[单项选择]In fact, American people came to love Adams ______.


A. whether he was president or not
B. when he was not a president
C. before his term ended
D. when he first became a representative

[单项选择]In fact, American people came to love Adams ____________.


A. whether he was president or not
B. when he was not a president
C. before his term ended
D. when he first became a representative

[单项选择]American people were proud and optimistic because they felt they had saved the world and now were helping to rebuild Europe and Japan.
A. True
B. False

[单项选择]The Statue of Liberty was given to American people by ______ as a gift.
A. Britain
B. France
C. Canada
D. Italy

[单项选择]The American population is composed of people of different ______ backgrounds.


A. aesthetic
B. ethnic
C. athletic
D. ethic

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Passage One
For millions of people, the American dream of owning a home seems to be slipping out of reach:
"Maybe young couples can no longer afford to buy a ready-made house as their parents did," says 40-year-old building instructor Pat Hennin. "But they can still have a home. Like their pioneer ancestors, they can build it themselves, and at less than half the cost of a ready-made house."
The owner-builders came from every occupational group, although surprisingly few are professional building workers. Many take the plunge with little or no experience. "I learned how to build my house from reading books." says John Brown, who built a six-room home for $25,000 in
High Falls, New Jersey. "If you have patience and the carpentry skill to make a bookcase, you can build a house."
An astonishing 50 percent of these owner-builders hammer every nail, lay every pipe, and wire every switch with their o
A. are professional house builders
B. build houses of their own
C. are contract house builders
D. sell or let houses

[单项选择]How did John Adams make his living


A. He trained soldiers.
B. He was a smith.
C. He was a silversmith.
D. He was a politician.

[单项选择]Adams now maintains that it is less important to save the nation （）to a perilous future.
A. had alerted them
B. from alerting it
C. as to alert them
D. than to alert it

[单项选择]According to Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip (系列漫画) Dilbert, the annual performance review is "one of the most frightening and weakening experiences" in every employee"s life. Adam"s stories and comic figures poke fun at the workplace, but his characterization of people"s feelings about the annual performance review has its serious side. Although a recent study of 437 companies indicates that effective annual performance reviews can help raise profits, most employees of those companies hate them. In theory, annual performance reviews are constructive and positive interactions between managers and employees working together to attain maximum performance and strengthen the organization. In reality, they often create division, undermine morale, and spark anger and jealousy. Thus although the object of the annual performance review is to improve performance, it often has the opposite result. A programmer at an IT firm was stunned to learn at her annual performance review that she was denied a promotion because she wasn"t a "term player". What were the data used to make this judgment She didn"t smile in the company photo. Although this story might sound as if it came straight out of Dilbert, it is a true account of one woman"s experience. By following a few ideas and guidelines from industry analysis, this kind of ordeal can be avoided: To end the year with a positive and useful performance review, managers and employees must start the year by working together to establish clear goals and expectations. It may be helpful to allow employees to propose a list of people associated with the company who will be in a good position to assess their performance at the end of the year; these people may be co-workers, suppliers, or even customers. Goals should be measurable but flexible, and everyone should sign off on the plan. By checking employees" progress at about nine months, managers can give them a chance to correct mistakes and provide guidance to those who need it before the year is out. When conducting the review, managers should highlight strengths and weaknesses during the past year and discuss future responsibilities, avoiding punishment or blame. In short, when employees leave their performance reviews, they should be focusing on what they can do better in the year ahead, not worrying about what went into their files about the past.All the following are mentioned as the drawbacks of annual performance reviews EXCEPT ______.
A. reducing efficiency
B. creating tension
C. undermining morale
D. inducing anger