[单项选择]According to the passage, American schools today have turned into ______.


A. a typically bureaucratic organization, highly rigid and impersonal
B. an efficient means of supervising educational curricular and ensuring uniformity
C. a well organized system competent enough to meet the educational demands of the vast and complex society
D. all of the above

[单项选择]According to the passage, American schools today have turned into ______.
A. a typically bureaucratic organization, highly rigid and impersonal
B. an efficient means of supervising educational curricular and ensuring uniformity
C. a well organized system competent enough to meet the educational demands of the vast and complex society
D. all of the above

[单项选择]According to the passage, American education meets the needs of ______.
A. the brightest and slow students
B. the students who is studying abroad
C. the students from foreign countries
D. the emigrants

[单项选择]According to the passage, early American parishioners held which of the following views concerning parish demography
A. (A) Migration between towns stands in direct contrast with the accumulation of population in cities.
B. (B) Parish populations would grow at fairly equal rates, given the fact that those who left a parish in response to life course events were usually replaced.
C. (C) Migration between parishes was a rare enough phenomenon that it was unnecessary to keep records of it in any fashion.
D. (D) Parish populations often chose to remain sedimentary as a result of the homogeneity of the various countryside parishes.
E. (E) Parish populations owed their existence on the whole to the influx of populations due to life course events.

[单项选择]According to the passage, the American restaurant waiter may provide more service than required mainly because______.

[单项选择]According to the passage, how did American people receive Thorpe when he came back from Stockholm in 1912


A. They held grand banquets in his honor.
B. They welcomed him with parades and celebration.
C. They gave him the title of "the highest type of citizen".
D. They made him a professional athlete.

[单项选择]According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV________.

[单项选择]According to the passage, some native American "Dutch" expressions were related to the German instead of the Dutch, simply because .
A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch.
B. People made a mistake at the beginning.
C. People made a joke about the German.
D. The German immigrants proclaimed that they were Dutch.

[单项选择]According to the passage, you make an American person feel uncomfortable if ______.
A. you meet his eyes
B. avoid meeting his eyes
C. stare into his eyes for one second
D. look into his eyes for a long time

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Passage Three
Today the official language of the United States and most of Canada is English. However, French almost became the official language because of a war.
The French and Indian War was fought between 1754 and 1763. The name of this war is not accurate because the war was actually between England and France. The Indians fought on the side of the French.
France and England were trying to gain control of North America. France held Canada, and England held part of what is now the United States. However, France tried to expand its land by moving southward into New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia. When the French built a fort on the Ohio River, the residents in Virginia sent George Washington to attack the fort in 1754. How ever, the French defeated Washington.
The French, aided by the Indians, outsmarted the English and won many early battles. Later, the British began to do well against the French. In the final battle in Quebec, C
A. get
B. buy
C. lose
D. sell