[单项选择]The Americans used to be so arrogant that they refused ______ to allow the Panamanian flag to fly.
A. therefore
B. even
C. thus
D. only

[单项选择]The generation of Americans being talked about refers to those people ______.


A. who are the first of this century to mature
B. who could meet the stiffest of challenges
C. who have matured in peace and prosperity
D. who remember the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr

[单项选择]To accompany the songs, Native Americans used _______.


A. musical instruments
B. religious prays
C. festival banners
D. camp tents

[单项选择]Henry is so arrogant after being promoted president of the company ______ accept the invitation to his former coworker's wedding.


A. in order to
B. as to
C. as to not
D. as not to

[单项选择]Americans charged with crimes have fights so as to （）.
A. fight against laws
B. talk back to the police
C. protect themselves
D. escape punishment

[单项选择]Copper, which is used so widely for carrying electricity, offers very little resistance．
A. 铜输电的用途非常广泛，因为铜的阻力很小。
B. 输电广泛的铜阻力很小。
C. 铜的阻力很小，所以被如此广泛地用于输电。
D. 因为铜被广泛地用于输电，所以其阻力很小。

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Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long self analysis known as the journalism credibility project.
Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.
But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day’s events. In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.
There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the "standard templates" of th
A. working attitude
B. conventional lifestyle
C. world outlook
D. educational background