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Across the United States there are several places where two independent towns grew together to
become one city-but kept both their names.
Winston-Salem is one of them. It's a mid-sized city in what's called the plateau(high land), between
the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina. The Winston part is a
relatively new place, founded early last century. It's home to the nation's biggest open-air tobacco
market.
The giant R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company's headquarters is in Winston-Salem and Winston is the
name of one of Reynolds' best-known cigarette brands. Fast-growing Winston soon surrounded the
much older town of Salem, so in 1913, people in the area voted to combine them into a single place.
From historical and tourist point of view, Salem, or Old Salem, as it's called today, is the interesting
and unusual part of town.
Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians. They spoke German, and their community was
religiously based, with single men and single women living apart in separate dormitories. The Moravians
greatly valued women's work and brainpower. In fact, one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for
young women-the Moravians'Salem Academy founded in 1772-is still in operation.
Over the years, Salem lost its Moravian character. That all changed, though, when a nonprofit group
began to rehabilitate the historic area. These days Old Salem is what's called a living history museum,
with exhibits, music, and tours of 18th -century houses, taverns and Moravian dormitory buildings just
seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper in Winston-Salem.
The historic community is booming again. Just as R.J.Reynolds is taking in millions of dollars making
cigarettes across town, Old Salem is generating about $15 million a year in tourism revenue and donations.
1. From the passage we can know that ______________.
A. Winston-Salem is the name of a city
B. Salem is home to the tobacco market
C. the city Winston-Salem has two names
D. Old Salem is the name of a tobacco brand
2. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ______________.
A. the two cities benefited each other
B. Salem developed faster than Winston
C. R.J.Reynolds Company has moved into Salem
D. the combination meets the wishes of the people
3. The city Salem is special for its ______________.
A. boarding school
B. lifestyle and tradition
C. respect for brainpower
D. religious belief
4. The underlined word "rehabilitate" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to "________________".
A. reconstruct
B. evaluate
C. enlarge
D. decorate
