ates of Marriage in America
The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage 51 in the United States--about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people--is 52 .higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is 53 as widespread as it was several decades ago. 54 of American adults who are married 55 from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried 56 their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some 57 in their lives. Experts 58 that about the same proportion of today&39;s young adults will eventually marry.
The timing of marriage has varied 59 over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s. 60 , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous 61 in U. S. history. Today&39;s later age of marriage is 62 the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a greater proportion of the population was married (95percent ) during the 1950s than at any time before 63 . Experts do not agree on why the "marriage rash" of the
late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a 64 to the return of peaceful life and prosperity after 15 years of severe economic 65 and war.
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panic
A panic is a form. of collective in which a group of people, face with an immediate threat, re- act in an uncoordinated and irrational way. Their behawor is uncoordinated in the sense that co- operative social relationships and break down. It is irrational in the sense that people&39;s actions are not appropriate for the goals they wish to achieve.
The progress of a panic follows a fairly typical course. A sudden crisis occurs ; people experi- ence intense fear; normal social expectations are broken; each individual tries desperately to es- cape from the source of danger; mutual cooperation breaks down; and the situation becomes even more threatening as a result. Panics are especially likely to occur in unusual conditions in which everyday norms have little relevance, such as fires, floods, earthquakes or military invasions.
Some kind of response is necessary in these situations, but there are few social norms that specify an appropriate reaction. Thus, when a passenger aircraft makes a crash landing people may at- tempt to flee before fire breaks out and cause an explosion, but there only succeed in stopping themselves and others by creating bottlenecks at the exits. Awareness of bottlenecks, may lead to increased panic, with people fighting and trampling one another in the effort to escape. Despite intensive training of airline personnel in emergency evacuation procedures, a high proportion of passenger deaths are caused by a panic that prevents people from escaping in time.
The most dramatic panics are those that occur in situations of extreme emergency, but not all panics are quite so frantic or short-lived. A different form. of this collective behavior. is the finan- cial panic, which is typically provoked by rumor that the price of stocks will fall or that a bank will be unable to repay its depositors. The classic example, of course, occurred at the outset of the Great Depression in 1929: as in other forms of panic, the individuals involved tried to protect their own interests, and in so doing they worsened the situation for themselves and everyone else. By trying to sell their stocks as quickly as possible, people ensured that the price of stocks did fall; by demanding their money back from banks, they ensured that the banks actually did collapse.
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A. They become uncoordinated
B. They become irrational
C. They face an immediate threat
D. They break down cooperative social relationships
An annual report of a company provides information about its business performance for certain people. These people include the investors, potential investors and other stakeholders. From the report, people can understand the company's business scope, recent situation and future development. The main parts of an annual report usually include chairman's letter, operation analysis and financial statements.
·Chairman's Letter
Usually, an annual report should contain a letter from the chairman. The letter should provide details about the successes and the challenges of the past year. It should also include the future outlook for the company.
·Operation Analysis
The operation analysis is an overview of the business in the past year. It usually includes new hires and new product introductions. At the same time, it will introduce business acquisitions and other important issues.
·Financial Statements
The financial statements are very important for an annual report. People can know the company's performance in the past from the statements. It usually three aspects. The first one is the profit and loss statement. The second one is the balance sheet. And the third one is the cash flow statement.
() 26. An annual report of a company provides some information about its business performance for certain people.
() 27. People can know everything of the company from the annual report.
() 28. An annual report usually includes chairman's letter, financial statements and operation analysis.
() 29. A chairman's letter should include the strategic direction moving forward.
() 30. This passage is mainly about the main parts of an annual report.
What is intelligence(智力) anyway? When I was in the army 1 an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against 2 of 100, scored 160.
I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not 3 have scored more than 80. 4 , when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him——and he always 5 it.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man designed questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I"d prove myself a 6 . In a world where I have to work with my hands, I"d do poorly.
Consider my auto-repair man7 . He had a habit of telling jokes. One time he said,"Doc, a deaf-and-dumb(聋哑) man 8 some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made 9 movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He 10 his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the 11 man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors(剪刀). 12 do you suppose he asked for them?" I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said," Why, you fool, he used his voice and asked for them. I"ve been 13 that on all my customers today, but I knew 14 I"d catch you. " "Why is that?" I asked. "Because you are so goddamned edycatedm Doc. I knew you couldn"t be very 15 "
And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.
When I was in the army 1 an intelligence
A. failed
B. wrote
C. received
D. chose