It used to be said that English people
take their pleasure sadly. No doubt this would still be true if they had any
pleasure to take, but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my country has
provided sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes thought
that the habit of taking pleasure sadly has crossed the Atlantic, and I have
wondered what it is that makes so many English-speaking people somber in their
outlook in spite of good health and a good income.
In the course
of my travels in the American I have been impressed by a kind of fundamental
malaise which seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult problems
for the social reformer. Most social reformers have held the opinion that, if
poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the
millennium would
A. make people indulge in pleasures
B. lead to despondency
C. pose touchy problems for social reformers
D. throw a heavy burden on the country’s welfare program
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TEXT A It used to be said that
English people take their pleasure sadly. No doubt this would still be true if
they had any pleasure to take, but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my
country has provided sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes
thought that the habit of taking pleasure sadly has crossed the Atlantic, and I
have wondered what it is that makes so many English-speaking people somber in
their outlook in spite of good health and a good income. In the
course of my travels in the American I have been impressed by a kind of
fundamental malaise which seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult
problems for the social reformer. Most social reformers have held the opinion
that, if poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the
millennium would have arrived. But when I look at the face of people in opulent
cars, whether in your country or in mine, I do not se
[单项选择] {{B}}TEXT B{{/B}}
It was said by Sir George Bernard Shaw
that "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." My
first personal experience of this was when I worked as a camp counselor for two
months in 2000 in Summer Camp run by the Boy Scouts of America, as part of an
international leader exchange scheme. Before I went, all the participants in the
scheme were given a short list of words that are in common use in the UK which
Americans would either be confused by or would even offend them. I memorized the
words and thought "I’ll cope".
When I finally arrived in the
States three months later, I realized that perhaps a lifetime of watching
American television was not adequate preparation for appreciating and coping
with the differences between American and British speech. In the first hour of
arri
A. England and America used to be one country but were separated by the language.
B. England and America share the same language but the language separates them.
C. England and America share the same language but show differences in the language use.
D. British English and American English are almost the same in the two countries.
[单项选择] {{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Patent medicine used in
America dates back to the early days of the Republic, when drugs imported from
Europe were sold by postmasters, goldsmiths, grocers, and tailors. Their use
expanded during the Jacksonian era as Americans rebelled against traditional
doctors and enthusiastically endorsed quackery. Increasing urbanization and
industrialization also fed the market for patent medicines, as new drugs were
needed to combat epidemics. But these sales, by mid-century, were due to two
non-medical events. Patent legislation in 1793 made it possible
for manufactures to protect their product against counterfeiters. But most
manufacturers did not seek patents on the formulas for their medicines, since
these were often combinations of common products like alcohol and vegetable
extracts which they preferred not to reveal. Instead, they sought patents on the
shape of the bottle, promotional materials, and label inform A. The danger. B. Why it was so popular. C. Whether it was an example of quackery. D. The disadvantages.
[单项选择]TEXT C
When George Orwell wrote in 1941 that England was "the most class-ridden country under the sun", he was only partly right. Societies have always had their hierarchies, with some group perched at the top. In the Indian state of Bihar the Ranveer Sena, an upper-caste private army, even killed to stay there.
By that measure class in Britain hardly seems entrenched (根深蒂固的). But in another way Orwell was right, and continues to be. As a new YouGov poll shows, Britons are surprisingly alert to class - both their own and that of others. And they still think class is sticky. According to the poll, 48% of people aged 30 or over say they expect to end up better off than their parents. But only 28% expect to end up in a different class. More than two-thirds think neither they nor their children will leave the class they were born into.
What does this thing that people cannot escape consist of these days And what do people look at when decoding which class someone belongs to The most u
A. Notions of class by immigrants.
B. Changing trends of employment.
C. Fewer types of work.
D. Easy access to fame.
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