单选题A simple pair of pants may contain a multitude of meanings. In the 1850s, jeans were the unemotional, durable dress of those that came to California to labor in the gold fields. Seams were strengthened with metal pins to make them hold, a technology borrowed from the construction of horse blankets. Cloth for beasts of burden was translated to the needs of men of burden. These were the clothes of hard-laboring people, and these pants held little promise for the men who wore them, save the promise that they would be ready for the next day's labors. During the same decade, in the court of one European queen, "the gown worn by a fashionable lady in attendance contained 1,100 yards of material not including lace and other ornaments." American women of wealth were also wrapped in an abundance of cloth. While makers of jeans worried over how many men could be fitted into a given amount of cloth, for women of wealth the concern was with how many yards of cloth could be attractively arranged upon a given individual. This was the mark of prosperity: to wear enough material on one's back to clothe many of more modest means. The fashionable rich could not imagine themselves wearing the vulgar canvas pants of workers and "peasants". Neither could working-class people reasonably imagine themselves in the costumes of wealth and power. Tile only fashion link between them— subtle at best—was the stern top hat of wealthy capitalists, a coal-black cylinder symbolizing the factory chimney pipes that brought profit to one, hardship to the other. Blue jeans only signified labor and sweat. Years later, the clothing of nineteenth-century laborers would assume new and different meanings. Humble beginnings became increasingly obscure within the unfolding of popular culture. In the movies, the horse riders of the early cattle industry were reborn as symbols of a noble, rural simplicity, and blue jeans became conspicuous within the landscape of the American media. On the screen these pants teased the imaginations of city folk, who longed for a simpler and less corrupt life. While laborers would continue to wear them at work, now the well-off might put on a pair at home or in the garden—an escape from the discipline of the business world. In the 1950s, blue jeans became a statement by those who wished to boycott the values of a consumer-based society that was concerned only with acquisition. Blue-jeans-wearing rebels of popular movies were an expression of contempt towards the empty and obedient silence of Cold-War America; the positive images of American consumer society were under siege. What had been a piece of traditional American culture—blue jeans—became a rejection of traditional culture.

单选题The text intends to express the idea that ______.

单选题The teacher spoke highly of such ______ as loyalty, courage and truthfulness shown by his students.

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying 'A man's best friends are his ten fingers.' You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of personal struggle. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

单选题Internet (has made possible) (for people to know) what (is going) on (all over) the world.A. has made possibleB. for people to knowC. is goingD. all over

单选题Why is it difficult to learn names all over the world?

单选题When you stretch out in the sun you can do one of three things. You can use no suntanoil. You can use an ordinary sun tan oil. Or you can use Bergasol.If you dont use any sun tan oil at all when

单选题As the Cup Final was drawing closer, the injury of the best player was a ______ for the whole team.

单选题Piotrek Kowalski, 18, comes from Poland and would like a pen pal who is interested in discussing the current political situation in the world. He likes jazz and playing tennis in his free time. The best pen pal for Piotrek would be ______.

单选题The child is ______ all the evidence for his opinion.

单选题Perhaps my dishes will not be as delicious as those which you are accustomed to eating, but I beg you to grant my ______ and have dinner with me.

单选题The point at ______ at the meeting is whether they are to import the assembly line.

单选题He is ____ of those boys who is willing to take on another assignment.

单选题That customer wanted to return the pens he bought because he said they ______ easily.

单选题The prisoner stood there ______. A. with his hands cuffed B. with his hands cuffing C. with his cuffed hands D. with his cuffing hands

单选题Children are (among) the most frequent victims of violent, (drug-related) crimes (that) have nothing (doing with) the cost of acquiring the drugs.

单选题He ______ his mother's bad temper______ ill health.

单选题It will be very helpful if parents have seen the school environment and know what kind of tasks the school will ______ on the daily life of their child.

单选题 Questions9-12 are based on the passage you have just heard.