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What does the American culture teach people？A．Protesting their unequal treatment.B．Endurin

What does the American culture teach people？

A．Protesting their unequal treatment.

B．Enduring all the hardships willingly.

C．Fulfilling their dreams through hard work.

D．Learning how to get freedom and equality.

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第2题

It was suggested but not stated that the American West is the place where ______ .A．young

It was suggested but not stated that the American West is the place where ______ .

A．young people are reluctant to go

B．people may possibly get wealthy

C．it is more interesting to settle

D．the old people's dreams can be realized

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第3题

It was suggested but not stated that the American West is the place where______.A．young pe

It was suggested but not stated that the American West is the place where______.

A．young people are reluctant to go

B．people may possibly get wealthy

C．it is more interesting to settle

D．the old people's dreams can be realized

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第4题

听力原文：Millions of words have been written about young people in the United States. Ther

听力原文： Millions of words have been written about young people in the United States. There are reasons for this great interest in the ideas, feelings, and actions of youth.

[32] Today there are about seven million Americans in colleges and universities. [33] Young persons under twenty-five make up nearly half of the American population. [34] Many of these will soon be in charge of the nation. Naturally their ideas are important to everyone in the country, and it is necessary for older people to understand what they think and feel.

College students today have strong opinions about right and wrong. [35] They are deeply interested in making a better life for all people, especially for those who have not been given a fair chance before now. They see much that is wrong in the lives of their parents. It is hard for them to see what is right and good in the older way. As a result, there is often trouble in American families. Your country may be meeting such problems, too.

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A．About seven million.

B．Nearly half of the American population.

C．25% of American people.

D．We don't know exactly from the passage.

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第5题

American students learn business skills in school. Here is a story about some American

students who learnt business skills by operating their own banks.

In December 1987，the Twiglet Bank was opened at an Elementary School in Miami,Florida. It is a real bank that accepts money for savings and makes loans, and it is operated by students between 10 and 12 years old. The bank is open for one hour two days a week.Students can put their money into the bank and withdraw it as they wish. Officials from a local bank helped the students start the bank. They trained twenty-three of ther to do all the different kinds of bank jobs, from counting money to guarding the bank. The students needed money to start the bank. They raised more than $ 2,000 by selling 50-dollar shares in the bank to parents, teachers, the local bank workers, and customers.

Organizing and operating the bank has taught the children a lot about the banking business. They have learned about raising and investigating money and how to use computers and other banking equipment. They have also learned how to ask for a job and to be responsible for their jobs.

1.Who operated Twiglet Bank？

A.The teenagers

B.The community

C.The government

2.Who helped these children start a bank？

A.Parents

B.Teachers

C.Bank officials

3.How did children raise money for their bank？

A.Their schools provided financial support for them

B.They found an organization to donate a set of fund

C.They sold shares in the bank to parents, teachers, etc

4. Which is NOT true for the benefits of children from operating their own bank？

A. They learned how to produce the money

B. They learned how to look for a job and do it well

C. They learned how to use computers and banking equipment

5. What is the best title for this passage？

A. A bank of Miami

B. A Student Bank

C. The Operation of American Bank

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听力原文：Elvis Presley is often referred to as the"King of Rock and Roll"or simply"the Kin

听力原文： Elvis Presley is often referred to as the"King of Rock and Roll"or simply"the King".He achieved unusually wide success in country music,pop ballads and blues.

When Elvis Presley died on August 16,1977,he began to be recognized as an American myth.Today, there are over 625 active Elvis fan clubs worldwide.Graceland,Elvis'home and eternal resting place,is one of the most-visited historic homes in America.

So why, after years,is the world stuck on Elvis？The answers lie in culture: Elvis Presley is American myth personified.He is greater than the sum of his songs and movies;he symbolizes the American dream.Born in poverty in 1935,Elvis used his innate talent and started his career in 1954.He rose above his condition and achieved his dreams,without coming from a socially connected,politically powerful,or wealthy family.Globally,he has sold over ten billion records,more than any other artist,only to die young and leave behind a growing legion of fans.

Those fans choose to overlook Elvis'drug dependency and other excessive behavior,preferring instead to recall what they saw as his better nature.During his lifetime,Elvis donated money to charities and bought gifts for the poor and for his family and friends.Furthermore,the hometown boy,young Elvis,who made good, never left the comfort of Memphis,always keeping close to his roots,remembering the people and the places from which he came.

What did Elvis Presley succeed in？

A．Opera music.

B．Drama.

C．Country music.

D．Polities.

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第7题

听力原文：Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Eli

听力原文： Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem; (29)it seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle. Though he was tired, Howe so, Howe ran into the salve problem as before. (29)The thread kept getting caught, around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised, hut suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that (30)he bad just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practiced sewing machine．(31)Elias Howe was not the only one who found the answer to his problem in this way. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.

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A．What kind of thread to use.

B．How to design a needle which would not break.

C．Where to put the needle.

D．How to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle.

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听力原文：Robert Goddard, American physicist and rocket scientist, once said that the dream

听力原文： Robert Goddard, American physicist and rocket scientist, once said that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. It was his scientific work that gave hope to many of our dreams about space and then turned them into reality.

Robert Goddard's many studies and tests in the early 1900s led to the first rocket. Then he developed rockets with more than one engine. Each engine pushed the rocket higher and higher out of Earth's atmosphere. His ideas are still used today.So, in a way, every rocket that flies today is a Goddard rocket.

Robert Goddard was far ahead of his time. He developed and flew many rockets that got their power from solid fuels. Then, in 1925, he made and tested the first rocket engine using a soft chemical fuel. In 1926, he successfully fired the world's first liquid-fuel rocket.

Robert Goddard died in 1945 of cancer. He was sixty-three years old. He received a special honor many years after his death. In 1959, the United States established the Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C. The Goddard Space Flight Center honors the man whose work proved that machines could travel out of Earth's atmosphere, into space.

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A．An airplane designer.

B．A science fiction writer.

C．The inventor of rockets.

D．A famous theoretical physicist.

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第9题

The conquest of Distance 1 In 1848, pioneers who crossed the American continent in their

The conquest of Distance

1 In 1848, pioneers who crossed the American continent in their wagons made the trip in 109 days. Today a New York family can drive by automobile to San Francisco in less than a week or make the trip several days by train, or fly there in five hours. The transportation has conquered the vastness of the land and trought together people living thousands of kilometers apart.

2 Railroads played a major role in uniting the far reaches of the continent. In 1830 there were only 37km of railroad track in the United States. But by 1863, two companies proposed to connect the east and west coast by a railroad all the way across the continent. Advancing eastward from California, the Central Pacific pushed forward across the desert; the Central Pacific moved slowly westward over the mountain plateaus. Finally, in 1869, the tracks of the two railroads met, and the first transcontinental railroad-the first real link between east and west –was completed.

3 Although the railroads brought towns and cities together, they could not go everywhere. In many parts of America, distances are so great that automobiles are necessities, not luxuries. As we have noted, most American frmers do not live in villages but are sometimes kilometers from their nearest neighbor and even hundreds of kilometers from a town. Large-scale farming is common in many parts of the United States today, but it did not become profitable until there were trucks and tractors. Trucks and cars go wherever there is a road and the more than six million kilometers of roads bring every field and bam into the circle of civilization.

4 The family automotile has helped to bring people of the United States two other things-two things which can seldom exist at the same time:community life and the privilege of privacy. In the early days of industrialization, factory workers lived close together,within walking distance of ther jobs as industries grew,more and more working lass families lived together in crowded conditions. But with the construction of longer and better roads and with the greater availability of automobiles and other means of rapid transportation,it was no longer to live close to the factory. New residential areas, suburbs, trew up outsidethe big cities and increasingly, industry and commerce concentrated in the cities. Every morning, millions of Americans dive their automobiles to work in the city, sometimes a distance of around 100 kilometers. At night they drive home to houses and apartments outside the cities, surrounded by trees and lawns.

5 Automobies and other methods of rapid transportation are also changing American industry. Instead of continuing to concentrate in the bit cities, industry is buiding factories in previously undeveloped areas. Because the means of transportation are available, it is not hard to transport people as well as materials to the places where they are needed. This factor was largely responsible for the

A Automobiles promote farming.

B Planes bring people even closer.

C Railroads unite the whole country.

D Buiding railroads is costly.

E Transportation makes it possible for workers to move out of cities.

F People can travel all over the world.

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根据以下材料，回答题American DreamsThere is a common response to America among foreign writ

根据以下材料，回答题

American Dreams

There is a common response to America among foreign writers: the US is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst. This is a cliche （陈词滥调）.

In the land of black and white， people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world. But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone. __________ （46） No class system or government stands in the way.

Sadly， this old argument is no longer true. Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy.

The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened. __________ （47）Over the past 25 years the median US family income has gone up 18 percent. For the top 1 per cent， however， it has gone up 200 percent.Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth. __________ （48）

Inequalities have grown worse in different regions.In California， incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 percent since 1969. __________ （49） This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans.The wealthiest 1 per cent of households now control a third of the national wealth.There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty.At 12.7 percent of the population， it is the highest percentage in the developed world.

Yet the tax burden on America"s rich is falling， not growing. __________ （50） There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole.But clearly that theory has not worked in reality.

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A.Nobody is poor in the US.

B.The top 0.01 percent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage points since 1980.

C.For upper class families they have risen 41 percent.

D.Now it is 9.8 times.

E.As it does so， the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller.

F.All one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.

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