Retired seniors are moving back into the city because ____________.

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• 1Which 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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• 2Wal-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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• 3The 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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• 4The narrator’s mother wanted her brother to go to fight in the war, because________.

  A.like everybody else at the war time, she was very patriotic

  B.she hated the war and the Germans very much

  C.all her friends had relatives in war and she wanted to be like them

  D.she liked to have a brother she could think of as a hero

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• 5His 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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• 6From 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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• 7Fran McCarthy’s question means: nobody ever thought that __________.

  A.people who moved out of the city decades ago now would move back

  B.suburban dwellers when moving back into the city must take round trip

  C.suburban flight years ago would go in circles

  D.senior people’s moving back into the city would take place all over the United States

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