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busy, working city with a large population. But what is more, Washington is also a city of history and culture.
Washington was created in 1790, when Congress (the highest law-making body of the U. S. A.) decided
to place the nation" new capital in the east of the country. It was built half-way between the northern and the
southern states of the America. And of course it was named after George Washington, the first President of
the United States.
There are many tourist sights in Washington. One of them is the White House. This is the home and office
of the President of the United States. Most visitors are, however, surprised by how small the White House
actually is.
Washington is also a great culture city. The Library of Congress contains (包括) one of the largest library
collections in the world. The Smithsonian Museum holds the nation"s largest collection of cultural materials.
And me John F. Kennedy Center is a famous center of art and culture. It. has many great musical and theatre
performances throughout the year.
B. the history of Washington
C. buildings and sights-in Washington
D. the history and culture of Washington
B. the center of the U. S. A
C. the east, on the middle point from north to south, of the country
D. the east and half-way away from the north
B. its size
C. its history
D. it is the home and office of the president
B. population, history and culture
C. general introduction, history, sights, buildings and culture
D. history and culture
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and the shortest day. Christmas in the 21st century has many traditions: Christmas trees, cards and presents.
Shops can make about 60 percent f their year"s income in the three months before Christmas, so most shops
get ready for it in October. 2 The first time this happened was in 1867 when Macy"s famous shop in New
York, stayed open until midnight on Christmas Eve.
By mid-December, almost every shop and street has a Christmas tree. 3 In the northern countries, winter
is cold and dark and most trees are decorated with lights and colored glass balls give people hope that spring
will come.
Father Christmas is known across the world with his white hair, red coat and big bag of toys. Young
children are told that he lives in the north of Finland and makes toys for them. 4
On Christmas Day a traditional meal is eaten, usually a turkey and a rich, spicy cake. Some people hate
Christmas. 5 They love seeing family and friends; they also love the traditions. Love it or hate it, Christmas
is a time to look back over the old year and forward to the new one.
B. Believe it or not.
C. Since about 400 AD, Christmas Day has been celebrated.
D. Others feel it is a magical and exciting time.
E. The shopping centers are beautifully decorated and stay open late at night.
F. It was really beautiful indeed.
G. By tradition, he brings the toys to children at night, on the night before Christmas.
together. The more Walt dreamed of a"magical park," the more imaginative and elaborate it became.
The original plans for the park were on 8 acres next to the Burbank studios where his employees and
families could go to relax. Although, World War II put those plans on hold. During the war, Disney had time
to come up with new ideas, and creations for his magical park. It was soon clear that 8 acres wouldn"t be
enough.
Finally in 1953, he had the Stanford Research Institute conduct a survey for a 100-acre site, outside of
Los Angeles. He needed space to build rivers, waterfalls, and mountains; he would have flying elephants and
giant teacups; a fairy-tale castle, moon rockets, and a scenic railway; all inside a magic kingdom he called
"Disneyland."
The search for the best venue for the park ended in the rural Anaheim, California with a purchase of a
160-acre orange grove near the junction of the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) and Harbor Boulevard. Construction
for Disneyland began on July 21, 1954, 12 months before the park was scheduled to open.
Some 160-acres of citrus trees had been cleared and 15 houses moved to make room for the park.
However, when the real designing came around, Disney met with inevitable questions. How do you make
believable wild animals, that aren"t real? How do you make a Mississippi paddle ship? How do you go about
building a huge castle in the middle of Anaheim, California? Disney asked his movie studio staff for answers.
The design of Disneyland was something never done before. There would be four uniquely different theme
parts: Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland Tomorrow land. Bit by bit, Disneyland got ready for Opening
Day. The staff worked around the clock to get ready.
But opening day was a terrible disaster. Besides the terrible opening day conditions, the park did eventually
pick up. By 1965, ten years after opening day, 50 Million visitors had come through the gates.
B. The difficulties Disney met in building Disneyland
C. What visitors can enjoy in Disneyland.
D. A brief introduction to Disneyland
B. 1954
C. 1955
D. 1965
B. Disney must have met many difficulties in building Disneyland.
C. Disney was a great man with great imagination and creativity.
D. About 50 million visitors have visited Disneyland so far.
B. improve
C. find
D. open
America alone, tipping is a $16 billion-a-year industry. Consumers acting politely ought not to pay more than
they have to for a given service. Tips should not exist. So why do they? The common opinion in the past was
that tips both rewarded the efforts of good service and reduced uncomfortable feelings of inequality. And also,
tipping makes for closer relations. It went without saying that the better the service, the bigger the tip.
But according to a new research from Cornell University, tips no longer serve any useful function. The
paper analyzes numbers they got from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants. The connection between
larger tips and better service was very weak. Only a tiny part of the size of the tip had anything to do with the
quality of service.
Tipping is better explained, by culture than by the money people spend. In America, the custom came into
being a long time ago. It is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service. In New York restaurants, failing
to tip at least l5% could well mean dissatisfaction from the customers. Hairdressers can expect to get l5%-20%, and the man who delivers your fast food $2. In Europe, tipping is less common. In many restaurants the
amount of tip is decided by a standard service charge. In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught
on at all. Only a few have really taken to tipping.
According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell papers" author, countries in which people are more social or
outgoing tend to tip more. Tipping may reduce anxiety about being served by strangers. And Mr. Lynn says,
"In America, where people are expressive and eager to mix up with others, tipping is about social approval. If
you tip badly, people think less of you. Tipping well is a chance to show off."
B. the relationship between tipping and custom
C. the origin and present meaning of tipping
D. most American people hate tipping
B. been hated.
C. been stopped.
D. been permitted
B. An American just had a wonderful dinner in a well known restaurant in New York.
C. A Japanese businessman asked for a pizza delivery from a Pizza Hut in New York.
D. A Chinese student enjoyed his meal in a famous fast food restaurant in New York.
B. tipping is especially popular in New York
C. tipping in America can make service better now
D. tipping has something to do with people"s character
difficult to grow. They require an exact amount of water, warmth, soil and protection. After about five years,
cocoa trees start producing large fruits called pods. The seeds inside these pods are harvested to make
chocolate.
Today we travel around the world exploring the history of chocolate. Its story begins with a plant whose
scientific name, The obroma cocoa, means "food of the gods". People have been enjoying the rich flavor of
chocolate, a product made from this plant.
Most people know that chocolate is made from cocoa and that the origins of chocolate can be traced back
to Central and South America. For centuries, the natives there regarded cocoa as a gift from the gods. But how
did chocolate go from being the food of the gods to being the food of love?
Historians believe the Maya of Central America first learned to farm cocoa plants around two thousand
years ago. The Maya took the cocoa trees from the rainforests and grew them in their gardens. They cooked
the cocoa seeds, and then crushed them into a soft substance. They used the cocoa bean as the main part in a
dark, bitter drink that we would call"chocolate". They believed that chocolate had mystical characteristics-but
cocoa also had commercial (商业的)value. In fact, cocoa beans were used as a form of currency that was
worth its weight in gold!
The explorer Christopher Columbus brought cocoa seeds to Spain after his trip to Central America in 1502.
But the Spanish explorer Conquistador Hernando Cortez was the first European explorer to realize cocoa"s
commercial possibilities. When he arrived in the New World in 1519, he soon established his own cocoa
factory. In 1529, Cortez returned to Spain and introduced chocolate - as a drink mixed with sugar, vanilla, and
cinnamon-to European society.
The wealthy people of Spain first enjoyed a sweetened type of the chocolate drink. Later, the popularity
of the drink spread throughout Europe. The English, Dutch and French began to plant cocoa trees in their own
countries. Chocolate remained a drink that only wealthy people could afford to drink until the eighteenth
century. During the period known as the Industrial Revolution, new technologies helped make chocolate less
costly to produce.
It caught on-especially with the noble people, who enjoyed hot chocolate as an aphrodisiac (a kind of
medicine). As its popularity spread, people found new ways to make and use chocolate. These days, chocolate
is enjoyed as both a tasty treat and a romantic gift everywhere.
B. Central America
C. Spain.
D. Africa
A. protection
B. warmth
C. soil of good quality
D. plenty of fertilizer
B. The wealthy people of Spain first didn"t enjoy a chocolate drink.
C. Chocolate is made from the branches of coco trees.
D. At first only wealthy people could afford to drink chocolate.
① The English, Dutch and French began to plant cocoa trees in their own colonies.
② Christopher Columbus brought cocoa seeds to Spain.
③ Cortez set up his own cocoa plantation.
④ Cortez introduced chocolate to European society.
B. ②③①④
C. ②④③①
D. ③②④①
B. Chocolate, food of the gods.
C. Value of chocolate, as costly as gold.
D. Chocolate, food of love.
to those who choose to study literature at university.
Shakespeare"s work, together with most other classics, is seen as remote, and written in a 400-year-old
version of English that is about as inviting as toothache.
Still, in British schools, it is compulsory to study the bard (诗人), and when something is made compulsory,
usually the result is boredom, resentment (憎恨) or both.
This was my experience of the classics at school. But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change
of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me. I wanted answers, so
I turned to books to find them.
I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught it in Britain and China. I have never regretted it. There
is something in literature that people want, even if they don"t read books. You see this in the popularity of TV
and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen"s Pride and Prejudice being a case
in point. These popular adaptations may help increase people"s interest in the classics.
Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare play. If that is the case,
then I welcome the trend. But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing. Shakespeare is a
poet. His greatness is in his language. Reading someone else"s rewriting of his work is like peeling a banana,
throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin. Take on the original. It really is worth the effort.
B. British students usually find compulsory reading dull.
C. Only those studying literature read Shakespeare"s works.
D. For British people, Shakespeare"s works are no longer classics.
B. was forced to read the classics for a PhD
C. turned to literature to seek answers in his teens
D. thinks only people who read books like literature
B. get a PhD in literature
C. seek their answers about the world
D. become more interested in the classics
B. The rewriting trend does more harm than good.
C. Readers should try to read the original versions.
D. Readers need to learn the language in the classics.
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