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[单项选择]The United States has long imported its food and fuel, its cars and clothes. Now the faltering economy has sparked a push for another type of import: shoppers.
For the first time, lawmakers, businesses and even White House officials are courting consumers from cash-rich countries such as China, India and Brazil to fill the nation’s shopping malls and pick up the slack for penny-pinching Americans. They are wooing travelers with enticements such as coupons, beauty pageants and promises of visa reform. The payoff, they say, could be significant: 1.3 million new jobs and an $ 859 billion shot in the arm for the economy over the next decade.
"They’re their own little stimulus program, " said David French, senior vice president for government relations at the National Retail Federation, a trade group. The trend underscores the depth of the United States’ reliance on countries once considered to be at the bottom of the glob al totem pole. The nation already counts on China and othe
A. food and clothes
B. raw materials
C. travelers
D. labor forces
[单项选择]
The United States Food and Drag Administration has shown itself to be particularly wary with regard to alleged "miracle" drugs in recent times（）
A. bellicose
B. exhausted
C. cautious
D. strange
[填空题]Recently, the United States has ceded its early lead in wind development to Asian competitors.
[填空题]
For as long as most people can remember, food has been getting
cheaper and farming has been in decline. In 1974--2005 food prices on world
markets fell by three-quarters in real terms. Food today is so cheap that the
West is battling gluttony even as it scrapes piles of half-eaten leftovers into
the bin.
66. __________.
The Economist’s food-price index is
higher today than at any time since it was created in 1845. Even in real terms,
prices have jumped by 75% since 2005. No doubt farmers will meet higher prices
with investment and more production, but dearer food is likely to persist for
years. That is because "agflation" is underpinned by long-running changes in
diet that accompany the growing wealth of emerging economies--the Chinese
consumer who ate 20kg of meat in 1985 will scoff over 50kg of the stuff this
year. That in turn pushes up demand for grain: It takes 8kg of grain to produce
one of beef.
67. __________.
Dearer food
[单项选择]How long has the company started its business
A. 80 years.
B. 8 years.
C. 18 years.
D. 102 years.
[填空题]The tax system in the United States has long been a campaign issue in the presidential elections.
[单项选择]The United States has a major problem on its hands. True, Britain is facing a similar problem, but for the time being it is in America that it is graver. The only way to solve it is through education. Negroes (黑人) should know about the contributions that black individuals and groups have made towards building America. This is of vital importance for their self-respect; and it is perhaps even more important for white people to know. For if you believe that a man has no history worth mentioning, it is easy to assume that he has no value as a man.
Many people believe that, since the Negro’s achievements do not appear in the history books, he did not have any. Most people are taken aback when they learn that Negroes sailed with Columbus, marched with the Spanish conquerors of South America and fought side by side with white Americans in all their wars. People are astonished when you tell them about Phillis Wheatley, who learned English as a salve in Boston and wrote first-class poetry
A. derived from their acts
B. turned out to be wrong
C. were copied by slave-holders
D. were passed down for generations
