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Richard is American, john is British-they have different A.nationsB.countriesC.landsD
Richard is American, john is British-they have different
A.nations
B.countries
C.lands
D.nationalities
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Richard is American, john is British-they have different
A.nations
B.countries
C.lands
D.nationalities
第1题
Perhaps the uniqueness of America's contribution to the 【27】______ can best be characterized through brief descriptions of several of the most important and best-known musicals. One of these is surely Oklahoma by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hamerstein. It burst 【28】______ popularity in 1943. Broadway audience and critics were 【29】______ by its 【30】______ , vitality and excitement. This "new" type of musical was 【31】______ as kind of 【32】______ theater in which the play, the music and lyrics, the dancing, and the scenic background were assembled not merely to provide entertainment and 【33】______ , but to 【34】______ in a single unifying whole to contribute to its unique feature. 【35】______ , it meant that the songs and dances should 【36】______ naturally out of the situations of the story and play an important part in carrying the action 【37】______ . In Oklahoma, an American folk-dance style. was organically combined with classical ballet and modem dance. It is fight to say that the musical was a brilliantly integrated performance by the talented dancers and singing actors.
Oklahoma also marked a new 【38】______ in the choice of story on which a musical is based. Writers and composers began to abandon the sentimentally picturesque or aristocratic setting 【39】______ more realistic stories in authentic social and cultural 【40】______ Oklahoma was based on a "folk" whose story dealt not only with young love but also with the opening of the American West.
【21】
A.number
B.amount
C.quantity
D.numbers
第2题
It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea's LG Electronics. ) Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America's machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.
All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fail as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America's industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.
How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been straggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride. "American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted," according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity," says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, D. C. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes, that people will look back on this period as "a golden age of business management in the United States".
Which of the following statements is TRUE about US economic predominance after World War Ⅱ?
A.The unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy.
B.The war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitors.
C.Its domestic market was eight times larger than before.
D.It had made painstaking efforts towards this goal.
第3题
Richard:_________ . My name is Richard Stewart. May I take a picture of you? Mrs. Vann: By all means, I'm Mrs. Vann. Glad to meet you.
A. I'm sorry
B. Excuse me
C. Pardon me
D. Attention, please
第5题
Richard: Your English is very good. I appreciate your help.
Alexandra: Thanks. _________.
A. It's a piece of cake
B. It's my pleasure
C. It's my duty
D. It's my way
第6题
Richard: Oh, I've got to go._________ .
Robbie: It was a pleasure meeting you, too. Bye-bye.
A. It was nice of you to meet me
B. It was nice to have met you
C. It was nice meeting you here
D. It was nice for you to meet me
第7题
Sir Richard Rogers clearly knows that it is his duty to_________ .
A.make his buildings historic ones.
B.create something out of a unique style
C.house those people who will often change their jobs
D.construct a building that can meet the changes of the modeI"n age
第8题
A. How are you?
B. Everything is fine
C. Fine thank you.
D. Nice to meet you.
第9题
What Richard Besser said in the second paragraph reminds people that_____.
A.the government has responsibility to fight against infectious diseases
B.patients have responsibility to prevent the spread of infectious diseases
C.everybody has responsibility to control the outbreak of infectious diseases
D.doctors and experts have responsibility to fight agent infectious diseases