[单项选择]The present downturn is similar to traditional ones in that ________.


A. we can never predict which way the economy will head
B. the economic prospects have been unfavorable for 10 years
C. the government has done relatively little to intervene the market
D. physical laborers are the chief victims of the economic decline

[单项选择]The present downturn is similar to traditional ones in that ________.


A. we can never predict which way the economy will head
B. the economic prospects have been unfavorable for 10 years
C. the government has done relatively little to intervene the market
D. physical laborers are the chief victims of the economic decline

[单项选择]Freezing is at present one of the ______ of preserving meat, fruit and Vegetables.
A. most methods important
B. methods most important
C. most important methods
D. important most methods

[单项选择]Many traditional societies see the use of one's family name as a sign of ______.
A. respect
B. distance
C. importance
D. gratitude

[单项选择]One of the traditional complaints about English food is the way______ vegetables are cooked.
A. in which
B. how
C. which
D. that

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Passage One
We first think of the traditional or nuclear family. This is a two-generation family, the father and the mother and their own children. Most couples wanted to have four children, two boys, two girls.
Some nuclear families, however, may add one or more grandparents to come to live with them, that is three generations. This kind of family with grandparents, parents, and grandchildren is called an extended family. This family type was not very common during the later half of the twentieth century, but it’s becoming more common now as an elderly grandparent moves in to live with a son or daughter. This is more possible now that American homes have become larger. What is interesting, however, is that after the grandchildren move out of the home and start their own families, this extended family shrinks back to a nuclear family, with just two generations again living together, a grandparent and parents, with the grandchildren coming only for occ
A. two generations
B. three generations
C. four generations
D. one generation

[单项选择]Silks are one of the chief China's traditional exports and they are usually well received abroad.
A. 丝绸是中国的主要的一种传统出口产品，它们在国外通常很受欢迎。
B. 丝绸是中国的重要传统出口产品之一，在国外它们很好卖。
C. 丝绸是中国的主要传统出口产品之一，在国外很畅销。
D. 丝绸是中国的一种领头的传统出口商品，通常它们到处都得到很好接受。

[单项选择]One day Mr. West went to buy his wife a present ______.


A. during the lunch hour
B. after work
C. after his lunch in a restaurant

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Passage Three
The traditional American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year a special feast was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists who had settled there had left England because they were denied of religious freedom. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in coming across the ocean.
The ship that carried them was called the Mayflower. The North Atlantic was difficult to travel. There were bad storms. They were assisted in learning to live in the land by the Indians who lived in the region. The Puritans, as they were called, had much to be thankful for. Their religious practices were no longer a source of criticism by the government. They learned to adjust their farming habits to the climate and soil.
When they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving Celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner and a prayer of gratitude for the new life. They r
A. made life difficult for them
B. helped them to adjust
C. taken their land
D. been too afraid to talk to them