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A. welfare reform B. unemployment insurance C. Medicaid D. food stamp
11.The challenge of programming outdoor movies is to match the film to the ________.
A. settings B. conditions C. weather D. rivers
12. The suburban ________ was the ultimate symbol of 1950s car culture. A. jeeps B. families C.drive-in D. falls
13. The Mall in _______ offers a Monday night series. A. Baltimore B. Washington C. Newyork D. California
14. What is singular about open-air cinema in New York City is the sheer scope of ______.
A. buying B. going to see the film C. resting D. offerings 15. There are films with a ________ flavor at the Brooklyn Bridge. A. Californian B. Brooklyn C. Washington D. Nebraska
16. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a clutch of loft-dwellers mount a homemade sheet-metal screen on their roof every other _______. A. Friday B. Wednesday C. Monday D. Sunday
17. ―Metropolis,‖ is _______’s 1926 silent homage to city living. A. Kamero B. Spiereburg C. Fritz Lang D. Lukas 18. Jordan, playing _______ in the team.
A. forward B. back forward C. small forward D. no role
19. Jordan, in his first action in front of the media, tried to keep the beginning stages of his _______entrance into the N BA in perspective. A. third B. second C. first D. fourth
20. Jordan’s being _______, Coach Doug Collins said. A. proud B. modest C. humble D. great
II. March the following words or phases on the left column with their correspondent
explanations on the right
A B deteriorate ragged
tattered become worse
void action taken to solve a difficulty
flounder to struggle
initiative blank
A B
1. rekindle a. temporary 2. decrepit b. relight
3. interim c. destroy 4. wrack d. impaired
5. covert e. secret or hidden
III. Write T in the bracket if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.
1. John Kundereri Moriarty, living happily in an aboriginal tribal community in
northern Australia, was transported south through Alice Springs.
2. The Australian government apologized for the Stolen generation. 3. Moriarty is a writer now.
4. An unprecedented chance for Gypsies is to be recognized as a nation, albeit one without a defined territory.
5. At the night when Sicelo Mhlawuli was killed, 4 others did meet the same fate. 6. ( ) Winston Churchill often described parliamentary democracy and
constitutional monarchy as being imperfect----but the best that man had yet devised.
7.( ) In Britain the monarch remains very much at the heart of its Constitution. 8.( ) Queen Elizabeth2 cannot choose a prime minister, dissolve Parliament or
declare war.
9.( ) It is one of the great strengths of monarchy that it has never taken sides in
any political debate, that it shows itself, as an institution, to be evenhanded. 10.( ) British monarchy has served both the empire and the commonwealth with
little distinction.
IV．Fill in the blanks.
1. Law enforces are coming across gigantic stashes of _____ in places where it was rarely seen.
2. it’s called the hug drug because it engenders gooey, rather gauche expressions ____ __ of from users.
3. They are drawn by the ____ __ . After setup, the marginal cost of each pill is may be 10 ￠. It’s a sold in New York City clubs for $30.
4. In fact, e’s popularity is largely due to its __ ___ of noticeable downsides. 5. Thousands of children on campus die every year from ___ __, and thousands more are injured.
6. If the economy tips into recession and the jobless rate_______, America’s already frayed social safety net will be sorely tested.
7. If you can be _______in the face of competing requests from co-workers, offer to change your dates if you can.
8. As some of the nation’s largest firms announce fresh_______, workers may be more nervous than ever about asking to use their vacation time.
9 When emotions are_______, typically, each person just sees what the other person is doing, not how he or she is contributing to the problem.
10. The college dating scene leaves many women with two choices when it comes to men; launch intense but vague relationships, or ―_______‖, for casual physical encounters. V. Explain the following terms very briefly.
1. let sth go 2. ―Silicon Glen‖
3. power lunches in Edinburgh 4. drop off 5. till the ground 6. top brass
7. a tough go 8. Easter message 9. qualified blessing 10. wanted men 11. sexual revolution: 12. hook up: 13. crisis-proof:. 14blow up:
VI．Answer the following questions
1. What have political candidates been made aware of about the possibility of losing more votes?
2. How do we deal with the trouble of gangs?
3What’s the most important reason why so many Hispanics have come to the United States?
4. The text says that signs of the changing face of America can be found all over the place, can you find some examples