[单项选择]Why do a lot of people in the United States call for censorship


A. Because they believe that they arch’t protected by the First Amendment.
B. Because they believe it is illegal to burn the U. S. flag.
C. Because they believe some people are taking advantage of the First Amendment.
D. Because they believe that artists should do a better job.

[单项选择]Why do a lot of people in the United States call for censorship


A. Because they believe that they arch’t protected by the First Amendment.
B. Because they believe it is illegal to burn the U. S. flag.
C. Because they believe some people are taking advantage of the First Amendment.
D. Because they believe that artists should do a better job.

[单项选择]Millions of people in the United States suffer from ______ back pain that comes from sitting too long at a desk.
A. chronic
B. casual
C. catastrophic
D. elastic

[单项选择]Young people in the United States usually become husband and wife _______.

[单项选择]People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that unprecedented change in the nation' s economy would bring about social chaos.
A. occupied
B. overwhelmed
C. obliged
D. obsessed

[单项选择]Few people in the United States lost their lives because _________.


A. the temperature was still endurable
B. people remained in air-conditioned rooms
C. effective measures had been taken to reduce the hot temperature
D. air-conditioning units sometimes failed to work properly

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Text 2
People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that unprecedented change in the nation’s economy would bring social chaos. In the years following 1820, after several decades of relative stability, the economy entered a periodof sustained and extremely rapid growth that continued to the end of the nineteenth century. Accompanying that growth was a structural change that featured increasing economic diversification and a gradual shift in the nation’s labor force from agriculture to manufacturing and other nonagricultura pursuits
Although the birth rate continued to, decline from its high level of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the population roughly doubled every generation during the rest of the nineteenth century. As the population grew, its makeup also changed. Massive waves of immigration brought new ethnic groups into the country. Geographic and social mobility -- downward as well as
A. A highly conservative society that was resistant to new ideas
B. A society that was undergoing fundamental change
C. A society that had been gradually changing since the early 1700s
D. A nomadic society that was starting permanent settlements