Only two countries in the advanced world provide no guarantee for paid leave from work to care for a newborn child. Last spring one of the two, Australia, gave up the dubious distinction by establishing paid family leave starting in 2011. I wasn't surprised when this didn't make the news here in the United States—we're now the only wealthy country without such a policy.
The United States does have one explicit family policy, the Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993. It entitles workers to as much as 12 weeks' unpaid leave for care of a newborn or dealing with a family medical problem. Despite the modesty of the benefit, the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups fought it bitterly, describing it as "government-run personnel management" and a "dangerous precedent". In fact, every step of the way, as (usually) Democratic leaders have tried to introduce work-family balance measures into the law, business groups have been strongly opposed.
As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for. In her book No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents, she argues that parents are burdened in many ways in their lives: there is "no exit" when it comes to children. "Society expects—and needs—parents to provide their children with continuity of care, meaning the intensive, intimate care that human beings need to develop their intellectual, emotional and moral capabilities. And society expects—and needs—parents to persist in their roles for 18 years, or longer if needed."
While most parents do this out of love, there are public penalties for not providing care. What parents do, in other words, is of deep concern to the state, for the obvious reason that caring for children is not only morally urgent but essential for the future of society. The state recognizes this in the large body of family laws that govern children' welfare, yet parents receive little help in meeting the life-changing obligations society imposes. To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (不断积累) to the whole of society as today's children become tomorrow's productive citizenry (公民). In fact, by some estimates, the value of parental investments in children, investments of time and money (including lost wages), is equal to 20-30% of gross domestic product. If these investments generate huge social benefits—as they clearly do—the benefits of providing more social support for the family should be that much clearer.
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What do we learn about paid family leave from the first paragraph？
A．America is now the only developed country without the policy.
B．It has now become a hot topic in the United States.
C．It came as a surprise when Australia adopted the policy.
D．Its meaning was clarified when it was established in Australia.
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A common rail engine has only one or two high pressure pumps in operation at the same（）time, and the injection into each cylinder.
A . can’t be controlled very precisely
B . can’t be controlled as flexibly as the separate pump system
C . can be controlled as flexibly as the separate pump system
D . can be controlled more precisely and flexibly
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When comparing java.io.BufferedWriter to java.io.FileWriter， which capability exists as a method in only one of the two？（）
A . closing the stream
B . flushing the stream
C . writing to the stream
D . marking a location in the stream
E . writing a line separator to the stream
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Your portable computer has two 512-MB memory modules installed in the only two memory slots available.
You need to improve the speed of your computer.
What should you do?（）
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A . A
B . B
C . C
D . D
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A JSP page needs to instantiate a JavaBean to be used by only that page. Which two jsp：useBean attributes must be used to access this attribute in the JSP page？（）
A . id
B . type
C . name
D . class
E . scope
F . create
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Given that a scoped attribute cart exist only in a user’s session， which two， taken independently， ensure the scoped attribute cart no longer exists？（）
A . ${cart = null }
B . <c：remove var=”cart” />
C . <c：remove var=”${cart}” />
D . <c：remove var=”cart” scope=”session” />
E . <c：remove scope=”session”>cart</c：remove>
F . <c：remove var=”${cart}” scope=”session” />
G . <c：remove scope=”session”>${cart}</c：remove>
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In the two stroke diesel engine, it is designed so that the oil impingement is timed to proceed only on the piston ring belt during（）
A . compression stroke
B . suction stroke
C . expansion stroke
D . exhaust stroke
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Given that a scoped attribute cart exists only in a user’s session， which two， taken independently， ensure the scoped attribute cart no longer exists？（）
A .
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Your portable computer has two 512-MB memory modules installed in the only two memory slots available. You need to improve the speed of your computer. What should you do？ （）
A . Adjust the processor scheduling to optimize for background services.
B . Connect a USB flash drive to the computer. Enable the ReadyBoost feature.
C . Configure the virtual memory file to exist on the same drive as the operating system.
D . Configure the local security policy setting of the computer to clear the virtual page file upon shutdown.
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---She has two best friends. ----（）of them is in the country.
A . All
B . Both
C . No one
D . Neither
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The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray, whose well-known 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' earned for him the name of a '( ) Poet'.
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( ) are the top two countries that provide the most immigrants to America in recent years.
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Two important factors responsible in closely connecting the countries of the world and making the world a smaller place today include: ( ).
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In MLA style, when you list two or more works by the same author or editor, give the name only in the first entry. In subsequent entries, type three hyphens and a period and space once before the title of the work.
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The soldiers were in need of food and medical supplies. Otherwise, they could only resist for two days.
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There are only two parties in a promissory note. ( )
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翻译句子Several years passed on Earth, which were only a few days in heaven. Niu Lang and Zhi Nv lived happily together and had two children before the Queen of Heaven discovered Zhi Nv's absence.
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In English, the two words cut and gut differ only in their initial sounds and the two sounds are two different______and the two words are a______pair.
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How mny compnies were involved in producing the hydrulic prt for the film Titnic ThHow mny compnies were involved in producing the hydrulic prt for the film Titnic Three. B．Only one. C．Two. D．Four.
A．Three
B．Only one
C．Two．
D．Four．
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In the common law countries, the non-breaching party may rescind the contract only when there is a breach of ___________ or a ___________ breach.
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Most cities in the country have introduced “Clean Air Zones”（) factories and households are only allowed to burn smokeless fuel.
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He phoned his uncle who lived in the country,asking him to_____his two schoolmates for the weekend.
A．assemble
B．accommodate
C．raise
D．resemble
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Your portable computer has two 512-MB memory modules installed in the only two memory slots available.You need to improve the speed of your computer.What should you do？（）
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A．A
B．B
C．C
D．D
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The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.
British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names.
In fact, over fifty percent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first, had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwise, Simpson means "the son of Simon", as might be expected.
Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognizable after a little thought: Arther, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Taylor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings and testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are "Day", (Old English for breadmaker) and "Walker" (a fuller whose job was to clean and thicken newly, made cloth).
All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, which descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like "Long", "Short" or "Little", are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinking: their meanings are slightly different from the modern ones. "Black" and. "White" implied dark and fair respectively. "Sharp" meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever.
Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in all England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be picturesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the commoner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times are "Mil ton" (middle enclosure) and "Hilton" (enclosure on a hill).
Surnames are said to be ______ in Anglo-Saxon England.
A．common
B．vocational
C．unusual
D．descriptive
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Country music is an American popular-music style.In its current form, country music is a combination of two separate musical traditions: the styles of the Southeastern states and the music of the Southwest, especially Texas.Both styles influenced and were influenced by the blues and by black rural dance music.
The first country artists to be widely known achieved popularity in the late 1920s.The music of these performers was heard throughout the south during the 1920s and ''30s on radio programs.
By the 1950s, country music had become a significant force in pop music.Regular appearances on the radio show made stars of many performers.The singer-songwriter Hank Williams wrote four million-seller songs in 1950, seven in 1951, and four more in1953.
By the 1970s, some country musicians began combining country music with electric instruments, creating a country rock sound.
(1).What does “Both styles” in Paragraph 1 refer to？ ()
A.Country music style. and the musical style. of the Southeastern states.
B.The musical styles of the Southwestern states and the Southeastern states.
C.The Southwestern musical style. and Texas musical style.
D.The styles of blues and the black rural dance music
(2).Country music was not really an important pop music until ().
A.1920s
B.1930s
C.1940s
D.1950s
(3).Hank Williams () in 1951.
A.wrote seven million songs
B.sold seven million copies of his songs
C.wrote seven songs
D.sold seven million copies of his seven songs
(4).Electric instruments add to country music a style. of ().
A.rock music
B.blues
C.black music
D.Southern music
(5).What do you think can be a proper title of this passage？ （）
A.Hank Williams, A Great Singer and Songwriter
B.The Influence of Blues and Black Music
C.A Brief Introduction to Country Music
D.Country Music Combined With Electric Instruments
