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n economy white culture will dominate California39。 s future 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 state government should keep control on the population growth population distribution should be somehow rearranged 43. By 20xx, Carlifornia has . Hispanics than any other ethnic group people as minority white is still the largestsgroupsby number population of 1／ 3 44. Dr. Harry Pachon is most likely to agree with which of the following statements? good that Hispanics are more involved in politics. unrests are more likely to occur when one ethnicsgroupsbees overpowering. are more likely to marry within their own ethnic group. 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 of America is taking place faster than the Americanization ofLatinos. 45. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? percentage of immigrant Hispanic mothers is the highest among all ethnic groups. babies all over the United States are typically healthier than other babies. Hispanic White mothers are the least likely to be teenagers. 19 percent of Blacks were teenagers. Passage Two More Americans are cohabitingliving together out of wedlockthan ever. Some experts applaud the practice, but others warn playing house always lead tomarital bliss. At one time in America, living together out of wedlock was scandalous. Unmarried couples who“shacked up”were said to be“living in sin.”Indeed, cohabitation was illegal throughout t 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 he country until about 1970. (It remains illegal in 12 states, although the laws are rarely, if ever, enforced.) Today, statistics tell a different tale. The number of unwed couples living together hasrisen to a new highmore than million as of March 1997, according to the Census Bureau. That figure was up from million couples the previous year and represents a quantum leap from the 430,000 cohabiting couples counted in 1960. The bureau found that cohabiting is most popular in the 24to35 age group, accounting for million such couples. Cohabitants say they live together primarily to solidify their love and mitment to each other, studies report. Most intend to marry。 only 13 percent of cohabitants expect to make their relationship legal. But the reality for many couples is different: Moving in leadto“happily ever after.”Forty percent of cohabitants never make it to the altar. Of the 60 percent who do marry, more than half divorce within 10 years (pared with 30 percent of married couples who live together first). 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 Cohabiting partners are more unfaithful and fight more often than married couples, according to research by the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society. Other studies have e to equally dour conclusions. Still, experts predict the number of cohabiting couples is likely to grow. As the children of the baby boomers e of age, likely to defer marriage, asdid their parents. This will lead to more cohabitation and nontraditional families. Analyst Robert Knight of the Family Research Council agrees the trend will hold for the near future. Until people discover that living together has pitfalls, it wane in popularity, says Knight, author of Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and Corruption of Popular Culture. Cohabiting has been portrayed with“careful neutrality”in the media, and Hollywood celebrities who move in and out of each other39。 s homes set the standard. 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 But Warren Farrell, the San Diegobased author of Why Men Are the Way They Are, argues that living together is a good idea for a short period.“To make the jumpfrom dating, when we put our best foot forward, to being married” without showing each other the“shadow side of ourselves” is to treat marriage frivolously,he says. 46. It is suggested in the passage that . is still illegal in all the states in the United Statesbut people do it anyway believe it is sinful for unmarried couples to live together of married people have had some experience of cohabiting with someone couples almost never encounter legal troubles for living together 47. Based on the numbers provided in the passage, it can be inferred that. 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 number of cohabiting couples has gone up tremendously since the 1960s did not bee legal in the United States until 1960 of the couples living together eventually get married rate among the cohabitants is similar to that of the married couples who live together first 48. In the year 1996, the number of people involved in cohabitations was . million 49. Experts say the current trend of cohabitation will persist because . people today oftentimes e from broken families 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 are often unaware of the danger of living together tend to follow the examples of Hollywood celebrities who are often involved in cohabitation B and C 50. What does the word“frivolously”(last paragraph, last line) most probably mean? Passage Three A report on a new software that enables eyes to do the typing appears in Wednesday39。 s edition of the journal Nature. Replacing a keyboard or mouse, eyescanningcameras mounted on puters have become necessary tools for people without limbs or thos 大量的管理资料下载 大量的管理资料下载 e affected with paralysis. The camera tracks the movement of the eye, allowing users to“ty pe”on a virtual keyboard as they look at the screen. And now, researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University say they have developed software that replaces the standard QWERTY keyboard layout with ohat is nearly twice as efficient, more accurate and easier on the eyes. CalledDasher, the protot。