A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man—the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and wins greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some kind.
This attitude toward manual (体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even expensively furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward; furthermore, the dinner will not consist just of something quickly and easily mixed from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. Instead, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a group of workers on the highway in order to pay for his education.
1.From Paragraph 1, we know that in America ________.
A. people feel painful to mention their fathers as laborers
B. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man
C. people can always rise to the top through their own efforts
D. college professors win great respect from common workers
2.According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because ________.
A. she can hardly afford servants
B. servants in America are hard to get
C. she takes pride in what she can do herself
D. it is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
3.The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “________”.
A. wait to place the table
B. keep accounts for a bar
C. work in a furniture shop
D. serve customers in a restaurant
4.Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?
A. A Respectable Self-made Family.
B. The Development of Manual Labor.
C. Characteristics of American Culture.
D. American Attitude Toward Manual Labor.
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A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man—the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and wins greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some kind.
This attitude toward manual (体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even expensively furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward; furthermore, the dinner will not consist just of something quickly and easily mixed from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. Instead, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a group of workers on the highway in order to pay for his education.
1.From Paragraph 1, we know that in America ________.
A. people feel painful to mention their fathers as laborers
B. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man
C. people can always rise to the top through their own efforts
D. college professors win great respect from common workers
2.According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because ________.
A. she can hardly afford servants
B. servants in America are hard to get
C. she takes pride in what she can do herself
D. it is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
3.The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “________”.
A. wait to place the table
B. keep accounts for a bar
C. work in a furniture shop
D. serve customers in a restaurant
4.Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?
A. A Respectable Self-made Family.
B. The Development of Manual Labor.
C. Characteristics of American Culture.
D. American Attitude Toward Manual Labor.
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Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption (消费) on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels.
Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s (自我的) potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion—like celebrity—has always been temporary.
1.Fashion magazines today ______.
A.totally refuse to put models on the cover
B.rarely place models on the cover
C.need not worry about celebrities’ market potential
D.judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly
2.A change in the consumer market can be found today that ______.
A.price rather than brand name is more concerned
B.producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements
C.producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements
D.quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned
3.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly ______.
A.shorten the artistic career of a celebrity in show business
B.damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public
C.cut short the time of a celebrity’s popularity
D.influence the price of a celebrity’s products
4.The passage is mainly about ______.
A.celebrity and personal style B.celebrity and market potential
C.celebrity and fashion design D.celebrity and clothing industry
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Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption (消费) on the interest of celebrity related to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential (潜力), moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon (现象), but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale (规模) rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer attraction. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to look like an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the attention dies down, consumer interest might decrease, loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels.
Today, celebrities face even more serious embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame (名声) has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s (自我的) potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion-like celebrity-has always been temporary.
1.Fashion magazines today ____________.
A.totally refuse to put models on the cover
B.rarely put models on the cover
C.need not worry about celebrities’ market potential
D.judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly
2.A change in the consumer market can be found today that _____________.
A.price rather than brand name is more concerned
B.producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements
C.producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements
D.quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned
3.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly__________.
A.shorten the artistic career of a celebrity in show business
B.damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public
C.decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products
D.influence the price of a celebrity’s products
4.The passage is mainly about ___________.
A.celebrity and personal style B.celebrity and market potential
C.celebrity and fashion design D.celebrity and clothing industry
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The American believe that anybody can become President of the United States. In a recent Hollyhood comedy(喜剧), that is exactly what happens.
Dave Kovic, played by Kevin Kline, is a kind-hearted man who runs a business that finds people jobs. He leads a typical(典型的) American way of life, except for one thing— he looks exactly like the President, Bill Mitchell. In fact, the only thing that makes him different from the nation’s leader is that he is very nice!
The president has started using look-alikes during some public appearance. Dave is offered a chance to “serve his country” by becoming one. However, things go wrong. The President becomes very ill and Dave ends up acting as the President forever.
Director Ivan Reitman, who made the popular and successful comedies like Twins, Ghostbusters and Legal Eagles, could have gone for easy laughs by making fun of the American government. Instead, Dave is an attractive comedy about an ordinary man in extraordinary situations. Kevin Kline gives a double performance as Dave and the President, and Sigourney Weaver is at her best as his First Lady. The love story that develops between her role and Dave is a real classic(经典).
The film is 100% American. However, if you’ve ever felt that anybody could do a better job running the country than the people in power, then you’ll enjoy Dave!
1. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To tell the reader about the American government
B. To discuss the Americans’ ideas about the President
C. To make a comparison(对比) between Dave and other film.
D. To introduce a new film to the reader.
2.Who plays the role of the President in the film?
A. Sigourney Weaver B. Kevin Kline
C. Bill Mitchell D. Ivan Reitman
3.The underlined word “one” in the 3rd paragraph refers to __________.
A. the President B. the director
C. an actor D. a look-alike
4. Which of the following is best supported by the text?
A. The author makes fun of the President.
B. The author thinks highly of the film
C. The author is a fan of Hollywood comedies.
D. The author wishes to become the American President.
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Almost anyone who has read a travel brochure about Africa has heard of a story ----- that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented (发酵) marula fruit rotting (腐烂) on the ground. Books have even been written to prove the truth of the phenomenon.
But a study published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology tells a very different story.
Steve Morris, a biologist at the University of Bristol in England and an author of the study, says there is nothing in the biology of either the African elephant or the marula fruit to support the stories. Morris says, “People just want to believe in drunken elephants.”
The marula tree, a member of the same family as the mango (芒果), grows widely in Africa. Its sweet, yellow fruit is used for making jam, wine and beer. “The first mistake of the drunken-elephant theory is that it’s unlikely that an elephant would eat the fruit if it were rotten,” Morris says. “Elephants eat the fruit right off the tree, not when it’s rotten on the ground,” he explains.
Other experts add that if an elephant were to eat the fruit on the ground, it wouldn’t wait for the fruit to ferment. Michelle Gadd, an African wildlife specialist, says that elephants and many other animals, including birds and monkeys, are too fond of marula fruit to let it rot.
If fermented fruit on the ground is out of the question, so is the concept that the fruit could ferment in the stomach of elephants, according to the study authors. Food takes between 12 and 46 hours to pass through an elephant’s digestive (消化的) system, the authors point out, which is not enough for the fruit to ferment.
Supposing that this happened, it’s still highly improbable that the food would produce enough alcohol to make an elephant drunk. Through calculations of body weight, elephant digestion rates, and other factors, the authors conclude that it would take about 1.9 litres of alcohol to make an elephant drunk.
1.We can learn from the text that ________.
A. African elephants don’t like to eat marula fruit at all
B. it is not easy to find marula fruit in the wild in Africa
C. birds and monkeys in Africa like to eat rotten marula fruit
D. marula fruit can be made into food or drinks consumed by people
2.According to Paragraph 6, marula fruit probably takes _____ to ferment.
A. about 12 hours B. about 34 hours
C. more than 46 hours D. between 12 to 46 hours
3.Which of the following is Mr. Morris’s opinion?
A. Elephants prefer mangoes to the marula fruit.
B. Elephants will not eat the marula fruit if it is rotten.
C. The marula tree and the mango belong to different families.
D. There are several connections between elephants and the marula fruit.
4.What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph probably refer to?
A. Elephants getting drunk
B. Elephants eating rotten marula fruit
C. Elephants eating marula trees directly
D. Marula fruit fermenting in elephants’ stomachs
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American public education has changed in recent years. One change is that increasing numbers of American parents and teachers are starting independent public schools called charter schools.
In 1991, there were no charter schools in the United States. Today, more than 2300 charter schools operate in 34 states and the District of Columbia. 575000 students attend these schools. The students are from 5 years of age through 18 or older.
A charter school is created by groups of parents, teachers and community members. It is similar in some ways to a traditional public school. It receives tax money to operate a number of students. The charter school must prove to local or state governments that its students are learning. These governments provide the school with the agreement, or charter that permits it to operate.
Unlike a traditional public school, however, the charter school does not have to obey most laws governing public schools. Local, state or federal governments cannot tell it what to teach.
Each school can choose its own goals and decide the ways it wants to reach those goals. Class sizes are usually smaller than in many traditional public schools. Many students and parents say teachers in charter schools can be more creative.
However, state education agencies, local education-governing committees and unions often oppose charter schools. They say these schools may receive money badly needed by traditional public schools. Experts say some charter schools are doing well while others are struggling.
Congress provided 200 million dollars for establishing charter schools in the 2006 federal budget. But, often the schools say they lack enough money for programs. Many also lack needed space. District officials say they have provided 14 former school buildings for charter education. Yet charter school supporters say officials should try harder to find more space.
Charter Schools in America
Definition | Charter schools are called 1 ___________ public schools. | ||
2 _______ between charter school and traditional school | ★ 3 _______ tax money to operate a number of students. ★ Having to make 4. _______ know the students are learning. ★ Getting 5 _________ to operate from government. | ||
6 _______ between charter school and traditional school | ★ Not having to obey most laws. ★ Having the 7_______ to decide what to teach. ★ Being free to choose the goals and decide the 8_________ of teaching them. ★ Having smaller class sizes. ★ Having teachers who are more creative | ||
The problems | Education departments’ opposition | ★These schools receiving money badly needed by traditional public schools. ★ Not 9__________ doing well. | |
10 ___________ difficulties | ★ Lacking enough money ★ Lacking needed space | ||
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The internet has become part of young people’s life. 1. report shows that 38% of students often use the internet . Most of them get 2. (use) information on the internet 3. use the internet to help in their studies, but many students don’t use it 4. a good way. Some play games too much, and some visit websites 5. shouldn’t look at. So bad things may happen 6. students spend too much time on the internet.
7. is important for students to use the internet properly. Now we have a textbook, 8. uses many examples to teach students some good ways to use the internet. It gives useful 9.(advise).
Some students also make friends on the internet, but if you want to have a face-to-face 10. (meet) with your online friends, let your parents know and meet in a proper place.
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An American company has built a new drone(无人机)that could improve the speed of deliveries(送交的货).
The drone is very different from other unmanned aircraft.It is made almost completely out of cardboard and has no motor.It can be packed with materials and sealed up with tape.
Because the drones do not have a motor,they are designed to be dropped from airplanes.Hundreds of drones could be sent out at once.Then they could be automatically guided to where they are supposed to go.The company says these drones could then complete deliveries to different places over an area covering hundreds of kilometers. The drones look bigger than the paper airplanes we used to make as kids.But this light flyer is not a toy.It is aerodynamically designed and equipped with a small computer,a battery and sensors to guide it to the ground.
The drones are being developed by Otherlab—a technology research company in San Francisco,California.It calls the drone a "Sky Machine."
The company says it can travel about 150 kilometers at speeds up to 88 kilometers an hour.Now,it can carry materials weighing up to one kilogram,but future models are expected to carry larger loads.
One of the drone's main advantages is that it does not have a heavy motor or large battery.This allows more room for materials and makes the drone cost less to build and operate.
The Otherlab development team has called its invention the "Ikea of drones."This is because it is packaged similarly to products from the Swedish furniture maker Ikea.The drone arrives as flat pieces of pre-cut cardboard that can be quickly and easily put together.
The technology that guides the drone can make it land within 10 meters of its target,according to Otherlab. Unlike other drones,even a crash landing is acceptable.The company says the drones can also be reused.
Once the drone completes its delivery,it can be thrown away and the cardboard material will likely break down within a few months.
The company has received money from the U.S. Department of Defense to carry out research on the drones.The money came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.The agency is attempting to find the best delivery vehicles that can disappear after their missions are complete.The U.S. military has a need for delivery drones.But it wants to simplify and lower the cost of using them.Otherlab's Sky Machines are an attempt to fill that need.
Military drones can also be stolen and studied by others if found after use.Before they can truly disappear,the electronic materials inside must also somehow disappear.Researchers are still working on ways to get the technology itself to self-destruct.
1.What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A. Why the new drone is invented.
B. What the new drone is equipped with.
C. How can the new drone get to the ground.
D. Why the new drone is designed like paper airplanes.
2.Why is the invention called the "Ikea of drone"?
A. Because it's a product made by Ikea.
B. Because it uses the idea from Ikea.
C. Because it's built at a low cost like furniture of Ikea.
D. Because it's made up of pre-cut cardboard.
3.Which of the following statements is the advantage of the new drone?
A. It can land near its target.
B. It has a light motor inside.
C. A crash landing is not acceptable.
D. Its load weighs far more than one kilo.
4.What about Otherlab's Sky Machines can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. They have been built by the US military.
B. Research is being carried out on their improvement.
C. They are now often stolen and studied by others after deliveries.
D. The electronic materials inside will destroy themselves after use.
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The internet has become part of young people’s life. ____1.___ report shows that 38% of students often use the internet . Most of them get _____2.____ (use) information on the internet ____3.__ use the internet to help in their studies. But many students don’t use it ____4.__ a good way. Some play games too much, some visit websites ___5.___ shouldn’t look at. So bad things may happen ____6.__ students spend too much time on the internet.
_____7.___ is important for students to use the internet properly. Now we have a textbook, ___8.____ uses many examples to teach students some good ways to use the internet. It gives useful ____9.____(advise).
Some students also make friends on the internet. But if you want to have a face-to-face ___10._____ (meet) with your online friends, let your parents know and meet in a proper place.
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Cancer has become the top killer ________ I think threatens the health of millions of people.
A.that B.of which C.不填 D.Both A and C
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