In America, voting is compulsory.()?
In America, voting is compulsory.()?
In America, voting is compulsory.()?
第1题
A.pass off
B.pluralistic systems
C.voting rights
D.moral right
第2题
Will Hillary Be the Next American President?
Back in 1969,US President Richard Nixon confidently predicted:“In the next 50 years,we shall see a woman president,perhaps sooner than you think.”
Today,not too far off Nixon’s deadline,America is looking at that possibility.Over the weekend,Hillary Rodham Clinton.wife of former president Bill Clinton,announced her run for 2008 presidency.
US polls indicate that Americans feel comfortable with a female president.A New York Times survey found nearly all Americans saying they would vote for president if she were qualified.
However,accepting the theoretical notion of a female leader is quite different from voting an actual woman.
In fact.there is still widespread distrust of a woman in the top position.
This is partly due to the biased thinking that women are weak on national security,though they might be strong on education and health care.This damages their prospects as a presidential contender.
“There’s still an inherent nervousness on the part of voters putting a woman in as the ultimate decision—maker.Control of the army and border security are sons of traditionally male jobs,”conmented Amy Walter,an Ametican campaign analyst.“That’s where I think Voters consciously or unconsciously have difficulties with women candidates.”
women have held the top job in other major Western countries.In 1979,Britain elected Margaret Thatcher prime minister.Last year,Germany made Angela Merkel its first female chancellor.
In the US,no woman has succeeded in being nominated as a presidential candidate.One woman did make the attempt:Elizabeth Dole.In 1999,she tried to get the Republican Party nomination.But Dole could only raise $5 million for her bid—compared with the $56 million George W.Bush raised.
So Barriers lie ahead for Hillary if she wants to make history by becoming the first female US president.With the Iraqi war underway,she’ll find it even harder.
“I don’t feel that our society is ready for a woman president.The enemy we face does not respect females the same way we have come to see them as equals.If we were not in this war,I would support a woman president,”sai Chris Dildy,a computer engineering student.
第 22 题 Up to the present,no woman has been elected president in the US.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第3题
But Mr. Keller is right to move away from tipping—and it's worth exploring why just about everyone else in the restaurant world is wrong to stick with the practice.
Customers believe in tipping because they think it makes economic sense. "Waiters know that they won't get paid if they don't do a good job" is how most advocates of the system would put it. To be sure, this is a tempting, apparently rational statement about economic theory, but it appears to have little applicability to the real world of restaurants.
Michael Lynn, an associate professor of consumer behavior. and marketing at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, has conducted dozens of studies of tipping and has concluded that consumers' assessments of the quality of service correlate weakly to the amount they tip.
Rather, customers are likely to tip more in response to servers touching them lightly and leaning forward next to the table to make conversation than to how often their water glass is refilled—in other words, customers tip more when they like the server, not when the service is good. Mr. Lynn's studies also indicate that male customers increase their tips for female servers while female customers increase their tips for male servers.
What's more, consumers seem to forget that the tip increases as the bill increases. Thus, the tipping system is an open invitation to what restaurant professionals call "upselling": every bottle of imported water, every espresso and every cocktail is extra money in the server's pocket. Aggressive upselling for tips is often rewarded while low-key, quality service often goes unrecognized.
In addition, the practice of tip pooling, which is the norm in fine-dining restaurants and is becoming more common in every kind of restaurant above the level of a greasy spoon, has ruined whatever effect voting with your tip might have had on an individual waiter. In an unreasonable outcome, you are punishing the good waiters in the restaurant by not tipping the bad one. Indeed, there appears to be little connection between tipping and good service.
It may be inferred that a European-style. service ______.
A.is tipping-free
B.charges little tip
C.is the author's initiative
D.is offered at Per Se
第4题
The weather in China is different from______.
A.in America
B.one in America
C.America
D.that in America
第6题
听力原文:Had you been out of work before you came to America?
(A) No, I had been stayed at home.
(B) Yes, I had been jobless for 3 months.
(C) Yes, I had worked in America for one year.
(33)
A.
B.
C.
第7题
A.He is too busy.
B.He is not old enough.
C.He doesn"t have transportation.
D.He feels it doesn"t make a difference.
第8题
听力原文:W: Have you ever been to America?
M: No, but I will go there this summer holiday.
Q: What will the man do this summer holiday?
(17)
A.He will go to America.
B.He will go to work.
C.He will go to see his grandpa.
第9题
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第10题
A.If
B.Now that
C.When
D.Even if