Four weeks ago US children dressed as monsters and asked for sweets. That was Halloween. In a few weeks American houses will be red and green and filled with presents. For Christmas.
As if all this isn’t enough, on Thursday this week, America will enjoy another festival—Thanksgiving.
Children will have two days off school, shops will close and houses will be filled with families enjoying mountains of food. Every year, in Gainesville, Florida, all entire class celebrate Thanksgiving together. The class dresses up and puts on plays for their families. After the plays the families share a feast of traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey and pumpkin pie.
Dean Foster, an 11-year-old boy will take part in this celebration. He said: "I love Thanksgiving because it means time off school, lots of nice food and a happy family."
His
A. they can stay with their parents at home and eat a lot of nice food
B. they can dress up like monsters
C. they can put on plays
D. they can visit American Indians
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support on basic rather than applied research Basic research is the very heart
of science, and its cumulative product is the capital of scientific progress, a
capital that must be constantly increased as the demands upon it rise. The goal
of basic research is understanding, for its own sake. Understanding of the
structure of the atom or the nerve ceil, the explosion of a spiral nebula or the
distribution of cosmic dust, the causes of earthquakes and droughts, or of man
as a behaving creature and of the social forces that are created whenever two or
more human beings come into contact with one another--the scope is staggering,
but the commitment to truth is the same. If the commitment were to a particular
result, conflicting evidence might be Overlooked or, with the best will in the
world, simply A. Roentgen’s Ignorance of X-rays B. The Attractiveness of Applied Research C. The Importance of Basic Research D. Basic Research vs. Applied Research [填空题]The instinctive foundation of the intellectual life is curiosity, which is found among animals in its elementary form. Intelligence demands an alert curiosity, but it must be of a certain kind. The sort that leads village neighbors to try to peer through curtains after dark has not very high value. The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by love of knowledge, but by malice; no one gossips about other people’s secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly, most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. (66) You may see this impulse, in a moderately pure form, at work in a cat that has been brought to a strange room and proceeds to smell every corner and every piece of furniture. You will see it also in children, who are passionately interested when a drawer or cupboard, usually closed, is open for their inspection. Animals, machines, thunderstorms, and all forms of manual work arouse the curiosity of children, whose thirst for knowledge put
[单项选择]How she wishes she（）more attention to her lessons when she was at school!
A. have paid B. paid C. had paid D. has paid [单项选择]Any lender about to make a loan wishes to know the real rate of interest; i.e., the contractual rate of interest less the rate of inflation. But what rate of inflation to use, past or expected Past inflation is the better choice, because we have specific firm figures for it so that the real rate of interest will also emerge as a specific figure.
Which of the following, if true, is the strongest point that an opponent of the position above might make in arguing that the rate of expected inflation is the proper figure to use A. Since the contractual interest is future income to a prospective lender, it is more appropriate to adjust that income in terms of inflation expected for the future. B. Since estimating the rate of expected inflation presupposes careful economic analysis, lenders might derive coincidental benefits from doing such an estimate. C. The rate of expected inflation will differ little from the rate of past inflation when inflation is steady. D. No official rate of past inflation is computed for any period shorter than a month. E. (E) The official rate of past inflation is a figure that depends on what commodities, in what proportions, determine the official price index. [单项选择]Mary wishes that she （ ）law instead of history when she was in college.
A. hadstudied B. studies C. hasstudied D. studied [填空题]If a farmer wishes to succeed, he must try to keep a wide gap between his consumption and his production. He must store a large quantity of grain ________ consuming all his grain immediately. He can continue to support himself and his family ________ he produces a surplus. He must use this surplus in three ways: as seed for sowing, as an insurance ________ the unpredictable effects of bad weather and as a commodity which he must sell in order to ________ old agricultural implements and obtain chemical fertilizers to ______ the soil. He may also need money to construct irrigation ______ and improve his farm in other ways. If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be ______ . He must either sell some of his property or ________ extra funds in the form of loans. Naturally he will try to borrow money at a low ________ of interest, but loans of this kind are not ________ obtainable.
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