-
In the United States,educational policies are determined by（）
A、the federal government
B、the state and board of trustees in some states
C、local school district
D、board of trustees
-
There are approximately 500 （） now in operation in the United States.
A . savings banks
B . saving bank
C . saving banks
D . savings bank
-
More than（）of the population in the United States lived in city areas in 1988.
A . 60%
B . 75%
C . 90%
D . 50%
-
John Preston was tired（）living in east London, in which he had moved after his wife's death.
A . to
B . of
C . at
D . for
-
Automobile production in the United States _____.
-
Carol lives in Sydney sells a bed to Bao living in Singapore.
-
In Wales legend, Arthur was ( ) for sure. He lived in Wales landscape and lived in Welsh heart.
-
on / in 1.I live in a house First Street. 2.I live in a dormitory Alpine City. 3.I live in an apartment Parker Avenue.
-
I have been living in the United States for twenty years, but seldom _______ so lonely as now.
-
John Eyre never actually appears in person in Jane Eyre.
-
England and Scotland were constitutionally united in ( ).
-
Tom: I see in the paper they're sending more equipment to space. And we might have to live there someday.John: ______! I'm staying right here!A.Never I B.Not meC.No me D.None me
-
______ in the United States
A．Three out of every four automobile owners ... also own a bicycle
B．Out of every four, three automobile owners ... also owns a bicycle
C．Three out of every four automobile owners ... owns bicycles
D．Out of every four owners of automobiles ... bicycles are also owned by three
-
Tom: I see in the paper they're sending more equipment to space. And we might have to live there someday. John: ______! I'm staying right here !
A．Never I
B．Not me
C．No me
D．None me
-
In the United States, the Senate is presided over by______of the United States.
A．the president
B．the vice president
C．the speaker
D．the Secretary of State
-
请问：Paul lives in Room 201.I live in Room 201 ,too.（合成一句）
Paul and I live in the __ room.
-
For the accompanying router output, which of the following statements describes the stat e that neighbor 172.16.254.3 is in？（）
<img src='https://img2.soutiyun.com/ask/uploadfile/2019-03-27/f351f1438b0c6df8e8212fcfa15dc333.jpg' />
A. The router will not accept connections from the peer.
B. BGP can exchange routing information in this state.
C. The router is listening on its server port for connection requests from the peer.
D. The router ha s sent out an active TCP connection request to the peer.
-
The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage 【B1】______ in the United States--about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people--is 【B2】______ higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is 【B3】______ as widespread as it was several decades ago. 【B4】______ of American adults who are married 【B5】______ from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried 【B6】______ their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some 【B7】______ in their lives. Experts 【B8】______ that about the same proportion of today's young adults will eventually marry.
The timing of marriage has varied 【B9】______ over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s. 【B10】______ , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous 【B11】______ in U.S. history. Today's later age of marriage is 【B12】______ the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a greater proportion of the population was married (95 percent) during the 1950s than at any time before 【B13】______ . Experts do not agree on why the "marriage rush" of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a 【B14】______ to the return of peaceful and prosperity after 15 years of severe economic 【B15】______ and war.
【B1】______
A．rate
B．ratio
C．percentage
D．poll
-
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
-
According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week included a startling discovery: the nation's Jewish population is in shrinking. The study, the National Jewish Population Survey, found 5.2 million Jews living in the United States in 2000, a drop of 5 percent, or 300,000 people, since a similar study in 1990. What's truly startling is that the reported decline is not tree. Worse still, the sponsor of the $6 million study, United Jewish Communities, knows it.
Both it and the authors have openly admitted their doubts. They have acknowledged in interviews that the population totals for 2000 and 1990 were reached by different methods and are not directly comparable. The survey itself also cautions readers, in a dauntingly technical appendix, that judgment calls by the researchers may have led to an undercount. When the research director and project director were asked whether the data should be construed to indicate a declining Jewish population, they flatly answered no. In addition, other survey researchers interviewed pointed to other studies with population estimates as high as 6.7 million.
Despite all this, the two figures --5.2 million now, 5.5 million then --are listed by side in the survey, leaving the impression that the population has shrunk. The result, predictably, has been a rash of headlines trumpeting the illusionary decline, in turn touching off jeremiads by rabbis and moralists condemning the religious laxity behind it. Whether out of ideology, ego, incompetence or a combination of all three, the respected charity has invented a crisis.
United Jewish Communities is the coordinating body for a national network of Jewish philanthropies with combined budgets of $2 billion. Its population surveys carry huge weight in shaping community policy. This is not the first time the survey has set off a false alarm. The last one, conducted by a predecessor organization, found that 52 percent of American Jews who married between 1985 and 1990 did so outside the faith. That number was a fabrication produced by including marriages in which neither party was Jewish by anyone's definition, including the researchers.
Its publication created a huge stir, inspiring anguished sermons, books and conferences. It put liberals on the defensive, emboldened conservatives who reject full integration into society and alienated ordinary folks by the increasingly xenophobic tone of Jewish communal culture. The new survey, to its credit, retracts that figure and offers the latest survey has spawned a panic created by the last one.
So why did the organization flawed figures once again？ Some scholars who have studied the. survey believe the motivation then came partly out of a desire to shock straying Jews into greater observance. It' s too early to tell if that' s the case this time around. What is clear is the researchers did their job with little regard to how their data could be misconstrued. They used statistical models and question formats that, while internally sound, made the new survey incompatible with the previous one. For example, this time the researchers divided the population of 5.2 million into two groups--"highly involved" Jews and "people of Jewish background"- and posed most questions only to the first group. As a result, most findings about belief and observance refer only to a subgroup of American Jews, making comparisons to the past impossible.
We can' t afford to wait a decade before these figures are revised. The false population decline must be corrected before it further sours communal discourse. The United Jewish Communities owes it to itself and its public to step forward and state plainly what it knows to be true: American Jews are not disappearing.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about the National Jewish Population Survey？
A．It found a decline of 300,000 Jews in ten years.
B．It was carded out by United Jewish Communities.
C．This is the first time United Jewish Communities has made mistakes in the population survey.
D．The reported decline is not reliable.
-
听力原文： A new study says millions of the world' s children continue to live in poverty, disease and despair. VOA's correspondent Bmeck Ardery reports on the annual report from UNICEF, the United Nations Children' s Fund.
The report acknowledges great progress has been made in the eradication of certain childhood diseases such as polio and measles. However, it emphasizes that for millions of the world' s children, armed conflicts, disease and forced labor continue to take a heavy toll. Susan Surandon, the American film actress who is recently appointed UNICEF special representative, told reporters that 3 main factors are endangering the lives and futures of the world' s children. "Poverty is killing our children; HIV is killing our children, disproportionately in sub-Saharan Africa; armed conflict is killing our children. And when I say killing, I mean their bodies and their souls their futures, our futures." Ms. Surandon cited statistics which show that in the last decade 2 million children died in wars, 6 million were disabled as the result of armed conflicts, and 14 million have been orphaned by the disease AIDS. A special focus in this year' s UNICEF report is on the rights of adolescents. No longer children in the traditional sense, the report says adolescents still need positive support and guidance and the opportunity to finish school. Breck Ardery, VOA News, at the United Nations.
According to the UNICEF report, great progress has been made in the protection of world' s children from______.
A．some childhood diseases
B．AIDS
C．wars
D．forced labor
-
英译汉：He has a foreign friend who lives in the United States.
-
John Preston lives in a flat in north London. He moved there after his wife died four years ago to be close to his daughter’s family, and because his big detached house and garden were too much work for him as he got older. It’s easier in the flat because the letting agent does everything that needs doing. The agent has the not satisfied because the window frames need painted two years ago, but the painters didn’t do it very well, so they need doing again. John pays over ￡1,500 a year for service and maintenance, and he thinks that it’s not good enough because the flats look shabby and a lot of things need repairing.
His daughter June, and her husband, Pete, on the other hand, have to do everything themselves or find builders to do it. They live in a large semi-detached house further out from the center of London than John, but they are still near enough to see him often. They live in the suburbs with a nice garden when their children play. They moved there four years ago to have more space. The only drawback is that June’s husband has to commute into the centre of London every day, but, overall, they are happy with their decision. When they bought the house, a lot needed doing to it and still does. June says, “We have a list of things to do as long as your arm-the roof needs repairing and the chimney needs mending. The bedrooms need decorating and we haven’t had the broken windowpanes replaced yet in the conservatory. We need to fix the gate and repair the path-it looks dreadful when you arrive.
31. John lives in the centre of London.（）
32. The agent hasn’t done anything to John’s flat.（）
33. June and Pete live near to John.（）
34. There are broken windowpanes in conservatory.（）
35. The front of the house is in a good state (处于较好的状态)。（）
-
Unemployment rates are usually higher in Europe than in the United States because:
A．theminimumwageishigherintheUnitedStatesthaninEurope
B．U．S．economicpolicyismuchmoreeffectivethanEuropeaneconomicpolicy．
C．therearemoreunskilled,uneducatedworkersinEuropethanintheUnitedStates．
D．unemploymentbenefitsaremoregenerousinEuropethanintheUnitedStates．
