1.The world may become more and more friendly to females,
but corporate boardrooms – the top places in business world
– still show prejudice towards women. 其中corporate
boardroom是什么意思？
2.After the Second World War, globalization was accelerated
by countries that were eager to recover their economy.
3.Urged by the public, the government is now formulating a
new education policy.
urged by the public 是什么意思？
4.Another obstacle to growth is the small size of the shop,
says Fuller.
5.Families drift out of town, almost every week, abandoning
homes they know they’ll never sell.
6.The minister was unwilling to say anything about the
highly controversial plan of flooding the valley to build a
hydro-electric dam.
7.Germany’s deepwater fleet declined from 117,000 gross
registered tonnes in 1970 to only 21,000 in 1990.
8.The proposal to “privatize” the oceans and to issue
marketable catch quotas to individual fishermen is put
forward as the only practical long-term solutionbecause
property rights give an incentive to conserve rather than to
pillage.
9.The Columbia Broadcasting System and affiliated stations
present Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre of the Air in
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
10.She owes her life to an alert farmer, who spotted her car
in a ditch and called the emergency services.
11.Incredible as it seems, the object contained strange beings
who are believed to be the first wave of an army from the
planet Mars.
12.Discerning listeners would have realized that the
atmosphere of suspense was being very cleverly built up.
13.The World Wide Web, and Mosaic, caught on for several
reasons.
14.To many, the distinction between rote memorization and
understanding is unclear and leads to confused teaching and
learning.
15.The US military hit on the idea of distributing data across
several sites linked together.
16.Congress allocated 2 billion dollars to spend on “father-
promotion activities”.
17. five to one the time
18.The financial attainments of this army of US women are
testing traditional gender roles in ways far more concrete
than the feminist movement of a generation ago.
19.Women concerned with equality at work dismissed the
notion as rubbish.
20.She says, “I’ve always felt I don’t have the luxury other
women have – not to have any income.”