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托福-练习十四
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[单项选择]The Impressionists
In April 1870, an art exhibit opened in Paris featuring famous and priceless works of art. However, at the time, no one knew that these paintings would one day be considered masterpieces. The paintings and the painters were virtually unknown at the time and would remain that way for several years.
In the nineteenth century, French art was dominated by the Academy of Fine Arts. Every year the academy held an art show called Le Salon. In 1863, the Academy rejected one of the paintings of Edouard Manet. Manet and a group of other independent artists organized their own show, which they called Salon des Refuses (Salon of the Rejected), which opened on April 15,1874. A newspa per critic named Louis Leroy visited the gallery and was not pleased with what he saw. One painting of boats in a harbor at dawn by Claude Monet particularly enraged him. It was called Impression: Sunset. Leroy wrote that this piec
A. It was more popular with visitors and critics than the official show called Le Salon.
B. It made the painters and paintings shown there instantly successful.
C. Its organizers refused to allow F douard Manet to display his paintings there.
D. It featured famous paintings and painters before they became well known.
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[单项选择]Layers of Social Class
Taken together, income, occupation, and education are good measures of people’s social standing. Using a layered model of stratification, most sociologists describe the class system in the United States as divided into several classes: upper, upper middle, middle, lower middle, and lower class. Each class is defined by characteristics such as income, occupational prestige, and educational attainment. The different groups are arrayed along a continuum with those with the most money, education, and prestige at the top and those with the least at the bottom.
In the United States, the upper class owns the major share of corporate and personal wealth; it includes those who have held wealth for generations as well as those who have recently become rich. Only a very small proportion of people actually constitute the upper class, but they control vast amounts of wealth and power in the United States. T
A. characteristics
B. groups
C. classes
D. continuum
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[单项选择]President Hoover’s Politics During the Great Depression
At first everything seemed fine and dandy. America was enjoying one of the biggest economic surges in the nation’s history. However, even though America benefited from the economic boom of the so called "Roaring Twenties", the imbalance between the rich and the poor combined with the production of more and more goods and rising personal debt caused one of the biggest recessions in history. On Black Tuesday, October 29,1929, the stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression, which was the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern, industrial world. It spread from the United States and rippled out to the rest of the world, with banks failing and businesses going bust for over a span of a decade, leaving more than a quarter of the working force in America without jobs.
President Herbert Hoover, underestimating the seriousness of the crisis, called it "a p
A. The sudden ability to mass produce goods due to technological advances.
B. The growing imbalance between the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the middle class.
C. Increasing numbers of personal debt leading to individual bankruptcy.
D. The excessive and superfluous production of supplies.