【填空题】The conditions underwhich the social scientists must work would drive a ____ scientistfrantic,

【填空题】AV Clip 14: Smoking and Social ClassAV 14 Smoking & Social Class.avi Watch the video clip three times and complete the following passage by filling in each blank with the word from the video clip. The ill effects of smoking are now well documented. Smokers have high rates of heart disease, many types of cancer and great risks for (1)__________ death. But few studies have examined the (2)_________ between social class and smoking. Typically, people with more financial (3)________ enjoy better health. But the new research finds that smoking negated the benefit of social (4)_________. Doctors in Scotland tracked 15,000 middle-aged people for twenty years. They found people in higher social classes were (5)__________ less likely to smoke. However, more than four in ten still smoke regularly. But wealth offers no (6) ___________ from diseases linked to smoking. Across all classes, men and women who smoke were two or three times as likely to die from lung cancer. Non-smoking women have the greatest (7)_________ more than half still alive at the end of the study. There is also good news for those who have (8)________ the habit. The former smokers have the survival odds very close to participants who have never smoked. Answers:

In which subject areas must the student take courses next semester? Click on two answers.

A．Social science

B．Natural science

C．Humanities

D．Physical education

The social scientists who adopt the social standing approach ______.

A．believe that Puerto Ricans will increasingly gain economic advantages

B．think that Puerto Ricans will lose their national cultures

C．regard the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States as a significant factor

D．point out that coercion and inequality will inevitably occur in the process

The social scientists who adopt the social standing approach ______.

A．believe that Puerto Ricans will increasingly gain economic advantages

B．think that Puerto Ricans will lose their national cultures

C．regard the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States as a significant factor

D．point Out that coercion and inequality will inevitably occur in the process

While social scientists are devoting much of their effort to poverty research, ______.

A．not enough legal frameworks have been created to relieve the condition of the poor

B．they have done little to actually provide relief programs for the poor

C．they ignore the role of the elites as an object for poverty research

D．the poor people themselves do not much appreciate such effort

While social scientists are devoting much of their effort to poverty research, ______.

A．not enough legal frameworks have been created to relieve the condition of the poor

B．they have done little to actually provide relief programs for the poor

C．they ignore the role of the elites as an object for poverty research

D．the poor people themselves do not much appreciate such effort

The greatest recent social changes have been 【C1】______ the lives of women. During the 20th century there has been a remarkable shortening of the 【C2】______ of a woman's life spent in 【C3】______ for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her 【C4】______ twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of 【C5】______ four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother 【C6】______ have been in her early fifties and would expect to live 【C7】______ further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get 【C8】______ work. Today women marry younger and have 【C9】______ children, Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be 【C10】______ to live another thirty-Five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even 【C11】______ she has the care of children, her work is 【C12】______ by house-hold appliances ant convenience foods.

This important change in women's life-pattern ha8 only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic 【C13】______ Even a few yearn ago most girls loft school 【C14】______ the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, whoa they married, they usually loft work at once and never 【C15】______ to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls 【C16】______ at school after that age, and though women 【C17】______ to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is horn. 【C18】______ many more afterwards return to full or part-time work, Such changes have 【C19】______ to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the 【C20】______ and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wits sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.

【C1】

A．of

B．for

C．in

D．to

Inflation is an economic condition in which prices for consumer goods increase, and the value of money or【51】power decreases. There are three important causes of inflation.

The first and most important cause may be【52】government spending. For example, in order to【53】a war or carry out social programs, the government may spend more money than it has received through taxes and other【54】, thus creating a【55】. In order to【56】it, the Treasury Department can simply【57】the money supply by【58】more paper money to meet the debts of government. This increase in the money supply will cause the value of the dollar to【59】decrease. The second cause of Inflation occurs when the money supply increases faster than the supply of【60】.

(51)

A．consuming

B．purchasing

C．expending

D．spending