American Dreams There is a common response to America among foreign writers:the US is a

第1题

What does the American culture teach people？A．Protesting their unequal treatment.B．Endurin

What does the American culture teach people？

A．Protesting their unequal treatment.

B．Enduring all the hardships willingly.

C．Fulfilling their dreams through hard work.

D．Learning how to get freedom and equality.

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第2题

American students learn business skills in school. Here is a story about some American

students who learnt business skills by operating their own banks.

In December 1987，the Twiglet Bank was opened at an Elementary School in Miami,Florida. It is a real bank that accepts money for savings and makes loans, and it is operated by students between 10 and 12 years old. The bank is open for one hour two days a week.Students can put their money into the bank and withdraw it as they wish. Officials from a local bank helped the students start the bank. They trained twenty-three of ther to do all the different kinds of bank jobs, from counting money to guarding the bank. The students needed money to start the bank. They raised more than $ 2,000 by selling 50-dollar shares in the bank to parents, teachers, the local bank workers, and customers.

Organizing and operating the bank has taught the children a lot about the banking business. They have learned about raising and investigating money and how to use computers and other banking equipment. They have also learned how to ask for a job and to be responsible for their jobs.

1.Who operated Twiglet Bank？

A.The teenagers

B.The community

C.The government

2.Who helped these children start a bank？

A.Parents

B.Teachers

C.Bank officials

3.How did children raise money for their bank？

A.Their schools provided financial support for them

B.They found an organization to donate a set of fund

C.They sold shares in the bank to parents, teachers, etc

4. Which is NOT true for the benefits of children from operating their own bank？

A. They learned how to produce the money

B. They learned how to look for a job and do it well

C. They learned how to use computers and banking equipment

5. What is the best title for this passage？

A. A bank of Miami

B. A Student Bank

C. The Operation of American Bank

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第3题

听力原文：Elvis Presley is often referred to as the"King of Rock and Roll"or simply"the Kin

听力原文： Elvis Presley is often referred to as the"King of Rock and Roll"or simply"the King".He achieved unusually wide success in country music,pop ballads and blues.

When Elvis Presley died on August 16,1977,he began to be recognized as an American myth.Today, there are over 625 active Elvis fan clubs worldwide.Graceland,Elvis'home and eternal resting place,is one of the most-visited historic homes in America.

So why, after years,is the world stuck on Elvis？The answers lie in culture: Elvis Presley is American myth personified.He is greater than the sum of his songs and movies;he symbolizes the American dream.Born in poverty in 1935,Elvis used his innate talent and started his career in 1954.He rose above his condition and achieved his dreams,without coming from a socially connected,politically powerful,or wealthy family.Globally,he has sold over ten billion records,more than any other artist,only to die young and leave behind a growing legion of fans.

Those fans choose to overlook Elvis'drug dependency and other excessive behavior,preferring instead to recall what they saw as his better nature.During his lifetime,Elvis donated money to charities and bought gifts for the poor and for his family and friends.Furthermore,the hometown boy,young Elvis,who made good, never left the comfort of Memphis,always keeping close to his roots,remembering the people and the places from which he came.

What did Elvis Presley succeed in？

A．Opera music.

B．Drama.

C．Country music.

D．Polities.

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第4题

听力原文：Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Eli

听力原文： Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem; (29)it seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle. Though he was tired, Howe so, Howe ran into the salve problem as before. (29)The thread kept getting caught, around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised, hut suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that (30)he bad just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practiced sewing machine．(31)Elias Howe was not the only one who found the answer to his problem in this way. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.

(30)

A．What kind of thread to use.

B．How to design a needle which would not break.

C．Where to put the needle.

D．How to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle.

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第5题

听力原文：Robert Goddard, American physicist and rocket scientist, once said that the dream

听力原文： Robert Goddard, American physicist and rocket scientist, once said that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. It was his scientific work that gave hope to many of our dreams about space and then turned them into reality.

Robert Goddard's many studies and tests in the early 1900s led to the first rocket. Then he developed rockets with more than one engine. Each engine pushed the rocket higher and higher out of Earth's atmosphere. His ideas are still used today.So, in a way, every rocket that flies today is a Goddard rocket.

Robert Goddard was far ahead of his time. He developed and flew many rockets that got their power from solid fuels. Then, in 1925, he made and tested the first rocket engine using a soft chemical fuel. In 1926, he successfully fired the world's first liquid-fuel rocket.

Robert Goddard died in 1945 of cancer. He was sixty-three years old. He received a special honor many years after his death. In 1959, the United States established the Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C. The Goddard Space Flight Center honors the man whose work proved that machines could travel out of Earth's atmosphere, into space.

(23)

A．An airplane designer.

B．A science fiction writer.

C．The inventor of rockets.

D．A famous theoretical physicist.

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第6题

根据以下材料，回答题American DreamsThere is a common response to America among foreign writ

根据以下材料，回答题

American Dreams

There is a common response to America among foreign writers: the US is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst. This is a cliche （陈词滥调）.

In the land of black and white， people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world. But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone. __________ （46） No class system or government stands in the way.

Sadly， this old argument is no longer true. Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy.

The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened. __________ （47）Over the past 25 years the median US family income has gone up 18 percent. For the top 1 per cent， however， it has gone up 200 percent.Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth. __________ （48）

Inequalities have grown worse in different regions.In California， incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 percent since 1969. __________ （49） This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans.The wealthiest 1 per cent of households now control a third of the national wealth.There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty.At 12.7 percent of the population， it is the highest percentage in the developed world.

Yet the tax burden on America"s rich is falling， not growing. __________ （50） There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole.But clearly that theory has not worked in reality.

回答（46）题查看材料

A.Nobody is poor in the US.

B.The top 0.01 percent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage points since 1980.

C.For upper class families they have risen 41 percent.

D.Now it is 9.8 times.

E.As it does so， the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller.

F.All one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.

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第7题

阅读材料，回答题： American DreamsThere is a common response to America among foreign writ

阅读材料，回答题：

American Dreams

There is a common response to America among foreign writers:the US is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst. This is a cliche(陈词滥调).

In the land of black and white, people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world. But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone.______ .(46) No class system or government stands in the way.

Sadly, this old argument is no longer true. Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy.

The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened.________ (47)

Over the past 25 years the median US family income has gone up 18 per cent. For the top 1 percent, however, it has gone up 200 per cent. Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth. ________ (48)

Inequalities have grown worse in different regions. In California, incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 per cent since 1969. ________ (49) This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans. The wealthiest 1 per cent of households now control a third of the national wealth. There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty. At 12.7 percent of the population, it is the highest percentage in the developed world.

Yet the tax burden on America&39;s rich is falling, not growing. ________ (50) There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole. But clearly that theory has not worked in reality.

A．Nobody is poor in the US.

B．The top 0.01 per cent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage pointssince 1980.

C．For upper class families they have risen 41 per cent.

D．Now it is 9.8 times.

E．As it does so, the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller.

F．All one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.

回答（46）题查看材料

A.A

B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

F.F

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第8题

-Have you ever been to the Great Wall？-（)

A.Yes, I am.

B.No, I don't.

C.No, I've never been ther

D.Certainly, I went ther

E.

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第9题

Harsh Reality of the American Dream— by Humphrey Hawksley （BBC News, United States)It was

Harsh Reality of the American Dream

— by Humphrey Hawksley

(BBC News, United States)

It was a brilliant, hot day on the Seattle waterfront, with unspoilt views across the bay to outlying islands.

Just beyond a stretch of grass where people lay with books and lovers, came the melody of live unaccompanied singing. It turned out to be four men outside a cafe singing a love song about Cupid, each with different voice ranges, and a deep, swaying crowd, clapping along.

The Starbucks logo of the cafe struck me as a little old-fashioned until someone mentioned that this was the first Starbucks ever opened anywhere in the world.

I had come to Seattle because of a recent survey by the Centre for Economic Performance in London, on how easy or difficult it was to get rich in different parts of the world —or if not rich, at least move out of poverty.

"If you are born into poverty in the US," said one of its authors, "you are actually more likely to remain in poverty than in other countries in Europe, the Nordic countries, even Canada, which you would think would not be that different."

Possibilities

The Study, together with general anti-American sentiment (情绪) which has become more prevalent since the Iraq war, raised for me a question about the American dream —the idea that the United States is a place where anything is possible.

I had chosen Seattle not only because Starbucks was created there, but also because Microsoft and Amazon Books and Boeing airliners all come from this small city. Dreams, if you want, which began small but are now global brands.

"Great day, isn't it？" I turned to see the lined, and drawn face of a man I will call Dave. "Are you getting what you want？"

We had met a couple of days earlier when he was having breakfast at a charity for the broke and homeless, and I had asked him if he believed in the American dream.

"The American dream." Dave said, eating a muffin and wiping his lips with a paper napkin.

"Well, it comes and goes. It will come again."

Winners and losers

In a low-ceilinged eating hall, maybe 100 men sat side by side along trestle tables. They had queued up since five, registered in case there was any work, then ate while security guards watched over them in case there was trouble.

In Europe or just across the border in Canada, they would be more likely to get social security, but this was America, where society is harshly divided into winners and losers.

Strangely, though, there seemed to be little resentment or blame of government. American culture is about self-reliance and the individual fighting a way through.

"The American dream," said one of the men, his eyes dartingly alive, his nose so skewed it must have been broken many times in different fights.

"I guess you are talking about a home, wife, children and all that."

"Do you have it？" I said.

"No. No. I don't. I had my opportunities, but I lost."

Control

Just up the road in a small print shop, a fit, thoughtful former air force officer, Bobby Ray Forbes, was slotting calendars into envelopes.

His life collapsed when his marriage went wrong. He had ended up on the street, but recently had managed to get a job a

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

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第10题

What could possibly account for the amazing success of Coca-Cola？ How has this combination

of carbonated water(苏打水), sugar, acid and flavorings come to symbolize the American way of life for most of the world？ After all, even the manufacturers could hardly describe Coke as a healthy product since it contains relatively high amounts of sugar (admittedly not the case with Diet Coke which contains artificial sweeteners instead of sugar) and phosphoric acid(磷酸), both of which are known to damage teeth.

One explanation may be found in the name. The original recipe(配方)included a flavoring from the coca plant and probably included small amounts of cocaine (an addictive (使人上瘾的) substance), but since the early part of this century all traces of cocaine have been removed. However, Coke (like all cola drinks) also includes a flavoring from the cola tree; cola extract(提炼物) contains caffeine, which is a stimulant, and the Coca-Cola company adds extra caffeine in addition. While caffeine is not thought to be an addictive substance in itself, there is considerable evidence that over a period of time the consumption of caffeine has to be increased in order for its stimulating effect to be maintained, and so sales of Coke perhaps benefit as a result.

A more likely reason for the enduring popularity of Coke may, however, be found in the company's enviable marketing(营销) strategies. Over the years it has come up with some of the most memorable commercials (商业广告), tunes, slogans and sponsorship in the world of advertising, variously emphasizing international harmony, youthfulness and a carefree(轻松愉快的) lifestyle. Few other companies have been able to match such marketing techniques so consistently or effectively. As suggested earlier, the influences of American culture are evident just about everywhere, and Coca-Cola has somehow come to represent a vision of the United States that much of the rest of the world dreams about and aspires to (热望). Perhaps drinking Coke brings people that little bit closer to the dream.

Coca-Cola is not a healthy product because______.

A．it is merely a combination of carbonated water, sugar, acid and flavourings

B．it may be harmful to teeth

C．it doesn't contain artificial sweeteners

D．it has some stimulating effect

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第11题

What do you think of the weather here？（).

A.Don't mention it.

B.No problem.

C.It snows too muc

D.It's popular ther

E.

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