【T1】A.TO OBTAINB.MADE OFC.IS WORTH A.IT IS CHEAPER【T1】______SILVERB.THE COINS WERE ACTUALLY【T2】______SILVERC.THE SILVER IN COINS【T3】______MUCH MORE LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO IN THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS COMMON TO CHANGE A ONE-DOLLAR BILL FOR A DOLLAR"S WORTH

A、A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

B、A goose in the hand is worth two in the bush.

C、A frog in the hand is worth a swan in the sky.

D、A fish in the pot is worth two in the water.

【T3】

A.TO OBTAIN

B.MADE OF

C.IS WORTH A.IT IS CHEAPER【T1】______SILVER

B.THE COINS WERE ACTUALLY【T2】______SILVER

C.THE SILVER IN COINS【T3】______MUCH MORE LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO IN THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS COMMON TO CHANGE A ONE-DOLLAR BILL FOR A DOLLAR"S WORTH OF SILVER.THAT IS BECAUSE【T4】______.BUT THOSE DAYS ARE GON

E.THERE IS NO SILVER IN TODAY"S COINS.WHEN THE PRICE OF THE PRECIOUS METAL RISES ABOVE ITS FACE VALUE AS MONEY, THE METAL WILL BECOME MORE VALUABLE IN OTHER USES.SILVER COINS ARE NO LONGER IN CIRCULATION BECAUSE【T5】______THAN THEIR FACE VALU

E.A SILVER FIRM COULD FIND THAT【T6】______BY MELTING DOWN COINS THAN BY BUYING IT ON THE COMMODITY MARKETS.COINS TODAY ARE MADE OF AN ALLOY OF CHEAPER METALS.

According to Charles, people send messages via facsimile because ______.

A．it is cheaper and faster than ordinary mail

B．it can send things that could not be expressed by telex

C．it is faster and not much more expensive than mail

D．the Royal Mail could not reach places abroad

It can be concluded that old women tend to wear the latest fashions today mainly because.

A. they get tired of things more quickly

B.TV shows teach them how to change look

C. they are in much better shape now

D. clothes are much cheaper than before

Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today's parents ( )．

A． go to clubs more often with their children

B． are much stricter with their children

C． care less about．their children's life

D． give their children more freedom

【T2】

A.TO OBTAIN

B.MADE OF

C.IS WORTH A.IT IS CHEAPER【T1】______SILVER

B.THE COINS WERE ACTUALLY【T2】______SILVER

C.THE SILVER IN COINS【T3】______MUCH MORE LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO IN THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS COMMON TO CHANGE A ONE-DOLLAR BILL FOR A DOLLAR"S WORTH OF SILVER.THAT IS BECAUSE【T4】______.BUT THOSE DAYS ARE GON

E.THERE IS NO SILVER IN TODAY"S COINS.WHEN THE PRICE OF THE PRECIOUS METAL RISES ABOVE ITS FACE VALUE AS MONEY, THE METAL WILL BECOME MORE VALUABLE IN OTHER USES.SILVER COINS ARE NO LONGER IN CIRCULATION BECAUSE【T5】______THAN THEIR FACE VALU

E.A SILVER FIRM COULD FIND THAT【T6】______BY MELTING DOWN COINS THAN BY BUYING IT ON THE COMMODITY MARKETS.COINS TODAY ARE MADE OF AN ALLOY OF CHEAPER METALS.

【T4】

A.TO OBTAIN

B.MADE OF

C.IS WORTH A.IT IS CHEAPER【T1】______SILVER

B.THE COINS WERE ACTUALLY【T2】______SILVER

C.THE SILVER IN COINS【T3】______MUCH MORE LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO IN THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS COMMON TO CHANGE A ONE-DOLLAR BILL FOR A DOLLAR"S WORTH OF SILVER.THAT IS BECAUSE【T4】______.BUT THOSE DAYS ARE GON

E.THERE IS NO SILVER IN TODAY"S COINS.WHEN THE PRICE OF THE PRECIOUS METAL RISES ABOVE ITS FACE VALUE AS MONEY, THE METAL WILL BECOME MORE VALUABLE IN OTHER USES.SILVER COINS ARE NO LONGER IN CIRCULATION BECAUSE【T5】______THAN THEIR FACE VALU

E.A SILVER FIRM COULD FIND THAT【T6】______BY MELTING DOWN COINS THAN BY BUYING IT ON THE COMMODITY MARKETS.COINS TODAY ARE MADE OF AN ALLOY OF CHEAPER METALS.

For more than thirty years the statue ______ millions of foreign people arriving by ship to live in the United States.

A. welcome

B. welcomes

C. welcoming

D. welcomed

C

They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessorise(配饰)。Yet these are ginrls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies.A gengration which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now faouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.

Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert , said ,“Wimen over 75 are now shopping for clothes more frequently than they old when they were young in the 1960s .In the 1960s buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter . It was an expensive item that they would puechase only every three or four years — now you can pick one up at the supernnackrt whosever you wish to .Fashion is a lot cheaper and peope fet tired of things more quickiy . ”

Fashion designer Angela Barnard ,who runs own fashion business in London ,said older women were much more affected celebrity(名流) style. than in previous years .

She said ,“When people see stars such as Judi Dench and Helen Mirren looking attractive and fashionable in their sixties ,they want to follow them . Older women are much more aware of celebrities .There’s also the boom in TV programmes showing people how they can change theiy look,and many of my older customers do roga to stay in shape well in their fifties . When I started my business a fen years ago .my older customers wended to be very rich, but now they are what I would call ordinary women .My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a way she would caill ordinsry women .My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a way she would never have done ten yeare ago.”

59. Professor Twigg found that ,compared with the 1960s,_______.

A. the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70%

B. the spending on clothes has increased by 5% or 6%

C. people spend 30% less than they did on cotothes

D. the amount of chothes bought has risen by 5% or 6%

It can be inferred from the passage that early historians of women’s labor in the United States paid little attention to women’s employment in the service sector of the economy because________．

A．fewer women found employment in the service sector than in factory work

B．the wages paid to workers in the service sector were much lower than those paid in the industrial sector

C．women’s employment in the service sector tended to be much more short—term than in factory work

D．employment in the service sector seemed to have much in common with the unpaid work associated with homemaking