[简答题]
At the end of "Spirited Away", Hayao Miyazaki’s animated
masterpiece, ten-year-old Chihiro uses her wits and her courage to escape from a
nightmarish world of ogres and witches. Japan enjoyed a similar deliverance last
week, when its central bank turned its back on an interest rate of zero for the
first time in almost six years. The quarter-point increase marked an end to the
rich world’s longest economic stagnation since the Great Depression.
Throughout this 15-year ordeal, Japan has struggled with the difficult
issue of what to jettison and what to cling on to. On the face of it, it looks
as though the nation has preserved much of what made it different: it has, for
instance, held on to its preference for consensus and gradual change, to the
dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party and to a business culture that
shelters jobs. On closer examination, however, it becomes clear that the country
has come a long way.
The economic and human cost
[填空题]A
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B
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C
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[填空题]
The culture industry did away with yesterday’s rubbish by its
own perfection, and by forbidding and domesticating the amateurish, although it
constantly allows gross blunders without which the standard of the exalted style
cannot be perceived.
66. ______.
Nevertheless
the culture industry remains the entertainment business. Its influence over the
consumers is established by entertainment; that will ultimately be broken not by
an outright decree, but by the hostility inherent in the principle of
entertainment to what is greater than itself. Since all the trends of the
culture industry are profoundly embedded in the public by the whole social
process, they are encouraged by the survival of the market in this area. Demand
has not yet been replaced by simple obedience. As is well known, the major
reorganization of the film industry shortly before World War I, the material
prerequisite of its expansion, was precisely its deliberate acceptanc
[单项选择]A lorry （） Jane’s cat and sped away.
A. ran over
B. ran into
C. ran through
D. ran down
[单项选择]Why were Thorpe’s medals taken away from him
A. Because someone found out that Thorpe had been using drugs.
B. Because it was found out that Thorpe had once been an amateur athlete.
C. Because Thorpe’s fame began to decline after the Olympic Games.
D. Because it was found out that at one time Thorpe had been a professional athlete.
