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Changes in residence and jobs place a tremendous(1)of stress and pressure on people (2)  they try to adjust themselves to new people and places. Yet transient relationships are not (3)  only to people and places. Objects move in and out of our lives at an astonishing rate. America, the “consumer society”, has also (4)  the name ‘the throw away society”. Every year we throw away (5)  quantities of bottles, cans, paper, and on and on. Buildings are tom (6)  around us, and new ones take their place, for they are  (7)  to replace than to repair. (8)every major change, our places feel (9)  familiar. Our lives become filled with a sense of impermanence and uncertainty.
The rate at which new and sometimes contradictory information comes at us (10)  contributes to our feelings of instability and transience. It’s estimated that 90 percent of all scientists who ever lived are (11)  today. New scientific discoveries are being made every day of the week, (12)  unlike in other ages, new ideas are quickly in practical ways. The (13)  of new technology on our lives is felt almost immediately.
As we look  (14)  on history, we think in terms of large periods of time, from the ten thousand years of the agricultural revolution to the three hundred years of the industrial (15)   .Today time  (16)  like it' s accelerating. We no longer (17)  to think of change in terms of centuries  (18)  in terms of  (19)   : the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The day may come when we think of great (20)  of historical change in terms of years, even months.

问题1选项
A.number
B.amount
C.sum
D.series
问题2选项
A.until
B.since
C.as
D.so that
问题3选项
A.adapted
B.referred
C.applied
D.limited
问题4选项
A.earned
B.taken
C.given
D.called
问题5选项
A.credible
B.incredible
C.credulous
D.incredulous
问题6选项
A.away
B.up
C.off
D.down
问题7选项
A.faster
B.lighter
C.cheaper
D.better
问题8选项
A.In
B.By
C.With
D.Through
问题9选项
A.less
B.more
C.quite
D.too
问题10选项
A.even
B.ever
C.farther
D.further
问题11选项
A.alive
B.dead
C.long-lived
D.short-lived
问题12选项
A.so
B.but
C.for
D.or
问题13选项
A.result
B.force
C.influence
D.impression
问题14选项
A.down
B.round
C.out
D.back
问题15选项
A.date
B.age
C.time
D.day
问题16选项
A.feels
B.looks
C.should
D.would
问题17选项
A.manage
B.incline
C.tend
D.intend
问题18选项
A.but rather
B.or rather
C.would rather
D.rather than
问题19选项
A.pentathlons
B.decathlons
C.pentads
D.decades
问题20选项
A.deals
B.periods
C.times
D.portions
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