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We would like to take this（）to establish business relations with you.
A、opening
B、opportunity
C、step
D、advantage
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In _____ with America, both China and America will have the potential to become the solution rather than the problem.
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From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be _____.
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We provide services like legal help, social support, guidance and advice — we deal with thousands of enquiries a year.
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The United States is situated in the central part of North America with its two youngest states – Alaska and Hawaii.
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We don’t like to think of __________ in that way.
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Can you identify the logical fallacy in this claim? “we shouldn’t allow a liar like Zhao Zhi to represent us in this competition.
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We were thinking of surprising Helen with a birthday present, but Peter the beans by asking her what she would like.
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In most cases, we don’t need birth certificate when we deal with business travel.
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4. We like to make friends with Shelly because she has such ____ as loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.
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听力原文：We intend to send Yuki to America so that she can perfect her English which was learned in Japan.
(29)
A．Yuki can't speak English, so she needs to go to America.
B．Yuki speaks English better than most Japanese do.
C．Yuki will improve her English in America.
D．Yuki will learn English in America instead of Japan.
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Like Irving, Cooper was warmly welcomed and regarded as a national hero when he returned to America after a long stay in Europe.
A:正确;
B:错误
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Some families in America and elsewhere have started buying child friendly mobile phones outfitted with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology.
These phones and their related tracking services allow parents to pinpoint the location of their children with ease. Parents agree to pick up the phone bill in return for the reassurance of knowing where their children are; children are prepared to put up with the watching if they are allowed to have a phone.
Mobile operators in America are now launching tracking services. Under a federal decree known as E911, they had to upgrade their networks to ensure that anyone dialing the 911 emergency number could be located to within 100 metres. Some operators opted for triangulation technology, which determines the location of the handset by comparing the signals received by different base stations. But Verizon and Sprint chose to adopt the more expensive but more accurate GPS technology instead, and are now looking for ways to make money from it.
Verizon calls its service "Chaperone". For $10 a month, parents can call up the location of their child's LG Migo handset from their own mobile phones, or from a PC. The child receives a message saying that the handset's position has been requested, and the parents receive an ad dress, or a marker on a web-based map, giving the child's location. For an extra $10 per month, they can sign up for Child Zone, a service that, among other things, fires off an alert when a youngster (or, at least, the youngster's handset) strays outside a specified area.
For its part, Sprint has launched a similar service that can also let parents know when a child arrives at a particular location.
Another location service is available from Nextel, a mobile operator that was taken over by Sprint in 2005. Nextel opened up some of its systems to enable other firms to build their own software and services on top of its GPS technology. One example is AccuTracking, a small company which offers a tracking service for $6 a month and boasts that it is "ideal for vehicle tracking" or to keep "virtual eyes on kids". Some customers are also using the service to track their spouses, by hiding phones in their cars. "Mine is hidden under the hood, hot-wired to the battery—it works very well and it is easy to hook up continuous power, "writes one customer on AccuTracking's message board.
Start-ups are working on everything from city-wide games of hide-and-seek to monitoring the locations of Alzheimer's patients. Services that monitor jogging routes, and work out distance travelled and calories consumed, might also prove popular.
As a result, mobile operators, handset-makers and start-ups could transform. and expand a small, specialist market so far dominated by expensive, dedicated tracking systems.
The tracking function of the mobile networks was probably first intended for ______.
A．federal officials
B．national security
C．parent consumers
D．emergency rescue
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I like cakes with nothing in ______ .
A．it
B．its
C．them
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Which of the following shows the proper pronunciation of "whose" in the sentence "‘In America， Li stayed in a family whose landlady could help him with his English"？
A./hus/
B./huz/
C./hu:s/
D./hu:z/
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As we are on the point of some important business with them,we should like to know exactly about their credit____.
A．transmitting
B．transferring
C．transacting
D．transporting
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Music comes in many forms; most countries have style. of their own【B1】the turn of the century when jazz was born, America had no prominent【B2】of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was【B3】, or by whom. But it began to be【B4】in the early 1900s. Jazz is America's contribution to【B5】music. In contrast to classic music, which【B6】formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous and free-form. It bubbles with energy, 【B7】the moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s jazz【B8】like America. And【B9】it does today.
The【B10】of this music are as interesting as the music【B11】. American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz【B12】. They were brought to the Southern states【B13】slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long【B14】. When a Negro died his friends and relatives【B15】a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the【B16】. On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion.
【B17】on the way home the mood changed. Spirit lifted. Death had removed one of their【B18】, but the living were glad to be alive. The band played【B19】music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes【B20】at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form. of jazz.
【B1】
A．At
B．In
C．By
D．On
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听力原文：M: Do you have any double rooms with a view of the harbor available？ We'd like to check in this afternoon.
W: I'm pretty sure we have one left, but it's only available for tonight.
Q: What is the man trying to do？
(18)
A．Tour the harbor.
B．Find accommodations.
C．Check out of a hotel.
D．Pay a bill.
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An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you’re more beautiful than you are. We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to research into what the call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others—all obviously statistical impossibilities.
We rose tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations. We become defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem, we stalk around thinking we’re hot stuff.
Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key studying into self-enhancement and attractiveness. Rather that have people simply rate their beauty compress with others, he asked them to identify an original photogragh of themselves’ from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive. Visual recognition, reads the study, is “an automatic psychological process occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation”. If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image- which must did- they genuinely believed it was really how they looked. Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there any evidence that, those who self-enhance the must (that is, the participants who thought the most positively doctored picture were real) were doing so to make up for profound insecurities. In fact those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other makers for having higher self-esteem. “I don’t think the findings that we having have are any evidence of personal delusion”, says Epley. “It’s a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves’. If you are depressed, you won’t be self-enhancing. Knowing the results of Epley ‘s study,it makes sense that why people heat photographs of themselves Viscerally-on one level, they don’t even recognise the person in the picture as themselves, Facebook therefore ,is a self-enhancer’s paradise,where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit ,style. ,beauty, intellect and lifestyle. it’s not that people’s profiles are dishonest,says catalina toma of Wiscon—Madison university ,”but they portray an idealized version of themselves.
According to the first paragraph, social psychologist have found that ______ .
A.our self-ratings are unrealistically high
B.illusory superiority is baseless effect
C.our need for leadership is unnatural
D.self-enhancing strategies are ineffective
Visual recognition is believed to be people’s______ .A.rapid watching
B.conscious choice
C.intuitive response
D.automatic self-defence
Epley found that people with higher self-esteem tended to______ .A.underestimate their insecurities
B.believe in their attractiveness
C.cover up their depressions
D.oversimplify their illusions
The word “Viscerally”(Line 2,para.5) is closest in meaning to_____.A.instinctively
B.occasionally
C.particularly
D.aggressively
It can be inferred that Facebook is self-enhancer’s paradise because people can _____.A.present their dishonest profiles
B.define their traditional life styles
C.share their intellectual pursuits
D.withhold their unflattering sides
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！
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Breakfast is the first 11 of the day. We have juice, toast with butter, eggs, and milk. We can also have cereal. We eat lunch 12 Some people like to eat hamburgers and French fries. Others like tuna fish or egg salad sandwiches. Many 13 give children peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. In the United States dinner is usually the biggest meal of the day. We usually eat dinner at 6:00 in the evening. A large dinner may be 14 soup, salad, meat or fish, vegetables, potatoes and dessert, and coffee, tea, or milk. It is important to eat three good meals a day. That way we can be 15 . 请在_____11______处填上答案
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There is an old saying, "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks". In four historic years, America has been given great tasks and faced them with strength and courage. Our people have restored the vigor of this economy and shown resolve and patience in a new kind of war. Our military has brought justice to the enemy and honor to America. Our nation has defended itself and served the freedom of all mankind. I'm proud to lead such an amazing country, and I'm proud to lead it forward. Because we have done the hard work, we are entering a season of hope. We will continue our economic progress. We'll reform. our outdated tax code. We'll strengthen the Social Security for the next generation. We'll make public schools ail they can be. And we will uphold our deepest values of family and faith.
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听力原文：America’s universities are the envy of the world with 60% of all U.S. high school听力原文：America’s universities are the envy of the world with 60% of all U.S. high school graduates attending college, while in Germany, it’s 30% in France, 28% and in Britain, only 20%. （）
A．Thirty percent of the German population can receive college education．
B．American students enjoy a very high rate of admission to college in the worlD
C．Comparatively speaking, there are more British people than the French attending collE
D．American college students are envied by 60% of high school graduates around the worl
D．
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About 400 years ago, the Puritans came to America on the Mayflower and brought with them their___, which has greatly influenced the thoughts of people in America（）
A．literature and art
B．philosophy and social science
C．advanced technology
D．religions, values and beliefs
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To begin with, moral values in America are like those in any culture. But the stories and traditions that teach them are unique to each culture. Not only that, but culture has an effect on how people show these virtues.
One of the most basic moral values for Americans is honesty. The wall-known legend about George Washington and a cherry tree teaches this value clearly.
Another virtue Americans respect is perseverance. Remember Aesop’s fable about the turtle and the rabbit that had a race The rabbit thought he could win easily, so he took a sleep. But the turtle finally won because he did not give up.
Compassion(同情心)may be the queen of American virtues. In 1992, people in Iowa sent truckloads of water to help Floridians hit by a hurricane. The next summer, during the mid-west of flooding, Florida returned the favor.
There are more moral values honored by Americans. Courage, responsibility, loyalty, gratitude and many others could be discussed. But no matter how long or short the list is, moral values are invaluable. They are the foundation of American cultures--and any culture.
1.The morality that Americans honor most is () .
A.honesty
B. perseverance
C. compassion
D. gratitude
2.What conclusion may you come to from the paragraph？
A.Moral values for Americans are like those of other people
C B.Virtues of people are connected with certain culture
C. Morality of a nation has an effect on its culture
D. Stories and tradition can teach the people virtues
3.What is not described in detail in the text？
A.The story, Washington and a cherry tree, is often used to teach children to be honest
B. The story, the turtle and the rabbit, makes us determined
C.Compassion, sometimes recycles (循环) well among people
D.Moral values are the base of any culture
4.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word "invaluable"()
A.useless
B.valueless
C.priceless
D.unvalued
5.Which of the following might be the best title for the passage？
A.Moral virtues are worth nothing
B. Moral values are important
C.Nothing can take the place of moral virtues
D.Moral values for Americans
