According to the _____________ （tradition) custom, we eat zongzi rather than jiaozi in Duanwu Festival.

The American economy is growing, according to the most recent statistics, at the sizzling rate of 7%, and is in the middle of the largest peacetime expansion in American history. We read in the newspapers that practically everyone who wants a job can get one. Microsoft is running advertisements in the New York Times practically begging Congress to issue more visas for foreign computer and information technology workers.

In this environment, it is shocking that one group of Americans, people with disabilities, have such a high level of unemployment: 30% are not employed the same percentage as when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. Not only did their employment and labor earnings fall during the recession of the early 1990s, but employment and earnings continued to fall during the long economic expansion that followed. Many of these people are skilled professionals who are highly marketable in today's economy.

Part of the problem is discrimination, and part recent court rulings favoring employers in ADA lawsuits. Discrimination against people with disabilities is, unfortunately, alive and well, despite the legal prohibitions against discrimination in hiring people with disabilities. 79% of disabled people who are unemployed cite discrimination in the workplace and lack of transportation as major factors that prevent them from working. Studies have also shown that people with disabilities who find jobs earn less than their co-workers, and are less likely to be promoted.

Unfavorable court rulings have not been helpful, either. Research by law professor Ruth Colker of Ohio State University has shown that in the eight years after the ADA went into effect, employer-defendants prevailed in more than 93% of the eases decided by trial. Of the cases appealed, employers prevailed 84% of the time. Robert Burgdorf, Ir., who helped draft the ADA, has written, "legal analysis has proceeded quite a way down the wrong road". Disability activists and other legal scholars point out that Congress intended the ADA as a national mandate for the ending of discrimination against people-with disabilities. Instead, what has occurred, in the words of one writer, is that the courts "have narrowed the scope of the law, redefined 'disability,' raised the price of access to justice and generally deemed disability discrimination as not worthy of serious remedy".

But perhaps the greatest single problem is the federal government itself, where laws and regulations designed to help disabled people actually provide an economic disincentive to work. As Sen. Edward Kennedy wrote, "the high unemployment rate among people receiving federal disability benefits is not because their federal benefits programs have 'front doors that are too big', but because they have 'back doors that are too small'".

The advertisement made by Microsoft shows that _____.

A．a great number of jobs have been created in the U.S..

B．foreign workers are favored over domestic workers.

C．working visa is very hard to be issued to foreign workers.

D．many domestic workers will lose their jobs to foreigners.

Which of the following statements is not true according to the selection?

A．People go to attend the evening adult classes for more money.

B．They go there for they want to enrich their lives.

C．They have to study more because of the advanced technology.

D．They do so for the reason that they want to do jobs better.

According to the hospital rules, at which of the following hours can visitors see patients?

A．2:00 下午

B．5:00 下午

C．7:00 下午

D．6:00 下午

According to the report, which of the following is true?

A．Mr. Horvath is proposing that the four plants be renovated.

B．The Graziano Steel Company is planning to relocate its local plants.

C．The newest plant had the lowest expenses in the last three months.

D．The Springfield plant had the most affordable maintenance costs for March.

Which of the following is NOT true according to the news?

A．More than 200,400 drawings will be put on the block Saturday at the New York Historical Society.

B．Plane Crazy was the first drawing ever made of Mickey Mouse.

C．The museum will offer the drawings and hundreds of other items for sale to defray nearly 2 million in debt.

D．Comic strips of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Charlie Brown, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace and Prince Valiant were also auctioned

Which of the following is NOT true according to the news?

A．More than 200,400 drawings will be put on the block Saturday at the New York Historical Society.

B．Plane Crazy was the first drawing ever made of Mickey Mouse.

C．The museum will offer the drawings and hundreds of other items for sale to defray nearly 2 million in debt.

D．Comic strips of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Charlie Brown, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace and Prince Valiant were also auctioned.

According to the writer, tourists look "bewildered, dazed, even at times despondent" because they ______.

A．do not realize that holiday pleasures are so costly

B．abandon themselves to all kinds of excesses

C．confuse their dreams with reality

D．hardly prepare for their holidays

According to the writer, tourists look "bewildered, dazed, even at times despondent" because they ______.

A．do not realize that holiday pleasures are so costly

B．abandon themselves to all kinds of excesses

C．confuse their dreams with reality

D．hardly prepare for their holidays

According to the professor, what can be inferred about a Renaissance man?

A．He would probably be a master craftsman.

B．He would have an aptitude for both art and science.

C．He would be interested in classical philosophers.

D．He would value logic at the expense of creativity.