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According to Jennifer Holladay, who are children’s primary role models?______
A.Their teachers.
B.Their parents.
C.Their grandparents.
D.Their peers.
Compared with Jennifer Granholm, Mr. Schwarzenegger is at disadvantage due to______.
A.more embarrassing secrets
B.previous actor background
C.excessive garment decoration
D.less slender figure
A.come to terms with
B.come up against
C.come out with
D.come down to
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptiveand newly singlemom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read; with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous; most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting " the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring______.
A.temporary delight.
B.enjoyment in progress.
C.happiness in retrospect.
D.lasting reward.
The girl eating in the restaurant seems ______ a good time. (have)
The manager of the customer service department seems ______ (replace).
It seems that there is______ that I can't do.
A.nothing
B.anything
C.everything
D.none
The author's attitude towards the issue seems to be ______.
A.biased
B.indifferent
C.puzzling
D.objective
This passage seems to be a(n)______.
A.book review
B.advertisement
C.news report
D.research paper
At the end of the story, there seems to be a sense of ______between March and the fox.
A.detachment
B.anger
C.intimacy
D.conflict