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[单项选择]In 1956, when the cold war was at its peak, America deployed a "secret sonic weapon", as a newspaper headline put it at the time. That weapon was Dizzy Gillespie, a famed jazz musician, who was given the task of changing the world’s view of American culture through rhythm and beat. Crowds poured into the street to dance. Cultural diplomacy died down after the cold war ended. But the attacks of September 11th 2001 convinced the State Department to send out America’s musicians once again to woo hearts and minds with melody.
Rhythm Road, a program run by the State Department and a non-profit organization, Jazz at Lincoln Centre, has made informal diplomats out of both musicians and audiences. Since it began in 2005, musicians have travelled to 96 countries. One band went to Mauritania, a country in northwestern Africa, after last year’s coup; many depart for countries that have strained relationships with America. The musicians travel to places where some people have never seen an Am
A. It has always been highly valued throughout history.
B. It was a vital weapon in the second half of the 20th century.
C. It was neglected for decades after once being successful.
D. It was welcomed by American citizens during the war.
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In the post Cold War world few articles have influenced how Western policymakers view the world more than Samuel Huntington’s 1993 article, "The Clash of Civilizations. " Suggesting that the world was returning to a civilization dominated world where future conflicts would originate from clashes between ’civilizations,’ the theory has been broadly criticized for oversimplification, ignoring local conflicts and for incorrectly predicting what has happened in the decade since its publication. The claim made by many that September the 11 th has vindicated Huntington is simply not supported by the evidence.
Huntington’s thesis outlines a future where the "great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. " He divides the world’s cultures into seven current civilizations, Western, Latin American, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu and Slavic-Orthodox. In addition he judged Africa only as a
A. advocated the interdependence of different cultures
B. proposed a return of the world to its former state
C. depicted the world in the post Cold War period
D. stressed cultural aspects of international conflicts
[单项选择]When the Cold War began, who was the President of the U. S. A()
A. Roosevelt
B. Lincoln
C. Eisenhower
D. Truman
[单项选择]My parents didn’t feel secure because the Cold War was beginning with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
A. True
B. False
[简答题]Now that the cold war is over, we must begin to ________ (集中更多的精力来谋求世界和平).