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[填空题]Bears are found in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.
[单项选择]North America borders both the North ______ and the North ______.
A. Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean
B. Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean
C. Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean
D. Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean
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Despite so many auspicious indicators, the America depicted in political and intellectual debate is invariably a place we should be building starships to flee. To the left, the United States remains a land of racial repression, corporate oligarchy, and environmental decay; to the right, a country where all things pure are collapsing. Such views hold considerable sway. Whitman’s The Optimism Gap reports that 1996 polls showed that only 15 percent of Americans believe the country is getting better. In similar polls, about half said the nation is worse off compared to how it was when their parents were growing up, and 60 percent believed the United States in which their children dwell will be worse still. Though most Americans are today healthier, better housed, better fed, better paid, better educated, better defended, more free, and diverted by a cornucopia of new entertainment products and services, somehow they’ve managed to convince themselves their parents had it b
A. US is a country with racial repression but without corporate oligarchy
B. US is a country with corporate oligarchy and environmental decay
C. different positions are varying frequently
D. different Standpoints are constantly found
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The earliest immigrants to North America found Indians already living there. The Indians numbered about 500,000 at that time. Their society was a primitive society, but they lived peacefully and welcomed the white strangers to the land. However, these early immigrants from Europe didn’t want to share the land with the natives. They killed off many of the Indians, seized their land or pushed them off to lands farther away. Today the Indians, not more than half a million, live in poverty and misery on the land on which they were once masters.
The earliest immigrants were the Spanish, who settled in the southern part of what is now the US. The next large group were the English, after the English came the French, Dutch, Irish, Germans, and other nationality groups, mostly European.
Another early group to arrive were the Negroes. But they were brought in as slaves from Africa. They didn’t win freedom till generations later.
Who were the earliest people
A. The Spanish.
B. The English.
C. The Negroes.
D. The Indians.
[单项选择] Reaching new peaks of popularity in North America is Iceberg Water which is harvested from icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Arthur von Wiesenberger, who carries the title Water Master, is one of the few water critics in North America. As a boy, he spent time in the larger cities of Italy, France and Switzerland where bottled water is consumed daily. Even then, he kept a water journal, noting the brands he liked best. "My dog could tell the difference between bottled and tap water," he says.
But is plain tap water all that bad Not at all. In fact, New York’’s municipal water for more than a century was called the champagne of tap water and until recently considered among the best in the world in terms of both taste and purity. Similarly, a magazine in England found that tap water from the Thames River tasted better than several leading brands of bottled water that were 400 times more expensive.
Nevertheless, soft-drink companies view bottled water as
A. It is a kind of iced water.
B. It is just plain tap water.
C. It is a kind of bottled water.
D. It is a kind of mineral water.
[填空题]The ordinary family in colonial North America was primarily
concerned with sheer physical survival and beyond that, its own
economic prosperity. Thus, Children were valued in the terms of their (1) ______
productivity, and they assumed the role of producer quite early.
Until they fulfilled this role, his position in the structure of the family (2) ______
was one of subordination, and their psychological needs and capacities
received much consideration. (3) ______
As the society became more complex, the status or children in
the family and in the society become more obvious, each member (4) ______
must fulfill a number of personal and occupational role and be in (5) ______
constant contact with a great many other members. Consequently,
viewing children potentially acceptable and necessarily multifaceted (6) ______
