What advantages does work have?
第1题
What does "combined explosion of interpretations" used by Cheyer refer to?
A.The advantages of Siri.
B.The complexity of words.
C.The wide application of AI.
D.The background of an iPhone user.
第3题
What advantages does the writer say managers have over other workers?
A.They cannot lose their jobs.
B.They get time off to attend courses.
C.They can work at whatever interests them.
D.They can make their own decisions.
第4题
What advantages does the nuclear family offer women?
[A] They enjoy more freedom and rights.
[B] They can spend their money as they like.
[C] Their relatives help them with childcare.
[D] They have all the power of the family.
第5题
What advantages does the writer say managers have over other workers?
A.They cannot lost their jobs.
B.They get time off to attend courses.
C.They can work at whatever interests them.
D.They can make their own decisions.
第6题
A.Exercising can"t help reduce the harm caused by sitting.
B.The harm depends on the prolonged time sitting at a desk.
C.Exercising is not necessary for people.
D.Exercising has no advantages for people who often sit.
第7题
What does the writer mainly talk about in this passage?
A.The deficiencies of the library in providing information.
B.The different applications of the computer and the library.
C.The advantages and disadvantages of the computer and library.
D.The advantages of the computer in search of information.
第8题
听力原文: The family is changing. In the past, grandparents, parents, and children used to live together, and they had an extended family. Sometimes two or more brothers with their wives and children were part of this large family group. But family structure is changing throughout the world. The nuclear family consists of only one father, one mother, and children. It is becoming the main family structure everywhere.
The nuclear family offers women some advantages: they have freedom from their relatives, and the husband does not have all the power of the family. Studies show that in nuclear families, men and women usually make an equal number of decisions about family life.
But wives usually have to "pay" for the benefits of freedom and power. When women lived in extended families, sisters, grandparents, and aunts helped one another with housework and childcare. In addition, older women in a large family group had important position. Wives in nuclear families do not often enjoy this benefit, and they have another disadvantage, too; women generally live longer than their husbands, so older women from nuclear families often have to live alone.
Studies show that women are generally less satisfied with marriage than men are. In the past, men worked outside the home and women worked inside. Housework and childcare were a full-time job, and there was no time for anything else. Now women work outside and have more freedom than they did in the past, but they still have to do most of the housework. Women actually have two full-time jobs, and they have not much free time.
Questions:
17. Who used to live together in an extended family?
18. What advantages does the nuclear family offer women?
19. What is another disadvantage of the nuclear family for women?
20. Many women are dissatisfied with marriage and the nuclear family because they______.
(17)
A.Only grandparents and children.
B.Brothers with their wives.
C.Many relatives.
D.Father, mother and their children.
第9题
The computer lovers talk about how useful computers can be in business, in education and in the home—apart from all the games, you can do your accounts on them, use them to control your central heating, and in some places even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say, will also bring some leisure, as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken over by computerized robots.
The haters, on the other hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too, that people who spend all their time talking to computers will forget how to talk to each other. And anyway, they ask, what's wrong with going shopping and learning languages in a classroom with real teachers? But their biggest fear is that computers may eventually take over from human beings altogether.
What does this passage mainly talk about?
A.Computers have become part of our daily lives.
B.Computers have advantages as well as disadvantages.
C.People have different attitudes to computers.
D.More and more families will own computers.
第10题
听力原文:W: Michael, do you go out to work?
M: (23) Not regularly. I used to have a job in a publishing company, but I decided it wasn't really what I wanted to do and what I wanted to do wouldn't earn me much money, so I gave up working, and luckily I had a private income from my family to support me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing and teaching, and others don't.
W: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five?
M: (24) There're two advantages really. One is that if you feel tired you don't have to get up, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced to do the same thing all the time.
W: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do you feel justified in having this privileged position?
M: Yes. (25)I do things which I think are useful to people and the community and which I enjoy doing.
W: Does your wife think that in order to lead a balanced life, people need some form. of work?
M: Yes, she does. She thinks it's equally important that their attitude towards work should be positive and whatever work one is actually doing can become creative. Even when she cooks a meal, she thinks she is creating, in her own way, something which is very necessary to our family.
(20)
A.He works in a publishing company.
B.He cooks at home.
C.He is a teacher or lecturer.
D.He has no regular job.