()The settlers introduced iron tools, muskets for hunting, domesticated animals, and
A.True
B.False
C.Not Mentioned
A.True
B.False
C.Not Mentioned
第1题
Whats the best title of the passage?
A.Early Settlers
B.One Use of the Buffalo Chips
C.Nebraskas Problems
D.How Young Men Express Their Love for Girls
第2题
A.The solution to the Nebraska settlers fuel problem.
B.Life in Nebraska in the late ninteenth century.
C.The imporance of the American buffalo.
D.Deforestation in Nebraska in the late nineteenth century.
第3题
Which of the following does the author not express surprise at?
A.The children needed competitions to them.
B.The buffalo chips gave off no smell.
C.Buffalo chips were the answer to the settlers fuel problem.
D.Young men took bags of buffalo chips to their girl friends.
第4题
The tomato is originally an American plant. It was found in South America by early Spanish explorers. The word tomato comes from the native Nahuatl word tomatl. But when it moved north, the plant earned a different name. Remarkably, the settlers in North America thought it was poisonous. They believed that to eat it was surely to die. It was said that deserted suitors would threaten to eat a tomato to cause their coldhearted lovers-regret. Because of this legend, the settlers called the tomato a "love apple." While people enjoyed other native plants such as corn and sweet potatoes, everyone avoided the tomato.
No one knows who first dared to eat a tomato. Perhaps someone was brave enough, or lovesick enough, to try out the truth of the rumors. Of course, whoever ate this fruit was perfectly safe. No one died from eating a love apple. Still, it was many years before the people fully believed that the tomato was a safe, and even good food. But its use did become common, and the plant was sent across the ocean to become part of many traditional European dishes.
The language from which we derived the word tomato is______.
A.Portuguese
B.Spanish
C.Nahuati
D.European
第5题
Many observers wrote about the loneliness and monotony of life on the Plains. Men escaped the oppressiveness by working outdoors and taking occasional trips to sell crops or buy supplies. But women were more isolated, confined by domestic chores to the household, where, as one writer remarked, they were "not much better than slaves. It is a weary, monotonous round of cooking and washing and mending and as a result the insane asylum is 1/3 filled with wives of farmers."
第6题
After some years【24】, square dancing became【25】popular in cities and towns, but it【26】popular in the country. Then it became popular in the cities once again. Today in【27】parts of the United States you will find some school, club, or other group that is square dancing for fun.
A square is formed by four couples(对,双) who stand【28】the center of the square. Each couple stands on one【29】of the square, the boy on the left and the girl on the right.
The "caller" is an important part of the【30】 since he tells the dancers which steps to do. If the dancers do not know the steps, he teaches them. It【31】 time to learn to be good caller, and good callers are always in demand.
Large or small groups of people can dance at one time. Sometimes 800 or 1,000 people may be dancing at the【32】 time. Or there may be only one square of【33】 people.
Costumes(服装) are worn by some who square dance. This【34】 the dancing more colorful to watch. The costumes vary(不同) from place to place. Women often wear full skirts of various colors with pretty blouse(罩衫). Men may have colored skirts and western trousers which they wear【35】 when square dancing.
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A.make
B.set up
C.build
D.form
第7题
A.make
B.set up
C.build
D.form
第8题
national holiday that has been arranged to be celebrated on a Monday. The holidays have all been decided to be celebrated on a Monday so that the workers may have 3-day weekends—that is? Saturday? Sunday and Monday in order to rest or travel or do things with their families. Major holidays in the United States such as New Year’s Day or Christmas Day or the day? when we remember the first settlers of the United States? called Thanksgiving Day are celebrated all over the country. During these holidays most businesses close and the workers stay home and celebrate with their families.
Vacation can be from 2 weeks a year to 4 weeks a year. This usually depends on how long you’ve been working for a company? what type of position you have? whether you have a very high position or a very important position and it’s difficult to find someone to replace you. In this case? you might take a few days at a time rather than taking one month all at once. Usually the more time you spend working for a company? the more time you may get for a vacation.
1.The government of the United States makes it a rule for workers to have a ____weekend almost once a month.
A.5-day
B.2-day
C.3-day
D.4-day
2.Workers in the United States sometimes work from.()
A.Monday to Saturday
B.Tuesday to Sunday
C.Thursday to Friday
D.Tuesday to Friday
3.Which statement is NOT true according to this passage?()
A.Only a few shops remain open on New Year’s Day
B.Most of the workers needn’t work on Christmas Day
C.Days on vacation must be more than all the holidays in a year
D.All the workers have a half-month vacation
4.The reason why someone has to divide his vacation into several parts is that ().
A.no one can be found to take his place
B.he hasn’t a most high position
C.he plays an important role in his work
D.he hasn’t been working for his company for a long time
5. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?()
A.Holidays in the United States
B.Vacation in the United States
C.How Do the Workers Spend Their Holidays
D.Something About the Holidays and Vacation in the U.S
第9题
Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide nemcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or our broken immigrantion system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it. We don’t need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strick definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.
Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among today’s birds of passage. They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas .They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them , They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.
With or without permission, they straddle laws, jurisdictions and identities with ease. We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever. We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.
Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle .Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes. Including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
“Birds of passage” refers to those who____ .
A.immigrate across the Atlantic.
B.leave their home countries for good.
C.stay in a foreign temporialy.
D.find permanent jobs overseas.
It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US____ .A.needs new immigrant categories.
B.has loosened control over immigrants.
C.should be adopted to meet challenges.
D.has been fixed via political means.
According to the author, today’s birds of passage want___ .A.financial incentives.
B.a global recognition.
C.opportunities to get regular jobs.
D.the freedom to stay and leave.
The author suggests that the birds of passage today should be treated ____ .A.as faithful partners.
B.with economic favors.
C.with regal tolerance.
D.as mighty rivals.
Select the title that is most suitable for the articleA.come and go: big mistake.
B.living and thriving : great risk.
C.with or without : great risk.
D.legal or illegal: big mistake.