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A ray of hope has broken through the economic depression hanging over the country's high streets, with a leading retail academic believing she has the formula for success: the problem is men and the solution is women.Soaring rents, online shopping and the damages of the economic 26 have left one in nine high-street shops empty. Over the past six months some of Britain's biggest retailers, 27 Game, Habitat, Jessops and HMV, have closed their doors.Gloria Moss, scholar in management and marketing at Buckinghamshir New University, says that the answer is 28 : women are responsible for 83per cent of all shopping pur- chases, and high streets simply have to 29 this.Dr Moss, who has been researching 30 habits for more than 18 years, says her work shows that many shops are designed by men who don't give enough 31 to women and ignore the fact that they hold the lion's share of buying power.According to her research, women buy 93per cent of all 32 , 92per cent of the holi days and 96per cent of beauty products. Perhaps 33 ,she has found that women buy 60per cent of all new cars and 55per cent of home computers."Retail experts were brought in a little over a year ago to 34 solutions," Dr Moss said. "Not one of these refers to one of the most obvious facts about town shopping: the most of it is done by women." Dr Moss adds that women's shopping 35 are often poles apart from those of men, who tend to dictate retail and local and national government policy.A) simpleB) thoughtC) includingD) surprisinglyE) preferencesF) recommendedG) developmentH) genderI) excludingJ) complicatedK) preciousL) groceriesM) excessivelyN) acknowledgeO) down turn

The government should pay attention to the problem ______ stay-at-home children are faced with.（ ）A. whatB. thatC. howD. why

All details of fuel bunkering，ballast handling tank cleaning or slop disposal must be entered in the ______.（ ）A. engine room logB. smooth logC. oil record bookD. rough log

When almost everyone has a mobile phone, why are more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline（座机）? These days you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia over the age of 15 who doesn't own a mobile phone. In fact plenty of younger kids have one in their pocket. Practically everyone can make and receive calls anywhere, anytime.Still, 55 percent of Australians have a landline phone at home and only just over a quarter (29%) rely only on their smartphones, according to a survey（调查）. Of those Australians who still have a landline, a third concede that it's not really necessary and they're keeping it as a security blanket—19 percent say they never use it while a further 13 percent keep it in case of emergencies. I think my home falls into that category.More than half of Australian homes are still choosing to stick with their home phone. Age is naturally a factor（因素）—only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers who've perhaps had the same home number for 50 years. Age isn't the only factor; I'd say it's also to do with the makeup of your household.Generation Xers with young families, like my wife and I, can still find it convenient to have a home phone rather than providing a mobile phone for every family member. That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).How attached are you to your landline? How long until they go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries? (1)What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about mobile phones? A.Their target users. B.Their wide popularity. C.Their major functions. D.Their complex design. (2)What does the underlined word "concede" in paragraph 3 mean? A.Admit. B.Argue. C.Remember. D.Remark. (3)What can we say about Baby Boomers? A.They like smartphone games. B.They enjoy guessing callers' identity. C.They keep using landline phones. D.They are attached to their family. (4)What can be inferred about the landline from the last paragraph? A.It remains a family necessity. B.It will fall out of use some day. C.It may increase daily expenses. D.It is as important as the gas light.

Should Single-Sex Education Be Eliminated? [A] Why is a neuroscientist here debating single-sex schooling? Honestly, I had no fixed ideas on the topic when I started researching it for my book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain. But any discussion of gender differences in children inevitably leads to this debate, so I felt compelled to dive into the research data on single-sex schooling. I read every study I could, weighed the existing evidence, and ultimately concluded that single-sex education is not the answer to gender gaps in achievement—or the best way forward for today's young people. After my book was published, I met several developmental and cognitive psychologists whose work was addressing gender and education from different angles, and we published a peer-reviewed Education Forum piece in Science magazine with the provocative title, "The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Education."[B] We showed that three lines of research used to justify single-sex schooling—educational, neuroscience, and social psychology—all fail to support its alleged benefits, and so the widely-held view that gender separation is somehow better for boys, girls, or both is nothing more than a myth.The Research on Academic Outcomes[C] First, we reviewed the extensive educational research that has compared academic outcomes in students attending single-sex versus coeducational schools. The overwhelming conclusion when you put this enormous literature together is that there is no clear academic advantage of sitting in all-female or all-male classes, in spite of much popular belief to the contrary. I base this conclusion not on any individual study, but on large-scale and systematic reviews of thousands of studies conducted in every major English-speaking country.[D] Of course, there're many excellent single-sex schools out there, but as these careful research reviews have demonstrated, it's not their single-sex composition that makes them excellent. It's all the other advantages that are typically packed into such schools, such as financial resources, quality of the faculty, and pro-academic culture, along with the family background and pre-selected ability of the students themselves that determine their outcomes.[E] A case in point is the study by Linda Sax at UCLA, who used data from a large national survey of college freshmen to evaluate the effect of single-sex versus coeducational high schools. Commissioned by the National Coalition of Girls' Schools, the raw findings look pretty good for the funders—higher SAT scores and a stronger academic orientation among women who had attended all girls, high schools （men weren't studied）. However, once the researchers controlled for both student and school attributes—measures such as family income, parents' education, and school resources—most of these effects were erased or diminished.[F] When it comes to boys in particular, the data show that single-sex education is distinctly unhelpful for them. Among the minority of studies that have reported advantages of single- sex schooling, virtually all of them were studies of girls. There're no rigorous studies in the United States that find single-sex schooling is better for boys, and in fact, a separate line of research by economists has shown both boys and girls exhibit greater cognitive growth over the school year based on the "dose" of girls in a classroom. In fact, boys benefit even more than girls from having larger numbers of female classmates. So single-sex schooling is really not the answer to the current "boy crisis" in education.Brain and Cognitive Development[G] The second line of research often used to justify single-sex education fails squarely within my area of expertise: brain and cognitive development. It's been more than a decade now since the "brain sex movement" began infiltrating （渗入） our schools, and there are literally hundreds of schools caught up in the fad （新潮）. Public schools in Wisconsin, Indiana. Florida and many other states now proudly declare on their websites that they separate boys and girls because "research solidly indicates that boys and girls learn differently, " due to "hard-wired" differences in their brains, eyes, ears, autonomic nervous systems, and more.[H] All of these statements can be traced to just a few would-be neuroscientists, especially physician Leonard Sax and therapist Michael Gurian. Each gives lectures, runs conferences, and does a lot of professional development on so-called” gender-specific learning.” I analyzed their various claims about sex differences in hearing, vision, language, math, stress responses, and "learning styles" in my book and a long peer-reviewed paper. Other neuroscientists and psychologists have similarly exposed their work. In short, the mechanisms by which our brains learn language, math, physics, and every other subject don't differ between boys and girls. Of course, learning does vary a lot between individual students, but research reliably shows that this variance is far greater within populations of boys or girls than between the two sexes.[I] The equal protection clause of the US Constitution prohibits separation of students by sex in public education that's based on precisely this kind of "overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of males and females." And the reason it is prohibited is because it leads far too easily to stereotyping and sex discrimination.Social Developmental Psychology[J] That brings me to the third area of research which fails to support single-sex schooling and indeed suggests the practice is actually harmful: social developmental psychology.[K] It's a well-proven finding in social psychology that segregation promotes stereotyping and prejudice, whereas intergroup contact reduces them and the results are the same whether you divide groups by race, age, gender, body mass index, sexual orientation, or any other category. What's more, children are especially vulnerable to this kind of bias, because they are dependent on adults for learning which social categories are important and why we divide people into different groups.[L] You don't have to look far to find evidence of stereotyping and sex discrimination in single-sex schools. There was the failed single-sex experiment in California, where six school districts used generous state grants to set up separate boys' and girls' academics in the late 1990s. Once boys and girls were segregated, teachers resorted to traditional gender stereotypes to run their classes, and within just three years, five of the six districts had gone back to coeducation.[M] At the same time, researchers are increasingly discovering benefits of gender interaction in youth. A large British study found that children with other-sex older siblings （兄弟姐妹） exhibit less stereotypical play than children with same-sex older siblings, such as girls who like sports and building toys and boys who like art and dramatic play. Another study of high school social networks found less bullying and aggression the higher the density of mixed-sex friendships within a given adolescent network. Then there is the finding we cited in our Science paper of higher divorce and depression rates among a large group of British men who attended single-sex schools as teenagers, which might be explained by the lack of opportunity to learn about relationships during their formative years.[N] Whether in nursery school, high school, or the business world, gender segregating narrows our perceptions of each other, facilitating stereotyping and sexist attitudes. It's very simple: the more we structure children and adolescents' environment around gender distinctions and separation, the more they will use these categories as the primary basis for understanding themselves and others.[O] Gender is an important issue in education. There are gaps in reading, writing, and science achievement that should be narrower. There are gaps in career choice that should be narrower—if we really want to maximize human potential and American economic growth. But stereotyping boys and girls and separating them in the name of fictitious （虚构的） brain differences is never going to close these gaps.Hundreds of schools separate boys from girls in class on the alleged brain and cognitive differences. A review of extensive educational research shows no obvious academic advantage of single- sex schooling. The author did not have any fixed ideas on single-sex education when she began her research on the subject. Research found men who attended single-sex schools in their teens were more likely to suffer from depression. Studies in social psychology have shown segregating in school education has a negative impact on children. Reviews of research indicate there are more differences in brain and cognitive development within the same sex than between different sexes. The findings of the national survey of college freshmen about the impact of single-sex schooling fail to take into account student and school attributes. It wasn't long before most of the school districts that experimented with single-sex education abandoned the practice. Boys from coeducational classes demonstrate greater cognitive abilities according to the economists' research. As careful research reviews show, academic excellence in some single-sex schools is attributed to other factors than single-sex education.

( )The core beliefs and values people hold in a given society are hard to change.A. 对B. 错

The training course is designed for managers who want to increase their confidence and understand different marketing styles.A. 本培训课程是为那些需要提高自信和了解不同营销风格的经理们而设计的。B. 本培训课程的目的是为提高员工自信心,使他们了解不同的市场销售手段。C. 本培训课程由经理设计,使员工掌握各种营销手段,用以提高他们的能力。

Il. Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the words given in brackets.1. Fire insurance is intended to. protect people and businesses from possible losses(result)from unexpected fire.2. When I got back home, I saw a message pinned to the door(read)“Sorry to miss you, will call later. 3. The performance of the host,(intend) to please the audience anddraw their attention, was greeted with a cold silence, however.4.(be) in operation for many hours, the motor became rather hot.5. The police were told that some boyss were seen(play)on thestreet.6. The road is beautiful, with trees and flowers(grow):weI1⋅alongboth sides.7. The first generation of computers involved large commercial computers(use) for business and research.8. The great fire continued till the next morning, with a heavy smoke(see) in the distance.9.(face) with the increasing difficulties, he was at a loss whatto do.10. The national park has a large collection of wildlife,(range)from butterflies to elephants.11. Staffonly collaborated with Japan's Onitsuka Tiger,(update)the Serrano sneakers for the 70th anniversary of the sports and fashion brand.12. The charitable tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens, which continues today,(originate) in Victorian London.13. What's in a director's head might not always translate well to paper,(make) them rethink the way they are going to tackle their script on film.14. The talent, training platforms and joint ventures(establish)Trade Port.15. It will offer a bilingual, bicultural curriculum,(draw)onwhat's best from Harrow London's and Harrow International School's pedagogy to deliverGrade 1 to 9 Compulsory Education.16. Children(age)6 to 14, with their innocent perspective, leadthe people in Mauritius to feel the warmth in this battle against the virus.17.(hope) to raise a family on the farm, she worked long hoursevery day.18. Storyboards can illustrate the camera shots and movements that filmmakers have in theirheads,(make) it easier for the cast and crew to understand howeverything will piece together.19. Here are some of the books and writers most often bought to attest to intellectual heft andthen remain( gather) dust while we pick up our well-lovedStephen Kings and John Grishams.20. Hawking made a conscious effort to simplify the text as much as possible,(leave) in only one scientific formula: the one everyschoolchild knows, Albert Einstein's famous E=mc2.21. With a striking yet simple black, blue and gold cover, this book is as elegant as the works(detail) within.22. But, away from the public eye, these individuals are just like us, and love nothing morethan(kill) hours of their time in their gardens.23. High-quality images(burst) with colour transport us to placessuch as Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo and Stockholm's Metro stations.24. Basic, but important rules, can include not responding to texts from unknown numbers,your child(inform) you if they receive any texts from someonethey don't know, never( share) their personal informationonline or with anyone they don't know, among others.25. With each(pass)month, we can do more online, and faster.26. I grew up travelling the world on motorcycles and(see)thelives of women all over the planet, and their strength. It is close to my heart to buildtechnology that can support them in unfolding their potential.27. The site is an extension of social media, but simpler,(cater)for those who don't want to get swaddled and overwhelmed, but still want to feel part ofthe community.28.(have) an ambition to conquer the world of the Internet and owna successful online business since completing his studies in computer science, he did notlet his disability become an excuse to give up on his dreams.29. It's also important to outline the(intend) use for specific toolslike computers and mobiles, and the consequences, should these expectations not be metor respected.30. The 2017 bleaching event was the worst yet, although it didn't bleach 93 per cent of thetotal coral, as was commonly(assume).31. With classes(design) to be 10-15 minutes long, Babbel, anapp for language study, encourages learning in short, yet achievable bursts.32. Connected and( automate) vehicles ( also known as CAVs),are vehicles that could perform many of the functions of today's human drivers in thefuture.33. But social media have been shown to be overwhelming, often negatively(affect)people.34. When people tell me that for the first time in their careers they can come to work as theirfull selves and feel(include), that makes me think that we aredoing something right.35. Cyclone(气旋) Winston brought a tropical rain depression that acted as a buffer,(drop) sea temperatures below local norms and increasing cloudcover.36. Newly-built wooden cottages line the street,(turn) the old towninto a dreamland.37. The project adopted a user-centred approach to design and development, with the needs ofolder adults(be) the focus of their work.38.A(run) tap can waste 15 litres a minute-turn it off whilebrushing your teeth or shaving.39. Cotton fabric manufacture was an important but slow business,(require) considerable manual effort from picking the raw plants to the spinning andweaving processes.40. To achieve this, authorities have launched a number of awareness and infrastructureprojects,(aim)at reducing the number of vehicles on the roadand popularising other forms of transport, such as walking and cycling.

Why should we be careful of the word “be”?A. “Be” allows for the use of adjectives which are not descriptive.B. “Be” is rarely used in written English.C. “Be” is often used in a passive manner and does not show action.D. “Be” is often confused for “bee”.