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[A] The influence of maples on the Canadian culture.
[B] The token of maples in Canada.
[C] Contemplation of global distribution of maples.
[D] The triumph of Nokomis over the devils with the help of maples.
[E] The popularity of the maple in a favorite myth.
[F] The maple signals the approach of fall.
The maple smoke of autumn bonfires is incense to Canadians. Bestowing perfume for the nose, color for the eye, sweetness for the spring tongue, the sugar maple prompts this sharing of a favorite myth and original etymology of the word maple.
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The maple looms large in Ojibwa folk tales. The time of year for sugaring-off is "in the Maple Moon." Among Ojibwa, the primordial female figure is Nokomis, a wise grandmother. In one tale about seasonal change, cannibal wendigos - creatures of evil - chased old Nokomis through the autumn countryside. Wendigos throve in icy cold. When they entered t

[填空题]

[A] The influence of maples on the Canadian culture.
[B] The token of maples in Canada.
[C] Contemplation of global distribution of maples.
[D] The triumph of Nokomis over the devils with the help of maples.
[E] The popularity of the maple in a favorite myth.
[F] The maple signals the approach of fall.
The maple smoke of autumn bonfires is incense to Canadians. Bestowing perfume for the nose, color for the eye, sweetness for the spring tongue, the sugar maple prompts this sharing of a favorite myth and original etymology of the word maple.
41. __________________
The maple looms large in Ojibwa folk tales. The time of year for sugaring-off is "in the Maple Moon." Among Ojibwa, the primordial female figure is Nokomis, a wise grandmother. In one tale about seasonal change, cannibal wendigos - creatures of evil - chased old Nokomis through the autumn countryside. Wendigos throve in icy cold. When they entered t

[单项选择]Through communication, some elements of one culture may enter another culture and become part of that culture. This phenomenon is called （　）.
A. cultural overlap
B. cultural imperialism
C. cultural diffusion
D. cultural expansion

[单项选择]Principally, the objectives for us to teach culture in foreign language classes do NOT include （）.
A. to get the students familiar with cultural differences
B. to see how superior one’s own culture is to other cultures
C. to help the students transcend their own culture and see things as the members of the target culture will
D. to emphasize the inseparability of understanding language and understanding culture through various classroom practices

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In November the European Parliament’s culture and education committee is due to move forward on its proposed "audiovisual media services" directive, before sending it to the full parliament in December. The new rules update and relax the "Television Without Frontiers" directive of 1989, which opened Europe’s national markets. But critics complain that they also seek to extend fusty regulations from the era of broadcast television to today’s very different technologies. Rules on advertising, the protection of children and so on could potentially also apply to all kinds of video streams, including video blogs, online games and mobile-video services.
This could have a chilling effect on innovation and risks stifling emerging technologies with rules designed for another age, says Chris Marsden of RAND Europe, a think-tank that has analysed the potential impact of the proposed rules for Ofcom, Britain’s media and telecoms regulator.
A. the scarce spectrum and only small number of stations existed
B. advancement of technology
C. the preference of different audiences
D. Europe’s attempt to update the rules

[单项选择]The United States is not (thank goodness) a culturally homogeneous country. It consists of many distinct moral communities. On certain social issues, such as abortion and homosexuality, people don’t agree and probably never will—and the signal political advantage of the federalist system is that they don’t have to. Individuals and groups who find the values or laws of one state obnoxious have the right to live somewhere else.
The nationalization of abortion policy in the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision created a textbook example of what can happen when this federalist principle is ignored. If the Supreme Court had not stepped in, abortion would today be legal in most states but not all; pro-lifers would have the comfort of knowing they could live in a state whose law was compatible with their views. Instead of endlessly confronting a cultural schism that affects every Supreme Court nomination, we would see occasional local flare-ups in state legislatures or courtrooms.A. people may have different opinions about abortion.
B. controversial opinions on certain social issues are allowed.
C. some states are more obnoxious than others.
D. people can move from state to state if they like.

[简答题]The Canadian Shield

[单项选择]Maples remind one of______.
A. Australia
B. Canada
C. New Zealand
D. America