[单项选择]American people were proud and optimistic because they felt they had saved the world and now were helping to rebuild Europe and Japan.
A. True
B. False

[判断题]American people were proud and optimistic because they felt they had saved the world and now were helping to rebuild Europe and Japan.

[单项选择]

It used to be that people were proud to work for the same company for the whole of their working lives. They’d get a gold watch at the end of their productive years and a dinner featuring speeches by their bosses praising their loyalty. But today’s rich capitalists have regressed (倒退) to the "survival of the fittest" ideas and their loyalty extends not to their workers or even to their stockholders but only to themselves. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years of work, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years. The new rich selfishly act on their own to unfairly grab the wealth that the country as a whole has produced. The top 1 percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing (将产品包给
A. job security
B. bosses’’ praise
C. corporate loyalty
D. retirement benefits

[填空题]

Why was the bike unusual Because its wheels were of ______ .

[单项选择]A total of ______ people were displaced because of the floods.
A. 80
B. 250
C. 100
D. 337

[单项选择]A. Because the Iranians were not good at making money.
B. Because she wasn’t rich yet as a college student.
C. Because she felt thankful for having the chance to visit Iran.
D. Because she had acquired the good Iranian personality.

[填空题]Because people have been paying too much attention to the sulphur particles and other pollutants, they overlooked another problem, global warming.

[单项选择]A. The team lost because the players were absent-minded.
B. He was impressed by the efforts of the team.
C. The woman is wrong about who won the game.
D. The players could have won if they’d tried harder.

[填空题]People in the rural areas were made fun of because they celebrated the New Year______________.