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[单项选择]The asocial personality of Americans results from ______.
A. the want of shared myths they possess in life
B. the multiracial constituents of the US society
C. the absence of a common, religion and ancestry
D. the obstruction of achieving a general agreement
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Many Americans harbour a grossly distorted and exaggerated view of most of the risks surrounding food. Fergus Clydesdale, head of the department of food science and nutrition at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, says bluntly that if the dangers from bacterially contaminated chicken were as great as some people believe, "the streets would be littered with people lying here and there."
Though the public increasingly demands no-risk food, there is no such thing. Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley, points out that up to 10% of a plant’s weight is made up of natural pesticides (杀虫剂). Says he :"Since plants do not have jaws or teeth to protect themselves, they employ chemical warfare." And many naturally produced chemicals, though occurring in tiny amounts, prove in laboratory tests to be strong carcinogens--a substance which can cause cancer. Mushrooms (磨菇) might be banned if they were
A. Eating and drinking have become more hazardous than before.
B. Immediate measures must be taken to improve food production and processing.
C. Health food is not a dream in modern society.
D. There is reason for caution but no cause for alarm with regard to food consumption.
[单项选择]Suspicious of too powerful a President, Americans nonetheless are ______ when a President does not act decisively.
A. unified
B. indifferent
C. content
D. uneasy
[单项选择]Millions of Americans flock to their drugstore to buy vitamins and minerals, ______that these pills can help to prevent serious illnesses.
A. convincing
B. convinced
C. to convince
D. to be convinced
[单项选择]The most important thing that Americans should do for people with disabilities in the future as proposed in this short passage is
A. to protect the legal rights and the services of crime victims.
B. to ensure the participation of the disabled in the justice system.
C. to achieve the independence for the people with disabilities.
D. to fulfill the preservation of their property and employment.
[单项选择]Millions of Americans flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins and minerals, ______ that these pills can help to prevent serious illnesses.
A. convincing
B. convinced
C. to convince
D. to be convinced
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Passage Five Few Americans remain in one position or one place for a lifetime. We move from town to city to suburb, from high school to college in a different state, from a job in one region to a better job else where, from the home where we raise our children to the home where we plan to live in retirement. With each move we are forever making new friends, who become part of our new life at that time. For many of us summer is a special time for forming new friendships. Today millions of Americans vacation abroad, and they go not only to see new sights but also with the hope of meeting new people. No one really expects a vacation trip to produce a close friend, but the beginning of a friend ship is possible. The word "friend" can be applied to a wide range of relationships--to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a fellow worker, to a childhood playmate, to a man or woman, to a trusted confidant(知己).
From the passage it can be seen that a
A. a fellow worker
B. a football teammate
C. a boy or a girl
D. all of the above
[单项选择]The author suggests that most Americans feel that ______.
A. Spanish culture is inefficient
B. nap-taking will put their jobs at risk
C. nap-taking is a sign of laziness
D. they get plenty of sleep
[单项选择]The generation of Americans being talked about refers to those people________.
A. who are the first of this century to mature
B. who could meet the stiffest of challenges
C. who have matured in peace and prosperity
D. who remember the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr
[单项选择]We can conclude that Americans charged with crimes have some rights to ______.
A. fight against laws
B. talk back to the police
C. protect themselves
D. escape punishment
[单项选择]According to the passage, where do most Americans live
A. In the center of cities.
B. In the suburbs surrounding large cities.
C. In rural areas.
D. In small towns.
[单项选择]The major reason why Americans enjoy an abundant food supply is that the arable land at their disposal for food production is ______.
A. three times more the world average
B. three times as much the world average
C. three times the world average
D. the world average is three times
[单项选择]Sadly, Americans of every ethnicity still demand ideological______among their own kind-although we're all multiculturalists now, we're much more______discussing diversity across the rainbow than within each color.
A. (A) conformity… comfortable
B. (B) hegemony … cantankerous
C. (C) resonance… sensitive
D. (D) subservience … catholic
E. (E) reflection … generous
[单项选择]According to the passage, Americans' attitude towards friendship is________.
A. unusual to have only one intimate friend
B. more informal than that in other countries
C. to regard all friends as only social acquaintances
D. to divide friends into several grades
[单项选择]One reason Americans are more likely to travel this year is that.
A. airlines tickets are less expensive
B. more and more Americans have cars
C. the stock market is up
D. travel agents are offering special deals
[单项选择]What does a BGP route reflector do when reflecting a route?（）
A. It prepends its cluster identifier to the route's cluster list.
B. It prepends its own originator identifier to the route's cluster list.
C. It replaces the route's cluster identifier with its own cluster identifier.
D. It replaces the route's originator identifier with its originator identifier.
[单项选择]The reason for the Americans' silence on their own lumber today is that ______.
A. they no longer exist
B. Americans apply a double standard
C. little lumber comes from federal land
D. private forests completely control the market
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Old Henry Ford won the hearts of the Americans with the wonderful Mode T, the like of which was never seen before and has never been seen since.（）
A. a car that enjoyed similar popularity
B. a car of the same brand
C. a car that was well-liked
D. a car similar to it
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Passage 3 Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long self - analysis known as the journalism credibility project. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low - level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head -scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want. But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day’s events. In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready - made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news. There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the "standard templates" of th
A. quite trustworthy
B. somewhat contradictory
C. very illuminating
D. rather superficial
