[单项选择]In the early 1920s Walter E. Disney began a cartoon company in Kansas City, Missouri, with fellow artist Ub Iwerks, but the company soon went bankrupt. Disney joined his brother Roy in Hollywood, California, in 1923 and established The Disney Brothers Studio (工作室). The studio produced a series of lovable short subjects called Alice in Cartoonland (1924-1927). In 1928 Walt Disney came up with the idea for Mickey Mouse, a good-natured, lovable mouse who often finds himself in difficult situations, Iwerks helped design the character, and Walt Disney Productions produced Plane Crazy (1928), a black-and-white silent film featuring the mouse.
Walt Disney achieved great commercial success when he added sound and dialogue to the Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie (1928). Disney introduced other popular characters in subsequent films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Minnie Mouse, Mickey’s girlfriend; Goofy, an amiable dog; and the excitable Donald Duck. In 1937 Disney released Snow White
A. They liked cartoon film.
B. They liked to produce a series of lovable short subjects.
C. Walter E. Disney’s own cartoon company closed down.
D. They wanted to produce the cartoon film called Alice in Cartoonland.

[单项选择]In the early 1920s Walter E. Disney began a cartoon company in Kansas City, Missouri, with fellow artist Ub Iwerks, but the company soon went bankrupt. Disney joined his brother Roy in Hollywood, California, in 1923 and established The Disney Brothers Studio (工作室). The studio produced a series of lovable short subjects called Alice in Cartoonland (1924-1927). In 1928 Walt Disney came up with the idea for Mickey Mouse, a good-natured, lovable mouse who often finds himself in difficult situations, Iwerks helped design the character, and Walt Disney Productions produced Plane Crazy (1928), a black-and-white silent film featuring the mouse.
Walt Disney achieved great commercial success when he added sound and dialogue to the Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie (1928). Disney introduced other popular characters in subsequent films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Minnie Mouse, Mickey’s girlfriend; Goofy, an amiable dog; and the excitable Donald Duck. In 1937 Disney released Snow White
A. A good-natured, lovable mouse.
B. A mouse who often finds himself in different situations.
C. A puppet.
D. A popular character in the film.

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In the early 1920s Walter E. Disney began a cartoon company in Kansas City, Missouri, with fellow artist Ub Iwerks, but the company soon went bankrupt. Disney joined his brother Roy in Hollywood, California, in 1923 and established The Disney Brothers Studio (工作室). The studio produced a series of lovable short subjects called Alice in Cartoonland (1924-1927). In 1928 Walt Disney came up with the idea for Mickey Mouse, a good-natured, lovable mouse who often finds himself in difficult situations, Iwerks helped design the character, and Walt Disney Productions produced Plane Crazy (1928), a black-and-white silent film featuring the mouse.
Walt Disney achieved great commercial success when he added sound and dialogue to the Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie (1928). Disney introduced other popular characters in subsequent films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Minnie Mouse, Mickey's girlfriend; Goofy, an amiable dog; and the excitable
A. has brought a great deal of pleasure to people
B. has run down
C. has ceased
D. has experienced the road from the black-and-white silent film, the sound and dialogue film to the popular motion film.

[单项选择]During the 1920s in Germany and during the 1980s in Brazil and Israel, inflation reached hyperinflationary levels. People received their wages and spent them immediately. Companies received revenues from their sales and immediately paid them out as wages and dividends. This behavior best reflects which one of the following adverse effects of inflation for an economy（）
A. Tax distortion.
B. Gains by employers at the expense of employees.
C. Increased transactions costs.

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In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity (紧缩) programs to reduce their imports. The result was a sharp drop in farm prices. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient. They were paying for machinery, see, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods. The prices of the items farmers bought remained constant, while prices they received for their products fell. These developments were made worse by the Great Depression which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1930s.
In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized. It established the principle of direct interference with supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers.
President Hoover’s successor attached even more importance t
A. reducing the cost of farming
B. conserving soil in the long-term interest of the nation
C. lowering the burden farmers
D. helping farmers without shifting the burden onto other taxpayers