Many visitors finds the fast pace at
which American people move very troubling. One’s first impression is likely to
be that everyone is in a rush. City people always appear to be hurrying to get
where they are going and are very impatient if they are delayed even for a short
moment.
At first, this may seem unfriendly to you. People will
push past you as they walk along the street. You will miss smiles, brief
conversations with people as you shop or dine away from home. Do not think that
because Americans are in such a hurry they are unfriendly. Often, life is much
slower outside the big cities, as is true in other countries as well.
Americans who live in cities often think that everyone is equally in a
hurry to get things done; just as city people do in Tokyo, Singapore or Paris,
for example. But When they discover that yo
A. America is a highly developed country
B. Americans are impatient and unfriendly people
C. the fast pace in American life often causes much trouble
D. American city people seem to be always in a rush
[单项选择] Passage Four
Many things make people think artists
are weird—the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes. However, the
weirdest may be this: artists’ only jobs are to explore emotions, and yet they
choose to focus on the ones that feel lousy. This wasn’t always so. The earliest
forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy.
But somewhere in the 19th(上标) century, more artists began seeing happiness as
insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring. In the 20th(上标) century, classical
music became more atonal, visual art more unsettling.
Sure,
there have been exceptions, but it would not be a stretch to say that for the
past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824,
Beethoven completed his "Ode to Joy". In 1962, novelist Anthoy Burgess used it
in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite
A. They wear special clothes.
B. They rarely work in the daytime.
C. They mainly depict distressing things.
D. They are liable to take illegal drugs.
[单项选择] Passage 3
Many critics of the current welfare
system argue that existing welfare regulations foster family instability. They
maintain that those regulations, which exclude most poor husband and wife
families from Aid to Families with Dependent Children assistance grants,
contribute to the problem of family dissolution. Thus, they conclude that
expanding the set of families eligible for family assistance plans or guaranteed
income measures would result in a marked strengthening of the low income family
structure. If all poor families could receive welfare, would the incidence of
instability change markedly The unhappily married couple, in most cases, remain
together out of a sense of economic responsibility for their children, because
of the high costs of separation, or because of the consumption benefits of
marriage. The formation, maintenance,
A. the agreement between couples reinforce marital stability
B. expected AFDC income helps to strengthen family stability
C. AFDC regulations are to blame for family instability
D. public assistance upsets the balance between benefits and costs of marriage
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