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- A.The US government recommended the amount of food a restaurant gave to a customer.
- B.Health experts persuaded restaurants to serve smaller portions.
- C.The United States produced more grain then needed.
- D.The American waistline started to expand.
- A.Many poor Americans want large portions.
- B.Twenty percent Americans want smaller potions.
- C.Fifty seven percent Americans earn $150,000 per year.
- D.Twenty three percent Americans earn less than $25, 000 per year.
- A.they work long hours.
- B.they live from paycheck to paycheck
- C.they don't want to be healthy eaters.
- D.They want to save money for their children.
- According to newsreports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies（肚子）. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended（推荐）by the government, according to a USA Today story. American
- Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professorat Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waist line began to expand.
- Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparent1y, some customs are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QS Rreported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe
- It's not that working class Americans don't want to eat healthy. It's just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seem like a good dea1. They live from paycheck（薪水）to paycheck, happy to save a little mone
- A.to save food
- B.to wash the dishes
- C.not to waste food
- D.not to eat too much
- A.Because Americans associate quantity with value
- B.Because Americans have big bellies
- C.Because Americans are good eaters
- D.Because Americans are greedy
- A.Japan.
- B.South Korea
- C.Britain.
- D.France
- A.cultural values
- B.teaching methods
- C.class size
- D.money spent
- A.time spent on a subject correlates with academic success
- B.educational achievements correlate with the money spent
- C.large classes contribute to poor educational achievement
- D.culture is not a deciding factor in school performance
- A.Austrian teenagers do better than New Zealands teenagers
- B.Low-spending will lead to good school performance.
- C.Students in large classes will do better than students in small class.
- D.Asian culture makes students eager to learn and easy to teach.
- Apopularly-held view has it that “opportunity to learn” is the key to educational success -i.e.the more time children spend on a subject, the better they do at it. According to the recent study there seems little correlation between time spent on a subjec
- Another article of faith among the teaching profession that children are bound to do better in small classes is also being undermined by educational research. The study found that France, America and Britain, where children are usually taught in classes o
- A.establishing a relationship between culture and education
- B.exposing educational myths
- C.introduction educational philosophies
- D.comparing education philosophies
- A.better solutions to the poverty problem are not yet found
- B.welfare will enable people to be rich
- C.poor people are bound to go out of the poverty line of they have chances to do business
- D.Employment is the best solution to the poverty problem
- A.they do not have any motivation to work
- B.they are not very self-confident
- C.they are too young or too old to work
- D.they have physical and family problems
- A.Ten percent of the Americans live a poor life.
- B.Poor people are those who live below the poverty line.
- C.The poverty line rises as the general standard of living rises.
- D.The poverty line tends to be at the same level.
- A.they do not have enough motivation
- B.they are so young that they are deprived of chances to work
- C.they fail to get enough education
- D.they are very poor in experience
- As the general standard of living in the country rises, the poverty line does, too. Therefore, even with today's relatively high standard of living, about tenpercent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line. However, if these peop
- For one thing, more than half of the poor people in the United States are not qualified to work. Over 40 percent of the poor people are children. By law, children less than 16 years old cannot work in many industries. A large number of poor people ar
- At the present time, the government thinks it can reduce poverty in the country in the following ways. First, if the national economy grows, businesses and industries will hire more workers. Some of the poor who are qualified to look for jobs may fund emp
- Finally, if the government distributes society's income differently, it will raise some poor people above the poverty line. The government collects taxes from the non-poor and gives money to the poor. These payments to the poor are called welfare. In
- A.to define what the poverty line is
- B.to explain why some people live below the poverty line
- C.to find solutions to the problem of poverty
- D.to show sympathy for those poor people
- A.The fact that men do not try clothes on in a shop.
- B.Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.
- C.Women stand up to shop, but men sit down.
- D.The time they took over buying clothes.
- A.They welcome suggestions from anyone.
- B.Women rarely consider buying cheap clothes.
- C.Women often buy things without giving the matter proper thought
- D.They listen to advice but never take it.
- A.treats his customers kindly.
- B.always has in stock just what customers want
- C.does not waste his time on difficult customers
- D.sells something a customer does not particularly want
- A.He buys similar things of the color he wants.
- B.He usually does not buy anything.
- C.He tries on some other things, but never buys anything.
- D.So long as the size is right, he buys the thing.
- All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they went. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly producesit, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being we1l, the deal can beand of ten is completed in less than
- For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else. He offers the nearest he can to the article
- Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual responseis: “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.” Now how does a woman go abou
- Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the look out for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to
- A.he buys cheap things, regardless of quality
- B.he chooses things that others recommend
- C.he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things
- D.he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too expensive
- A.separate
- B.distinguish
- C.compare
- D.contrast
- A.occurred to
- B.struck at
- C.hit on
- D.dawned in
- A.charged
- B.accused
- C.blamed
- D.implied
- A.remained
- B.leaving
- C.left
- D.remaining
- A.constitutes
- B.composes
- C.comprises
- D.consists
- A.assembled
- B.arisen
- C.appeared
- D.resulted
- A.recovered
- B.restored
- C.renewed
- D.replaced
- A.buy
- B.preserve
- C.book
- D.occupy
- A.admitted
- B.acknowledged
- C.absorbed
- D.considered
- A.simpler
- B.better
- C.superior
- D.greater
- A.did not
- B.were not doing
- C.have not been doing
- D.won not be doing
- A.exciting
- B.excited
- C.embarrassing
- D.embarrassed
- A.must have been
- B.would have been
- C.were
- D.would been
- A.over
- B.up
- C.to
- D.above
- A.Whichever
- B.Whatever
- C.However
- D.What
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Evidence comes up ___ specific speech sounds are recognized by babies as young as six months old.
- A.what
- B.that
- C.whose
- D.which
- A.as, thrown
- B.for, thrown
- C.since, throwing
- D.as, throwing
- A.and thus
- B.so
- C.however
- D.because
- A.however
- B.they
- C.furthermore
- D.who
- A.where
- B.for that
- C.when
- D.in which
