单选题In the USA square dancing has been the most popular style of folk dance for quite a long time. In early days, people danced happily with each other once their farm work was finished. At that time music mainly originated from the violin. However, people used clapping to produce the rhythm if there was no one who could play a musical instrument. Settlers danced in a kitchen, a store, or on a farm. Four couples are needed to form a square, all of whom stand in face of the center of the square. Every couple stand on one side of the square, the man on the left and the woman right. The caller plays an important role in the dance, because he needs to tell the dancers which steps they should take. He will teach the dancers steps if they don't know. Becoming a good caller takes much time. No doubt good callers are in demand forever. Following are the names of some common steps: Form a square; Circle; Honor your partner; Swing your partner; Form a star. Just name these. When the callers tell the dancers what to do next, they move to form the pattern he orders. People, be it many or few, can dance at the same time. You can see up to 1, 000 people dancing at one time. Sometimes only eight people of a square are dancing. People who do square dance wear special clothes, which makes dance even more pleasant to watch. One place's special clothes vary greatly from other places'. Women always wear skirts of various colors with a wonderful blouse, while men are dressed in shirts and trousers which they wear only when they do square dance. Nowadays in the US you can still find some schools, clubs, or groups that are square dancing for great fun.

单选题It was the day I froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home, rank somewhere below the family cat and above all attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn't completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absent-mindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately found them just before my highly sensitive tropical fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish. Nonetheless, that near-death experience--for the fish, if not for me--woke me up to the fact that my memory might not be all it once was. In the hope of improving my memory, I decided I would first try the memory books. However, much of what I read was, at first blush, utterly forgettable. If I was truly going to juice up my recall, however, book reading wouldn't cut it. What I needed was some kind of memory pill. The big bat in the memory--pill lineup is ginkgo biloba, the dried leaf of the maidenhair tree, thought to improve circulation and, in theory, memory. I decided to try it. The package warned that in addition to any other problems, ginkgo can cause "mild stomach discomfort". After just one pill, I discovered that the package was--how best to put this? --not kidding. It's hard to say if my memory improved in the little time I was on ginkgo, but I can say I had no trouble at all remembering to eat a tasteless diet for several days afterward. For me, the answer to memory problems was not in the medicine chest, but that didn't mean I was a hopeless case. My recall had improved after two weeks in the memory-improvement battle. I may not be able to read a magazine and instantly memorize it, but I now remember to buy it when I get to the store. I may not be able to memorize hundreds of names and faces, but at least I won't meet an Alex at a party and find myself calling him Alan or Alvin or Evelyn.

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单选题 Questions 14-17 are based on a conversation you are going to hear.

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单选题WhatisHelen'smajor?A.Children'sLiterature.B.AmericanLiterature.C.Medicine.D.ElementaryEducation.

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单选题 Text Music is an important way of expressing people's feelings and emotions. The (26) , for instance, from 1960 to 1969 will be (27) by many people as a period of social and political unrest in America. (28) this time, many people despaired (29) the music favored by the American teenagers. (30) , we must now admit that the music they loved was (31) a sign of the period and a (32) of the tensions and changes that were (33) American society. In the early sixties, (34) about social justice and equality were (35) by the song "Blowing in the Wind" which (36) the civil rights song "We Shall Overcome". The conflict concerning military (37) in Vietnam was sung about in 1965 in the (38) song "Eve of Destruction" and in the song "Ballad of the Green Beret". A few years (39) , a gradual shift in mood became (40) in one of the most popular songs which suggested calmer questions and possible answers even as some pop stars protested loudly (41) the draft. Finally, music as a (42) of the political and social process in America was highlighted at Woodstock, New York, where half of a million young people came (43) in 1969 to spend three days listening to songs that spanned the decade. This event was a symbol of the desire for (44) within a time of unrest. Woodstock was a (45) of hope in days of rage.

单选题Suppose you are a Spanish and live in Madrid. One day when you're walking along the street, thinking about your own business, all of a sudden a stranger walked towards you with a smile on his face. After stopping you, he takes out a small electronic device from his pocket, holds it close to his mouth and speaks slowly into it, saying in English: "Excuse me, where is the restaurant?" Then what would you do after hearing that? I believe there would be three different kinds of response—some would run away quickly; some would call the police for help; and others would listen carefully to the sound from the device which said in Spanish, "Por favor? donde eatáel restaurante?" The most properly response may be the last one because the person standing in front of you is probably only a tourist trying to amuse himself. It is said that the device is the world's first portable transistor—a hand-held microcomputer that can converts one spoken language into another simultaneously. The four-pound product is called the Voice, which is battery-operated, and it was invented by Advanced Products and Technologies—a well-known American electronics company. When the Voice was first introduced in the United States in late April at a price of over $ 1,000, it could convert spoken English into four other languages involving Italian, French, German and Spanish. The product includes separate cartridges (盒式储存器) for each of the four languages, which can be changed in an interactive way whenever the users need. The item will be seen on European market soon after the U. S. The Voice uses a microchip (微型集成块) and artificial intelligence to translate various languages. It is started by voice command and outputs voices through a built-in speaker. Then the user can make a statement or ask a question, the Voice repeats immediately what has been said in another specified language.

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单选题Questions 14 ～ 17 are based on the following dialogue about a part-time job.