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You asked me to tell you about culture shock for an Iranian in Britain.There is culture shock in a sense.One of the things was that when you talk to people in Iran, you can comfortably ask how much people earn and which religion they are.I found this very difficult with English people.They don' t tell you, they look away or they somehow get around the question.I didn' t understand why.I mean, I still don' t understand why people are uncomfortable answering that sort of question.In Iran, it's no problem, there' s no problem in asking anybody It’ s not rude at all.
I had that confirmed to me when in one of my English classes my teacher told me not to talk to English people about three things politics, religion and money.(判断正误)
26.People in Iran are not happy to talk about their salary or their religion.()
27.People in England try to avoid personal questions.()
28.In Iran, it's rude to ask questions about salary and religion()
29.The writer was advised to avoid talking to English people about politics, religion and money.()
30.The main idea of the passage is culture shock.()
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We learn from Paragraph 1 that ( ).
A. the government is usually the first to name a place
B. many places tend to have more than one name
C. a ceremony will be held when a place is named
D. people prefer the place names given by the government
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Which of the following statement is true?
A. Mark played an active part in community activities.
B. the city councilwoman was responsible for the decrease of life quality.
C. people were encouraged to give advice to solve these city problems.
D. many people were discouraged by the many problems facing them.
32.答案为C 从第一段People were supposed to suggest solutions to the councilwoman可知政府官员鼓励人们对城市的管理提意见。
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A Nobel Prize is considered by most people one of the highest international honors a person can receive. As you know, the prizes were started by a Swede called Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and lived from 1833 to1896. Alfred Nobel was a chemist and inventor. He made two important inventions. And so he became very rich. Although he was rich, Nobel was not a happy man. He never married nor had children. Also, he was a sick man in a large part of his life. Nobel died at the age of sixty-three. When he died, he left a fund 基金) of $9,000, 000. The money was to be used in giving prizes to those who made outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and the promotion 促进)of world peace. The first Nobel Prizes were given on December 10th, 1901, five years after Nobel’s death. Many famous people from all over the world have been given Nobel Prizes for their achievements. Albert Einstein was one of them. Each Prize has three parts. The first part is a gold medal. Second, a winner of a Nobel Prize is given a diploma(证书)saying that he has been given the Prize. The third part of the prize is a large amount of money—about $40, 000. Often a Prize is given to just one person, but not always. Sometimes, a Prize is shared. It may be given to two or three people who have worked together. Sometimes a Prize is not given at all if there is no outstanding achievement. In 1972, for example, no Nobel Peace Prize was given. It is the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm that decides whether to give the Prize or not
1.Most people think that the Nobel Prize is __________ a person can receive.
A、 the highest honor in the world
B、 one of the highest international honors
C、 a higher honor than others
D、 as high as any other honor
2.Alfred Nobel who started the Nobel Prize was __________
A、 a rich, happy and lucky man
B、 a poor, unhappy and unlucky man
C、 a poor, but happy and lucky man
D、 a rich, unhappy and unlucky man
3.A Nobel Prize is made up of _________
A、 a gold medal and a large amount of money
B、 a gold medal and a diploma
C、 a gold medal and a diploma and a large amount of money
D、 a diploma and a large amount of money
4.A Nobel Prize is given to __________ each year.
A、 just one person
B、 one person
C、 not always one person
D、 three persons
5.When he died, Nobel left an amount of money __________
A、 to his wife and his children
B、 to the university he used to study in
C、 to his parents and his students
D、 to be spend on setting five prizes
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根据以下材料回答 1~20 题:
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is___(1)___to say it anyway. He is that___(2)___bird, a scientist who works independently ___(3)___ any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not ___(4)___ thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused Much controversy when it was first suggested.
___(5)___ he, however, might tremble at the ___(6)___of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only ___(7)___that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in___(8)___are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection.
This group generally do well in IQ test, ___(9)___12-15 points above the ___(10)___value of 100, and have contributed ___(11)___to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the ___(12)___of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, ___(13)___. They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, ___(14)___, have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been ___(15)___ to social effects, such as a strong tradition of___(16)___ education. The latter was seen as a (an) ___(17)___of genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately ___(18)___ . His argument is that the unusual history of these people has ___(19)___ them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this ___(20)___ state of affairs.
第 1 题 请选择(1)处最佳答案( )。
A.selected
B.prepared
C.obliged
D.pleased
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