1、 You really are a symbol, and part of your job is to represent not only a set of people, but also a set of policy positions and qualities. 单选题 2分

2、American history—and its politics – is replete with references to the country’s “national character.” 单选题 2分

3、It seems obvious, but I suppose low-tech solutions always have a difficult time gaining credence in the medical community. 单选题 2分

4、According to Norton, to make oneself out from the rest is strongly preferred in America society. 判断题 2分

5、Barack Obama thinks that American people’s personal attributes can be easily detected by the political labels. 判断题 2分

6、Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes in contact with them. Their balues---this can’t be repeated too often--- are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with decaying food covered by small worms, and an old person lying alone in the bed, taking no notice of the worms. But is it interfering wit personal freedom in insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old. Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what point should you cease to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by pursuing the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try, on the principle that while there’s life, there’s hope. When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun. It is implied in Paragraph 1 that. 单选题 2分

7、Some social workers think that. 单选题 2分

8、In the author’s opinion, 单选题 2分

9、The word “it” in the last paragraph refers to. 单选题 2分

10、The author thinks that. 单选题 2分

11、In short, the red-blue difference runs so deep that there are distinct personality types corresponding to the different runs so deep that there are distinct personality type corresponding to the different ideologies. 简答题 2分

12、Yet, the vision of the United States that Obama is resisting is so pervasive that almost a hundred books have been lightheartedly and seriously dedicated to the subject since the 2000 election. 简答题 2分

13、The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge--probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world--are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco. The only crack in Northern California's 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable. As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build, and was opened in 1937. Designed by Joseph Strauss, it was the first really massive suspension bridge, with a span of 4,200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the world's longest. It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, rendering the hitherto essential ferry crossing redundant, and was designed to withstand winds of up to a hundred miles an hour and to swing as much as 27 ft. Handsome on a clear day, the bridge takes on an eerie(神秘的) quality when the thick white fogs pour in and hide it almost completely. 　　You can either drive or walk across. The drive is the more thrilling of the two options as you race under the bridge's towers, but the half-hour walk across it really gives you time to take in its enormous size and absorb the views of the city behind you and the headlands of Northern California straight ahead. Pause at the midway point and consider the seven or so suicides a month who choose this spot,260 ft up, as their jumping-off spot. Monitors of such events speculate that victims always face the city before they leap. In 1995, when the suicide toll from the bridge had reached almost 1,000 police kept the figures quiet to avoid a rush of would-be suicides going for the dubious distinction of being the thousandth person to leap. 　　Perhaps the best loved symbol of San Francisco, in 1987 the Golden Gate proved an auspicious place(风水宝地) for a sunrise party when crowds gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Some quarter of a million people turned up (a third of the city's entire population); the winds were strong and huge numbers caused the bridge to buckle(使弯曲), but fortunately not to break. Why those people attempt to suicide often jump from the midway point of the bridge? 简答题 2分

14、What do you know further about the Golden Gate Bridge? 简答题 2分

15、According to the passage give a title for this passage. 简答题 2分