[单项选择]Which statement about American education is NOT true
A. Elementary and secondary education is free and noncompulsory.
B. There are more public elementary and secondary schools than private ones.
C. Public schools are financially supported and governed by states or communities.
D. Public and private schools refer to the way in which these institutions are funded and controlled.

[单项选择]Which statement about the location of Canada is TRUE


A. Canada lies in the north of the North America including The Alaska Island and the Greenland Island.
B. Canada has the largest acreage in the world.
C. Canada is close to the Arctic Ocean in the east.
D. Canada is close to the ocean in three directions.

[单项选择]Which of the following statements about risk is TRUE（）
A. Systematic risk=Total risk + Unsystematic risk.
B. Unsystematic risk is an undiversifiable risk.
C. The market portfolio consists only of systematic risk.

[单项选择]Which of the following statements about iron is true


A. It arrives occasionally in the form of meteorites.
B. It is regarded as a gift from the gods.
C. It is regarded as heavenly element.
D. It tarnishes as slowly as gold.

[单项选择]Which of the following about doctor medicine is TRUE according to the passage


A. It has a longer history than folk medicine.
B. It has been practiced for around 1,600 years.
C. It bases its treatments on observation and logic.
D. It was very successful in curing sicknesses in ancient times.

[单项选择]Which is NOT true about American's indalism

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Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature -- from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway -- one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face -- the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emot
A. a characteristic of American society.
B. a quality found in all civilizations.
C. a quality inherited from our Latin ancestors.
D. a quality of the American character.

[单项选择]What should an American with sufficient medical training do in order to become a licensed doctor
A. Pass an examination to practice medicine.
B. Have two years of internship in a hospital.
C. Take extra training in a specialty.
D. Be able to prescribe medicine both as a doctor and a dentist.

[单项选择]Why are American scholars worried about education today
A. The STEM subjects are too challenging for students to learn.
B. Some Asian countries have overtaken America in basic sciences.
C. America is lagging behind in the STEM disciplines.
D. There are not enough scholars in humanistic studies.

[单项选择]Which American president witnessed the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Westernization of
East European countries


A. Carter.
B. Reagan.
C. Bush.
D. Clinton.