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2、The curtain on the 2008 US presidential election finally rose last month as John McCain and Barack Obama were formally nominated (提名) as candidates of the two major parties. This may be one of the hardest decisions voters have to make between two appealing candidates.
The big question for voters, as they face both an economic downturn and international threats, is: who will they elect? A young first-term senator promising change and new ideas, or a longtime senator with strong military experience and a reputation as a maverick (特立獨行的人)?
American voters have never seen a candidate quite like Obama. He has a white mother from the US and a black father from Kenya who left the family when Obama was very young. He spent part of his youth in Indonesia.
His supporters say Obama’s childhood gives him the advantage to repair the recent damage done to America’s image abroad. His opponents focus on his inexperience, noting he hasn’t finished his first term in the Senate.
However, McCain has a very different life story.
He grew up in a Navy family and was a pilot during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. When Obama was in kindergarten in Indonesia, McCain’s plane was shot down over Vietnam and he became a prisoner of war. McCain could have been released if he disowned America but he refused and so was held for five years.
So in the end, the election may hinge on (以…為轉(zhuǎn)移) several factors that are hard to judge: Will Obama’s race matter to a significant number of voters? Will working-class whites who tended to support his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, vote for Obama? And perhaps most important of all, will swing (搖擺) voters be more drawn to Obama’s vision (遠景規(guī)劃) or to McCain’s experience?
Whatever happens, one thing is clear: Whoever walks into the White House on January 20, 2009, will find enormous challenges waiting for him in the Oval Office, both at home and abroad.
1. _________ makes the result of the election hard to predict.
A. Whether working class whites
care about Obama’s
inexperience
B. The economic trouble the country now faces
C. Who swing voters will finally decide to vote for
D. McCain being too old to govern the country
2. The appeal in Obama as a presidential candidate lies in ______.
A. his multi-cultural background B. his belief in tradition
C. his inexperience in politics D. his fantastic promises
3. The word “disown” in Paragraph 6 means closest to ______.
A. flee from B. turn his back on C. not keep it private D. expose secrets about
4. The challenges that will face the new president _______.
A. are not mentioned in the text
B. include building a strong party and a friendly image
C. refer to the problems of immigrants and economy
D. refer to the problems of economy and international relations
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29、最近,寧波博物館宣布免費開放。消息傳出,博物館每天被聞訊涌來的上萬名游客擠得近乎“爆棚”。這一現(xiàn)象引發(fā)了各方的熱烈討論:博物館該不該免費開放?下圖是中國寧波網(wǎng)做的一次社會調(diào)查,請你根據(jù)圖示用英語給該網(wǎng)站的英語欄目寫一篇短文介紹調(diào)查結(jié)果,并為三種不同的意見擬寫各自的理由。
注意: 1.詞數(shù)120左右(文章開頭已經(jīng)給出,但不計入總詞數(shù));
2.可以有適當(dāng)發(fā)揮,以使行文連貫。
Recently a survey entitled “Should museums be free to the public?” has been conducted to find out people’s attitudes towards this question________
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1.If you happen to be the 200th customer to buy Cholesterolblock, you will .
A.be able to buy it at a low price B.be the luckiest one online
C.try it free of charge D.change your diet
2.Liptor?, Zocor?, Crestor? are .
A.diseases B.side effects C.medicines D.cholesterol
3.CholestrolblockTM has the following advantages EXCEPT that _____________________.
A.it helps take cholesterol out of whatever food you eat.
B.it has been proved useful in hospital testing.
C.it helps people absorb at least 42% cholesterol.
D.it sells best on Internet every month.
4.Where can you most probably read this passage?
A.In a travel guide book. B.On a university bulletin board.
C.In a health magazine. D.In a doctor's prescription.
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26、Forget Miami, Los Angeles and New York. The next big Latin music explosion is on its way in secondary markets across the United States, and the numbers are there to back it up. Among all genres(種類),Latin music was the only one registering growth in 2005. From tiny Vero Beach in northern Florida to Des Moines, Iowa, in the heart of the Midwest, from Charlotte, N. C.to Salt Lake City, Latin music sales are skyrocketing.
Wilson says there are two major reasons for the increase. One is simply the Hispanic(說西班牙語國家的) population's increase in specific areas, which encourages stores to carry Latin product for the first time. Second, and perhaps more important, is the fact that major companies—whether dealing in music or not—are addressing the Latin consumer at a corporate (公司的) level, creating Latin departments and hiring Latin ad agencies. One of Handleman's suburban Detroit stores, for example, has expanded its Latin section four times in the last two years. Cities like Milwaukee and Des Moines are now stocking Latin product.
Besides, it also results from economic development. It goes something like this: More often than not, a city or country with a seeming important Hispanic population will suddenly expand its construction or offer affordable housing to those working in larger, neighboring cities. This attracts lower-income workers, many of whom are Latin. Small shops and groceries begin to stock a small selection of music.When the Latin population numbers reach a critical mass, the local mass merchant, if there is one, begins stocking the product. Sooner or later, a local radio station follows; first AM, then FM. Sometimes it's a cable TV show or a small TV station.
Of course, there are other driving forces that should not be forgotten, for example, regional Mexican music.
1.The passage mainly tells readers _____________.
A.that more and more Americans like Latin music
B.what makes Latin music develop fast in American market
C.why Latin music becomes Americans' favorite music
D.that Latin music is bringing in more benefits for Americans
2.The underlined word "skyrocketing" in the first paragraph means________.
A.changing very quickly B.disappearing slowly
C.recovering slowly D.increasing very quickly
3.According to the third paragraph, which shows the right relations among the following things?
①economic development ②more Latin workers
③shops' stock of Latin music ④local radio station
⑤small TV station ⑥the development of Latin music
4.Suppose that passage doesn't finish, which of the following may be discussed next?
A.The variety of Latin music in America.
B.The economic development in Hispanic area.
C.The historic development of Mexican music.
D.The driving forces of regional Mexican music
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24、--- May I take your order now?
--- _______.
A.No, I'm in trouble now B.Yes, we obey orders
C.Yes, I'd like a dish of chicken D.No, do what you please
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23、LONDON—The tiny, distant and frozen planet Pluto, for 30 years believed to have just one moon, has suddenly been found to have two more satellites.
Only discovered in 1930 because of its vast distance from Earth, Pluto has remained a largely mysterious object ever since.
Some three billion miles from the Sun, Pluto, a dwarf planet, remains to be visited by a spacecraft.
Its first known satellite is called Charon. With a diameter of 1,200 km, it is half that of Pluto—unusually large for a moon in relation to its primary.
But now, using images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists from Johns Hopkins University, Southwest Research Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have found two more tiny orbiting satellites, P1 and P2.
Both are traveling outside the orbit of Charon and are tiny by comparison, the scientists wrote in the journal Nature.
P1, the more distant of the two from Pluto, has a diameter of between 60 and 165 km while P2 is 20 percent smaller.
"Although definitive orbits cannot be obtained, both new satellites appear to be moving in circular orbits in the same orbital plane as Charon with orbital periods of about 38 days for P1 and 25 days for P2," they wrote.
The discovery of the two new members of Pluto's family makes it the only object in the Kuiper belt—a vast region of rock and ice beyond Neptune which contains debris from the formation of the solar system—known to have multiple satellites, the scientists said.
1. It is implied in the passage that______.
A. Charon was not discovered until the late 1960s
B. Charon is the largest satellite in the solar system
C. all the inner planets are better observed than Pluto
D. Pluto may have some more moons to be discovered
2. The underlined word "primary" in Paragraph 4 refers to______.
A. size B. shape C. planet D. Earth
3. Which of the following show the possible orbits and positions of Pluto's satellites?
A B C D
4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Pluto: furthest in the solar system.
B. Pluto: two additional moons found.
C. Pluto: tiny, distant and frozen planet.
D. Pluto: two satellites formed in 30 years.
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