.He is deaf.（1）In 1990 , the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA) opened the door for people like Klein to contribute to the U. S. economy in ways no one imagined before. The ADA requires businesses to make accommodations to allow a person with a disability to do a job for which he or she is qualified.In addition, the ADA requires public facilities to remove architectural barriers that hinder people with disabilities from shopping, going to the theater, or using public toilets.（2）Katherine McCary, president of a business group that promotes hiring people with disabilities, said European managers tell her they want to hire people with disabilities, but that they can’t get to work.（3） Had he stayed in Europe, he said, he would not have been able to become a white-collar professional, but would have been put on track for factory work.（4） A federal hotline offering advice on workplace accommodations went from handling 3, 000 calls per year before the law to 40, 000 calls per year in the mid-1990s.The cost of accommodations turned out to be zero in half the cases and averaged about $ 500 in the other half, according to the Labor Department. （5）Compliance with the law is good for business: 87 percent of consumers prefer to patronize companies that hire people with disabilities, according to a January 2006 survey by the University of Massachusetts. In addition, workers with disabilities could help relieve a labor shortage.
In her new novel, “Annabel,” reviewed this week in the magazine, Kathleen Winter （ ）the nature-nurture divide.
