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In other cases children are in need of adoption because courts have decided that their birth parents are unable to function adequately. Many of these children are victim of abuse or neglect. Regardless of how children come to need adoption, they are put with adoptive parents through private or public social service agencies. Other adoptions may be arranged independently, as when birth parents and adoptive parents come to know each other outside of an agency and then complete the adoption according to the laws and regulations of their states of residence.
Children from all countries and all walks of life need adopting. Although international adoptions occur, the largest number of adoptions in the United States involve American parents adopting American infants.
In the early 1970s there was a dramatic increase in the number of families seeking to adopt, a condition which persists today. For this reason, the number of those who wish to adopt regularly exceeds the number of infants available. Reasons for this dramatic increase are varied. A major factor has been the choice of many people to delay the start of a family until later in life. Many of these people, in turn, have found themselves to be less fertile at that time, and so they have decided that their desire to have children might best be fulfilled through adoption.
In every state, however, there are children who are legally free to be adopted are desperately waiting for parents. The children in this group are usually older and often have special needs. They may require additional care from a parent because of their physical, emotional, or mental disabilities(which may have been caused by abuse, neglect, or medical or genetic factors). Because of their special needs, these children are challenging to rear. In fact, adoption experts believe that people who adopt these children need special training and preparation in order to successfully rear the child and to integrate the child into the family and eventually into society.
The author holds an______ attitude towards adopting children.
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听力原文：W: Hi, John!
M: Oh. Hi, Laura. What're you doing here？
W: Uh I'm usually here on weekends. It's my Dad's shop. So you're looking for a bike？
M: Yeah. Now that the weather's warming up, I thought I'd get some exercise-instead of taking the bus all the time.
W: Well, you came to the right place. Do you know what you'd like？
M: Well, I don't want a racer or a touting bike or anything. Mostly I'll just be using it to get me back and forth from work.
W: How far is that？
M: About four miles.
W: Are there a lot of hills on the way？
M: Some, I guess. But uh maybe I should just tell you up front that I've only got a hundred and fifty dollars. Can I get anything decent for that？
W: Well, you're not going to get anything top-of-the-line, but we do have a few trade-ins in the back that are in good condition.
M: That sounds good.
W: And you're tight, for the kind of tiding you're going to be doing, the most important thing is comfort. You want to make sure it's the tight height for you. Follow me and I'll show you what we've got.
Why is Laura at the bicycle shop？
天顺会计师事务所在接受对常砂公司2007年度财务报表审计中，遇到下列有关注册会计师责任的问题，请代为做出正确的判断。
天顺会计师事务所的注册会计师李敏对常砂公司的财务报表出具了无保留意见的审计报告。昌盛公司在决定是否借款给常砂公司时，参考了这一审计意见，但借款业务发生后常砂公司便宣告破产，则天顺会计师事务所应当赔偿昌盛公司的损失。()
What does the word "Epicurean" (Para. 3 Line 5) most probably means in the text？
Part A
Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
The American party system is a two-party system which is unlikely to become anything else. It is not just that the two-party polarization has the weight of tradition behind it but also that the two-party polarization is built into our constitutional and legal system. Our entire electoral arrangements, the absence of proportional representation, the exorbitant cost of political campaigns, the legal difficulties in getting on and staying on the ballot in many states-all these things work against the rise of minor parties.
Also the single member legislative district, the division of power between the nation and the states, the method of electing a president with the winner itself, work to keep power in the hands of the two major parties. Major parties (like the Federalists and the Whigs) have broken up and been replaced as new parties have emerged in the past. But no minor party has ever gradually risen to achieve the stature of a major party, and no third party has lasted very long in any prominent capacity.
All this is not to say that third parties do not have a function in the American system. However, their function is largely that of pressure groups, and in this respect they are a curious combination of European special-interest parties and American interest groups. They have at various times been useful in bringing to the fore the interests of neglected groups in the public at large. The Populist party of 1890's as was a notable case in point.
What happens characteristically, however, is that as soon as third parties begin to make their mark, one or both of the major parties appropriates enough of their principles or program to absorb the discontent on which they were flourishing. For this reason it has been said that third parties are like bees: once they have stung they must die.
The word "exorbitant" (Line 4, Para. 1) means "______".
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