Which country did most for the spread of English worldwide？A.Canada.B.The USA.C.Australi

st. In medieval and Renaissance painting you see pintsized men and women, wearing grown-up clothes and grown-up expressions, performing grown-up tasks. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.

Children today not only exist; they have taken over, in no place more than in America, and at no time more than now. It is always Kids' Country here. Our civilization is child-centered, child-obsessed. A kid's body is our physical ideal. In Kids' Country we do not permit middle-age. Thirty is promoted over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to be overtaken will come.

We are the first society in which parents expect to learn from their children. Such a topsy-turvy (颠倒) situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, ours is an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids. In the Old Country, that is, Europe, hope was in the father, and how much wealth he could accumulate and pass along to his children. In the growth pattern of America and its everexpanding frontier, the young man was ever advised to GO WEST; the father was ever inheriting from his son. Kids' Country may be the inevitable result.

Kids' Country is not all bad. America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kids' Country. We not only wear kids' clothes and eat kids' food; we dream Kids' dreams and make them come true. It was, after all, a boy's game to go to the moon.

If in the old days children did not exist, it seems equally true today that adults, as a class, have begun to disappear, condemning all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups (俯卧撑) against eternity.

The author uses the example of the Renaissance painting to show that ______.

A．adults showed less concern for children than we do now

B．adults were smaller and thinner at that time; but they still had a lot of work to do

C．children looked and acted like adults at that time

D．children were not permitted to appear in family paintings at that time

s tip was seventeenth-century underworld slang for “give” ———as in “Tip me your money or your life. ” Opponents of tipping will probably prefer this explanation, since it suggests the practice as originally a form. of robbery. A less reputable, but nonetheless charming explanation is that in Renaissance(文艺复兴) coffeehouses, boxes were set near the door, into which customers could drop money: These boxes, according to the story, bore the legend “To Insure Promptitude, ” which was ultimately shortened to TIP. Whether it was a serving woman or a boss with his or her eye on depressing wages who first thought up the idea, the story does not say.

Tipping became common in England by the middle of the eighteenth century. Because it is ill-suited to a country without an established servant class, it did not catch on in America until after the Civil War, when former slaveholders suddenly found themselves having to pay the help and when new-rich industrialists adopted the European fashion. By the turn of the century, we had made the custom our own, and the American “big tipper ” was on his way.

Today, although the lines between bribery(贿赂) and thanks for services remain as vague as ever, tipping has become universal, not least because, in an increasingly uncertain economy, it provides the growing service class with income that is at least as reliable as wages and that is less subject to tax review.

Not surprisingly, government officials as among the few die-hards who still question the tipping system. They have a point too. Tippers ’ International Association estimates that U.S. workers get about $5 billion a year in tips.

In the seventeenth century, tip was probably a word used by_____.

A.lawbreakers

B.customers

C.waitresses

D.coffeehouse bosses

Tipping did not become popular in U.S. until after the Civil War because______.A.the country was free of a servant class

B.former slaveholders did not want to pay the help

C.northern industrialists refused to adopt the European fashion

D.tipping was contradictory to the American custom

Tipping is universally accepted mainly because_______.A.it is an easy way to make money

B.it ensures people a good and prompt service

C.it enables the service class to be free from taxes

D.it supplies the service class with a sort of reliable income

Which of the following words can best describe the government officials ’ attitudes towards the tipping system？A.Positive.

B.Negative.

C.Doubtful.

D.Indifferent.

The passage is about_______.A.the origin of tipping

B.the practice of tipping in U.S

C.the popularity of tipping

D.the shaping of the tipping system

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

o us with the birth 【C2】______ , but no one seems quite sure 【C3】______ way it ran.

【C4】______ , we Americans seem to be 【C5】______ to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have 【C6】______ it to Heaven when we 【C7】______ enough.

And at the same time the 【C8】______ of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately 【C9】______ .

Advertising is one of our major 【C10】______ , and advertising exists not to 【C11】______ desires but to create them--and to create them faster than any man's 【C12】______ can satisfy them. We are taught that to 【C13】______ is to be happy, and then we are 【C14】______ to want. We are even told it is our 【C15】______ to want. It was only a few years ago, to 【C16】______ a single example, that car dealers across the country were flying banners that 【C17】______ "You Auto Buy Now". They were calling 【C18】______ Americans, as an act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, 【C19】______ money they did not have, automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time the next year's 【C20】______ were released.

【C1】

A．pursue

B．persist

C．preserve

D．prevail

听力原文： To find out how the name Canada came about we must go back to the 16th century. At that time the French dreamed of discovering and controlling more land, of expanding trade beyond their borders and of spreading their faith across the world. In 1535, Francois I, King of France, ordered a navigator named Jacques Cartier to explore the New World and search for a passage to India.

Cartier first arrived at the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, which he wanted to explore. He did not know what to expect but he hoped that this Gulf was just an arm of the ocean between two islands, if it was, be would soon be on his way to the Far East. So he sailed upstream along the St. Lawrence River. However, instead of reaching Asia he arrived at Quebec or Stadacona, as the Indians called it. It was at this point that the term "Canada" entered the country's history. Apparently the word "Canada" came from an Indian word Kanata, which means community or village. Cartier first used it when he referred to Stadacona or Quebec. What a huge village Canada is!

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A．To build a new country.

B．To explore the New World.

C．To get in touch with the American Indians.

D．To know more about France.

s were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in either country, delighting a large general public and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Thoreau in the United States. The respect in which he was held was partly owing to the man himself with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his politeness, his gray spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the old World and the New. Thackeray described Irving as a "gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refined Europeans". In England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford—an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation—and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature; America made him ambassador to Spain. Irving's background provides little to explain his literary achievements. A gifted but delicate child, he had little Schooling. He studied law, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously. He was immune to his strict Presbyterian home environment, frequenting both social gatherings and the theater.

The main point of the first paragraph is that Washington Irving was______.

A．the world's first man of letters

B．a writer who had great success both in his own country and outside

C．a man who was able to move from America to England

D．a man whose personal achievements made him able to sell works

Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier(边境) to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every evening except at weekends, he would see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier,【C1】______a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle【C2】______the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and【C3】______him take the straw off and untie it. Then he would examine the straw carefully to see【C4】______he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man's pockets【C5】______he let him tie the straw again. He never found【C6】______ ,even though he examined it very carefully, Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker's pockets【C7】______usual, he said to him," Listen, I know that you are smuggling things【C8】______this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you're bringing into the country so successfully？ I'm an old man, and today's my last day on the job. Tomorrow I'm going to【C9】______. I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me what you've been smuggling. "The worker did not say anything for【C10】______. Then he smiled turned to Henry and said quietly," Bicycles."

【C1】

A．pushing

B．pulling

C．filling

D．carrying

A.Listenin

B.Readin

C.Speakin

D.Writin

who had obtained his transportation at that unusual hour by promising an extra fare. While the youth stood on the landing-place searching in his pocket for money，the ferryman lifted a lantern，by the aid of which，together with the newly risen moon，he took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure. He was a young man of barely eighteen years，evidently country bred，and now，as it seemed，on his first visit to town. He was wearing a tough gray coat，which was in good shape，but which had seen many winters before this. The garments under his coat were well constructed of leather，and fitted tightly to a pair of muscular legs;his stockings of blue yarn must have been the work of a mother or sister，and on his head was a three-cornered hat，which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the grayer head of the lad's father. In his left hand was a walking stick，and his equipment was completed by a leather bag not so abundantly stocked as to inconvenience the strong shoulders on which it hung. Brown，curly hair，well-shaped features，bright，cheerful eyes were nature's gifts，and worth all that art could have done for his adornment. The youth，whose name was Robin，paid the boatman，and then walked forward into the town with a light step，as if he had not already traveled more than thirty miles that day. As he walked，he surveyed his surroundings as eagerly as if he were entering London or Madrid，instead of the little metropolis of a New England colony.

66.The story took place in ____.

A. spring

B. summer

C. fall

D. winter

67. The boatman was willing to take Robin across the river because___.

A. he wanted to make extra money

B. he saw that Robin was young and rich

C. he was going to row across the river anyway

D. he felt sorry for him because Robin looked poor

68. The stockings that Robin wore were obviously _____.

A. worn-out

B. very expensive

C. handmade

D. much too big

69. From the way he looked，it was evident that Robin was ____.

A. a wealthy merchant's son

B. a country boy

C. a soldier

D. a foreigner

70.How did Robin appear as he walked into the town？

A. He was cheerful and excited.

B. He was tired.

C. He seemed very sad.

D. He seemed frightened by the strange surroundings

Most people say that the USA is making progress in fighting

AIDS, but they don't know there's cure and strongly disagree that 【S1】______.

"the AIDS epidemic is over, " a new survey finds:

The findings, relieved Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foun- 【S2】______.

dation, reassure activists who have worried that public concern

about AIDS might disappear in night to recent news about ad- 【S3】______.

vances in treatment and declines in deaths.

"While people are very pessimistic about the advances, 【S4】______.

they're still realistic about the fact that there is no cure, "

says Sophia Chang, director of HIV programs at the founda-

tion.

The Kaiser Family Foundation did find in its survey that 【S5】______.

the number of people ranked AIDS as the country's top health 【S6】______.

problem has fallen.

In the poll, 38% says it's the top concern, down from 【S7】______.

44% in a 1996 poll. Other findings from Kaiser, which poll 【S8】______.

more than 1, 200 adults in September and October and asked

additional question of another 1, 000 adults in November 【S9】______.

show that 52% say that the country is making progress

against AIDS, up from 32 % in 1995. Daniel Zingale, director

of AIDS Action Council, says, " I'm encouraged that the Amer-

ican people are getting the message what the AIDS epidemic 【S10】______.

isn't over. I hope the decision-makers in Washington are get-

ting the same message. We have seen signs of complacency (满足)."

【S1】