听力原文:W: Can you give me a hand, Mike? I want to move a few heavy items into the car.
M: I'd like to but I am already five minutes late for my appointment with Mr. Johnson, and his office is on the other side of the campus.
Q: What would the man most probably do?
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A. Put off his appointment with Mr. Johnson.
B. Help move things to Mr. Johnson's office.
C. Help the woman move the items.
D. Hurry to Mr. Johnson's office.
The interesting thing is that female promiscuity seems to be a reproductively advantageous trait, which may explain why it prevails in the animal world. The more males a female prairie dog mates with, for example, the more likely she is to conceive and the larger her litters. Angier reports on data, still disputed, that suggest human females are more likely to get pregnant for sex with an adulterous lover than from sex with their spouse.
So, to the extent that females relied on male help in raising a family, the smartest female reproductive strategy may have involved no less treachery than the male one: behave promiscuously, so you'll be sure to get pregnant, but pretend to be monogamous professing undying love -- so that at least one of the fellows will think the kids are his and possibly take an interest in them. Hey, it fooled the evolutionary psychologists!
Men fall for pretty faces, women fall for healthy portfolios? Here's another object lesson sometimes drawn from the evolutionary allegory of Monica and Bill: men go for beautiful women, while women are attracted to power and money, even when it comes in a fat, gray-haired middle-bound millionaire husband, there are more cases like ex-playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her late, wheelchair-bound millionaire husband, there are like elementary school teacher Mary Letourneau and her 13-year-old boyfriend. But since men tend to accrue wealth and power as they age, it's a bit odd, as zoologist Desmond Moils once noted, that baleness doesn't necessarily activate the feminine positive response. It may be smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. For example, Juliet fell for a scion of the enemy clan. In rock-and-roll tradition and movies from The Wild One to Shakespeare in Love. It's the penniless who makes the girls scream -- and did anyone see Titanic?
There is in fact a respectable evolutionary rationale for such "irrational" female choices. Women may want loyal, provider-type mates to help them raise their children. But if their sons are not attractive to other women -- and hence keep the lineage thriving -- it might help if dad is a heartbreaker himself. Unfortunately, though, physical attractiveness is not a reliable guide to reproductive "fitness", as in health and wealth. Consider the peacock, its gorgeous tail renders it fairly vulnerable to predators, so any peahen with a concern for her sons' longevity should opt for a more modestly cute one.
According to the information given in the first paragraph, we can infer that ______.
A. chimps also live in a civilized community
B. human beings are just similar to the chimps
C. people understand chimps quite well
D. the chimps and people live in similar societies
听力原文: ALAKMED by the non-stop reduction in the amount of total arable land, the ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture have jointly issued a notice to protect basic farmland.
The notice issued last week requires the governments at different levels, especially those at county and village levels, to include the farmland as stipulated by the regulations in their respective basic arable-land protection zones.
The arable land along highways and railroads, and on the outskirts of the cities, villages and townships should all be taken into account in the establishment of basic farmland protection zones, according to the notice.
Cases of illegally occupying and destroying farmland will be strictly checked and the responsible persons and units should be punished severely, the notice said.
China has had a legal system to protect its basic farmland since 1994, according to Tang Mingcai, director of the Farmland Protection Department of the Ministry of Land and Resoures.
The land administrations are in charge of protecting the quantity of basic farmland, while the agricultural administrations are responsible for conserving the quality.
The newly revised State Land Administration Law and the National Regulations on protecting the Basic Farmland, which took effect earlier this year, have pat 80 percent of the country's farmland under strict protection.
The national overall plan on land use says the country's basic arable land under protection amounts to 108,562 million hectares in total area.
Nearly 397,000 hectares of the farmland have been lost to economic expansion and severe natural disasters in the past two years, according to statistics from the Ministry of Land and Resources.
In 1998, 261,300 hectares of farmland were lost because of floods.
The grass-roots governments are largely responsible for approving farmland for other use, thus reducing the amount of land available for growing crops, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources.
The notice issued by the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry Agriculture requires that ______.
A. basic farmland protection zones should be established
B. illegally occupying and destroying farmland should be punished
C. a legal system to protect basic farmland be set up
D. A and B
单位负责人有责任和义务保证内部会计监督制度的建立和健健全并发挥有效作用。()
A. 正确
B. 错误