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According to the passage, the rise of New York ________

A.had some positive effect on American sculpture development

B.should contribute mainly to female artists

C.made it the center of the whole world in 1945

D.attracted talents in various fields to the U.S.

According to the passage, Kathie Gifford______.

A．was one of the underpaid laborers in New York City's Chinatown

B．was one of the well-paid laborers in New York City's Chinatown

C．made much money from cheap laborers in New York City's Chinatown

D．wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employing cheap laborers

According to the passage, the important plants grown in New York include ______.

A．cherries, pears, apples, com, and onions

B．grapes, butter, potatoes, com, and onions

C．vegetable, flowers, fruits, and apples

D．numerous flower and plant nurseries

According to the passage, Kathie Gifford ______ .

A．was one of the underpaid laborers in New York City's Chinatown

B．was one of the well paid laborers in New York City's Chinatown

C．made much money from Cheap laborers in New York City's Chinatown

D．wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employing cheap la borers

According to the passage, farms in New York ______.

A．earn more from dairy products than from crops

B．mostly have sales more than ten million US dollars

C．are usually woodland

D．regard dairying as the most important activity in their routine

According to the passage, the New York Teaching Fellows program is an initiative

A．carried out to recruit more English teachers in high schools

B．set up to help comedians become English teachers

C．designed to tackle the acute shortage of certified teachers

D．carried out to improve the condition of schools in troubled parts of the city

What was troubling New York in late 1960s and early 1970s according to the passage？

A．There 559,000 in the drug users in the state.

B．There was a 31 % increase in drug use by 1972.

C．It was short of money solving drug problem.

D．The drug problem seemed going out of control.

The best title for this passage is ______ .

A．Traffic Crowding in New York City

B．Air Pollution in New York City by Cars

C．Special Lanes for Passengers

D．A Solution to Traffic Problems in New York

The research identified happy and unhappy spouses, culled(选出) from a national database. Of the unhappy partners who divorced, about half were happy five years later. But unhappy spouses who stuck it out often did better. About two-thirds were happy five years later. Study results contradict what seems to be common sense, says David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, a think-tank on the family. The institute helped sponsor the research team based at the University of Chicago. Findings will be presented in Arlington, Va., at the "Smart Marriage" conference, sponsored by the Coalition for Marriage, Families and Couples Education.

The study looked at data on 5,232 married adults from the National Survey of Families and Households. It included 645 who were unhappy. The adults in the national sample were analyzed through 13 measures of psychological well-being. Within the five years, 167 of the unhappy were divorced or separated and 478 stayed married.

Divorce didn't reduce symptoms of depression, raise self-esteem or increase a sense of mastery compared with those who stayed married, the report says. Results were controlled for factors including race, age, gender and income. Staying married did not tend to trap unhappy spouses in violent relationships. What helped the unhappy married turn things around? To supplement the formal study data, the research team asked professional firms to recruit focus groups totaling 55 adults who were "marriage survivors". All had moved from unhappy to happy marriages. These 55 once-discontented married felt their unions got better via one of three routes, the report says:

Marital endurance. "With time, job situations improved, children got older or better, or chronic ongoing problems got put into new perspective." Partners did not work on their marriages.

Marital work. Spouses actively worked "to solve problems, change behavior. or improve communication".

Personal change. Partners found "alternative ways to improve their own happiness and build a good and happy life despite a mediocre marriage." In effect, the unhappy partner changed.

According to David Blankenhorn, people commonly believe that ______.

A．divorce is a better solution to an unhappy marriage than staying together

B．divorce is not necessarily the only solution to an unhappy marriage

C．keeping an unhappy marriage needs much courage and endurance

D．to end an unhappy marriage or net is a tough decision for the spouses