() from the European continent, England had been in close contact with the outside world.
A.Because cutting off
B.While to be cut off
C.Although cut itself off
D.Even if cut off
A.Because cutting off
B.While to be cut off
C.Although cut itself off
D.Even if cut off
A、Asian countries
B、Asian and Hispanic countries
C、Eastern European countries
D、former Soviet republics
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For years,business people。in Western Europe were worried.They knew they could not compete against business from the U.S.The United States is much larger and had many more resources than any Western European country. Some European people realized that the European nations needed to join together to help each other.If they could forget their language differences and the differences in customs.they might become strong competition against Other countries. In 1958,six of the European countries-Belgium,the Netherlands,Luxembourg,France,Germany and Italy got together and decided to cooperate.They called their group the European Economic Community,or the Common Market.These countries agreed to join their resources together. Within a few years,the European Economic Community had worked SO well that its members were more prosperous than many other European nations.Soon,other nations began to realize the advantage of the Common Market.Today the Common Market includes most of the important countries in Western Europe.It is helping Western Europe to again take its place as a leader among the industrial nations of the world. From the passage we know the U.S.is much richer than_______ in resources·
A.any other Western European country
B.any other country in Western Europe
C.any country in Western Europe
D.every country in Europe
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??For years,business people in Western Europe were worried.They knew they could not compete against business from the U.S.The United States is much larger and had many more resources than any Western European country.??
??Some European people realized that the European nations needed to join together to help each other.If they could forget their language differences and the differences in customs. they might ??become strong competition against other countries.??
??In 1958,six of the European countries-Belgium,the Netherlands,Luxembourg,France,Germany and Italy got together and decided to cooperate.They called their group the European Economic Community,or the Common Market.These countries agreed to join their resources together.????
??Within a few years,the European Economic Community had worked SO well that its members were more prosperous than many other European nations.Soon,other nations began to realize the advantage of the Common Market.Today the Common Market includes most of the important countries in Western Europe.It is helping Western Europe to again take its place as a leader among the industrial nations of the world.??
??From the passage we know the U.S.is much richer than_______ in resources.??
A.any other Western European country
B.any other country in Western Europe
C.any country in Western Europe
D.every country in Europe
The members of the European Economic Community have developed fast because they _______.A.share their resources and produce more goods
B.can again take the place as a leader in the world
C.forget the differences in their languages and customs
D.have become strong competition against the U.S.
Which statement is true?A.The Common Market is only a political association(协会).
B.The Common Market is an economic and political association.
C.The Common Market is surely not an economic association.
D.The Common Market is neither an economic association nor a political on
In order to ________ the Western European countries decided to cooperate.
A.join together to found a united community
B.help each other to smooth away the differences in customs
C.work and act together for each country own purpose
D.work together and fight against each other
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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
As well as those chronic problems, the EU face an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.
Yet the debate about how to save Europe's single currency from disintegration is stuck. It is stuck because the euro zone's dominant powers, France and Germany, agree on the need for greater harmonisation within the euro zone, but disagree about what to harmonies.
Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrowing, spending and competitiveness, barked by quasi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not obey. These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects, and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils. It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour ; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.
A "southern" camp headed by French wants something different: "European economic government" within an inner core of euro-zone members. Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers. Finally, figures close to the French, government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonisation: e. g. , curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.
It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world's largest trading block. At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area. It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalisation, and make capitalism benign.
The EU is faced with so many problems that_________.
A.it has more or less lost faith in markets
B.even its supporters begin to feel concerned
C.some of its member countries plan to abandon euro
D.it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation
【C1】
A.must be
B.must have been
C.ought to be
D.should be
The fastest transatlantic voyage by a packet mentioned by the author was from ______.
A.Liverpool to New York
B.New York to Liverpool
C.Liverpool to Baltimore
D.Baltimore to Liverpool
Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese (jueshi) , you may be misled into assuming that it is an aristocratic cultural form. Nothing could be further from the truth. It originated among black Americans at the end of the 19th century, at a time when they occupied the very bottom of the American social heap.
So how has something that was created by a once downtrodden and despised minority acquired a central place in today's American culture? Mr. Darrell A. Jenks, director of the American Center for Educational Exchange, and also a drummer in the jazz band Window, analyses the phenomenon for us here.
Perhaps the essence of America is that you could never get two Americans to agree on just what that might be. After thinking about it for a while, we might chuckle and say, "Hmm, seems like being American is a bit more complicated than we thought. " Certainly things like individualism, success (the "American Dream"), innovation and tolerance stand out. But these things come together because of our ability to work with one another and find common purpose no matter how diverse we might be.
Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, believe that jazz captures the essence of America. For good reason, for in jazz all of the characteristics I mentioned above come together. The solos are a celebration of individual brilliance that can't take place without the group efforts of the rhythm section. Beyond that, though, jazz has a connection to the essence of America in a much more fundamental way. It is an expression of the African roots of American culture, a musical medium that exemplifies the culture of the Africans whose culture came to dominate much of what is American.
That's right, in many respects America's roots are in Africa. Read Ralph Ellison's perceptive description of the transformation of separate African and European cultures at the hands of the slaves:
"…the dancing of those slaves who, looking through the windows of a plantation manor house from the yard, imitated the steps so gravely performed by the masters within and then added to them their own special flair, burlesquing the white folks and then going on to force the steps into a choreography uniquely their own. The whites, looking out at the activity in the yard, thought that they were being flattered by imitation and were amused by the incongruity of tattered blacks dancing courtly steps, while missing completely the fact that before their eyes a European cultural form. was becoming Americanized, undergoing a metamorphosis through the mocking activity of a people partially sprung from Africa. " (Ralph Ellison, Living with Music, pp 83-84).
Jazz brought together elements from Africa and Europe, fusing them into a new culture, an expression unique to the Americans.
Out of this fusion came an idea that we Americans believe central to our identity: tolerance. Both cultures represented in Ellison's passage eventually came to realize each other's value. Americans acknowledge that in diversity is our strength. We learn every day that other cultures and peoples may make valuable contributions to our way of life. Jazz music is the embodiment of this ideal, combining elements from African and European cultures into a distinctly American music.
Jazz reflects two contradictory facets of American life. On the one hand it is a team effort, where every musician is completely immersed in what the group does together, listening to each of the other players and building on their contributions to create a musical whole. On the other hand, the band features a soloist who is an individual at the extreme, a genius like Charlie Parker who explores musical territory where no one has ever gone before. In the same sense, American life is also a combination of teamwork and individualism, a combination of individual brilliance with the ability to work with others.
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A.aristocratic
B.bottom
C.misled
D.heap
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."
(36)
A.outdoor
B.worldwide
C.college
D.unpopular
Study Confirms Red Meat Link with Bowel(结肠)Cancer
People who eat more than 160 grams of red or processed meat a day are 35 percent more likely to develop bowel cancer than those who eat less______(51)20 grams a day, according to one of the biggest nutrition investigations ever carried out.
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition followed 478,040 men and women______(52)35 to 70 from 10 European countries.
All subjects were free of cancer at enrollment between 1992 and 1998, but ______(53)an average follow-up of almost 5 years 1,329 bowel cancers had been reported.
The subsequent analysis, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, confirms the long-held suspicion______(54)high intakes(纳入量)of red meat are associated with increased bowel______(55)risk.
After taking into consideration factors like age, sex, height, weight, energy intake, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption, the investigators found that bowel cancer was______(56)with intake of red and processed meat but not chicken.
Risk of bowel cancer dropped with increasing intake of fish. Eating more than 80 grams a day of fish was associated______(57)a 31 percent reduction in risk compared with eating less than 10 grams a______(58).
Subjects with high red meat and low fish intake were at 63 percent higher risk of bowel cancer compared with subjects with low red meat and high fish______(59). In addition, the risk of developing the disease was increased for______(60)people who ate a low fibre diet.
Sheila Bingham, study investigator at the UK's Medical Research Council nutrition unit, said: "People have suspected for some time that high levels of red and processed meat______(61)risk of bowel cancer, but this is one of the largest studies worldwide and the first from Europe of this type to show a______(62)relationship."
She added in a statement: "The overall picture is very consistent for red and processed meat and fibre across all the______(63)populations studied."
Study coordinator, Elio Riboli, of the World Health Organization International Agency for Research into Cancer, said: "Other risk factors for______(64)cancer include obesity(肥胖)and lack of physical activity. Smoking and excess alcohol may also play a ______(65). These factors were all taken into account in the analysis."
A.from
B.than
C.between
D.among