I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived until they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and she is likely to take paid work until sixty. This important change in women's life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen; many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have produced a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life. Question: According to the passage, it is now quite common for women to _ . Options: A: stay at home after leaving school B: marry men younger than themselves C: start working again later in life D: marry while still at school
C
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: South Korean Films An audience can view five new South Korean films, all with Chinese subtitles until April 19 at the Tuixin Cinema in the Beijing National Library grounds. Two other South Korean films completed their full runs at the Tuixin Cinema earlier this month. Location: Tuixin Cinema, Beijing National Library, 39 Baishiqiao Road, Haidian District. Tel: 86415566 "My Love My Bride" April 15: 9:00, 13:00, 15:30, 17:30, 19:30 "Kim's War" April 16: 9:00, 13:30, 18:15 "Because You Are a Woman" April 17: 13:30, 18:15 Marriage Story" April 18: 9:00, 13:30, 15:30, 18:15 "Sopyonje" April 19: 9:00, 13:30, 15:30, 17:30, 19:30 Leon's show Hong Kong pop star--Leon Lai will give a personal performance at 7:30pm from tomorrow through to September 21 at the Shanghai Gymnasium. The show is to celebrate the opening of the 93rd Huangpu Tourism Festival. Tickets: 60, 90, 120, 180 yuan RMB, available at 66 Jiangning Road. Tel: 29189188, 29171145, 49384952, 29197113 Russian concert The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra will put on some excellent Russian Orchestra works at 7:15pm on September 26 and 27 at the Shanghai Concert Hall. They will sing Russian folk songs and mass under a Russian Conductor who is very famous for conducting choirs and has given a successful choral concert in Beijing. Tickets: 6, 8, 10, 12 yuan RMB, available at the hall's ticket office. Address: 523 Yan'an Road W. Shanghai. Tel: 32275694. Korean songs The Song and Dance Troupe of North Korea will give a song and dance show at 7:30pm tonight at the Shanghai Center Theater. Tickets: 10, 20, 30 yuan RMB, available at the theater's ticket office. Address: 1376 Nanjing Road W. Shanghai. Tel: 29798663 Question: The address of the Shanghai Center Theater is _ . Options: A: 1111 Gaoxi Road N B: 1376 Nanjing Road W C: 523 Yan'an Road W D: 66 Jiangning Road
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B
Ques: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Those who spend more pre-bedtime hours using the Internet or watching television are more likely to report insufficient sleep, even though they sleep almost as long as people spending fewer pre-bedtime hours in front of a computer or television screen, survey findings show. "While many people use electronic media, say, the Internet, it should be noted that the longer media use before sleep can trigger (self-perceived) insufficient sleep," lead researcher Dr Nakamori Suganuma, of Osaka University, Japan, told the reporter. He and colleagues obtained data on self-perceived sleep problems and the use of electronic media prior to bedtime from 5,875 altogether Japanese respondents in two separate Internet-based surveys. Their findings are published in Sleep and Biological Rhythms. Nearly half of the respondents associated their problem with electronic media use before bedtime. Longer electronic media users were also more likely to report insufficient sleep. "Overall, 29% of light users (less than 1.5 hours) listed electronic media use as a possible cause of their insufficient sleep. By comparison, 40% of medium users (1.5 to 3 hours) and 54% of heavy users (more than 3 hours) said the same. However, longer Internet and television use before bedtime did not _ less actual sleep. While heavy users averaged about 3 more hours in front of computer or television screens than light users, the heavy users averaged only about 12 minutes less pre-workday sleep time than light users. Notably, Suganuma said, "Internet use affected self-perceived insufficient sleep more than TV watching not only in younger Internet users but also in middle-aged or aged Internet users." Up to 38% of the respondents listed accessing the Internet far into the night as a possible cause for their sleep disturbance, while about 25% said watching television far into the night caused it. The findings suggest that while heavy computer and television use before bedtime has a small effect on sleep duration, it may have a more significant effect on "sleep... Question: Heavy computer and television user before bed time are more likely to be _ than light ones. Options: A: energetic B: happy C: sleepy D: clever
Ans: C
Question: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how. In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood thatthe computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it. In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder . Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called "transactive memory ". According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing. Question: What can we learn about the first experiment? Options: A: Sparrow's team typed the information into a computer. B: The two groups remembered the information equally well. C: The first group did not try to remember the formation. D: The second group did not understand the information.
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C