One big()of formal education is the high cost.A. advantageB. disadvantageC. strength
One big()of formal education is the high cost.
A. advantage
B. disadvantage
C. strength
B
One big()of formal education is the high cost.
A. advantage
B. disadvantage
C. strength
B
第1题
Getting married can be as simple as a five-minute ceremony performed by a judge in a law office. Or it can be a traditional religious ceremony at home, or in a church.
The average age of an American woman being married for the first time is about twenty-four years. The average age for a man is twenty-five. Most young men and women get engaged about a year before the wedding.
In the Nineteen-Sixties and Seventies, many young Americans decided not to have traditional, formal weddings. Many brides and grooms wrote their own wedding ceremonies. These often included poetry and personal statements about their goals in marriage. Some grooms wore old blue jeans to their weddings. More than a few brides were married in their bare feet. It was not unusual to be married on a sandy beach or on a mountainside.
In the last ten years, however, big formal weddings have become popular again. Experts say the average size of formal weddings now is two-hundred guests. Most formal wedding patties are held at hotels or high-priced eating places. There are fresh flowers and paid photographers. Musicians play for dancing, and hired servants present the wedding dinner.
A big wedding takes months to plan, and it can cost thousands of dollars.
How many people get married in June each year in the United States?
A.About five million.
B.About two and a half million.
C.About one point eight million.
D.About six hundred and twenty-five thousand.
第2题
听力原文: The second Monday of January is Coming-of-Age Day, a national holiday to encourage those who have newly entered adulthood to become self-reliant members of society. The holiday used to be on January 15, but in 2000 it was moved to the second Monday of the month.
The local governments host special coming-of-age ceremonies for 20-year-olds, since an "adult" in Japan is legally defined as one who is 20 or over. They gain the right to vote on their twentieth birthday, and they're also allowed to smoke and drink. But along with these rights come new responsibilities as well, and so age 20 is a big turning point for the Japanese.
In the past boys marked their transition to adulthood when they were around 15, and girls celebrated their coming of age when they turned 13 or so. It wasn't until 1876 that 20 became the legal age of adulthood.
These days, males generally wear suits to their coming-of-age ceremony, but a lot of females choose to wear traditional furisode (振袖,状似和服的长袖)—a special type of clothes for unmarried women with extra-long sleeves and elaborate designs. For unmarried women, furisode is about the most formal thing they can wear, and so many of them wear it to the event marking the start of their adult life.
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A.On January 15.
B.The second Monday of January.
C.The second Sunday of January.
D.On January 5.
第3题
听力原文:W: Did you have a good time last weekend?
M: Yes, I did. I visited some friends in Pennsylvania. They live in a small town called Canonsburg.
W: That must have been interesting. I've never been in a small town——just big cities.
M: Neither had I.
W: What did you do?
M: There isn't as much to do as there is here. No plays or concerts, that is, people make their own entertainment, though.
W: What do you mean?
M: Well, Saturday we went to a potluck supper.
W: A potluck supper? What's that?
M: The whole neighborhood has a party. Everybody brings something. It's all put on the table and you can eat whatever you like. That is a potluck supper.
W: It's something like a picnic, isn't it?
M: Well, yes. The weather was warm, so we had this one outdoors. But in winter they have them indoors too.
W: What else did you do?
M: Sunday we went for a drive. We had lunch at a drive-in.
W: Is the countryside interesting?
M: Beautiful farmland. You'd like it.
W: I'm sure I would.
M: Sunday evening some people came to dinner. It was very informal we just sat around and talked. Just a nice Sunday night supper.
W: That's the kind of evening I like. I don't care for a formal dinner so much.
M: Neither do I.
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A.He went to visit his friends in Pennsylvania.
B.He went out on a picnic.
C.He went to a concert.
D.He went to a formal dinner.
第4题
A.The man had a good time last weekend.
B.The farmland is beautiful in Pennsylvania.
C.People prefer informal parties to formal ones.
D.People do not like life in a big city.
第5题
In a big university there may be several thousand students taking a compulsory course at the same time. There are various ways of dealing with such a course: we may take as an illustration a sociology course, with say 3,000 students. The students would be divided into about eighty separate classes, each meeting three times a week. There might be a single textbook provided for all the students following the course; or, instead of an ordinary textbook, a specially printed course-book prepared by a committee of the teachers. In preparation for each meeting of the class the teacher might ask the students to read five or ten pages, in order to discuss them and thus find out how well the students had done their work. This is only an example of one method followed: some universities make use of closed-circuit television techniques, including two-way devices, which enable students to put questions to a lecturer in another room. A Maximum of discussion, rather than formal teaching, is widely accepted as an ideal to be aimed at, even amid the difficulties imposed by the great numbers of students involved.
What's a student in his second year called.?
A.Senior.
B.Sophomore.
C.Freshman.
D.Junior.
第6题
What are the two speakers talking about?
A.The man had a good time last weekend.
B.The farmland in Pennsylvania is beautiful.
C.People prefer informal parties to formal ones.
D.People do not like life in a big city.
第7题
What does the dialogue mainly tell us?
A.The man had a good time last weekend.
B.The farmland is beautiful in Pennsylvania.
C.People prefer informal parties to formal ones.
D.People do not like life in a big city.
第8题
According to the passage, which way is the best to keep a balanced life?
A.Have a formal dress in one year
B.Own a car in two years' time
C.Save money and have a plan to avoid waste
D.Put down every penny we spend
第10题
In which of the following ways will one most probably cause trouble?
A.Making faces in telephone conferences.
B.Giving negative replies in email.
C.Talking for a long time face to face.
D.Writing a memo in a formal way.
第11题
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N. B. D.--Nervous Break Down.
"Intelligent" people do not have N. B. D. 's because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Every one who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N. B. D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
According to the author, the conventional notion of intelligence measured in terms of one's ability to read, write and compute______.
A.is a widely held but wrong concept
B.will help eliminate intellectual prejudice
C.is the root of all mental distress
D.win contribute to one's self-fulfillment