单选题Couples having infant children _____.Aare lucky since they can have a whole night’s sleepBfind fun in tucking them into bed at nightCfind more time to play and joke with themDderive happiness from their endeavor
单选题
Couples having infant children _____.
A
are lucky since they can have a whole night’s sleep
B
find fun in tucking them into bed at night
C
find more time to play and joke with them
D
derive happiness from their endeavor
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解析：
文章第六段告诉我们，那些不要孩子的人是决定选择无痛的乐趣，而不是疼痛的幸福。他们可以在任何时候做自己想做的事情，而那些带孩子的人却难得睡一整晚的好觉，或有两三天的假期。但是有孩子的人得到的却是幸福，而不是简单的乐趣。由此可知，抚养孩子的人，是在付出努力的过程中品尝到了幸福的滋味。
文章第六段告诉我们，那些不要孩子的人是决定选择无痛的乐趣，而不是疼痛的幸福。他们可以在任何时候做自己想做的事情，而那些带孩子的人却难得睡一整晚的好觉，或有两三天的假期。但是有孩子的人得到的却是幸福，而不是简单的乐趣。由此可知，抚养孩子的人，是在付出努力的过程中品尝到了幸福的滋味。
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共用题干第一篇Child maltreatment is a global problem with serious life long consequences.There are no reliable global estimates for the prevalence of child maltreatment. Data for many countries,especially low and middle income countries,are lacking.Child maltreatment is complex and difficult to study. Current estimates vary widely depending on the country and the method of research used.Nonetheless,international studies reveal that approximately 20% of women and 5%一10% of men report being sexually abused as children.While 25%一50%of all children report being physically abused. Additionally,many children are subject to emotional abuse(sometimes referred to as psychological abuse).Every year,there are an estimated 31 ,000 homicide（他杀）deaths in children under 15. This number underestimates the true extent of the problem,as a significant proportion of deaths due to child maltreatment are incorrectly attributed to（归因于）falls, burns and drowning.Child maltreatment causes suffering to children and families and can have long-term consequences.Maltreatment causes stress that is associated with disruption in early brain development. Extreme stress can impair the development of the nervous and immune systems.Consequently,as adults,maltreated children are at increased risk for behavioural,physical and mental health problems.Via the behavioural and mental health consequences,maltreatment can contribute to heart disease,cancer,suicide and sexually transmitted infections.Beyond the health consequences of child maltreatment,there is an economic impact,including :ost of hospitalization,mental health treatment,child welfare,and longer-term health cost.A number of risk factor for child maltreatment has been identified.These risk factors are not present in all social and cultural contexts,but provide an overview when attempting to understand the causes of child maltreatment.It is important to emphasize that children are the victims and are never to blame（责怪）for maltreatment.A number of characteristics of an individual child may increase the likelihood of being maltreated,such as being either under four years old or an adolescent,being unwanted,or failing to fulfill the expectations of parents and having special need,crying persistently or having abnormal physical features.The maltreated children often bear all the following characteristics except________according to the passage.A:they frequently and easily cryB:they are in infant's or in adolescent periodC:they are often neglected by their parents or friendsD:they often try their best to meet the requirements from their parents
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Text 4 It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful,provocative magazine cover story,“I love My Children,I Hate My Life,”is arousing much chatter–nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling,life-enriching experience.Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable,Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness:instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy,we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard,Senior writes that“the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.There are also stories about newly adoptive–and newly single–mom Sandra Bullock,as well as the usual“Jennifer Aniston is pregnant”news.Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom,or mom-to-be,smiling on the newsstands.In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation,is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing?It doesn’t seem quite fair,then,to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children.Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids,but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world:obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.Of course,the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic,especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples,single parents are the least happy of all.No shock there,considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on;yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it,raising a kid on their“own”（read:with round-the-clock help）is a piece of cake.It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous:most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free,happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small,subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience,in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting“the Rachel”might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.40.Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?A.Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.B.Celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.C.Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.D.We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearin
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单选题Which of the following statements is true about Japan?AIt has a very short life-expectancy on average.BIt has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world.CYoung people want to have more children.DThe number of young people fit for work is decreasing.
单选题Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?AThe women having children show a rise in cold infections than those without children.BPeople with low income will surely more colds than people with high income.CJuniors are easier to have colds than seniors.DIt has not been proved scientifically that poor nutrition affects susceptibility to colds.
单选题According to Paragraph 3, having a job ______.Ameans earning a low wage.Bhas never provided a way out of poverty.Cdoes not mean that the children will become rich.Dmay not be a guarantee for a poor family to become better off.
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问答题when a human infant is born into any community in any part of theworld it has two things in common with any infant, provided neither of them 1．_______have been damaged in any way either before or during birth. Firstly, and most 2．_______obviously, new born children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerfulcapacity to pay attention to their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing 3．_______the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from someother human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or human group, achild is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human infants is in markedcontrast with the capacity of many new born animals to get on their feet within 4．_______minutes of birth and run with the herd within a few hours. Although younganimals are certainly in risk, sometimes for weeks or even months after birth, 5．_______compared with the human infant they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. 6．_______ It is during this very long period in which the human infant is totallydependent on the others that it reveals the second feature which it shares with all 7．_______other undamaged human infants, a capacity to learn language. For this reason,biologists now suggest that language be ‘species specific’ to the human race, 8．_______that is to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in 9．_______such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that just 10．______as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in colour, and justas they are designed to stand upright rather than to move on all fours, so theyare designed to learn and use language as part of their normal development aswell-formed human beings.
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单选题What does the author mean by moms to be in the last paragraph?AWomen who are pregnant, especially for the first time.BWomen who dream of having babies for the first time.CWomen who already have children.DWomen who have just got babies for the first time.