Before the 20th century the horse provided day to day transportaition in the United States. Trains were used only for long distance transportation. Today the car is the most popular (26) of transportation in all of the United States. It has completely (27) the horse as a means f everyday transportation. Americans use their car for (28) 90 percent of personal (29) Most Americans are able to (30) cars. The average price of a (31) made car was 2, 050 in 1950, 2, 740 (32) 1975. During this period American car manufacturers set about (33) their products and work efficiency. As a result, the yearly income of the (34) family increased from 1950 to 1975 (35) than the price of cars. For this reason (36) a new car takes a smaller (37) of a family’s total earnings today. In 1951 (38) it took 8 months of an average family’s (39) to buy a new car. In 1962 a new car (40) 8.3 of a family’s annual earnings. By 1975 it only took 4.75 (41) income. In addition, the 1975 cars were technically (42) to models from previous years. The (43) of the automobile extends throughout the economy (44) the car is so important to Americans. Americans spend more money to (45) their cars running than on any other item.
A. slowest
B. equal
C. faster
D. less than
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Blinks can take several forms. Besides the blinks that wash the eye, there are those associated with unexpected circumstances (such as loud noises), as well as the voluntary flaps of the eyelids that may express anger or incredulity. Another type, the spontaneous eye blink, is neither voluntary nor reflexive. Most blinks are spontaneous. Mere eye-rinsing requires a blink no more than once a minute; yet most people blink around 15 times a minute. Why do we blink so frequently Apparently there is a direct relationship between spontaneous blinking and the mind. Scientists can now discern how the frequency and duration of blinks vary according to whether a person is alert, bored, anxious or concentrating. Studies show first of all that we blink less when we are most alert. A person reading a novel blinks about six times a minute; someone engaged in conversation blinks more than twice as often. Automobile drivers blink less when negotiating distracting city streets than when cruising down highways. Researchers have learned that the rate and duration of our blinks vary according to the tasks we perform. People engaged in visual activities like drawing blink less frequently; fatigued individual blink more often than when they are rested. We blink more if upset. Anxiety also increases the number of blinks. Notice helicopter pilots blink more often than instructors, and witnesses under cross-examination blink more frequently than those facing friendly lawyers. This connection between blinking and apprehension explains why television newscasters are instructed to blink normally, in order to appear calm and controlled and, thus, unflappable before the cameras. This also applies to politicians. Newsweek reports that when neuro-psychologist Joe Tecce monitored Michael Dukakis and Geoge Bush during their debate last October, he concluded that the Massachusetts governor was more nervous. Dukakis averaged 75 blinks per minute (92 when asked if he’d raise taxes), Bush 67. Which of the following titles best expresses the main idea
A. Why Anxiety Increases Blinking.
Blinking and Apprehension.
C. Spontaneous Blink and Voluntary Blink.
D. Blinking Reflects the Min
Before the 20th century the horse provided day to day transportaition in the United States. Trains were used only for long distance transportation. Today the car is the most popular (26) of transportation in all of the United States. It has completely (27) the horse as a means f everyday transportation. Americans use their car for (28) 90 percent of personal (29) Most Americans are able to (30) cars. The average price of a (31) made car was 2, 050 in 1950, 2, 740 (32) 1975. During this period American car manufacturers set about (33) their products and work efficiency. As a result, the yearly income of the (34) family increased from 1950 to 1975 (35) than the price of cars. For this reason (36) a new car takes a smaller (37) of a family’s total earnings today. In 1951 (38) it took 8 months of an average family’s (39) to buy a new car. In 1962 a new car (40) 8.3 of a family’s annual earnings. By 1975 it only took 4.75 (41) income. In addition, the 1975 cars were technically (42) to models from previous years. The (43) of the automobile extends throughout the economy (44) the car is so important to Americans. Americans spend more money to (45) their cars running than on any other item.
A. quickly
B. regularly
C. rapidly
D. recently
Live theatre lives. In England in every town, someone is rehearsing, someone devising, someone performing. Winchester is a good example. Ancient capital of England, population approximately 60,000 when you take in the suburbs. Live theatre comes to Winchester and made in Winchester, week in week out. It has a 400-seat theatre in the city centre and an arts centre in the outskirts seating 150. These offer a programme of visiting companies on a tour of one-night or three-to-four night stands, moving from one gathering place to another around the country, using moveable sets in flexible space. New productions of classic works, ancient and modern but always live: each performance different because it’s different audience in a different town. The tour usually lasts the company two or three months before it’s time to settle down to devise and rehearse the next one. For the performer, touring is a chance to work with the same people in the security of a company unit. But it’s also a chance to try something different night: to find out what works by actually doing it. And it doesn’t always work. So what if it flops You are on the road and perform it again in another place tomorrow. The audience will have forgotten by the time you come around again next year. Each company’s different, each has its own style, and audiences get to know them. But Winchester also has its own fringe (边缘) theatre 200 yards or so from the cathedral. This is where live theatre is conceived. The North Pole, it seats 50 to 60 people. Here it’s new work, amateur and semi-professional work, sometimes slick (熟练的), sometimes rough and ready. At least a dozen world premieres (首次公演) a year: many of them short-lived, quickly forgotten, some of them best forgotten, but all of them performed in excitement and expectation, neither audience nor performer quite knowing what’s going to happen. But one or two shows stick in the mind, some return reworked a year or so later the better for being polished on the live stage, some will work their way out of Winchester onto the touring circuit. Someone somewhere is always thinking of starting a company. What is true of Winchester’s fringe theatre, "The North Poles"
A. It is a cathedral theatre.
B. All performances here are amateur and half-professional.
C. People remember the performances here long after the companies have left.
D. A dozen of the world top performers come here to perform every year.
Before the 20th century the horse provided day to day transportaition in the United States. Trains were used only for long distance transportation. Today the car is the most popular (26) of transportation in all of the United States. It has completely (27) the horse as a means f everyday transportation. Americans use their car for (28) 90 percent of personal (29) Most Americans are able to (30) cars. The average price of a (31) made car was 2, 050 in 1950, 2, 740 (32) 1975. During this period American car manufacturers set about (33) their products and work efficiency. As a result, the yearly income of the (34) family increased from 1950 to 1975 (35) than the price of cars. For this reason (36) a new car takes a smaller (37) of a family’s total earnings today. In 1951 (38) it took 8 months of an average family’s (39) to buy a new car. In 1962 a new car (40) 8.3 of a family’s annual earnings. By 1975 it only took 4.75 (41) income. In addition, the 1975 cars were technically (42) to models from previous years. The (43) of the automobile extends throughout the economy (44) the car is so important to Americans. Americans spend more money to (45) their cars running than on any other item.
A. buy
B. sell
C. race
D. see