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[简答题]In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the calls shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention.
[填空题] In the United States, it is not (36)______to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires (37) ______attention. The same meaning is (38) ______to telephone calls made after 11:00 p.m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he (39) ______it’’s a matter of life and death. The time chosen for the call (40) ______its importance.
Time plays a very important part in social life. In the U. S .A. guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is (41) ______only three or four days before the party date. But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world it may be (42) ______foolish to make an appointment too far in (43) ______because plans made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, (44)_____
[单项选择]In the United States, 36 states currently allow capital punishment for serious crimes such as murder. Americans have always argued about the death penalty. Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors--i, e. , under the age of 18--to receive the death penalty
In most other countries of the world, there is no capital punishment for minors. In the United States, though, each state makes its own decision. Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.
In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor. In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends brutally murdered three people. Roach’s lawyer fought the decision to execute him. The young murderer remained on Death Row (a separate part of prison for
A. asked the governor for help
B. stopped the execution
C. let the courts do their job
D. fought with the governor
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The United States is a confederation of states. Each state has the (1) to make laws with regard to the state. (2), based on public opinion, states can (3) policies regarding education, and they may (4) a state income tax; they also determine the speed (5), housing codes, and the drinking age.
In most parts of the United States, you (6) be 21 years old to buy alcohol in a liquor store, bar,(7) restaurant. In some states you may buy beer in a grocery store. If a store sells alcohol to a minor, the (8) of the store is usually (9) a large sum of money. (10) , many areas have an open-container law, (11) means that people may not drink alcohol on the street or in a car. Anyone (12) with an open container of alcohol may be arrested.
(13) , with all of these laws, the (14) of alcohol is a serious (15) in the United States and Canada. Drinking on college campuses, (16) there are many underage drinkers has (17) greatly. In fact, alcohol sales have gone up (18) the legal dri
A. fined
B. charged
C. punished
D. suffered
