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Where there has been coffee, there has been the coffeehouse. From the 15th century Middle Eastern establishments where men gathered to listen to music, play chess, and hear recitations from works of literature, to Paris" Cafe le Procope where luminaries of the French Enlightenment such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot came to enjoy a hot cup of joe, coffeehouses have traditionally served as centers of social interaction, places where people can come to relax, chat, and exchange ideas.
The modern coffee shop is modeled on the espresso and pastry-centered Italian coffeehouses that arose with the establishment of Italian-American immigrant communities in major US cities such as New York City"s Little Italy and Greenwich Village, Boston"s North End, and San Francisco"s North Beach. New York coffee shops were often frequented by the Beats in the 1950"s. It wasn"t long before Seattle and other parts of the Pacific Northwest were developing coffee shops as part of a thriving counterculture scene. The Seattle-based Starbucks took this model and brought it into mainstream culture.
Although coffeehouses today continue to serve their traditional purpose as lively social hubs in many communities, they have noticeably adapted to the times. Rediscovering their purpose as centers of information exchange and communication, many coffee shops now provide their customers with internet access and newspapers. It has become extremely common to see someone sitting at a Starbucks listening to music or surfing the web on his or her laptop. Coffee stores today also maintain a fairly identifiable, yet unique aesthetic: wooden furniture and plush couches, paintings and murals drawn on walls, and soft-lighting combine to give coffee shops the cozy feeling of a home away from home.
Today, big business retail coffee shops are expanding quickly all over the world. Starbucks alone has stores in over 40 countries and plans to add more. Despite its popularity, Starbucks has been criticized and labeled by many as a blood-sucking corporate machine, driving smaller coffee shops out of business through unfair practices. This has even spawned an anti-corporate coffee counterculture, with those subscribing to this culture boycotting big business coffee chains. Increasingly popular coffee stores such as The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf are also giving Starbucks some stiff competition. In any case, it seems pretty clear that coffee has weaved itself into the fabric of our consumer-oriented culture.
小题1: Which of the following is the correct order of coffee spreading in history?
①Egypt ②America ③the Middle East ④Netherlands ⑤Venice
A.①③④②⑤ | B.③①⑤④② | C.①⑤④③② | D.③②⑤④① |
A.Starbucks has beaten all the competitors |
B.there are no changes in the development of coffee culture |
C.the taste of coffee has changed a lot |
D.Starbucks has some effect on the development of coffee culture |
A.Seattle | B.Ethiopia | C.Java | D.France |
A.play chess with other customers |
B.enjoy delicious dishes from South America |
C.surf the internet |
D.watch a TV play |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
解析
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试题【Coffee has a history dating back to at least the 9th century and has been a cata】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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These descriptive names developed both from nouns and adjectives. The Irish Gaelic people used descriptive nouns and adjectives which were meaningful. Early in prehistory some descriptive names began to be used again and again until they formed a name pool for that particular culture. Parents would choose names from the pool of existing names rather than invent new ones for their children.
With the rise of Christianity (基督教), Christians were encouraged to name their children after the holy people of the church. These early Christian names can be found in many cultures today, in various forms. The pool of names in use in England changed basically after the Norman came in 1066. Then French names of Germanic origin became popular within three generations. As a result names like Emma, Matilda, Richard, and William, became common in English nomenclature. At the same time a few Old English names, like Edward and Alfred remained because they were names of holy people or kings; others were kept because they were used with slight changes by Germanic names from the Normans like Robert.
Surnames developed from bynames, which are additional ones used to differentiate people with the same given name. These bynames fall into particular patterns. These started out as specific to a person and were taken down from father to son between the twelfth and sixteenth century. The noble usually used taken-down surnames early or the peasants did so later.
小题1:We can infer from the text that .
A.the first given names had not any actual meanings |
B.people probably had names when there was no written language |
C.the history of nomenclature is shorter than written history |
D.names began to be used long after there was written language |
A.Old English names | B.other names |
C.names of Germanic origin | D.names of holy people |
A.Robert is a Germanic name from the Normans. |
B.Church didn’t encourage nomenclature used in the church. |
C.Names like Emma and William were the most popular in 1066. |
D.Names like Edward and Alfred were French names of Germanic origin. |
(a)People used bynames to differ people with the same given names.
(b)People chose given names from the pool of existing names.
(c)Bynames started out as specific to a person.
(d)Surnames became popular with common people.
(e)Surnames were taken down from father to son in noble families.
A.b-a-e-c-d | B.a-b-c-d-e | C.a-b-c-e-d | D.b-a-c-e-d |
A.Additional, Particular and Various |
B.Meaningful, Christian and Foreign |
C.Descriptive, Meaningful and Germanic |
D.Old English-styled, Christian and Original |
Employment became widespread when the enclosures(圈地运动)of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by taking them away from the use of the land, and thus from the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their place of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm(准则)today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between sexes.
It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were kept out — a problem now, as more teenagers disappointed and annoyed at school and more retired people want to live active lives.
All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some efforts and resources away from the utopian(乌托邦)goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.
小题1: From the passage we can learn that ____.
A.jobs have existed since human came into being |
B.the industrial age brought jobs to everyone |
C.the industrial age brought the work patterns most people’s work has taken |
D.in the future more and more people could get jobs as the industry is developing |
A.paid work | B.unpaid work | C.taxes and benefits | D.land |
A.more important roles in making a life | B.less important roles in making a life |
C.roles as weak as after in raising their children | D.roles as important as men in supporting a family |
A.creating jobs for all must be changed |
B.enough jobs must be created by our society |
C.more and more jobs are being created |
D.industrial age has made many people unable to live without full-time jobs |
Almost all of the works Rubens and his students created in the Rubens House have been dispersed (分散) over major museums across the whole world, but there is still an impressive collection well worth the visit. Besides paintings form the master himself you will find other works of art and furniture of the 17th century as well as paintings from his students, including works by Jacob Jordaens and Anthony Van Dyck.
The Rubens House was not only a studio but also a meeting place for the rich and famous. His clients(委托人) included wealthy merchants, diplomats, and there were also many noblemen who often visited his studio to see how work progressed. The Rubens House even had a special viewing area which allowed visitors to see the artists at work.
Ruben bought the house at the beginning of the 17th century after his eight-year-long stay in Italy. Influenced by Italian architecture, he rebuilt the building into an Italian-styled palace with a beautiful garden and moved in the house in1616.
After his death the building was sold. New owners modified the building greatly and by 1937, when the building was purchased by the city of Antwerp, it hardly resembled the original structure.
The impressive entrance hall, which connected the studio and the residence, is one of the few parts that survived. Other parts have been carefully restored and reconstructed after original plans and paintings of the house.
小题1:As a museum, the Rubens House is popular because _______.
A.it lies in the famous city of Antwerp |
B.it holds all the works by Rubens and his students |
C.there are many people who enjoy visiting it |
D.Rubens, a great artist, lived and worked there |
A.the Rubens House was popular with upper-class people |
B.the Rubens House was the best studio in its time |
C.Rubens’s students included noblemen and diplomats |
D.people were not allowed to view the artists working |
A.Thanks to its great painters, Antwerp became a rich city. |
B.Ruben possibly showed strong interest in Italian buildings. |
C.Antwerp must be a historical city in Italy. |
D.The Rubens House was completely rebuilt before 1937. |
A.Rubens created his works by working with his students. |
B.A beautiful garden was added to the Rubens House by new owners. |
C.The Rubens House is decorated with furniture of the 17th century. |
D.Today’s Rubens House looks like its original structure. |
Bhopal chemical leak, December 1984, Bhopal, India
An explosion in the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly gas called methyl (甲基) isocyanate(异氰盐酸), which is used to make pesticides. The gas formed a cloud that killed 2500 people; another 50000- 100000 people became ill. Trees and plants in the area became yellow and brittle. The explosion was caused by a mechanical failure that was not noticed in time to stop it.
Exxon Valdez oil spill, March 1989, Alaska, U.S.
On March 24, 1989, 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Prince William Sound from the tanker Exxon Valdez when its hull hit a reef and tore open. The oil, which is not yet cleaned up after billions of dollars have been spent and the millions of birds, fish, and other wildlife have died, was caused by human error and could have been avoided.
Chernobyl, April 1986, USSR
At 1:23 A.M. on Saturday, April 26, 1986, the reactor blew at nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, ripping open the core, blowing the roof off the building, starting more than 30 fires, and allowing radioactive material to leak into the air. Some 31 people were killed and 200 people were treated for radiation poisoning. Still at risk are 135000 people from the 179 villages within 20 miles, of the plant who were exposed to the radiation before being evacuated. Glaring violations of safety rules were at the bottom of this tragic event.
Love Canal, 1953, New York, U.S.
Love Canal, a small town in upstate New York near Niagara Falls, was destroyed by waste from chemical plants. Beginning in 1947, chemical companies could legally dump their waste products into the canal. The area developed a foul smell, trees lost their bark, and leaves fell throughout the year. A health survey found that the drinking water contained excessive levels of 82 industrial chemicals, 7 of which were thought to cause cancer. The people of Love Canal had an unusually high rate of cancer and birth defects. Eventually, many of the houses had to be abandoned. Today, the town has been partly cleaned up and some families have moved back to the area.
Three Mile Island, 1979, Pennsylvania, U.S.
On March 28, 1979, the worst accident in U.S. nuclear reactor history occurred at the Three Mile Island power station, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. No one was killed, and very little radioactivity was released into the air when coolant (the fluid that keeps a machine cool) escaped from the reactor core due to a combination of mechanical failure and human error. After 10 years and $ 1 billion in cleanup costs, the lower extremes of the reactor are still so radioactive that workers must use remote - control equipment to remove the remaining fragment of fuel core.
小题1:This passage mainly discusses_______.
A.accidents that affected many living things |
B.air pollution |
C.water pollution |
D.what people are doing to prevent environmental disasters |
A.happen at night | B.was the worst accident in the history of India |
C.caused more deaths than sicknesses | D.could have been avoided |
A.didn’t know that chemical companies were dumping waste products into the canal |
B.didn’t know that their water was becoming dangerous to drink |
C.tried to stop companies from dumping their waste products into the canal |
D.didn’t mind that chemical companies were dumping waste products into the canal |
C. Our Earth Is Out of Control D How to Prevent Accidents from Happening Again
The Station by Robert Byron. In 1928, the 22-year-old man made a journey to Mount Athos, resulting in one of the best travel books ever written, matched only by Byron’s own, much more famous The Road to Osciana.
In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley. It’s about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor Eduard Schnitzer, who had no desire to be rescued at all.
A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs by Sir Steven Runciman. A to Z and around the world. He provides priceless information of long-gone princesses, priests, and places.
South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Sir Ernest Shackleton. As the planet started the global war, Shackleton and his brave group of explorers made an unsuccessful but heroic journey to cross Antarctica from 1914 to 1917.
The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005 Reading through this final listing of all the nice hotels and wonderful restaurants in France is better than going there, listening to Chirac talk about the poisonous American culture, and spending the price of this book for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb.
The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal. This great book of an armchair exploration tells us what has happened in the past and shows the relationship between us and the past travelers.
小题1:This passage is written .
A. to warn readers against traveling
B. as an introduction to famous travelers
C to sell more books about travels
D. to tell people where to travel
小题2:The underlined phrase “armchair travelers” in the first paragraph refers to those who .
A.like to read about travels instead of travel themselves |
B.find fun teaching others how to travel to other places |
C.like to write about their strange traveling experiences |
D.can only travel with special equipment for the disabled |
A.A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs. |
B.South: A Memoir to the Endurance Voyage. |
C.The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005. |
D.The Past Is a Foreign Country. |
A.Henry Monton Stanley, was saved by a German doctor in Africa. |
B.In his book, Lowenthal focuses more on history than the present. |
C.It took Shackleton and his men 3 years to cross Antarctica. |
D.The Station is no more famous than The Road to Osciana. |
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