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It is conventional in China and some Asian countries to eat _____ as a birthday ritual.
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You’re in a restaurant and a thin soup is served in a cup with no handles. To eat it you should: (单选5 分) (5.0分)
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Where are the people?a In a kitchen.b In a store.c At a restaurant.2. What are they doing?a Having lunch.b Eating dessert.c Cooking3. Who is the woman standing up?a A customer.b A waitress.c A cook.
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Americans expect to gain and lose friendships naturally as their life changes. For example, they may have a group of close friends in high school that will change once they reach university.
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Americans are obsessed with eating organic because they’ve been drilled to believe that is what’s \good\ for them.
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Chinese American literature deals with many topics and themes . A common topic is the challenges, both inner and outer, of assimilation in mainstream, white American society by Chinese Americans.
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They are conducting a survey on eating _____ in China and will give some advice on healthy dieting at the end of this year.
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Americans live in a low contact society.
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2. In America, a person’s success is based on how much money he makes. And Americans are not afraid of showing their confidence.
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Americans eat ________vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.
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Americans eat ________ as they actually need every day; they actually waste almost half of what they take in daily.
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Whether you live to eat or eat to live, food is a major ______ in every family&39;s budget.
A. nutrition B. expenditure
C. routine D. provision
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听力原文:Americans often say that there are only two things a person can be sure of in life: death and taxes.
What does the speaker mean?
A.Americans are worried about only two things.
B.Americans are worried more about death than about taxes.
C.Americans are as worried about death as about taxes.
D.Americans are as sure of taxes as of death.
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The boy had a violent pain in his stomach after eating too much ice-cream.
A.outrageous
B.fatal
C.fierce
D.frequent
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In the United States, Veterans Day is a holiday established to honor Americans who had served in World War I. It falls on______.
A.September 9th
B.September 11th
C.November 9 th
D.November 11th
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A foreigner’s first impression of the U.S.is likely to be that everyone is in a rush-often under pre...<br/>The statement that Americans are impolite to their business colleagues is wrong.
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Trying to get Americans to eat a healthy diet is a frustrating business. Even the best-designed public-health campaigns cannot seem to compete with the tempting flavors of the snack-food and fast-food industries and their fat-and sugar-laden products. The results are apparent on a walk down any American street—more than 60% of Americans are overweight, and a full quarter of them are overweight to the point of obesity.
Now, health advocates say, an ill-conceived redesign-has taken one of the more successful public-health campaigns—the Food Guide Pyramid—and rendered it confusing to the point of uselessness. Some of these critics worry that America's Department of Agriculture caved to pressure from parts of the food industry anxious to protect theft products.
The Food Guide Pyramid was a graphic which emphasizes that a healthy diet is built on a base of gains, vegetables and fruits, followed by ever-decreasing amounts of dairy products, meat, sweets and oils. The agriculture department launched the pyramid in 1992 to replace its previous program, which was centered on the idea of four basic food groups. The "Basic Four" campaign showed a plate divided into quarters, and seemed to imply that meat and dairy products should make up haft of a healthy diet, with grains, fruits and vegetables making up the other half. It was replaced only over the strenuous objections of the meat and dairy industries.
The old pyramid was undoubtedly imperfect. It failed to distinguish between a doughnut and a whole-grain roll, or a hamburger and a skinless chicken breast, and it did not make clear exactly how much of each foodstuff to eat. It did, however, manage to convey the basic idea of proper proportions in an easily understandable way. The new pyramid, called "My Pyramid", abandons the effort to provide this information. Instead, it has been simplified to a mere logo. The food groups are replaced with unlabelled, multi-colored vertical stripes which, in some versions, rise out of a cartoon jumble of foods that look like the aftermath of a riot at a grocery store. Anyone who wants to see how this translates into a healthy diet is invited to go to a website, put in their age, sex and activity level, and get a custom-designed pyramid, complete with healthy food choices and suggested portion sizes. This is free for those who are motivated, but might prove too much effort for those who most need such information.
Admittedly, the designers of the new pyramid had a tough job to do. They were supposed to condense the advice in the 84-page United States' Dietary Guidelines into a simple, meaningful graphic suitable for printing on the back of a cereal box. And they had to do this in the face of pressure from dozens of special interest groups—from the country's Potato Board, which thought potatoes would look nice in the picture, to the Almond Board of California, which felt the same way about almonds. Even the National Watermelon Promotion Board and the California Avocado Commission were eager to see their products recognized.
Nevertheless, many health advocates believe the new graphic is a missed opportunity. Although officials insist industry pressure had nothing to do with the eventual design, some critics suspect that political influence was at work. On the other hand, it is not clear how much good even the best graphic could do. Surveys found that 80% of Americans recognized the old Food Guide Pyramid—a big success in the world of public-health campaigns. Yet only 16% followed its advice.
Trying to get Americans to eat a healthy diet is a frustrating business can be easily proved by the fact that
A.public-health campaigns cannot compete with tempting flavors.
B.snack-food and fast-food industries are flourishing in the US.
C.most food in America are profoundly rich in fat and sugar.
D.fat people account for a large proportion of American population.
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Human beings are animals. We breathe, eat and digest, and reproduce the same life【B1】common to all animals. In a biological laboratory, rats, monkeys, and humans seem very much the same.
However, biological understanding is not enough:【B2】itself, it can never tell us what human beings are.【B3】to our physical equipment—the naked human body—we are not an【B4】animal. We are tropical creatures,【B5】hairless and sensitive to cold. We are not fast and have neither claws nor sharp teeth to defend ourselves. We need a lot of food but have almost no physical equipment to help us get it. In the purely physical【B6】, our species seems a poor【B7】for survival.
But we have survived—survived and multiplied and【B8】the earth. Some day we will have a【B9】living on the moon, a place with neither air nor water and with temperatures that turn gases into solids. How can we have done all these things? Part of the answer is physical.【B10】its limitations, our physical equipment has some important potentials.
Inhabitants of our eventual moon colony will bring their own food and oxygen and then create an artificial earth environment to supply necessities.
【B1】
A.processes
B.acts
C.modes
D.procedures
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Work is a very important part of life in the United States. Americans spend most of their lives working. For most Americans, their work defines them. They are what they do. What happensd, then, when a person can no longer work?
Most Americans stop working at the age of sixty-five or seventy and retire. Because work is such an important part of life in American culture, retirement can be very difficult for Americans. Retirees often feel that they are useless and unproductive. Of course, some people are happy to retire, but leaving one's job, whatever it is, is a difficult change, even for those who look forward to retiring. Retirement can also bring financial problems. Many people depend on Social Security checks every month. During their working years, employees contribute a certain percentage of their salaries to the government. Each employer also gives a certain percentage to the government. When people retire, they receive this money as income. Sometimes these checks do not provide enough money to live on, because prices are prone to increasing, a process known as "inflation". Senior citizens, those over sixty-five, typically have to have savings in the bank or other retirement plans to make ends meet. In addition, many senior citizens have to change their lifestyles after retirement. They have to spend carefully to be sure that they can afford to buy food, fuel and other necessities(必需品).
Of course, many senior citizens are happy with their retirement. They have time to spend with their families or to enjoy their hobbies. Some continue to work part-time, others do volunteer work. Some, like those in the Retired Business Executives Association, even help young people to start new businesses. Many retired citizens also belong to "Golden Age" groups. These organizations plan trips and social events. There are many other opportunities for retirees.
Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?
A.Golden Age Groups
B.The American Opinion of Work
C.The Importance of Work in America
D.The Problems of Retirement in America
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1 In 1959 Americans welcomed Alaska into the Union as the 49th state, symbolizing a change of attitude from that held in 1867, when the peninsula was purchased from Russia. Then, most Americans had little interest in 1,500,000 square kilometers "of icebergs and polar bears" - beyond Canada's western borders, far from the settled areas of the United States.
2 In those sections of the state which lie above the Arctic Circle, Alaska still is a land of icebergs and polar bears. Ice masses lie buried in the earth, which is permanently frozen to a depth of 90 or more meters. From early May until early August, the midnight sun never sets on this flat, treeless region, but the sun cannot melt the icy soil more than two - thirds of a meter down.
3 Alaska is America's largest state, but only about 325,000 people live there. According to estimates, 800,000 hectares of its land area are fit for plowing but only about 640,000 hectares are being cultivated.
4 Arctic Alaska has been the home of Eskimos for countless centuries. It is believed that the Eskimos moved there from Mongolia or Siberia, probably crossing Bering Strait, named for Vitus Bering, the Danish sea captain who discovered Alaska on his voyage for Russia in 1741. The Eskimos are the state's earliest known inhabitants5. Russian fur traders established settlements but, by the time Alaska was sold to the United States, most of the traders had departed.
5 In 1896 gold was discovered near the Klondike River in Canada just across the Alaskan border. Thousands of Americans rushed to the region on their way to Klondike; some never returned. Alaska was never completely cut off again, although even today transportation is a major problem. There are only two motor routes from the US mainland, and within the state, every town has its own airfield. Planes fly passengers, mail and freight to the most distant villages.
6 The gold that changed life so suddenly for Alaska was soon ended, and although many stories about mining camps have become part of American literature, the gold from Alaskan earth contributed less to economic progress than the fish from Alaskan waters. The fish caught in a single year range in value from $80 million to $90 million. Fur-bearing animals are plentiful in the forests and streams, and valuable fur seals inhabit the waters. After fishing, the state's chief industry is lumber and the production of wood pulp. In recent years, Alaska's single most important resource has become oil. The state also has large deposits of coal, copper, gold and other minerals.
A Rich Resources of the State
B Connections with the Outside World
C Transportation Problem
D The Natives of the Land
E Cold Climate
F Land and Population
Paragraph 3 ______
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I am hungry, I want to eat in a __________.
A.post office
B.restaurant
C.bank
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After the Civil War, African-Americans in the South lived in a social system where ma
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The hungry headache, caused by a drop in the blood-sugar (), can be a real problem for people not eating enough at mealtimes.
A、damage
B、bank
C、supply
D、contribution
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We couldn’t eat in a restaurant because_____of us had any money on us.
A.all
B.none
C.any