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The curtain on the 2008 US presidential election finally rose last month as Requblican Senator(参议员) John McCain and Democratic Senator Barack Obama were formally selected as candidates of the two major parties.This may be one of the hardest decisions voters have to make between two appealing candidates.The big question for voters,as they face both an economic downturn and international threats,is :who will they elect? A young first - term senator promising change and new ideas,or a longtime senator with strong military experience and a reputation as a maverick(特立独行的人)？
American voters have never seen a candidate quite like Obama.He has a white mother from the US and a black fater from Kenya who left the family when Obama was very young.He spent part of his youth in Indonesia.
However,McCain has a very different life story.
He grew up in a Navy family and was a daring pilot during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. When Obama was in kindergarten in Indonesia,McCain's plane was shot down over Ietenam and he became a prisoner of war.McCain could have been set free if he disowned America but he refused and so was held for five years.
"We need a president who is very,very old,"McCain joked at his age as many others do.If elected,he would be 72 when he takes office and the oldest man to step in.
So in the end,the election may depend on several factors that are hard to judge:Will Obama's race matter to a significant number of voters ? Will workingclass whites who tended to support his primary (党内初选) oponent,Hillary Clinton,vote for Obama? And perhaps most important of all,will uncertain voters be more attracted to Obama's vision or to McCain's experience?
Whatever happens,one thing is clear,however:Whoever walks into the White House on January 20,2009,will find huge challenges waiting for him in the Oval Office,both at home and abroad.
64.______makes the result of the election hard to predict.
A.Whether working class whites care about Obama's inexperience
B.The economic trouble the country now faces
C.Who uncertain voters will finally decide to vote for
D.McCain being too old to govern the country
65.The appeal in Obama as a presidential candidate lies in _________
A.his multi - cultural background
B.his belife in tradition
C.his inexperience in politics
D.his fantastic promises
66.The word "disown" in Paragraph 6 means closest to ______.
A.flee from
B.turn his back on
C.not keep it private
D.expose secrets about
67.The challenges that will face the new preident______.
A.are not mentioned in the text
B.include buklding a strong party and a friendly image
C.refer to the problems of immigrants and economy
D.refer to the problems of economy amd international relations
科目：高中英语 来源：活题巧解巧练·高二英语·下 题型：050
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Is jazz a kind of folk music? Is it a performing style? How is it different from other kinds of music? There is cur simple answer to the questions, because the most important quality of jazz comes from its unique combination of different musical sources over a period of almost 400 years.
The quality that unites the many different jazz forms is, in some degree, separate from its musical sources. The quality is the expression of freedom. The idea of freedom is central .
The ancestors of jazz were black people from West Africa who were bought to America as slaves, or forced laborers, from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s. Most of them remained slaves until President Lincoln set them free on January 1,1863, during the American Civil War.
With the loss of their personal freedom and the breaking up of their families, the slaves also lost the social traditions of their music from Africa. The complex rhythms of this music involved a number of people performing together. The breaking apart of the social groups forced slaves to create new songs, that is, to develop a completely new musical tradition .
Using some of the remembered African rhythms, the slaves gradually began to add some features of the European classical music that was played by the slave owners. The slaves were also influenced by American folk songs. But the result of adding these borrowed elements to the complex, African rhythms was the beginning of a completely new kind of music. Still, this music only existed privately among groups of slaves.
The slaves' work had another effect on their music. It introduced new kinds of musical rhythms. Some of these rhythms became work songs to accompany(伴随) their planting and picking of cotton. Other rhythms were developed by teams of workers who needed to lift heavy loads of cotton onto carts that passed through the fields. Later, during the building of the railroads, individual workers created new songs to match the sharp rhythms of steel as they put the rails into place.
1．The main musical sources used by the slaves to develop a new kind of music were ________.
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A．folk music, jazz music and modern music
B．classical music. American rhythms and African folk songs
C．African music, European classical music and American folk songs
D．slaves' songs, rhythms of lifting heavy loads and sounds of striking steel
2．In some degree, the quality that many different jazz forms share is ________.
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A．the liberation of the American slaves
B．the expression of freedom
C．the respect for President Lincoln
D．the independence of the United States
3．“It introduces new kinds of musical rhythms.”Here “it” refers to ________.
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A．the slaves' music
B．a new musical rhythm
C．the slaves' work
D．another effect
4．Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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A．The ancestors of jazz music were people from east Africa.
B．Jazz music has mixed different kinds of musical sources.
C．Some of the rhythms of jazz music later became work songs.
D．It took quite a long time to develop jazz music .
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It is ten o'clock at night and you are outside. You can see many stars in the sky. Each star is another sun. The sky is big, and it hag many suns.
Our sun is near to us. It warms us and gives us light in daytime. The stars are not near. We can see their light only at night, and they do not warm us.
The stars are not all the same. Many stars are quite like our sun. They are the same size, and they have the same colour, yellow. Other stars are bigger or smaller. A “giant(巨人)” star is very, very big. A “dwarf(侏儒)”is a small star—smaller than the sun.
Stars have different colours, too. They can be blue, orange, yellow, white or red. There are giants and dwarfs in all these colours. All stars are, of course, very hot. The hottest stars are the blue ones. White stars come next, they are less hot. Then yellow and orange stars are less hot again. Red stars are the least hot, and they are also the oldest stars.
Light moves very quickly across the sky, eighteen million (18,000,000)kilometers in a minute. Our nearest star is a red dwarf. Its name is Proxima Centauri ( proxima ＝ nearest), and it gives a weak, red light. We can just see this light. It left Proxima Centauri 4.25 years ago, and now tonight, it is reaching cur eyes. Think about it! In one minute, 18,000,000 kilometres. So, in 4.25 years—well, how many kilometers? You can find the answer yourself.
I will just say this: Proxima Centauri is a long way from us.
1．According to the temperatures on stars, the right order from the lowest temperature to the highest is ________.
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A．red→yellow→white→blue
B．orange→red→blue→white
C．blue→white→yellow→red
D．white→blue→orange→red
2．All the following am right except ________.
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A．a “dwarf” is smaller than the sun
B．there are dwarfs in different colours
C．a “dwarf” is a small star
D．dwarfs are the least hot
3．How far away is the star Proxima Centauri from us?
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A．40,208,400,000,000 kilometres.
B．9,460,800,000,000 kilometres.
C．679,140,000,000 kilometres .
D．279,225,000,000 kilometres .
4．When we say “The star Procyon is ‘ten light years’ away.”, we mean ________.
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A．we can reach the star in ten years
B．we first saw the star ten years ago
C．the light left Procyon ten years ago
D．Procyon has been that far away for ten years
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Several days ago I met a stranger in the street who stopped and asked me directions. I 1 to show him the way to his destination(目地的) but to my 2 , he coldly refused my offer. I asked him 3 . Finally he told me that he was afraid I would ask him for money if I 4 in this way.
Money! I 5 deep into thought. Is it money that comes 6 us now? Money has no 7 ; it cannot be judged to be good or bad. The problem 8 what attitude(态度) we have towards it.
At present, we have a more 9 material life than ever before, but we're 10 more and mare cold
blooded. Why? In my opinion, the 11 is the change in people's personal value. They wrongly believe that 12 money should be their only aim in life, so they 13 all sorts of ways they can to 14 this aim They are afraid of being 15 and fooled. If everyone 16 like this, what will our society be like?
Needless to say, money is becoming more and more 17 in our society, but it should not be the“beall and endall”(最重要的事) of life. If a person only concentrates on (专心于) 18 , he will be lonely and void(空虚), and even go astray(歧途).
It is 19 to us to make our lives happy, not money. We should try cur best to help others 20 and freely. If everyone does so, society will be better and better.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试、英语(江西卷) 题型：050
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