The newspaper states that prices of all farm products are expected to go ______ soon.
A.down
B.back
C.by
D.down with
A.down
B.back
C.by
D.down with
第2题
Few would argue with Ford's statement. A brief glimpse at a daffy newspaper vividly shows how much people in the United States think about business. For example, nearly every newspaper has a business section, in which the deals and projects, finances and management, stock prices and labor problems of corporations are reported daily. In addition, business news can appear in every other section. Most national news has an important financial aspect to it. Welfare, foreign aid, the federal budget, and the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank are all heavily affected by business. Moreover, business news appears in some of the unlikeliest places. The world of arts and entertainment is often referred to as "the entertainment industry" or "show business".
The positive side of Henry Ford's statement can be seen in the prosperity that business has brought to U.S. life. One of the most important reasons so many people from all over the world come to live in the United States is the dream of a better job. Jobs are produced in abundance because the U.S. economic system is driven by competition. People believe that this system creates more wealth, more jobs, and a materially better way of life.
The negative side of Henry Ford's statement, however, can be seen when the word business is taken to mean big business. And the term big business—referring to the biggest companies—is seen in opposition to labor. Throughout U.S. history working people have had to fight hard for higher wages, better working conditions, and the fight to form. unions. Today, many of the old labor disputes are over, but there is still some employee anxiety. Downsizing—the driving away of thousands of workers to keep expenses low and profits high—creates
feelings of insecurity for many.
The United States is a country ______ .
A.which encourages free trade at home and abroad
B.where people's chief concern is how to make money
C.where all businesses are managed scientifically
D.which normally works according to the federal budget
第3题
Passage Five
Australia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around
this dry part are large sheep and cow farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states: of America.
Often the nearest neighbours are several hundred kilometers away.
The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like a
telephone. A person can listen to someone else talk and then gives an answer. For example, people on
the large farms could talk to a doctor far away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was ill,
and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person.
As the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were
started for them in some places. At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios and
listen to teachers in cities far away.
Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbours. The programme Round Robin
Talks by radio was started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who was
going away and who was iii. The men could talk about their sheep and cows and how much money
the markets would pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.
52. In the passage "the two-way radio" is______.
A. important to Americans
B. useful for children only
C. used as a telephone
D. only used by doctors
第4题
The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms.It works much like a telephone.A person can listen to someone else talk and then give an answer.For example, people on the large farms could talk to a doctor far away.They could tell the doctor about someone who was ill, and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person.
As the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school.Radio schools were started for them in some places.At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities far away.
Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbors.The program "Round Robin" talks by radio was started to keep families in touch with each other.They could talk about who was going away and who was ill.The men could talk about their sheep and cows and how much money the markets would pay for them.In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.
1、From the first paragraph, we know there are some very large farms in Australia.()
2、"The two-way radio" in the 2nd paragraph is useful for children only.()
3、The "the sick person" in the second paragraph means the person who is ill.()
4、The children on the large farms far away could have lessons on the radios.()
5、All the Australians live on dry places, and they use radios in many ways.()
第5题
完形填空阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In its home country of Germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter. It was named __16__ Frankfurt, a German city.
Frankfurters were first __17__ in the United States in __18__. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund sausages” (达克思香肠).A dachshund is a dog from Germany __19__ a very long body and short legs. Dachshund sausages first 20 popular in New York, __21__ at baseball games. At games they were sold by men __22__ kept them __23__ in hot-water tanks.
As the men walked __24__ the rows of people, they yelled, “Get your dachshund sausages! Get your hot dachshund sausages!
“People got the sausages on 25, a special bread. 26 in 1906 a newspaper cartoonist __27__ Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game. __28__ he saw the men with the dachshund sausages, he got an idea __29__ a cartoon. The next day at the newspaper office he __30__ a bun with a dachshund inside--31 a dachshund sausage, 32 a dachshund. Dorgan __33__ how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”
The cartoon was a sensation (轰动), and __34__. If you go to a baseball game today, you can still see sellers walking __35__ with hot-water tanks. As they walk up and down the rows they yell.
“Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”
第16题:
[A] with
[B] after
[C] by
[D] of
第6题
In the United States' currency union, we seem never to worry if a state has a big current account deficit Have you ever seen such data in the newspaper? Can you even find the data in any U.S. government statistical sources? For example,one would guess that the state of Louisiana ran large current account deficits after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But Louisiana's possible current account deficit was not deemed worthy of coverage by the financial press. We do know,however, that in 2006,Greece had a current account deficit of 9.6 percent of GDP,Portugal had a deficit of 9.4 percent of GDP,and Spain had a deficit of 8.8 percent of GDP. Should the governments of these countries worry about such large deficits?
第7题
These conditions continued until after Word War Ⅱ. At that time, new treatments were discovered for some major mental illnesses therefore considered untreatable (penicillin for syphilis of the brain and insulin treatment for schizophrenia and depressions), and a succession of books, motion pictures, and newspaper exposes called attention to the plight of the mentally ill. Improvements were made, and Dr. David Vail's. Humane practices program is a beacon for today. But changes were slow in coming until the early 1960s. At that time, the Civil Rights Movement led lawyers to investigate America's prisons, which were disproportionately populated by blacks, and they in turn followed prisoners into the only institutions that were worse than the prisons——the hospitals for the criminally insane. The prisons were rifled with angry young men who, encouraged by legal support, were quick to demand their fights. The hospitals for the criminally insane, by contrast, were populated with people who were considered "crazy" and who were often kept obediently in their place through the use of severe bodily restraints and large doses of major tranquilizers. The young cadre of public interest lawyers liked their role in the mental hospitals. The lawyers found a population that was both passive and easy to champion. These were, after all, people who, unlike criminals, had done nothing wrong. And in many states they were being kept in horrendous institutions, an injustice which, once exposed was bound to shock the public and, particularly, the judicial conscience.
Judicial interventions have had some definite positive effects, but there is growing awareness that courts cannot provide the standards and the review mechanisms that assure good patient care. The details of providing day-to-day care simple cannot be mandated by a court so it is time to take from the courts the responsibility for delivery of mental health care and assurance of patient fights and return it to the state mental health administrators to whom the mandate was originally given. Though it is a difficult task, administrators must undertake to write roles and standards and to provide the training and surveillance to assure that treatment is given and patients' rights are respected.
The main purpose of the passage is to ______.
A.discuss the influence of Dorothea Dix on the mental health movement
B.shock the reader with vivid descriptions of asylums
C.increase public awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
D.provide a historical perspective on problems of mental health care
第8题
The Times is the oldest weekly newspaper in the country.()
第9题
A.paper of today
B.today newspaper’s
C.today newspaper
D.today’s newspaper
第10题
A.the newspaper of yesterday
B.yesterday newspaper
C.yesterday's newspaper
D.the newspaper of the yesterday
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