问题 选择题

部分中国人喜欢在初一、十五吃斋菜,是受 _______的影响[ ]

A.基督教

B.伊斯兰教

C.道教

D.佛教

答案

答案:D

单项选择题

I was just a boy when my father brought me to Harlem for the first time, almost 50 years ago. We stayed at the Hotel Theresa, a grand brick structure at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue. Once, in the hotel restaurant, my father pointed out Joe Louis. He even got Mr Brown, the hotel manager, to introduce me to him, a bit paunchy but still the champ as far as I was concerned.
Much has changed since then. Business and real estate are booming. Some say a new renaissance is under way. Others decry what they see as outside forces running roughshod over the old Harlem.
New York meant Harlem to me, and as a young man I visited it whenever I could. But many of my old haunts are gone. The Theresa shut down in 1966. National chains that once ignored Harlem now anticipate yuppie money and want pieces of this prime Manhattan real estate. So here I am on a hot August afternoon, sitting in a Starbucks that two years ago opened a block away from the Theresa, snatching at memories between sips of high-priced coffee. I am about to open up a piece of the old Harlem the New York Amsterdam News when a tourist asking directions to Sylvia’s, a prominent Harlem restaurant, penetrates my daydreaming. He’s carrying a book: Touring Historic Harlem.
History. I miss Mr Michaux’s bookstore, his House of Common Sense, which was across from the Theresa. He had a big billboard out front with brown and black faces painted on it that said in large letters: "World History Book Outlet on 2,000,000,000 Africans and Nonwhite Peoples." An ugly state office building has swallowed that space.
I miss speaker like Carlos Cooks, who was always on the southwest corner of 125th and Seventh, urging listeners to support Africa. Harlem’s powerful political electricity seems unplugged -- although the streets are still energized, especially by West African immigrants.
Hard-working southern newcomers formed the bulk of the community back in the 1920s and ’30s, when Harlem renaissance artists, writers, and intellectuals gave it a glitter and renown that made it the capital of black America. From Harlem, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Zora Neal Hurston, and others helped power America’s cultural influence around the world.
By the 1970s and ’80s drugs and crime had ravaged parts of the community. And the life expectancy for men in Harlem was less than that of men in Bangladesh. Harlem had become a symbol of the dangers of inner-city life.
Now, you want to shout "Lookin’ good!" at this place that has been neglected for so long. Crowds push into Harlem USA, a new shopping centre on 125th, where a Disney store shares space with HMV Records, the New York Sports Club, and a nine-screen Magic Johnson theatre complex. Nearby, a Rite Aid drugstore also opened. Maybe part of the reason Harlem seems to be undergoing a rebirth is that it is finally getting what most people take for granted.
Harlem is also part of an "empowerment zone"--a federal designation aimed at fostering economic growth that will bring over half a billion in federal, state, and local dollars. Just the shells of once elegant old brownstones now can cost several hundred thousand dollars. Rents are skyrocketing. An improved economy, tougher law enforcement, and community efforts against drugs have contributed to a 60 percent drop in crime since 1993.

Which of the following is NOT an appropriate depiction of the present-day Harlem

A. Harlem is now seen as a tourist attraction.
B. Harlem is becoming an expensive place to live in.
C. Harlem has transformed into a place of entertainment.
D. Harlem’s crime rate remains the same as ever.

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     It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with their
birth parents. That's especially__1__of children who remain in homes where they're badly treated
because the law blindly favors biological parents. It's also true of children who __2__ for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can't or won't care for them but refuse to give up custody
(监护) rights.
     Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays __3__ neither description, but her recent court victory could __4__
help children who do. Kimberly has been the __5__ of an angry custody battle between the man who
raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge __6__ that the
teenager can remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal
__7__" on her.
     Shortly after__8__ in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched
and sent home with the __9__ parents. Kimberly's biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg,
received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests __10__ that the child wasn't the
Twiggs' own daughter, but Kim only was, thus leading to a custody __11__ with Robert Mays. In
1989, the two families __12__ that Mr Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting visiting
rights. Those rights were ended when Mr Mays decided that Kimberly was being __13__.
     The decision to __14__ Kimberly with Mr Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made
clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉) on her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she
was more than just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an
absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the __15__ of children.
( )1. A.terrible    
( )2. A.settle      
( )3. A.likes      
( )4. A.actually    
( )5. A.victim      
( )6. A.ruled      
( )7. A.expectation
( )8. A.birth      
( )9. A.biological  
( )10. A.examined  
( )11. A.battle    
( )12. A.thought    
( )13. A.harmed    
( )14. A.make      
( )15. A.freedom    
B. sad        
B. live      
B. gives      
B. eventually
B. object    
B. believed  
B. action    
B. judgment  
B. own        
B. explained  
B. right      
B. quarreled  
B. forbidden  
B. leave      
B. happiness  
C. true        
C. suffer      
C. fits        
C. successfully
C. sacrifice  
C. ordered    
C. effect      
C. operation  
C. kind        
C. decided    
C. agreement  
C. agreed      
C. wounded    
C. give        
C. rights      
D. natural    
D. gather    
D. knows      
D. abruptly  
D. teenager  
D. indicated  
D. claim      
D. school    
D. wrong      
D. showed    
D. decision  
D. prepared  
D. hidden    
D. keep      
D. ideas