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Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil’s birth rate because ________.
A) they keep people sitting long hours watching TV
B) they have gradually changed people’s way of life
C) people are drawn to their attractive package
D) they popularize birth control measures
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Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil's birth rate because ______.
A．they keep people sitting long hours watching TV
B．they have gradually changed people's way of life
C．people are drawn to their attractive package
D．they popularize birth control measures
Actually, soaps are more than a college favorite; they're a youth favorite.When school is out, high-school students are in front of their TV sets.One young working woman admitted that she turned down a higher paying job rather than give up watching her favorite serials.During the 1960's, it was uncommon for young people to watch soap operas.The mood of the sixties was very different from now.It was a time of seriousness, and talk was about social issues of great importance.
Now, seriousness has been replaced by fun.Young people want to be happy.It may seem strange that they should turn to soap opera, which is known for showing trouble in people's lives.But soap opera is enjoyment.Young people can identify with the soap opera character, who, like the college-age viewer, is looking for happy love, and probably not finding it.And soap opera gives young people a chance to feel close to people without having to bear any responsibility for their problems.
36.What is soap opera？ ()
A.Plays based on science fiction stories
B.Plays based on non-fiction stories
C.The daytime serial dramas on TV
D.Popular documentary films on TV
37.What can be the best title of the passage？ ()
A.College student viewers
B.Favorite TV serials
C.Soap opera fans
D.College-age viewers
38.Which is not the reason why the soap opera suddenly becomes "in" according to the passage？ ()
A.Because the viewers want to be happy and to enjoy themselves
B.Because the soap opera makes young people feel close to their people
C.Because the viewers can find themselves in the soap opera characters
D.Because the young people have to bear the responsibilities for their troubles
39.What can we learn from the passage？()
A.College students like soap operas more than any other social groups
B.Young people of sixties liked soap operas more than people today
C.Young viewers have turned themselves from the seriousness of sixties to enjoyment now
D.The young as a whole are trying to look for happy love but in vain
40.What message does the author want to convey to us？()
A.The people's favor toward drama works has been changed for a long time
B.The people's favor toward drama works changes along with the times
C.The people's favor toward drama works is changed by the soap opera
D.The people's favor has changed the drama works
Brazil' s population growth【62】has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960【63】1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this【64】may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧)and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect,【65】in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil' s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based【66】wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
"Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values--not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and【67】people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other【68】, which were put into a very attractive pack- age. "Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to【69】the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and【70】was incompatible'(不相容的)with un- limited reproduction," says Martine.
(41)
A．increase
B．reduce
C．extend
D．improve
Brazil's population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas and installment (分期付款)plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil's most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
"Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working, "says Martine. "They sent this image to all pans of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other values, which were put into a very attractive pack age."
Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction," says Martine.
According to the passage ,Brazil has cut back its population growth ______.
A．by educating its citizens
B．by careful family planning
C．by developing TV programmes
D．by chance
Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working,” says Martine. “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.”
Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. “This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction,” says Martine.
第31题：According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth ________.
A) by educating its citizens
B) by careful family planning
C) by developing TV programmes
D) by chance
According to the passage, those who live in a traditional family ______.
A．can get more help from their family members if they are in trouble
B．will have more freed0m of action and thought if they move away from it
C．are less likely to quarrel with others because of conventionality and stability
D．have to depend on their relatives and friends if they do not move away from it
Culture Clash？
It was the World Cup Final of France '98 that sparked the introduction of television into Bhutan. The 3-0 victory of the home side over Brazil was watched by thousands on a big screen in Bhutan's National Square,__16__Six months after that, global TV broadcasting was allowed in. It was this second development that really made people wake up to life in the twentieth century and caused profound change, according to TV analyst Shockshan Peck. 'Young people are now much more in tune with globalisation and what is happening around the world,'she says. 'The risk is that the more we learn about the world, the more we lose of our own culture.'
Bhutan has no film industry to speak of, and after a diet of cultural and educational programmes from BBS, some Bhutanese began to look for something a little more spicy.__17__ The TV avalanche began, and along with it came a change in people's lifestyles. Residents of the capital, Thimphu, say they are now glued to the TV for several hours a day, and often stay up late to watch the non-stop stream of programmes. Long-running Indian soap operas beamed from across the border ire hot favourites. One viewer, Choki Wangmo, says that her children go out and play less, and that television dominates family discussions these days. Her son, Ugyen, admits that his studies are affected because he cannot concentrate in the classroom. 'I keep thinking about what will happen next in the story,'he says.
Also popular are cartoons, football matches, and the wrestling series from the US.__18__ Kinley Dorji, editor of Bhutan's only newspaper, says that when TV first came in, he received several pained letters from students, saying they were shocked. 'Bhutanese kids who have grown up in this quiet country, this very rustic society, suddenly saw these big men beating each other upon television. They couldn't understand it.'__19__ 'We received a report from a school where a student broke his arm after being thrown to the ground by his friend, who was emulating the wrestlers.'
Kinley Dorji says that television is 'splitting' Bhutanese society. He explains that the thinking in the country is that it will never be a military or economic power, so its strength must be its unique society. He believes that TV represents a direct threat to this. __20__ 'If you look at the items being stolen, like TV sets, tape recorders and clothes, it' s directly related to what they're seeing,' he adds.
A. The latter is at the centre of a debate about the influence of television on Bhutan' s young people.
B. He also links television to a rise in crime over the period that it has been broadcasting.
C. It was such a success that a year later, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his coronation, the king decided to begin the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS).
D. However, it was not long before the children started doing it themselves.
F. So they turned to multi-channel TV, through satellite in the countryside and cable in the towns.
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It is predicted that there will be 5 scientific breakthroughs in the 21st century. We"ll know where we came from. Why does the universe exist？ To put it another way， why is there something instead of nothing？ Since the 1920s， scientists have known the universe is expanding， which means it must have started at a definite time in the past. They even have developed theories that give a detailed picture of the evolution of the universe from the time it was a fraction of a second old to the present. Over the next couple of decades， these theories will be refined by data from extraordinary powerful new telescope. We will have a better understanding of how matter behaves at the unfathomably high temperatures and pressures of the early universe.
We"ll crack the genetic code and conquer cancer. In 19th century operas， when the heroine coughs in the first act， the audience knows she will die of tuberculosis in Act 3. But thanks to 20th century antibiotics， the once dreaded， once incurable disease now can mean nothing more serious than taking some pills. As scientists learn more about the genetic code and the way cells work at the molecular level， many serious diseases——cancer， for one- will become less threatening. Using manufactured "therapeutic" viruses， doctors will be able to replace cancer causing damaged DNA
with healthy genes， probably administered by a pill or injection.
We"ll live longer （120 years？） If the normal aging process is basically a furious， invisible contest in our cells- a contest between damage to our DNA and our cells ability to repair that damage- then 21st century strides in genetic medicine may let us control and even reverse the process. But before we push scientists to do more， consider: Do we really want to live in a world where no one grows old and few children are born because the planet can hold only so many people？
Where would new ideas come from？ What would we do with all that extra time？
We"ll "manage" Earth. In the next millennium， well stop talking about the weather but will do something about it. Well gradually learn how to predict the effects of human activity on the Earth，its climate and its ecosystems. And with that knowledge will come an increasing willingness to use it to manage the workings of our planet.
We"ll have "a brain road map". This is the real "final frontier" of the 21st century: The brain is the most complex system we know. It contains about 100 billion neurons （roughly the number of stars in the Milky Way）， each connected to as many as 1，000 others. Early in the next century， we will use advanced forms of magnetic resonance imaging to produce detailed maps of the neurons in operation. We"ll be able to say with certainty which ones are working when you read a word， when you say a word， when you think about a word， and so on.
The sentence "In 19th century operas， when the heroine coughs in the first act， the audience knows she will die of tuberculosis in Act 3" means__________. 查看材料
A.there was not antibiotics at that time
B.tuberculosis was a terrible disease that couldn"t be cured during 19th century
C.the health of the heroine was very poor
D.this was a common situation in the 19th century operas
