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[单项选择]The great treasure of America is not the land, as bountiful as it is. Nor is it the gold and paper currency in bank vaults.
America’s greatest treasure can be found in any Mephone directory that lists a representative sample of the millions of skilled working men and women who make this country go.
As with most blessings, we take these people for granted. Were it not fin" this gear army of people who know how to do things and how to do them right America would collapse overnight. But they are mostly absent from television, movies and newspapers. When a new high-rise office, complex is announced, the emphasis is on who will occupy it and who is financing it. Virtually nothing is said about the team of workers who, from bare ground and blueprints, will build it.
Those in the building trades are only part of the treasure. The millions of men and women who make our industries, businesses and service organizations work are also part of this largely untold story.
It’s fas
A. the telephone directory
B. the gold and paper currency in bank vaults
C. the team of workers of building trade
D. millions of skilled working men and women
[填空题]America reaped great gains from Iraq war despite the much pain from both sides.
[单项选择]Actually, though, America, the "land of immigrants", has always had people of many different nationalities and languages. The 1990 census indicates that almost 14% of Americans speak a non English language at home. Yet only 3% reported that they spoke English "not well" or "not at all". That means that slightly more than one out of 10 Americans could be considered bilingual.
Besides that, many high school, college students, and even some elementary school students are required to take a foreign language as a part of their curriculum. In addition to old standbys like Spanish, German and French, more and more students are opting for Eastern European and Asian languages. Of course, not all students keep up their foreign language abilities. As the old saying goes, " If you don’t use it. " But still, a growing number of Americans are coming to appreciate the benefits of being multilingual.
Ethnic enclaves, found particularly in major metropolitan centers, have preserved the langua
A. being able to speak two languages
B. being able to speak three languages
C. being able to speak four languages
D. being able to speak five languages
[填空题]China’ s West is a treasure land ______(正等着人们去开发和利用).
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America Loses a Great Public Thinker
Arthur Miller’s
death last week meant more than the loss of an outstanding playwright. It
was the loss of a great public thinker who believed strongly that the essence of
America--its greatness was in its promises. 71. Miller knew what ignorance
and fear and the madness of crowds, especially when exploited by sinister
leadership, could do to those promises. 72. His greatest concerns, "were
with the moral corruption brought on by bending one’s ideals to society’s
dictates, buying into the values of a group when they conflict with the voice of
personal conscience. "73. The individual in Miller’s view, had an abiding
moral responsibility for his or her own behavior, and for the behavior of
society as a whole. He said that "I felt that as improbable as it might
seem, there were moments when an individual conscience was all that could keep a
world from falling."
Miller sa
