[单项选择]Raising one's open hand with palm down to one's throat means" ______" in English culture.

[单项选择]Raising one's open hand with palm down to one's throat means" ______" in English culture.

[单项选择]How do the older generation and the younger one think about money


A. The former thinks more of money than the latter.
B. The younger generation values money more than the older generation.
C. Both generations rely on the imaginative power of bankers to make money.
D. To the former money is a real commodity but to the latter be a means to produce more money.

[填空题]Organic agriculture contributes to slowing down the global temperature increase through its ability to ______.

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Recycling is one of the best environmental success stories of the late 20th century. But we could do more. People must not see recycling .as fashionable, but essential.
The Japanese are very good at recycling because they live in a crowded country.
They do not have much space. They do not want to share their limited space with rubbish. But even so, Tokyo area alone is estimated to have three million tons of leftover rubbish at present.
In 1996, the United States recycled and composted (制成肥料)57 million tons of waste (27% of the nation’s solid waste). This is 57 million tons of waste which did not go into landfills and incinerators (焚化炉). In doing this, 7,000 rubbish collection programmes and recycling centres helped the authorities.
In Rockford, a city in Illinois, US, its officials choose one house each week and check its garbage (废物). If the garbage does not contain any newspapers or alumini
A. They live in a crowded country.
B. They have recycled all their waste.
C. They are very good at recycling.
D. They have to share their limited space with rubbish

[单项选择]After careful investigation we find that one of the statements ______ to be untrue.
A. is turned out
B. have been turned out
C. has turned out
D. have turned out

[判断题]Section B The Life of Jackie Chan One of the most popular film personalities in the world, Jackie Chan came from a poverty-stricken Hong Kong family—so poor, claims Chan, that he was almost sold in infancy to a wealthy British couple. As it turned out, Chan became his family’s sole support. Enrolled in the Chinese Opera Research Institute at the age of seven, he spent the next decade in rigorous training for a career in the Peking Opera, excelling in martial arts and acrobatics. Billed as Cheng Lung, Chan entered films in his mid-teens, appearing in 25 productions before his 20th birthday. Starting out as a stunt man, Chan was promoted to stardom as the potential successor to the late Bruce Lee. In his earliest starring films, he was cast as a stone-cold serious type, determined to avenge Lee’s death. Only when he began playing for laughs did Chan truly attain full celebrity status. Frequently referred to as the Buster Keaton of kung-fu, Chan’s outlook on life is a lot mor

[单项选择]In India, if you cannot use your right hand for the time being,（）
A. you can pass food with your left hand
B. you can pass food with the help of your left hand
C. you' d better not pass food
D. you' d better leave the table

[单项选择]The phrase "hand down" is in close meaning to which of the following


A. put down
B. take down
C. state publicly
D. deny angrily

[单项选择]In general, the British people belong to one of the more affluent countries of Europe and enjoy a high standard of living compared to the rest of the world.（）
A. plentiful
B. powerful
C. friendly
D. wealthy

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There is substantial evidence that by 1926, with the publication of The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes had broken with two well-established traditions in African American literature. In The Weary Blues, Hughes chose to modify the traditions that decreed that African American literature must promote racial acceptance and integration, and that, in order to do so, it must reflect an understanding and mastery of Western European literary techniques and styles. Necessarily excluded by this decree, linguistically and thematically, was the vast amount of secular folk material in the oral tradition that had been created by Black people in the years of slavery and after. It might be pointed out that even the spirituals or "sorrow songs" of the slaves-as distinct from their secular songs and stories-had been Europeanized to make them acceptable within these African American traditions after the Civil War. In 1862 no
A. its novelty compared to other works of African American literature
B. its subtle understatement compared to that of other kinds of folk literature
C. its virtuosity in adapting musical forms to language
D. its expression of the folk culture of Black People