The narrator’s mother wanted her brother to go to fight in the war, because________.

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• 1His grandmother did not want her husband to buy and read newspapers in German, because________.

  A.it was war time and Germans were their enemy

  B.the neighbors would mistake them as pro-German

  C.it was easier to get newspapers in English in America

  D.nobody else read newspapers in German during the war time

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• 2His grandfather ____________.

  A.could not speak and read English well enough

  B.knew nine languages equally well

  C.knew a number of languages, but felt more kin to German

  D.loved German best because it made him think of home

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• 3Where was the narrator’s family when this story took place、

  A.In Germany.

  B.In Hungary.

  C.In the United States

  D.In New York .

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• 4_______ a declining birth rate, there will be an over-supply of 27,000 primary school places by 2010, _______ leaving 35 schools idle.

  A.Coupled with, equals to

  B.Coupling with, equivalent to

  C.Coupled with, equivalent to

  D.Coupling with ,equals to

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• 5This expansion of rights has led to both a paralysis of the public service and to a rapid and terrible ________ in the character of the population.

  A.determination

  B.deterioration

  C.desolation

  D.desperation

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• 6The American dream in this passage mainly refers to ____________.

  A.there are always possibilities offered to people to develop themselves in the society

  B.Americans can always move up the pay ladder

  C.American young people can have access to college, even they are poor

  D.the labor force is not trapped in low-wage and dead-end jobs

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• 7Wal-Mart strategy, according to this passage, is to ___________.

  A.hire temps and part-timers to reduce its cost

  B.outsource its contracts to lower price agencies at home and abroad

  C.hold down its consumer price by controlling its labor costs

  D.dismantle the career ladder and stop people’s mobility upward

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• 8Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE、

  A.Wal-Martization has been successful in keeping costs at rock-bottom levels.

  B.Upward mobility for low-skilled workers has become impossible in the U.S.

  C.More business opportunities are given to low-cost agencies in China and India.

  D.Although people know how to restore American mobility, it’s difficult to change the present situation.

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• 9Retired seniors are moving back into the city because ____________.

  A.they find there are too many crimes in the suburbs

  B.unlike the flats in the city, their country house have stairs to climb

  C.they are no longer interested in playing golf

  D.in the city, they have more social and cultural life against loneliness

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• 10From the passage we can infer that _________.

  A.the real-estate developers have broken their original contracts of construction with senior retirees

  B.a life in the downtown city is expensive, and most of those retirees who moved back into the city are very well-off

  C.with more older people living in the city, the city will become gray and less beautiful

  D.very soon the American suburban areas will face their low population crisis

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