76. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese.

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74. According to the author, Obama has been elected president because ____________.

     A. he is highly respected by the American people

     B. the US is in big trouble and he is a black man

     C. black people enjoy equality with whites in the US

     D. as a woman, Hillary/Clinton cannot possibly defeat him

73. The underlined part "going down the tubes" is closest in meaning to __

A. declining        B. improving         C. climbing            D. facing.

72. The woman was more likely to be chosen to lead the failing company because

A. she was far more experienced than the men

B. those who made the choice were largely male

C. those who made the choice were largely female

D. those who made the choice were prejudiced against women

71. The underlined word 'subjects’ refers to________

A. the two companies                    B. the two British academics

C. the 83 business people                 D. the three candidates

70. Chris is told that her husband Ewan was killed by _______>

A. the Germans     B. his own troops     C. himself       D. illness

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     Are women set up to fail ― by being appointed to positions of power only in hopeless situation?

     Two British academics say so, and they claim to have proved it this year. In one study they took 83 business people -roughly half of them women - and described to them two companies, one that was steadily improving in profitability and another that was steadily declining.The subjects were told to pick a new financial director for the firm and were presented with three candidates: a man and a woman who were exactly the same in experience and a lesser-qualified male. The subjects were slightly more likely to pick a man to lead the successful firm but were far more likely to pick the woman to lead the failing one. Two other experiments with similar designs produced the same result: When presented with men and women to lead a company that's going down the lubes, people pick the woman.

      What’s going on? In a write-up of their experiments in The leadership Quarterly in October, the academics, Michelle Ryan and Alex Haslam, called it "the glass cliff," which they argue is an invisible form of prejudice. In other words, people will give women a position of power only when there’s a strong chance of failure. Why? "If someone has to be the scapegoat ( 替罪羊 ) to take the fall, you' re not going to put your best man forward ," Ryan says. Women

are thrust into desperate situations precisely because they’re likely to fail, creating" proof" that women can't handle responsibility.

     Ryan and Haslam say the data also suggest the glass cliff applies to minorities. When you consider this year's American presidential election, the glass-cliff theory becomes particularly truthful -- because it might neatly explain the rise of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Perhaps it was only during extremely hard times that America would finally consider a woman and a black man for the highest office.

69. Which of the following is the least relevant to the novel’s social theme?

A. Some people tries to resist the war.

B. Many young men are taken away to the war.

C. Chris' husband ides to run away from a battle field.

D. traditional Scottish rural life is destroyed by modernization.

68. Which statement is NOT true of Chris?

A. She is the heroine of Sunset Song.     B. She had a miserable childhood.

C. She married more than once.         D. Her father was very kind to her mother.

67. Choose the correct place where the main events take place.

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