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[单项选择]There are few stranger alliances in America’s culture wars than the one between nativists and multiculturalists on the subject of assimilating immigrants. Nativists argue that the great American assimilation machine is broken beyond repair. Immigrants arrived in such quantities in the 1980’s and 1990’s that they can seclude themselves in ethnic enclaves rather than merging into the mainstream. And the growing ease of communications means that they have no need to loosen their ties with their original countries. The Italians who passed through Ellis Island at the turn of the century had little hope of seeing their motherland again. The multiculturalists agree with the nativists’ premises but go on to draw radically different conclusions. "Mainstream America" was never anything more than a codeword for racial oppression, they argue. The arrival of millions of unassimilated immigrants is requiring America to abandon the old notion of a melting pot and turn itself instead into a "gorgeous
A. there has been no such thing as mainstream America.
B. mainstream America has been instrumental in combating racial oppression.
C. different ethnic groups will in time be brought into mainstream America.
D. immigrants should retain their ethnic identities.
[单项选择]It has been a wretched few weeks for America’s celebrity bosses. AIG’s Maurice Greenberg has been dramatically ousted from the firm through which he dominated global insurance for decades. At Morgan Stanley a mutiny is forcing Philip Purcell, a boss used to getting his own way, into an increasingly desperate campaign to save his skin. At Boeing, Harry Stonecipher was called out of retirement to lead the scandal-hit firm and raise ethical standards, only to commit a lapse of his own, being sacked for sending e-mails to a lover who was also an employee. Carly Fiorina was the most powerful woman in corporate America until a few weeks ago, when Hewlett-Packard (HP) sacked her for poor performance. The fate of Bernie Ebbers is much grimmer. The once high-profile boss of World-Corn could well spend the rest of his life behind bars following his conviction last month on fraud charges.
In different ways, each of these examples appears to point to the same, welcome conclusion: that the
A. citing America’s celebrity bosses
B. listing a number of America’s celebrity bosses
C. depicting the plight of some reputed American bosses
D. writing some most powerful persons in American firms.
[单项选择]It has been a wretched few weeks for America’s. celebrity bosses. AIG’s Maurice Greenberg has been dramatically ousted from the firm through which he dominated global insurance for decades. At Morgan Stanley a mutiny is forcing Philip Purcell, a boss used to getting his own way, into an increasingly desperate campaign to save his skin. At Boeing, Harry Stonecipher was called out of retirement to lead the scandal-hit firm and raise ethical standards, only to commit a lapse of his own, being sacked for sending e-mails to a lover who was also an employee. Carly Fiorina was the most powerful woman in corporate America until a few weeks ago, when Hewlett-Packard (HP) sacked her for poor performance. The fate of Bernie Ebbers is much grimmer. The once high-profile boss of WorldCom could well spend the rest of his life behind bars following his conviction last month on fraud charges.
In different ways, each of these examples appears to point to the same welcome conclusion: that the imbal
A. citing America’s celebrity bosses
B. listing a number of America’s celebrity bosses
C. depicting the plight of some reputed American bosses
D. writing some most powerful persons in American firms
[单项选择]During the early years, America had so few settlers that neighbors were very important; they were not to be shut out by doors and fences.（）
A. 在早些年间，美国人有很多邻居非常重要，他们就不用关门和栅栏。
B. 在早些年间，美国定居者很少，以至于邻居就显得非常重要；不能用门和栅栏将他们隔在外面。
C. 在早些年间，美国定居者很少，以至于邻居就显得非常重要，他们不用把门和栅栏关上。
D. 在早些年间，美国人有很多邻居非常重要，他们不会被门和栅栏关在外面。
E. 在早些年间，美国有很多定居者，邻居不太重要，他们不把门和栅栏关上。
[填空题] Drunken driving—sometimes called America’’s socially accepted form of murder—has become a national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on (36)_________ are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an (37)_________250,000 over the past decade.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0. 10 blood alcohol content or (38)_________three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American man (39)_________ and judges were tolerant in most courts, but the drunken (40)_________has recently caused so many well-publicized (41)_________, especially involving, young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, (42)_________a trend in the 1960s to reduce
it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed 18-to 20-year-old drivers more than (43)_________, so the state recently upped it bac
