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Since October 1, it has been illegal for any business to discriminate against disabled people, either during the recruitment process or at work, and disability rights campaigners says that employers must make better use of new technology to help them fulfil their new obligations.
Amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) require all Businesses, not just those with more than 15 employees as previously, to make "reasonable adjust ments" to workplaces to accommodate the disabled. Such adjustments include buying new equipment or modifying existing systems so that disabled people can use them.
But many employers are failing to investigate potentially useful changes or upgrades to systems. They are also failing to claim generous Access to Work grants from the Government, designed to cover ’the cost of adapting or re-equipping a workplace, extra training or hiring human assistants like sign language interpreters.
Ruth Loehl, a senior ICT development officer at the Royal National Institute for the Blind, says: "The technology is there and the funding is there. But many employers and employees don’t know what’s available. It’s patchy across the country. "Access to Work grants can cover up to 100 percent of the cost of new or adapted equipment, says Ms. Loebl. "You shouldn’t have to pay any more to employ a blind person."
Lynne Nelson, employment co ordinator for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf agrees: "Technology is very much underused. Employers are not aware of what’s available and they’re more reactive than proactive. "
Complying with the act could be as easy as rearranging an office so that the light is better for a deaf person to lipread. At the other end of the scale, it could mean investing in a cutting edge messaging system which combines computers and phones, converting text messages into voice messages for blind or partially sighted employees and incorporating voice recognition software for people unable to use a conventional keyboard and mouse.
Changing font sizes and shapes and using different background colours can all help to make computer-screen displays more legible and accessible for visually impaired users. Screen magnifier programmes are available to enlarge text. Screen reader software will read out the content of email boxes or websites.
Commercial websites now incorporate alt. tags, phrases or sentences which describe images on sites to blind and partially sighted users through screen readers. But some sites still carry images described simply as "corporate logo" or "image". A survey by the Disability Rights Commission earlier this year found that 81 percent of websites were inaccessible or difficult to use, often because of badly worded alt. tags or because the software was blocking attempts to change fonts or colours.

A:call on the employers to enable the disabled employees. B:introduce some useful equipment for those disabled staff. C:criticize those who don't do anything for their disabled employees. D:suggest the employers to make advantage of various technologies.

World prehistory is written from data recovered from thousands of archaeological sites, places where traces of human activity are to be found. Sites are normally identified through the presence of manufactured tools.
Archaeological sites are most commonly classified by the activity that occurred there. Habitation sites are places where people lived and carried out a wide range of different activities. Most prehistoric sites come under this category, but habitation sites can vary from a small open campsite through rock shelters and caves, to large accumulations of shellfish remains (shell middens). Village habitation sites may consist of a small accumulation of occupation deposit and mud hut fragments, huge earthen mounds, or communes of stone buildings or entire buried cities. Each presents its own special excavation problems.
Burial sites provide a wealth of information on the prehistoric past. Grinning skeletons are very much part of popular archaeological legend, and human remains are common finds in the archaeological record. The earliest deliberate human burials are between fifty and seventy thousand years old. Individual burials are found in habitation sites, but often the inhabitants designated a special area for a cemetery. This cemetery could be a communal burial place where everyone was buried regardless of social status. Other burial sites, like the Shang royal cemeteries in China, were reserved for nobility alone. Parts of a cemetery were sometimes reserved for certain special individuals in society such as clan leaders or priests. The patterning of grave goods in a cemetery can provide information about intangible aspects of human society such as religious beliefs or social organization. So can the pattern of deposition of the burials, their orientations in their graves, even family grouping. Sometimes physical anthropologists can detect biological similarities between different skeletons that may reflect close family, or other, ties.
Quarry sites are places where people mined prized raw materials such as obsidian (a volcanic glass used for fine knives and mirrors) or copper. Excavations at such sites yield roughed out blanks of stone, or metal ingots, as well as finished products ready for trading elsewhere. Such objects were bartered widely in prehistoric times.
Art sites such as the cave of Altamira in northern Spain, or Lascaux in southwestern France, are commonplace in some areas of the world, noticeably southern Africa and parts of North America. Many are caves and rock shelters where prehistoric people painted or engraved game animals, scenes of daily life, or religious symbols. Some French art sites are at least fifteen thousand years old.
Each of these site types represents a particular form of human activity, one that is represented in the archaeological record by specific artifact and surface indications found and recorded by the archaeologist.
An archaeological site is defined as a place where

A:some record of human activity is found. B:human buries beloved animals. C:evidence of plant or animal life exists. D:particular rock formations suggest the patterns of history.

Everywhere you look in contemporary America you see a people engaged in the pursuit of happiness. You can see it in work habits. Americans on average not only work longer and harder than most Europeans, but endure lengthy commutes to and from work. You can see it in geographical mobility. About 40 m of them move every year. They are remarkably willing to travel huge distances in pursuit of things like bowling conventions and so on. And you can see it in the country’s general hopefulness: two-thirds of Americans are optimistic about the future.
Since Americans are energetic even in deconstructing their own founding principles, there is no shortage of people who have taken exception to the happiness pursuit. They range from conservatives like Robert Bork, believing the phrase summarizes the "emptiness at the heart of American ideology", to liberals who think that it is a justification for an acquisitive society.
One criticism is that the pursuit is self-defeating. The more you pursue the illusion of happiness the more you sacrifice the real thing. The other side of mobility is turmoil and anxiety, broken marriages and unhappy children. Americans have less job security than ever before. They even report having fewer close friends than a few decades ago. And international studies of happiness suggest that people in certain poor countries, such as Mexico, are apparently happier than Americans.
Another criticism is that Americans have confused happiness with material possessions. It is notable that Thomas Jefferson’s call echoes Adam Smith’s phrase about "life, liberty and the pursuit of property". Do all those pairs of Manolo Blahnik shoes really make you happy Or are they just a compensation for empty lives like in the soap opera Sex in the City
If opinion polls on such matters mean anything—and that is dubious—they suggest that both these criticisms are flawed. A 2006 Pew Research Centre study—"Are we happy yet"—claims that 84% of Americans are either "very happy" or "pretty happy". The Harris Poll’s 2004 "feel good index" found that 95% are pleased with their homes and 91% are pleased with their social lives. The Pew About sponsorship polls show that money does indeed go some way towards buying happiness. They also suggest that Americans, devotion to religion makes them happier still.
The pursuit of happiness accounts for all sorts of peculiarities of American life: from the $700/m spent on self-help books per year to the irritating dinner guests constantly looking at their BlackBerry cell phones. This pursuit may even help to explain the surge of anti-Americanism. Many people dislike it precisely because it is doing exactly what Jefferson intended. For some Europeans, the pursuit of happiness in the form of monster cars and mansions is objectionable on every possible ground. You cannot pursue happiness with such conspicuous enthusiasm without making quite a lot of people around the world rather unhappy.
Which of the following statements is true according to the last two paragraphs

A:Opinion polls proved that happiness can be bought. B:Opinion polls suggest that most Americans are happy because of religion. C:Some Europeans dislike Americans because of Jefferson’s opinion. D:Americans’ pursuit of happiness has irritated a lot of people.

"Some" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to

A:some cocoa trees. B:some chocolate drinks. C:some shops. D:some South American Indians.

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A:Many consumers are afraid that irradiated foods may cause cancer. B:Some consumers are doubtful of the safety of irradiated foods. C:Some consumers suggest a more severe government inspection be taken. D:Most consumers welcome the food processing companies outfitted with irradiated equipment.

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A:predict B:argue C:think D:suggest

"Some" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to

A:some cocoa trees. B:some chocolate drinks. C:some shops. D:some South American Indians.

"Some" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to

A:some cocoa trees. B:some chocolate drinks. C:some shops. D:some South American Indians.