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Admirers of American ballet (has claimed) that (its stars) can dance (as well as) or even better than (the best of) the Russian artists.
A．has claimed
B．its stars
C．as well as
D．the best of
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74. Admirers of American ballet has claimed that its stars can dance as well as or even better than
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Eighty years【C6】______, Chaplin is still here. In a 1995 worldwide survey of film critics, Chaplin was voted【C7】______greatest actor in the movie history. He was the first,【C8】______the last, person to control【C9】______aspect of the filmmaking process--【C10】______his own studio and producing, directing, writing and editing the movies he starred in. In the first few decades of the 20th century,【C11】______weekly movie-going was the national【C12】______, Chaplin more or less helped【C13】______an industry into an art. In 1916,his【C14】______year in films, his salary of $10, 000 a week made him the highest-paid actor --【C15】______the highest-paid person- in the world.【C16】______1920, the Chaplin craze, accompanied by a flood of Chaplin dances, songs, dolls, comic books and cocktails, was【C17】______everywhere. Filmmaker Mack Sennett thought【C18】______"just the greatest artist who ever lived. "Other early admirers【C19】______George Bernard Shaw, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud.【C20】______1981 to 1987, IBM used the Tramp as the logo to advertise its venture into personal computers.
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Eighty years【66】, Chaplin is still here. In a 1995 worldwide survey of film critics, Chaplin was voted【67】greatest actor in movie history. He was the first,【68】the last, person to control【69】aspect of the filmmaking process--【70】his own studio and producing, directing, writing, and editing the movies he starred in. In the first few decades of the 20th century,【71】weekly movie-going was the national【72】, Chaplin more or less helped【73】an industry into an art. In 1916, his【74】year in alms, his salary of ＄ 10,00 a week made him the highest-paid actor--【75】the highest paid person--in the world.【76】1920, the Chaplin craze, accompanied by a flood of Chaplin dances, songs, dolls, comic books and cocktails, was【77】everywhere. Filmmaker Mack Sennett thought【78】"just the greatest artist who ever lived". Other early admirers【79】George Bernard Shaw, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud.【80】1981 to 1987, IBM used the Tramp as the logo (标志) to advertise its venture into personal computers.
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In the years that followed, he took part in football games against such renowned teams as Harvard and West Point. Thorpe again and again brought his team to victory. In 1912 he was invited to compete in the Olympic Games in Stockholm. There he excelled in several track events and was presented with first place gold medals; He was the first athlete to capture first place a wards in so many track events.
When Thorpe returned home from the Olympic Games, he was welcomed with parades and celebration. The president called him the highest type of citizen. However, this was all short-lived because it was found out that at one time Thorpe had been a professional athlete. Since an athlete must be an amateur in order to participate in the Olympic games, Thorpe did not qualify. Therefore, all of his medals were taken away from him.
In later years, Thorpe played baseball and football professionally. His admirers often tried to have his medals returned to him, but in vain. Thorpe died a lonely man in California on March 28, 1953. Today, as always, many still believe Thorpe was the best athlete that ever lived.
Where was Thorpe's athletic talent discovered？
A．At Harvard.
B．At West Point.
C．At the Carlisle Indian School.
D．At the Olympic Games held in Stockholm.
Which of the following statements is NOT tree？
A．Rock admirers can identify themselves with the performers.
B．There is hardly any gap between the performers and the audience.
C．In a way, rock admirers pay highly to worship themselves.
D．The appeal of rock performance lies in its highly refined art.
"It doesn't make sense, " says Johnny Mathis, one of the older music millionaires, who made a million dollars a year when he was most popular, in the 1950s. "Performers aren't worth this kind of money. In fact, nobody is. "
But the rock stars 'admirers seem to disagree. Those who love rock music spend about two billion dollars a year for records. They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person.
Some observers think the customers are buying more than music. According to one theory, rock music has a special appeal because no real training is needed to produce it. There is no gulf between the audience and the performer. Every boy and girl in the audience thinks, "I could sing like that. " So rock has become a new kind of religion, a new form. of worship. Young people are glad to pay to worship a rock star because it is a way of worshipping themselves.
Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972, one of the luckiest was Don McLean, who wrote and sang "American Pie". McLean earned more than a million dollars from recordings of "American Pie". Then, too, like most performers, McLean writes his own music, so he earns an additional two cents on every single record of the song.
Records provide only part of a star's income. Around the world young listeners soon want to see the star in movies, on television, and in person.
Nell Young, who performs in torn blue jeans, sometimes sings to an audience of 10 000, each of whom has paid at least five dollars for a ticket. After paying expenses, Young leaves with about $ 18 000 in his blue jeans at the end of an evening.
How do the rock stars use their money？ What do they do when the money starts pouring in like water？ Most of the young stars simply throw the money around. England's Elton John gave someone a $ 38 000 Rolls Royce automobile and bought himself a $ 5 000 pair of eyeglasses that light up and spell ELTON. He also bought himself two cars, "one for each foot".
Many rock stars live like Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane. Those performers return from a tour, pay their bills, and buy new toys. Then when they need money again, they do another tour. They save no money, buy no stocks, and live from hand to mouth.
In the end the rock star's life is unrewarding. After two or three years riches and fame are gone. Left with his memories and his tax problems, the lonely person spends his remaining years trying to impress strangers. New stars have arrived to take his place.
The music millionaire Johnny Mathis doesn't think ______.
A．rock stars are worth what they have been paid
B．rock stars have any value in their performance
C．it makes any sense to worship rock stars
D．rock stars are well trained
The interview on the publication of "Seeing Things" showed that______.
A．Harpers & Queen is one poem included in the collection—"Seeing Things"
B．Seamus Heaney"s wife enjoyed answering letters from his admirers
C．a poet should have serious thoughts before publically raising his/her opinions
D．Seamus Heaney was amused by the author"s preparation for the interview
【T18】
A.RISE ABOVE CHALLENGES
B.IN SPITE OF THE CHALLENGES
C.A POSITIVE INFLUENCE
D.WITH EACH INSPIRING PAGE A.WE CAN DERIVE STRENGTH AND POSITIVITY【T13】______THAT COME OUR WAY
B.YOU CAN HAVE IDEAS ON HOW HE WAS ABLE TO【T14】______
C.TO NOURISH YOUR MIND AND SOUL【T15】______
D.EVOLVE INTO【T16】______FOR MILLIONS OF HIS ADMIRERS WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT IS COMPLEX AND CHAOTIC, AND IF WE"RE NOT CAREFUL, WE CAN EASILY LOSE INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION TO CARRY ON WITH OUR LIVES. ALL IS NOT LOST, THOUGH, FOR THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF SOURCES FROM WHICH【T17】______.A BIOGRAPHY OF A SUCCESSFUL PERSON IS ALWAYS A GREAT SOURCE OFINSPIRATION, ESPECIALLY IF THAT PERSON IS SOMEONE YOU TRULY RESPECT.IN THAT NARRATIVE,【T18】______,ADDRESS HIS CRITICS, AND ASCERTAIN WHAT TOOLS AND SKILLS HE NEEDED TO MAKE IT IN HIS CHOSEN FIELD AND【T19】______, A BIOGRAPHY CAN ALSO GIVE YOU AN INSIDER"S LOOK AT THE INDUSTRY YOU"RE HOPING TO BREAKINTO, SO GO AHEAD AND INVEST IN ONE【T20】______.
perhaps is the most popular local brand in bakery in Mexico. Every day, its products including sliced bread. cakes, and snacks are delivered nationwide by trucks. Executives at the Mexico City company estimate that its army of deliverymen makes the equivalent of dozens of trips around the earth each day.
But Bimbo's reach extends well beyond Mexico's borders. On Jan. 22nd, it plunked down $610 million for the Western U. S. division of Canada's George Weston Ltd. The deal gives Bimbo five bakeries and the rights to the Oroweat, Entenmann's, Thomas' English Muffins, and Boboli brands everywhere except in Canada and east of the Mississippi River. The share of Bimbo's sales that comes from the U.S. will rise to 30% from 17% "This is a perfect fit for us." says Grupo Bimbo Chief Financial officer Guillermo Quiroz. It also builds on a $1.1 billion 12-year international expansion drive that has taken Bimbo into 16 countries from Chile to the Czech Republic, elevating it to the rank of No.3 baker worldwide. (8)
With a virtual monopoly at home. Bimbo has little choice but to look abroad for new avenues of growth. Yet even admirers of this Mexican blue chip wonder whether it has what it takes to succeed north of the Rio Grande. With the notable exception of cement maker Cemex, few Mexican companies have managed to turn a profit in the ultracompetitive U. S.
Vitro tried to crack the American glass-container market with its purchase of Anchor Hocking in 1989, but it threw in the towel seven years later. Grupo Carso, a leading conglomerate. is struggling to turn around troubled computer retailer CompUSA Inc., which it bought in 2000. (9) Mrs. Baird's Bakeries, the Texas-based operation it acquired in 1998 for $300 million, is still in the red, and its collection of bakeries in California are just starting to break even. "The company doesn't have a good track record of enhancing shareholder value through overseas acquisitions." says Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown Inc. food analyst Joaquín López-Dóriga. Indeed, while overall sales have climbed as a result of such purchases, profit margins are being squeezed.
So why aren't Bimbo's shareholders howling？ (10) Bimbo spent $500 million last year on a share-buyback programme that left just 15% of shares actively traded. The company, which is controlled and run by the Servitje family, didn't even have an investor-relations department until Quiroz came on board three years ago after a career in Mexico's airline and banking businesses. Quiroz says Chief Executive Daniel Servitje Montull is committed to making Bimbo a more open company, paving the way for a possible New York Stock Exchange listing within two or three years.
Bimbo's executives claim they've learned their lessons from past acquisitions. (11) They've also hired consulting firm Bain & Co. to convert the George Weston operation to the Bimbo way of doing business in just 100 days. That's in stark contrast with the slow pace of integration of Mrs. Baird's, where management dragged its feet in introducing Bimbo's manufacturing and purchasing schemes.
With the Weston deal, Bimbo now boasts a roster of well-known American brands and a ready-built distribution network. Entenmann's, for example, is No.1 in its market segment nationwide, but it still has plenty of room to grow in the western half of the country, where it is not as well-known. (12) "The Hispanic market is definitely an opportunity, and they're in a better position to exploit it today than before," says López-Dóriga. But can Bimbo peddle Entenmann's cookies as well as its jelly-filled Gansitos sweets？ U. S. shoppers are about to find out.
A．Bimbo has had a spotty record with its prior U. S. investments, too.
B．Bimbo had an estimated profit of $188 million in 2001 on sales of $3.8 billion.
C．This means that Bimbo cannot accomplish its takeover.
D．They're spending $50 million on a companywide information-management system from Oracle Corp.
E．It also gives the company access to a market estimated at 120 million consumers, 20% of whom are Hispanic, allowing the company to expand the reach of its existing bread and tortilla manufacturing facilities in Texas and California.
F．Because there aren't that many of them.
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Take this, for example: "National citizenship is inherently exclusionary." So no foreigners need ever apply for naturalisation, then. And" ... public anxiety about migration ... is usually based on a rational understanding of the value of British citizenship and its~ incompatibility with over-porous borders". Straight from the lexicon of the far right. And best of all: "You can have a welfare state provided that you are a homogenous society with intensely shared values."
These are extracts from an article in the Observer, penned by the liberal intellectual Goodhart, who is just one of several liberal thinkers now vigorously making what they consider a progressive argument against immigration. It goes like this: the more diverse a society, the less likely its citizens are to share common values; the fewer common values, the weaker the support for vital institutions of social solidarity, such as the welfare state and the National Health Service.
There are perfectly good reasons to worry about how we respond to immigration, not least the downward pressure on workers' wages; the growth of racial inequality; and the exploitation of illegals. But the answer to these problems is not genteel xenophobia, but trade union rights, backed by equality and employment law.
The xenophobes should come clean. Their argument is not about immigration at all. They are liberal Powellites; what really bothers them is race and culture. If today's immigrants were white people from the old Commonwealth, Goodhart and his friends would say that they pose no threat because they share Anglo-Saxon values.
Unfortunately for liberal Powellites, the real history of the NHS shatters their fundamental case against diversity. The NHS is a world-beating example of the way that ethnic diversity can create social solidarity. Launched by a Welshman, built by Irish: labourers, founded on the skills of Caribbean nurses and Indian doctors, it is now being rescued by an emergency injection of Filipino nurses, refugee ancillaries and antipodean medics. And it remains 100% British.
Virtually all of our public services have depended heavily on immigrants. Powell was forced to admit as much when, as minister for health he advertised for staff in the Caribbean. His new admirers will discover that a rapidly depopulating Europe will have no choice but to embrace diversity.
For the moment, however, the liberal Powellites are gaining support in high places. Their ideas are inspired by the work of the American sociologist Putnam, a Downing Street favourite. He purports to show that dynamic, diverse communities are more fragmented than stable, monoethnic ones. But the policy wonks have forgotten that Putnam's research was conducted in a society so marked by segregation that even black millionaires still live in gated ghettoes.
The prime minister still seems uneasy on the issue. Last week, he wavered uncertainly between backing his pro-immigration home secretary, and a defensive response to Howard's goading that the government was in a mess on the topic.
Oddly enough, this is a place in the arena of world politics where the PM does not stand shoulder to shoulder with Bush. The Spanish-speaking former governor of Texas recently announced that he would "regularise" the status of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants who had slipped across the border to work. It's the kind of massive amnesty that would send the Daily Express into conniptions.
Even more peculiar, the prime minister appears to be ignoring not only Blunkett but also his new best friend, the
A．genteel xenophobia
B．liberal commitment
C．Britain's multi-ethnicity
D．populist bigotry
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