【正文】 s an a。s also not clear whether the organism, first engineered by a German institute for biotechnology, is still in use.Whether Ingham is right or wrong, her supporters say opponents are trying unfairly to silence her.I think her concerns should be taken seriously. She shouldn39。s claims, the EPA was never asked to consider the organism for field trials.The EPA has not mented on the dispute. But an to the network from Janet Anderson, director of the EPA39。t even show that the bacteria would survive in the wild, much less kill massive numbers of plants. What39。re trying to cause trouble with my university and get me fired, Ingham told New Scientist.The controversy began on 1 February, when Ingham testified before New Zealand39。 C) To examine the trend of young people living alone. A) To review the impact of women being high earners. D) most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable56. What is the author39。 B) the family is no longer the basic unit of society in presentday Europe D) healthy and wealthy55. The author quotes Eppendorf to show that ________. B) on either side of marriage D) It is being threatened by irresistible privatization.54. According to Paragraph 3, the newest group of singles are ________. B) It is getting closer to American style capitalism. D) they are pessimistic about their economic future53. What is said about European society in the passage? B) they have entered the workforce at a much earlier ageve always done what I wanted to do：live a selfdetermined life.52. More and more young Europeans remain single because ________.t last longif they start at all. Eppendorf, a blond Berliner with a deep tan, teaches grade school in the mornings. In the afternoon she sunbathes or sleeps, resting up for going dancing. Just shy of 50, she says she39。t leave much room for relationships. Pimpi Arroyo, a 35yearold poser who lives alone in a house in Paris, says he hasn39。s shift from social democracy to the sharper, more individualistic climate of Americanstyle capitalism. Raised in an era of privatization and increased consumer choice, today39。 private lives.Europe39。t the stuff of gloomy philosophical contemplations, but a fact of Europe39。 (Line 3, ), the author suggests that the American myth is ________.48. What is the American Dream of the welltodo built upon?49. Some Americans try to make themselves feel less guilty by attributing the poverty of the working people to ________.50. We learn from the passage that the difference in pay between the lowest paid and the average worker in America is ________ than that in other industrialized countries.51. According to the author, how would an American family with a car and a house in the suburbs probably feel about themselves today?s just the way it is, it39。s these jobs they39。s poverty level for a family of four. Many, if not most, of these workers had no health care, sick pay or retirement provisions.We ease our consciences, Shulman writes, by describing these people as low skilled, as though they39。s a myth that has bee so divorced from reality that it might as well begin with the words Once upon a time. Today million New Yorkers suffer from food insecurity, which is a fancy way of saying they don39。 D) Only human tears can discharge certain chemicals. C) Only human tears can resist invading bacteria. B) Only humans shed tears to get rid of imitating stuff in their eyes.t cry often.35. A) Only humans respond to emotions by shedding tears. C) Why some people tend to cry more often than others. D) How tears are produced.33. A) What chemicals tears are posed of. B) Why People cry. C) How to restrain one39。 D) Destruction of their natural homes. C) Overkilling by hunters. C) They explored new ways to hatch baby bald eagles. D) It killed man baby bald eagles.30. A) They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles. B) It made their eggshells to fragile. D) Most Londoners plained about the trouble caused by Exercise Floodwall. B) Most Londoners became rather confused. C) An alarm system was set up. D) A hundred people in the suburbs were drowned.27. A) Fifty underground stations were made waterproof. B) The heart of London was flooded. D) Rapid spreading of the epidemic. C) Lack of food, water and shelter. D) Shortly after sunrise.25. A) Inadequate medical care. C) Sometime before dawn.s little hope of bringing the conflict to an end.24. A) Late in the morning. C) Great improvements are being made in its capital. D) The peace talks between the rebels and the government in Karmak. 23. A) The epidemic has been brought under control.s capital city into the hands of the rebel forces.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22. A) The latest developments of an armed rebellion in Karnak. C) Reasonable enough. C) A college graduate with practical working experience. D) To apply for a job in a major newspaper.20. A) A hardworking ambitions young man. B) To fill a vacancy in the pany. D) The hotel is just around the corner.t have the hotel39。 B) The man can ask the department store for help. D) It will cut the stockholders39。 B) It will stimulate business activities. C He wanted to make sure they got tickets. B) He didn39。 D) Move to another place.16. A) He didn39。 house. C) The mother. C) Be more friendly to his schoolmate.t think much of jobhopping.13. A) Stop thinking about the matter. C) She will stick to the job if the pay is good.s firm.12. A) She will do her best if the job is worth doing. D) She isn39。 B) She plans to major in tax law