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A very popular breakfast food in America is the pancake--- a thin , flat cake made out of flour and often served with maple syrup. The idea of the pancake is very old. In fact, pancakes were made long ago in ancient China.
Bagels, a round thick bread with a hole in the middle , are also popular for breakfast in America. Polish people in the late 1600s came up with the idea for the first bagels and this new kind of bread soon took off across Eastern Europe.
In the late 1800s, thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe travelled to the United States and brought the recipe for bagels with them. Today, New York bagels are said to be the best in the world. Many people have them with cream for breakfast on the go.
Doughnuts (usually spelled “donut” in the United States) came from France. They were served to American soldiers in France in the World War Ⅰ. After the war, American soldiers asked cooks in the United States to make doughnuts for them. Now , served with coffee, they are a very popular breakfast food across the United States.
小题1:This reading is mainly about ________
A.famous places to eat breakfast. |
B.why people in the United States eat breakfast |
C.the most popular types of pancakes in the United States |
D.the history of popular breakfast foods in the United States. |
A.the pancake | B.the bagel | C.the doughnut | D.The passage doesn’t say. |
A.They both came from Europe | B.They are both easy to make |
C.They are both sweet | D.people in New York make them best |
A.Polish people | B.Jewish People | C.Chinese People | D.American soldiers |
A.French people | B.Jewish people |
C.other American soldiers | D.cooks from the United States. |
答案
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:A
解析
核心考点
试题【Popular breakfast foods in the United States, as in many other countries around 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, and he was curious about the company. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did , and he liked what he saw. He wanted to become part of the company. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing.
In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The unique atmosphere of the espresso(浓咖啡) bars there caught his eye. To Schultz it seemed that Italians spent their daily lives in three places: home, work , and coffee bars . His experience in Italy gave Schultz a new idea for Starbucks back in Seattle.
Schultz created an atmosphere for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Between 1987 and 1992, Starbucks opened 150 new stores---and that was only the beginning. As a matter of fact, by the year 2000, three new Starbucks stores opened somewhere around the world every day!
Today, Starbucks has thousands of stores, including stores in twenty-six countries. One thing that helps make Starbucks succeed in cities outside the United Stateds is the way Starbucks works with local stores and restaurants. By working together with a store already in the city, Starbucks gains an understanding of customers in the city. This understanding helps Starbucks open stores in the right locations for their customers.
小题1:What is the main topic of the reading?
A.how Starbucks has grown | B.Starbucks’ customers |
C.what Starbucks makes | D.how Starbucks makes its coffee |
A.It grew very quickly | B.It was run by Howard Schultz |
C.It was a small company | D.It made special coffee makers |
A.a coffee seller from New York | B.the man who changed the company |
C.an Italian coffee maker | D.one of the original owners of the company |
A.3 | B.150 | C.300 | D.more than 1000 |
A.opening restaurants in just a few locations each year. |
B.only selling locally produced coffee beans |
C.working with other major coffee-making companies |
D.learning about local customers. |
There are also many different kinds of wedding ceremonies practiced around the world. These ceremonies can be very short and simple, or very long and complicated.
One of the largest and most expensive wedding ceremonies in recent times was held in Dubai in 1981. The couple tying the knot at this wedding were the son of Sheik ( a male Arab ruler) Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and Princess Salama. The wedding ceremony took seven days and cost $44 million. It was held in a large building which was specially built for the ceremony and looked like a stadium. The bride and groom needed a large place for their wedding because more than 20,000 guests were invited.
The reasons why a man and woman get married also vary. Sometimes they marry because they are in love, sometimes they marry because someone they meet through a matchmaker, and sometimes they marry because their parents tell them that they must marry.
One unusual example of an arranged marrige took place in Bangladesh in 1986. The groom was an eleven-month-old boy and the bride was a three-month-old girl. They were the youngest married couple ever.
The parents of the bride and groom arranged the marriage as a way of ending a fight between the two families who had been arguing over a farm for twenty years. Both families thought they owned the farm, but no one knew exactly . The fight ended for good when the young boy married the young girl. By arranging this marriage, neither famlily was forced to lose face. The two families agreed to give the farm to the young people.
小题1:What is the best title for this passage?
A.An Unusual Wedding Tradition | B.A Short History of Marriage |
C.Common Western Wedding Trations. | D.Interesting Wedding Around the World |
A. a farmer and a neighbor B. the son of a sheik and a princess
B. a king and a queen D. two babies.
小题3:Why was the wedding ceremony in Dubai held in a building like a stadium?
A. The ceremony was very long
B. The groom loved to play sports.
C, Many people came to the wedding.
D. People in Dubai usually get married in stadium.
小题4:Why did the families in Bangladesh make their children get married?
A.The children were in love |
B.The families wanted to end the fight |
C.The families wanted to buy a farm. |
D.The bride’s family wanted to sell their farm. |
A.The bride and groom were young. | B.The wedding was on a farm |
C. It was an arranged marriage. | D.More than 20,000 guests came to the wedding |
Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.
But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard patterns into which they plug each day’s events. In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.
There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the "standard patterns" of the newsroom seem alien to many readers. In a recent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size cities around the country, plus one large metropolitan area. Then residents in these communities were phoned at random and asked the same questions.
Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes, and trade stocks, and they’re less likely to go to church, do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community.
Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite, so their work tends to reflect the conventional values of this elite. The surprising distrust of the news media isn’t rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers.
This is an explosive situation for any industry, particularly a declining one. Here is a troubled business that keeps hiring employees whose attitudes vastly annoy the customers. Then it sponsors lots of symposiums and a credibility project dedicated to wondering why customers are annoyed and fleeing in large numbers. But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and class biases that so many former buyers are complaining about. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class.
小题1:What is the passage mainly about?
A.needs of the readers all over the world |
B.causes of the public disappointment about newspapers |
C.origins of the declining newspaper industry |
D.aims of a journalism credibility project |
A.quite trustworthy | B.somewhat contradictory |
C.very instructive | D.rather superficial(肤浅的) |
A.working attitude | B.conventional lifestyle |
C.world outlook | D.educational background |
Researchers used a system of measurement called the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates. School officials in many of the cities studied said the resulting numbers were too low. That is because different areas use different methods to find graduation rates. Critics say many methods do not give a true picture of the number of students who leave high school before finishing.
Other studies have put the national graduation rate at about 70%. But experts agree that too many students are not completing high school. They estimate the number at more than one million each year. The report was prepared for America’s Promise Alliance. The private group aims to help children receive services they need to succeed.
General Colin Powell was chairman of America’s Promise Alliance when it was formed in 1997. He attended the press conference Tuesday where the report was released. He said studies have shown that the US must do more to educate the leaders and work force of the future.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings also spoke. She said the government will propose that states use the same methods when reporting graduation rates. Alliance officials also announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates. It is to include a series of meetings to be held in every state over the next two years. The meetings will bring together elected leaders, business owners, students, parents and education officials. They will develop plans to increase the number of Americans who finish high school.
小题1:The author wants to tell us ___________.
A.too many Americans do not finish high school |
B.different methods to find graduation rates |
C.services American children need to receive |
D.the increase of the number of Americans who finish their high school |
A.there are 8,360,000 people in the US’ fifty largest cities |
B.Wichita in Kansas is the smallest city in the US |
C.50% of the people in the US don’t finish their high school education |
D.high school graduation rates in or near the biggest cities are higher |
A.situation | B.scene | C.image | D.mood |
A.secretary of Education Margaret Spellings didn’t believe that number from the report |
B.the government will stop using the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates |
C.secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates |
D.the low graduation rates should be paid attention to by the government and the society |
At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London"s Oxford Street. But the streets near the Ginze in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk. People are very polite; there are just too many of them.
The worst time to be in the street is at 11:30 at night. That is when the night-clubs are closing and every-body wants to go home. There are 35,000 night-clubs in Tokyo, and you do not often see one that is empty(空的).
During the day, most people travel to and from work by train. Tokyo people buy six million train tickets every day. At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes, but at certain hours there do not seem to be enough trains. Although they are usually crowded, Japanese trains are very good. They always leave and arrive on time.
In Tokyo, I stood outside the station for five minutes. Three fire-engines raced past on the way to one of the many fires that Tokyo has every day. Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprise me now.
小题1: Tokyo is different from London in that ______________.
A.it has a larger population | B.there are more traffic jams |
C.night clubs are sometimes empty | D.it is more difficult to go somewhere on foot |
A.not very often | B.only several times a day |
C.quite often | D.very seldom |
A.The streets become more crowded at 11:30 at night. |
B.There are more trains than cars. |
C.Fire-engines are very busy in the city. |
D.Tokyo people are friendly. |
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