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How about going to dinner at the Mexican restaurant tonight? ()
A . Forget it.
B . Sorry, I like Mexican food.
C . That's great!
D . Glad you like it.
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Until the 16th century Latin was taught through active use of speech and written text without grammar analysis.()
A . 正确
B . 错误
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6. Why is the new fragrance not popular in Latin American countries?
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Among the three influences on Old English, the Latin influence makes the most impact.
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China, Korea, Japan, Latin America, and to a certain extent, France are considered to be high-context cultures.
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7.The extraordinary Mexican()has delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years.
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The calendar on the supposed date divides all time into B.C. (Before Christ ) and A.D. ( a Latin phrase, in the year of our Lord.)
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In Latin America, the Church has ( ) to be on the side of the poor.
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China, Korea, Japan, Latin America, and to a certain extent, France, are considered to be high-context cultures.
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The timing of appointments is very important to members of monochronic cultures. An American or Australian might allow a ______ delay for an appointment. However, people of Middle Eastern and Latin American cultures attach ______ urgency to appointments.
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Which word that formerly meant animal, and later animal from Latin and beast from French found their way into English?
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Mexican negotiators emphasize relational concerns prior to the real negotiation.
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Some of the notebooks George Washington kept as a young man are still in existence. They show that he was learning Latin, was very interested in the basics of good behaviour in society, and was reading English literature.
At school he seems only to have been interested in mathematics. In fact his formal education was surprisingly brief for a gentleman, and incomplete. For unlike other young Virginian gentlemen of that day, he did not go to the College of William and Mary in the Virginian capital of Williamsburg. In terms of formal training then, Washington contrasts sharply with some other early American Presidents such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In later years, Washington probably regretted his lack of intellectual training. He never felt comfortable in a debate in Congress, or on any subject that had not to do with everyday, practical matters. And because he never learned French and could not speak directly to the French leaders, he did not visit the country he admired so much. Thus, unlike Jefferson and Adams, he never reached Europe.
What reason does the author give for Washington not going to college?
A.His family could not afford it.
B.A college education was rather uncommon in his times.
C.He didn't like the young Virginian gentlemen who went to college.
D.The author doesn't give any reason.
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He was_____in the streets of the Mexican capital by more than a million people, most of them sincerely inspired.
A.acclaimed
B.attested
C.ratified
D.considered
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The Mexican government takes half measures to solve the pollution problem because ______.
A.it is not wise enough to come up with effective measures
B.Mexican economy depends very much on cars and factories
C.Mexicans are able to adapt themselves to the current emergency
D.Mexicans enjoy playing dangerous games with their health
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The Spanish and Portuguese () had a profound effect upon the general mentality of Latin America.
A.customs
B.civilizations
C.cultures
D.habits
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Old English vocabulary was essentially _______with a number of borrowings from Latin and
A.A.Malic
B.B.Germanic
C.C.Celtic
D.D.Hellenic
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By referring to problems with the Mexican immigrant workforce the author means to say that______.
A.the government should be more selective about which immigrants they allow
B.employers must improve their recruitment methods to avoid hiring them
C.the education system needs to create programs to upgrade workers" skills
D.the result will be a decrease in American competitiveness
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the grammar-translation method was at one time called ______ since it was first used in the teaching of the classical languages of latin and greek.
A、classical Method
B、minimum method
C、audiolingual Method
D、aural-oral method
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The current edition of that magazine discusses the ancient civilization of Latin A-merica.
A.first
B.latest
C.old
D.special
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Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature—from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway—one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face—the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a drying up of the floodgates of religious intensity, the American avoids dwelling on death or even coming to terms with it; he finds it morbid and moves back from it, surrounding it with word avoidance (Americans never die; they "pass away") and various taboos of speech and practice. A "funeral parlor" is decorated to look like a bank; everything in a funeral ceremony is done in hushed tones, as if it were something secret, to be concealed from the world; there is so much emphasis on being dignified that the ceremony often loses its quality: of dignity. In some of the primitive cultures, there is difficulty in under-standing the causes of death; it seems puzzling and even unintelligible. Living in a scientific culture, Americans have a ready enough explanation of how it comes, yet they show little capacity to come to terms with the fact of death itself and with the grief that accompanies it.
"We jubilate over birth and dance at weddings," writes Margaret Mead, "but more and more deal with the death off the scene without ceremony, without an opportunity for young and old to realize that death is as much a fact of life as is birth." And one may add, even in its hurry and brevity, the last stage of an American's life m the last occasion of this relation to his society—is as standardized as the rest.
Unwillingness to face death is
A.a characteristic of American society.
B.a quality found in all civilizations.
C.a quality inherited from our Latin ancestors.
D.a quality of the American character.
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The Mexican government takes half measures to solve the pollution problem because_____.
A.Mexican economy depends very much on cars and factories
B.it is not wise enough to come up with effective measures
C.Mexicans are able to adapt themselves to the current emergency
D.Mexicans enjoy playing dangerous games with their health
此题为多项选择题。
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The combined sales of the 100 largest foreign investing companies in the U. S. increased by a 40% in the two years between 1977 and 1979, and the number has continued to increase steadily. In 1980 South Africa proved to be the largest financial investor in the U. S. controlling about $19. 2 billion in sales. The Netherlands and the U. K. follow as second largest investors--and Germany next. New to the list of the top 100 foreign investors are 12 banking and finance and insurance companies--the largest, the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp. , from Hong Kong. The number of Latin American companies engaged in business here is growing steadily, often through third country holding companies.
Why are so many firms coming to the U. S. ? There are many reasons. One of the greatest attractions, of course, is a market of over 200 million consumers with a high average per capital income. In addition, with the devalued dollar the cost of American labor has declined significantly, relative to many foreign labor costs. Some firms seeking to avoid economic and/or political pressures at home find the U. S. a politically stable environment in which to work.
Many hope to be able to continue selling to the American market even if the U. S. government restricts imports further, or if major price changes occur due to currency fluctuations (波动). Many foreigners are attracted by U.S. technology, its modem management methods, its labor saving and mass production techniques.
In 1980 the largest foreign financial investor in the U. S. was from ______.
A.H.K.
B.U.K.
C.Latin America
D.South Africa
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Tooth&39;s roots in Greek and Latin are “odont(o)”, “dent(o)”()
是
否