Modern society cannot well do without the contribution that women can make in the professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage of nurses and teachers, to mention only two of the occupations followed by women. It is a waste to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and be lost forever to her profession. The training, it is true, will help her in her duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful. Many factories and shops, too, are largely staffed by women, many of them married. While here the question of training is not so important, industry and trade would be seriously short of staff if married women did not work.
We can see then that there are good reasons for regarding it as desirable that married women should have some occupation outside the home. However, there are serious objections. Schools do not keep children occupied the whole day and school holidays are long. The mother’s working day will almost certainly end well after the school day and her holiday will not begin at the same time as her children’s. There will be therefore a period when children are not taken care of unless a substitute for the mother can be found, or unless it becomes more generally possible for women to work part-time. There seem to be some grounds for believing that there is more bad behavior among the children of working mothers than among those of mothers who stay at home, but more evidence is required before we can be certain of this. What we can be certain of, however, is that many more will continue to do so.
1.According to the writer, women nurses and teachers ought to carry on their occupation after marriage because______.
A. they are not allowed to give up their jobs
B. their training should not be wasted
C. they want to make a living by themselves
D. they must still improve themselves as mothers
2.According to the writer, one possible way for the children of working mothers to be attended to is that________.
A. schools keep children occupied the whole day
B. their mothers change their occupation
C. their mothers do not work full time
D. their mothers should stay at home
3.The clause “unless a substitute for the mother can be found” means_______.
A. if someone takes over the mother’s occupation
B. if no mother works all day
C. if no one takes care of the children for the mother
D. if someone takes care of the children for the mother
4.The writer believes that bad behavior among the children of mothers who do not work is _________ among the children of working mothers.
A. possibly less than B. about the same as
C. a little greater than D. certainly more than
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题
Modern society cannot well do without the contribution that women can make in the professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage of nurses and teachers, to mention only two of the occupations followed by women. It is a waste to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and be lost forever to her profession. The training, it is true, will help her in her duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful. Many factories and shops, too, are largely staffed by women, many of them married. While here the question of training is not so important, industry and trade would be seriously short of staff if married women did not work.
We can see then that there are good reasons for regarding it as desirable that married women should have some occupation outside the home. However, there are serious objections. Schools do not keep children occupied the whole day and school holidays are long. The mother’s working day will almost certainly end well after the school day and her holiday will not begin at the same time as her children’s. There will be therefore a period when children are not taken care of unless a substitute for the mother can be found, or unless it becomes more generally possible for women to work part-time. There seem to be some grounds for believing that there is more bad behavior among the children of working mothers than among those of mothers who stay at home, but more evidence is required before we can be certain of this. What we can be certain of, however, is that many more will continue to do so.
1.According to the writer, women nurses and teachers ought to carry on their occupation after marriage because______.
A. they are not allowed to give up their jobs
B. their training should not be wasted
C. they want to make a living by themselves
D. they must still improve themselves as mothers
2.According to the writer, one possible way for the children of working mothers to be attended to is that________.
A. schools keep children occupied the whole day
B. their mothers change their occupation
C. their mothers do not work full time
D. their mothers should stay at home
3.The clause “unless a substitute for the mother can be found” means_______.
A. if someone takes over the mother’s occupation
B. if no mother works all day
C. if no one takes care of the children for the mother
D. if someone takes care of the children for the mother
4.The writer believes that bad behavior among the children of mothers who do not work is _________ among the children of working mothers.
A. possibly less than B. about the same as
C. a little greater than D. certainly more than
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So _____ that modern industry cannot develop without it.
A.electricity is important | B.important is electricity |
C.electricity important is | D.important electricity is |
高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
With the development of modern society, E-mail as well as telephones an important part in daily communication.
A. have played B. is playing C. are playing D. played
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
With the development of modern society, E-mail as well as telephones________an important part in daily communication.
A.have played B.is playing C.are playing D.had played
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
“Without trust,” writes Rachel Botsman, “society cannot survive, and it certainly cannot thrive."
Clearly, we are in trouble. Two-thirds of people surveyed last year in 28 countries expressed low levels of trust in "mainstream institutions" of business, government and media.
In “Who Can You Trust?” Botsman, an Oxford lecturer offers a timely and accessible framework for understanding what trust is, how it works, why it matters and how it is evolving. It is an important guidance to the obstacles and opportunities we face as a society if we are to repair and redefine trust.
Through human history, trust has evolved in three basic stages: Local trust was enough when people lived in small communities and everybody knew everybody else; industrialization and urbanization required institutional trust so that people could trust complete strangers running governments, corporations, and standards for international trade, commerce and finance. We are now living through a massive global .shift of trust from institutions to individuals: distributed trust facilitated by high-tech platforms, many of which are run by the private sector.
This shift is caused by several factors. First, accountability is unequal. Rich, powerful and well-connected individuals have been able to accumulate vast quantities of often undocumented wealth by avoiding tax and anti-bribery laws, while ordinary people are likely to be caught and punished for lawbreaking. Second, people in power are no longer seen to deserve greater respect as the details of their lives are exposed.
Botsman does not prescribe how we deal with that. But if the old ways of giving and cancelling trust such as voting, markets and consumer choice are no longer functioning, then we must change or replace them. Systems must be "driven democratically and rationally," become more "transparent, inclusive, and accountable" and, most important, be designed to "put people first," which profit-driven platforms have failed to do sufficiently.
Tech executives are responding to the trust crisis mainly with promises of more and better technology. But Batsman warns that the responsibility for ensuring that the robots being used are trustworthy lies with the human beings who design and use them. We have not thought through how we hold those people accountable, let alone their robots. She warns against a natural tendency "to become over-reliant on machines." Ideally machines should be programmed to "understand" their own limitations and even seek human help or intervention.
A growing number of people hope that new trust mechanisms can be established through the use of exciting new technologies such as the blockchain(区块链). In essence, blockchains are digital public ledgers of transactions that cannot be changed, thereby creating greater transparency and accountability and making corruption much harder.
However, Botsman warns that the blockchain is no panacea for human trust. Whether blockchain systems lead to more accountable governance and a more just global economy will depend on their design and the intentions of those who build them. There is no app for fixing trust.
"Who Can You Trust?" does make a clear case for why it is important for the companies, governments and other institutions to be much more transparent and subject themselves to new mechanisms that can credibly hold them accountable. It is the only way they can hope to earn and maintain trust in the future.
1.Which of the following orders of trust evolution is right?
A.institutional trust→ industrialized trust→ individual trust
B.urbanized trust→ local trust→ institutional trust
C.local trust→ institutional trust→ distributed trust
D.local trust→ urbanized trust →individual trust
2.What can we conclude from the passage?
A.Profit-driven platforms pay no attention to the importance of people.
B.It is the people who design and use technology that count in restoring trust.
C.New technologies, such as the blockchain can prevent corruption from happening.
D.People should rely on new technologies to create transparency and accountability.
3.What do the underlined words “no panacea" mean?
A.not a Herculean task B.a hard nut
C.not a cure-all medicine D.a catch -22
4.What's the author's attitude toward the possibility of using technology to restore trust?
A.Supportive B.Negative
C.Indifferent D.Skeptical
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Today's children are the "result" of the modern society. Our parents have jobs that keep them busy almost all day long. They only have a free day in a week. This doesn't allow them to keep an eye on their children.
On the other hand, the modern society gives more freedom to the children than they could "handle". As a child, you don't know how to grow up by yourself until you reach a certain age. That is why you need school and parents to be by your side all the time. If you don't have either of them you may make a lot of mistakes. The social system of the modem society is very lenient especially with the children.
Most of the children today are rebels(叛逆者). They are rude. They are given too much freedom by their families. This is their parents' mistake. They ought to know that the freedom they give to their children is misunderstood.
For example it is a bad thing for a 17-year-old child to go out in the evening on weekends. Parents are also guilty of the way their children show up in the street or at school. The same guilt belongs to the teaching system as well. Pupils shouldn't be allowed to dress like they were on a fashion presentation at school.
Another important fact we can think of regarding the freedom of children is their free will of spending money. Parents shouldn't allow their children to spend money on whatever they want.
I think children are given too much freedom not only by their parents, but also by the society. The latter is more to be blamed!
1.The writer implies that parents' busy lifestyle .
A. makes their children become independent
B. may lead to a tense parent-child relationship
C. is harmful to their children's health
D. is likely to create a troubled generation
2.What does the underlined word "lenient" ( in Paragraph 2 ) mean ?
A. Not responsible. B. Not strict.
C. Unkind. D. Unfair.
3. It seems that the writer agrees that students .
A. should stay at home on weekends
B. can wear trendy clothes at school
C. had better wear school uniform at school
D. can be allowed to go out in the evenings
4.According to the writer, which of the following takes the primary responsibility for children's problems?
A. The social environment. B. The educational system.
C. Each family. D. The school.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Today’s children are the “result” of the modern society. Our parents have jobs that keep them busy almost all day long. They only have a free day in a week. This doesn’t allow them to keep an eye on their children.
On the other hand, the modern society gives more freedom to the children than they could “handle”. As a child, you don’t know how to grow up by yourself until you reach a certain age. That is why you need school and parents to be by your side all the time. If you don’t have either of them you may make a lot of mistakes. The social system of the modern society is very lenient especially with the children.
Most of the children today are rebels (判逆者). They are rude. They are given too much freedom by their families. This is their parent’s mistake. They ought to know that the freedom they give to their children is misunderstood.
For example it is a bad thing for a 17 – year – old child to go out in the evening on weekends. Parents are also guilty of the way their children show up in the street or at school. The same guilt belongs to the teaching system as well. Pupils shouldn’t be allowed to dress like they were on a fashion presentation at school.
Another important fact we can think of regarding the freedom of children is their free will of spending money. Parents shouldn’t allow their children to spend money on whatever they want.
I think children are given too much freedom not only by their parents, but also by the society. The latter is more to be blamed!
1.The writer implies that parents’ busy lifestyle ________.
A.makes their children become independent
B.may lead to a tense parent – child relationship
C.is harmful to their children’s health
D.is likely to create a troubled generation
2.What does the underlined word “lenient” (in Para 2) mean?
A.Not responsible B.Not strict. C.Unkind. D.Unfair.
3.It seems that the writer agrees that students ________.
A.should stay at home on weekends
B.can wear trendy clothes at school
C.had better wear school uniform at school
D.can be allowed to go out in the evenings
4.According to the writer, which of the following takes the primary responsibility for children’s problems?
A.The social environment. B.The educational system.
C.Each family. D.The school.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Some people believe that greed and selfishness has become the basis of modern society, and we should return to the old traditions of family and community then we will have a better life. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above opinion?
In this fast-paced world, many values are undergoing major changes. While people traditionally prioritize caring, sharing and generosity in life and work, modern people seem to be more self-absorbed and self-concerned.
Modern people act selfishly to survive the harsh competition of life. They say that it is a jungle out there. To survive, you have to fight with whatever means that come handy. Obviously greedy and selfishness go perfectly well with such ideas. In a company, employees do everything they can to get better pay and higher position, even at the cost of colleagues. We are in any way advocating any selfish conduct. It is just that people are pressured to act in a certain way due to outside influences.
In spite of common practice, it is hard to conclude that modern society is built on greed and selfishness, both of which are not newly invented vocabulary. In ancient times people also did greedy and selfish things though such behaviors were more condemned then. But we can not ignore the fact that people in the past lived a relatively more isolated life and faced less pressure compared with their modern counterparts.
Are we happier to share with others and be generous to them? There is no fixed answer either. Some people take great pleasure helping and giving to others while others feel happy doing the opposite. But I personally think that people should not be too selfish. Caring for others can actually encourage the development of a mutually beneficial relationship.
In conclusion, modern people appear to be more self-centered than those in the past due to strong outside pressure. However, we should encourage people to know the importance of being caring and generous and to build a mutually beneficial relationship with others.
Are Modern People Becoming More Selfish?
Main comparisons | Contexts |
__1.__ are changing | In the past people put caring, sharing and generosity in the first ___2.____. |
Nowadays, people seem to be more ____3.____about themselves. | |
___4.___are changing too. | People in the past appeared to be modest and self-effacing(谦让的). |
People may strive to achieve their own __5.___ at the price of their coworkers. | |
The author’s understanding | |
___6.____ for the changes in author’s eyes | Fierce __7.__ and great __8.___on modern people may be responsible for the changes. |
The author’s ___9.____towards topic | A relationship which can __10.___ two sides should be established. |
高三英语填空题困难题查看答案及解析
It’s a consensus in modern society that whoever breaks the law deserves _______, whether he is from the top class or a humble person.
A. to punish B. to be punishing C. being punished D. punishing
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I don’t think ___ possible to travel around the world without any modern equipment.
A.this | B.that |
C.its | D.it |
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析