《毕金献阅读理解》英语电子书

Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Text 1

Violence over civil rights in the 1960s, demands, marches, new sexual freedom, drugs, campus takeovers these phenomena of the recent past represent drastic social changes. They signify a massive protest, mostly on the part of the young, against a society that fails to cope with its most critical problems. Young people, especially, lay much of the blame on the business system. It s unresponsive and uncaring, they say.

Naturally, businessmen deny this charge. They are proud of what the free enterprise system has done. They suspect that many protesters don t grasp economic realities.

Students and businessmen from all over the country jammed together in the lobby of a Washington hotel, waiting to register for Business Tomorrow , a three-day conference in which they would talk informally, get to know one another, and learn something about the difference in life-style and philosophy that so sharply divide them.

The idea for the conference had originated with a group of students at Princeton University, who had formed an organization called the Foundation for Student Communication. The Foundation s aim was to foster better relations between students and businessmen. These young people think that business should take more initiative and make better use of its resources in order to achieve a closer balance between profit and poverty in this country. The Foundation s magazine, Business Today, is a professional-looking quarterly that goes to over 200,000 students.