A.mass
B.minority
C.total
D.overseas
A.mass
B.minority
C.total
D.overseas
听力原文:M: Was Bill always rich?
W: When I knew him as a young man he wore old clothes and did not even have a bicycle. Now he wears expensive clothes and drives a sports car.
Q: What did Bill use to be?
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A.He used to be rich.
B.He used to be poor.
C.He used to be very thin.
D.He used to be a driver.
听力原文:M: Jenny, what do you think a millionaire should be tike?
W: Well, a millionaire is someone who owns a huge wealth of oiI wells, railroad shares, property, banks or the size of their factories and staff. The giant industrial magnate— Ford, Rockefeller, etc.
M: But today, many of the leading millionaires are not connected with any business production. They are stars who appear in films, play sports, speculate in property or sing rock and roll music.
W: That's not strange. I just wonder what kinds of stars earn most.
M: The sports stars. They are not only paid for appearing in various sports and doing well at a professional level, but they earn huge sums from advertising endorsements, appearance money, and alliance with sponsors.
W: How rich are they?
M: Michael Jordan, the leading basketball player in the United States used to earn $16 million in addition to his $30 million salary for the endorsements he agreed to.
W: Wow! What about football stars? Do they earn as much?
M: The leading football players are some of the outstanding sports earners in the world. Business Age magazine listed them recently, and the top four were the stars from Brazil.
W: I think these new millionaires are much luckier than the Ford generation, because they are still quite young when they become millionaires.
M: That's right. Eleven of the top 15 of the outstanding football earners are under the age of 30.
W: I wish I could be as rich as them when I am 91.
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A.Oil wells owners.
B.Bankers.
C.Railroad shareholders.
D.Sports stars.
Even when she became rich and famous, she never forgot her _______background.
A) ethnic
B) cultural
C) humble
D) religious
A、running
B、wrangler dance
C、abre dance
D、horse racing
A、culture
B、environment
C、climate
D、economy
The author of the passage wants to tell us that ______.
A.Americans like sports and sports reveal much about the changing ethnic structure of the United States
B.in Washington, several games are played in one day
C.Americans like all kinds of games
D.the American games are watched by native-Americans and played by people from different countries
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
The concept of culture has been defined many times, and although no definition has achieved universal acceptance, most of the definitions include three central ideas: that culture is passed on from generation to generation, that a culture represents a ready-made prescription for living and for making day-to-day decisions, and, finally, that the components of a culture are accepted by those in the culture as good, and true, and not to be questioned. The eminent anthropologist George Murdock has listed seventy-three items that characterize every known culture, past and present. The list begins with Age-grading and Athletic sports, runs to Weaning and Weather Control, and includes on the way such items as Calendar, Fire making, Property Rights, and Tool making. I would submit that even the most extreme advocate of a culture of poverty viewpoint would readily acknowledge that, with respect to almost all of these items, every American, beyond the first generation immigrant, regardless of race or class, is a member of a common culture. We all share pretty much the same sports. Maybe poor kids don't know how to play polo, and rich kids don't spend time with stickball, but we all know baseball, and football, and basketball. Despite some misguided efforts to raise minor dialects to the status of separate tongues, we all, in fact, share the same language. There may be differences in diction and usage, but it would be ridiculous to say that all Americans don't speak English. We have the calendar, the law, and large numbers of other cultural items in common. It may well be true that on a few of the seventy-three items there are minor variations between classes, but these kinds of things are really slight variations on a common theme. There are other items that show variability, not in relation to class, but in relation to religion and ethnic background—funeral customs and cooking, for example. But if there is one place in America where the melting pot is a reality, it is on the kitchen stove; in thc course of one month, half the readers of this sentence have probably eaten pizza, hot pastrami, and chow mein. Specific differences that might be identified as signs of separate cultural identity are relatively insignificant within the general unity of American life; they are cultural commas and semicolons in the paragraphs and pages of American life.
According to the author's definition of culture,
A.a culture should be accepted and maintained universally
B.a culture should be free from falsehood and evils
C.the items of a culture should be taken for granted by people
D.the items of a culture should be accepted by well-educated people
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