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The first pre-election poll, or straw vote, as it was then called, was conducted by the Harris bury Pennsylvanian before the 1824 presidential election. This straw vote and the many that followed it really registered nothing but local opinion; however, as communications improved and elections were won by closer and closer margins, newspapers and journals tried desperately to satisfy their readers’ curiosity in more reliable ways.
Before the 1928 elections, no fewer than 85 publications made private inquires, generally by means of questionnaires sent to subscribers and by telephone surveys. The principle common to all these inquiries was that they depended on quantity rather than quality; little effort was made to reach representatives of all segments of the population. Still, the erroneous belief persisted that the greater the number of questionnaires, the more accurate the results would be. The record
A. is based merely on sociological calculations
B. can always predict accurate results
C. has been used in other countries other than the US
D. has become the best choice in predicting scientific results

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The first pre-election poll, or straw vote, as it was then called, was conducted by the Harris bury Pennsylvanian before the 1824 presidential election. This straw vote and the many that followed it really registered nothing but local opinion; however, as communications improved and elections were won by closer and closer margins, newspapers and journals tried desperately to satisfy their readers’ curiosity in more reliable ways.
Before the 1928 elections, no fewer than 85 publications made private inquires, generally by means of questionnaires sent to subscribers and by telephone surveys. The principle common to all these inquiries was that they depended on quantity rather than quality; little effort was made to reach representatives of all segments of the population. Still, the erroneous belief persisted that the greater the number of questionnaires, the more accurate the results would be. The record
A. his system was much cheaper than the customary mass inquiries
B. he promised to refund the entire cost of the investigation if it failed
C. he succeeded in predicting better presidential election result
D. he was showered with money and commissions

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When the first white man arrived in Samoa, they found blind men, who could see well enough to de- scribe things in detail just by holding their hands over objects. In France, just after the First World War , Jutes Romaine tested hundreds of blind people and found a few who could tell the different light and dark. In Italy the neurologist Cesare Lomrose discovered a blind girl who could "see" with the tip of her nose and the lobe of her left ear. In 1956 a blind schoolboy in Scotland was taught to differentiate between colored lights and learned to pick out bright objects several feet away. In 1960 a medical board examined a girl in Virginia and found that, even with thick bandages over her eyes, she was able to distinguish different colors and read short sections of large print.
Rose Kuleshova can see with her fingers. She is not blind, but because she grew up in a family of blind people she learned to read B
A. were not entirely blind
B. described things by touching them
C. could see with their hands
D. could see when they held hands

[单项选择]TEXT B I know when the snow melts and the first robins (知更鸟) come to call, when the laughter of children returns to the parks and playgrounds, something wonderful is about to happen. Spring cleaning. I’ll admit spring cleaning is a difficult notion for modern .families to grasp. Today’s busy families hardly have time to load the dishwasher, much less clean the doormat. Asking the family to spend the weekend collecting winter dog piles from the melting snow in the backyard is like announcing there will be no more Wi-Fi. It interrupts the natural order. "Honey, what say we spend the weekend beating the rugs, sorting through the boxes in the basement and painting our bedroom a nice lemony yellow " I say. "Can we at least wait until the NBA matches are over " my husband answers. But I tell my family, spring cleaning can’t wait. The temperature has risen just enough to melt snow but not enough for Little League practice to start. Some flowers are peeking out of the thawing ground, but
A. is no longer an easy practice to understand.
B. is no longer part of modern family life.
C. requires more family members to be involved
D. calls for more complicated skills and knowledge.

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