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D
Cost of American Wars
| War name | Cost of the war | Cost as a percent of annual GDP |
| Revolutionary War | US $ 2.2 billion (in 2002 dollars) | 63% |
| War of 1812 | US $ 1.1 billion | 13% |
| Mexican War | US $ 1.6 billion | 3% |
| Civil War | US $ 62 billion | 104% |
| Spanish American War | US $ 9.6 billion | 3% |
| World War I | US $ 190. 6 billion | 24% |
| World War II | US $ 2.9 trillion | 103% |
| Korean War | US $ 335.9 billion | 15% |
| Vietnam War | US $ 494.3 billion | 12% |
| First Gulf War | US $ 76.1 billion | 1% |
② 1 billion =" 1,000,000,000 " ③1 trillion = 1,000,000,000,000
69. Which wars cost more than a year’s worth of the GDP?
A. First Gulf War and World War I B. The Civil War and World War II
C. World War II and Revolutionary War D. Mexican War and Civil War
70. The American annual gross domestic product in 1951 was _________.
A. 2.239 trillion B.2.9 trillion C. 3, 25 trillion D. 76.1 billion
71. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Mexican War cost more than War of 1812.
B. First Gulf War cost the least in term of the percentage of the annual of GDP.
C. World War II cost more than Korean War.
D. Mexican War cost as much money as Spanish American War.
答案
69-71. BAD
解析
本表格是美国历次战争的开支情况统计。
69. B。细节题。从表中可以看出美国内战和第二次世界大战的费用分别占美国年度国民生产总值的104%和103%，超出了它的年度GDP。故选B。
70. A。推测计算题。从常识中可以知道，1951年美国正处在朝鲜战争之中，而美国在朝鲜战争的花费为 $335.9 billion，占它的年度GDP的15%。据此可以计算出它1951年的 GDP 应为 $2.239 trillion。
71. D。事实确认题。D项明显错误。Mexican War 和 Spanish American War 两场战争的花费占年度的GDP比率相同，但并不等于两场战争的费用是一样的。
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试题【DCost of American WarsWar nameCost of the warCost as a percent of annual GDPRevo】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
B
Instead of hitting the beach, fourteen high school students traded swimming suits for lab coats last summer and turned their attention to scientific experiments.
The High School Research Program offers high school students guidance with researchers in Texas A&M"s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Jennifer Funkhouser, academic adviser for the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, directs this four-week summer program designed to increase understanding of research and its career potential(潜能).
Several considerations go into selecting students, including grades, school involvement and interest in science and agriculture. And many students come from poorer school districts, Funkhouser says. "This is their chance to learn techniques and do experiments they never would have a chance to do in high school".
Warner Ervin of Houston is interested in animal science and learned how to tell male from female mosquitoes (蚊子). His adviser, Craig Coates, studies the genes of mosquitoes that allow them to fight against malaria and yellow fever. Coates thought this experience would be fun and helpful to the high school students.
The agricultural research at A&M differs from stereotypes. It"s “molecular (分子) science on the cutting edge”, Fnnkhouser says. The program broadened students" knowledge. Victor Garcia of Rio Grande City hopes to become a biology teacher and says he learned a lot about chemistry from the program.
At the end of the program, the students presented papers on their research. They"re also paid $600 for their work---another way this program differs from others, which often charge a fee.
Fourteen students got paid to learn that science is fun, that agricuhure is a lot more than milking and plowing and that research can open many doors.
41. The research program is chiefly designed for ________
A. high school advisers from Houston
B. college students majoring in agriculture
C. high school students from different places
D. researchers at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
42. It can be inferred from the text that the students in poorer areas ___________.
A. had little chance to go to college
B. could often take part in the program
C. found the program useful to their future
D. showed much interest in their high school experiments
43. When the program was over, the students ____________.
A. entered that college B. wrote research reports
C. paid for their research D. found a way to make money
44. The underlined expression " on the cutting edge" in Paregraph 5 means" on the most ________ position".
A. important B. favourable C. astonishing D. advanced
45. What would be the best title for the text?
A. A Program for Agricultural Science Students B. A Program for Animal Science Students
C. A Program for Medical Science Lovers D. A Program for Future Science Lovers
D
Among rich countries, people in the United States work the longest hours. They work much longer than in Europe. This difference is quite surprising because productivity per hour worked is the same in the United States as it is in France, Spain and Germany, and it is growing at a similar speed.
In most countries and at most times in history, as people have become richer they have chosen to work less. In other words they have decided to "spend" a part of their extra income on a fuller personal life. Over the last fifty years Europeans have continued this pattern, and hours of work have fallen sharply. But not in the United States. We do not fully know why this is. One reason may be greatly lower taxes in America, which increase the rewards to work. Another may be more satisfying work, or less satisfying personal lives.
Longer hours do of course increase the GDP (国内生产总值). So the United States has produced more per worker than, say, France. The United States also has more of its people at work, while in France many more mothers and older workers have decided to stay at home. The overall result is that American GDP per head is 40% higher than in France, even though productivity per hour worked is the same.
It is not clear which of the two situations is better. As we have seen, work has to be compared with other values like family life, which often get lost in its interest. It is too early to explain the different trends (趋势）in happiness over time in different countries. But it is a disappointing idea that in the United States happiness has made no progress since 1975, while it has risen in Europe. Could this have anything to do with trends in the work-life balance ?
51. From the text we know that the author __________.
A. believes that longer working hours is better
B. prefers shorter working hours to longer ones
C. says nothing certain about which pattern is better
D. thinks neither of the patterns is good
52. Which of the following countries has more of its people at work?
A. Spain. B. France. C. Germany. D. America.
53. In the last paragraph, the underlined word "which" refers to_________.
A. family life B. situations C. other values D. trends
54. What message can we get from the text?
A. The GDP of Europe, is higher than that of America.
B. Two possible reasons are given for working longer hours in the US.
C. People all over the world choose to work less when they are richer.
D. Americans are happier than Europeans.
55. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Americans and Europeans. B. Staying at Home.
C. Work and Productivity. D. Work and Happiness.
[1]China will change the world as much as the world changes China, if the country continues its opening up.
[2]How could it not? The rest of the world cannot remain unaffected by the culture of one-fifth of humanity. As China strengthens its economy, allows its citizens more overseas travel and participates in global efforts, the West surely will learn more about Chinese ways.
[3]And once it does, its people might choose to adot some of them.
[4]It might surprise Chinese that Westerners . When I announced my Beijing job to American friends, family and neighbors, they were very curious and mostly uninformed about China．
[5] Our media carries little news about China except during unusual circumstances, which typically are times of stress between the two countries．We hear about arguments with China over climate change, Taiwan and Tibet, but that doesn" t tell average Americans anything about average Chinese．
[6]Most American- don"t know that Chinese weddings feature firecrackers; that Chinese parents make extraordinary sacrifices for their children; that Chinese diners eat off plates smaller than any on a Western table; that favorite Chinese drinks include hot soy milk and the potent white-grain alcohol, baijiu; and that elderly Chinese sometimes walk down streets backwards to keep their balancing skills sharp．
[7]Westemers will learn as they and the Chinese increasingly mingle（接触）．As they do there" s no telling which Chirac customs will take root in foreiffl soil．but some of them surely will．
[8] Maybe we" 11 see baijiu and green tea served at baseball stadiums along with beer and soda pop．That wouldn" t make the game any less American．
[9] Meanwhile, I hope China continues to take in what the world has to offer and transform it into something typically Chinese．To think that exposure to Western ways weakens China, instead of strengthens it, assumes the country" s culture is fragile．That" s a surprising attitude for any Chinese to take．
小题1:What does the passage mainly tell us? (within 10 words)
小题2:Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (within 6 words)
小题3:What an attitude should we Chinese take towards Western culture according to the author? (within 20 words)
小题4:Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?
In that case, some of the Chinese way of life will, possibly, be accepted by the westerners.
小题5:Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 7 into Chinese.
B
China will plan to make new rules to give more controls over the growing number of blogs and webcasts.
Nowadays, advanced network technologies, such as Hogging and webcasting, are being improved to challenge the government’s ability to watch over the Internet.
Chinese government was in the middle of making new rules over Internet publishing, and blogs and websites that publishing webcasts would fall under these rules.
Government officials hope the new rules would ensure a more healthy and active Internet environment and would fully respect and protect Chinese citizens" freedom of speech. Specific details on what kind of rules would be carried out are still unknown to the public.
Despite the growing popularity, bloggers and webcasters have been unpopular with publication institutions.
In 2006, a series of cases involving bloggers who had dived into other people’s privacy and written materials ruining other’s fame urged the government to consider whether to require bloggers to use their real names when they login in.
Webcasting without copyright and illegally “copying" products from copyrighted materials have also led government officials to consider starting a nationwide check of online video broadcasting, and allow only qualified websites to continue offering webcasts.
60．What can be the best title of the passage?
A．The Increases of Blogs and Webcasts.
B．New Rules to Control Internet Publishing.
C．Technologies Challenge the Government.
D．The Popularity of Online Video Broadcasting.
61．Chinese government thinks current Internet environment is ______.
A．quite healthy B．less active C． rather hopeful D．less piloted
62．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Publication institutions are unhappy with bloggers and webcasters.
B．All bloggers and webcasters like to dig out other people’s privacy.
C．Webcasters are quite aware of the copyright issues while online.
D．Copyrighted materials can only be offered to qualified websites.
E
Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards(外部奖赏), from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive (认知学派的) researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, believe that rewards often destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on approval and gifts from others.
The latter view has gained many supporters, especially among educators. But the careful use of small monetary (金钱的) rewards sparks creativity in grade-school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements (刺激) indeed aid inventiveness(创造力), according to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology".
"If kids know they"re working for a reward and can focus on a relatively challenging task, they show the most creativity," says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. "But it"s easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much desire for rewards." A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high grades for ordinary achievement ends up with uninspired students, Eisenberger holds. As an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and restore
failing grades.
In earlier grades, the use of so-called token economies, in which students handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points toward valued rewards, shows promise in raising effort and creativity, the Delaware psychologist claims.
71．Psychologists are divided with regard to their attitudes toward _____.
A．the choice between spiritual encouragement and monetary rewards
B．the amount of monetary rewards for students" creativity
C．the study of relationship between actions and their consequences
D．the effects of external rewards on students" performance
72．What is the response of many educators to external rewards for their students?
A．They have no doubts about them.
B．They have doubts about them.
C．They approve of them.
D．They avoid talking about them.
73．Which of the following can best raise students" creativity according to Robert Eisenberger?
A．Giving them tasks they have not dealt with before.
B．Giving them tasks which require inventiveness.
C．Giving them rewards they really deserve.
D．Giving them rewards they hope for.
74．.It can be inferred from the passage that major universities are trying to tighten their grading standards because they believe ______.
A．rewarding poor performance may kill the creativity of students
B．punishment is more effective than rewarding
C．failing uninspired students helps improve their overall academic standards
D．discouraging the students" anticipation for easy rewards is a matter of urgency
75．The phrase "token economies" (Sentence 1, Paragraph 5) probably refers to _____.
A．ways to develop economy
B．systems of rewarding students
C．approaches to solving problems
D．methods of improving performance
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