In our country every boy and every girl the right to receive education()
A.are having
B.has had
C.has
D.have
A.are having
B.has had
C.has
D.have
A.inspired
B.greatness
C.been
D.goodness
Which of the following statements is true?
A.Nearly 80, 000 people are the victims of human traffickers worldwide every year.
B.The UN was leading a new abolitionist movement to uproot this modern-day slavery.
C.The new abolitionist movement is viewed as the great moral calling of our time.
D.The State Department report is going to list individual country's efforts to tackle the problem of human trafficking in the futur
The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the results of its
"Reading at Risk" survey, which described the movement of the American
public away from books and literature and toward television and electronic
media. According to the survey, "reading is on the decline on every region, 【S1】 ______.
within every ethnic group, and at every educational level".
The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie vote, upheld 【S2】 ______.
the government's right to obtain bookstore and library records under a provision
of the USA Patriot Act. The House proposal would have barred the
federal government from demand library records, reading lists, book customer 【S3】 ______.
lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations.
These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they echo each other in 【S4】 ______.
the message they send about the place of books and reading in American
culture. At the heart of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic system 【S5】______.
depends on leaders who can think critically, analyze texts and writing clearly. 【S6】______.
All of these are skills promoted by reading and discussing books and literature.
At the same time, through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of our
country are unconsciously sending the message that reading may be connected
to desirable activities that might undermine our system of government rather 【S7】______.
than helping democracy flourish.
Our culture's decline in reading begin well before the existence of the 【S8】______.
Patriot Act. During the 1980s' culture wars, school systems across the country
pulled some books from library shelves because its content was deemed by 【S9】______.
parents and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schools across the
country is playing itself out on a nation stage and is possibly having an impact 【S10】______.
on the reading habits of the American public.
【S1】
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.
Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are______.
A.distorted
B.normal
C.similar to each other
D.different from its own
听力原文:W: Morning. Gall. Did you enjoy your holiday in the country?
M: Yes. We had a great time. And some friends went along with us.
W: Where did you stay? In a hotel?
M: No. We camped in the mountains, near Snowdon. We cooked all our meals over an open fire.
W: Sounds great. Was the weather good?
M: The sun shone nearly every day and it didn't rain at all.
W: Did you like the people there?
M: Yes, they were friendly. We met some farmers and had tea in their houses.
Where did Gail spend the nights in the country?
A.In a farm house.
B.In the open.
C.At a hotel.
听力原文: Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. Unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. How different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different at all!
Differences between peoples do of course exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike. Some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.
(30)
A.They will find out what its people like.
B.They will know how to live in another way.
C.They will know the country and its people better.
D.They will like its inhabitants and their language.
Other aspects of our commitment to the automobile also bear mentioning here, it takes a great deal of energy to manufacture one automobile—about 150 million BTUs of energy. This is equivalent to 1,200 gallons of gasoline, enough to run a car for about 16,000 miles. We expend energy in the process of shipping cars from factories to showrooms, displaying them for sale hand making replacement parts for repairs. One out of six jobs in the nation is associated with the automobile business. About two gallons of gasoline are consumed in the process of making every ten gallons that are pumped into an automobile's gas tank.
Building highways and parking lots has used up much of our land. It has been estimated that we have paved over 21,000 square miles of this country's surface, most of it to accommodate the automobile. The automobile is also the largest contributor to our nation's air pollution problem and a very serious one because most of its pollutants are emitted in our large metropolitan areas.
Aside from the great impact that would occur if everyone seriously practised conservation, one should stop and think about his own casual use of the automobile. There are numerous situations where better planning and awareness could really make a difference in energy savings and dollars. Because the automobile uses the largest percentage of energy in an average American family's energy budget and almost half of the dollars, the impetus for savings is tremendous.
According to the author, what do most people realize?______
A.Alternate sources of energy must be found
B.Car pools help to solve some of the energy problem
C.The automobile uses large amounts of gasoline
D.Great efforts have been made to solve the energy problem
听力原文: Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in. a country and getting to know its citizens and their language, that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be different from the second-hand information gathered from other sources. How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all! Differences between peoples do, of course exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned, However this may be, at least, the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.
(30)
A.They will find out what its people like.
B.They will argue in favor of this country and the language.
C.They will know the country and its people better.
D.They will like its inhabitants and their language.
听力原文:W: Morning. Gail. Did you enjoy your holiday in the country
M: Yes. We had a great time. And some friends went along with us.
W: Where did you stay In a hotel
M: No. We camped in the mountains. We cooked all our meals over an open fire.
W: Sounds great. Was the weather good
M: The sun shone nearly every day and it didn't rain at all.
W: Did you like the people there
M: Yes, they were friendly. We met some farmers and had tea in their houses.
W: I hope I have chance to go there for my holiday.
M: It's really a good chance.
Where did Gail spend the nights in the country?
A.In a farm house.
B.In the open.
C.At a hotel.
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