美国社会与文化(浙江理工大学)知到章节答案智慧树2023年

美国社会与文化（浙江理工大学）知到章节测试答案智慧树2023年最新
第一章测试
1.There are 50 states altogether. Among them, forty states form the contiguous
states or the mainland of America and ten states form the non- contiguous
territories.__________
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错
2.According to common knowledge, the Pacific Ocean is on the west coast, the
Atlantic Ocean is on the east coast of the U.S. ._______________
参考答案:
对
3.Surely, the state of Hawaii is to the northwest of Canada, and the state of
Alaska is in the Pacific Ocean, southwest of California.._______________
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错
4.In addition to the 50 states, the US also includes Washington D.C. or District
of Colombia and ten outlying territories.________________
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错
5.Since the date when independence from England was on July 4th, 1776, July
4th is the National Day in the United States of America. _______________
参考答案:
对
6.Uncle Sam is a figure symbolizing the United States, and he’s portrayed as a
tall, white-haired man with a goatee and he’s often dressed in red, white, and blue, and wears a top hat. ______
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对
7.Interestingly enough, each state in the US has its own two-letter abbreviation,
for example, OK stands for Oklahoma..________________
参考答案:
对
8.In the US, the major mountain ranges are the Rocky Mountains in the East
and the Appalachian
Mountains in the West._______________
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错
9.Generally speaking, there are four regions in America, they are the Northeast,
the Midwest, the South and the Northwest. _________________
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错
10.It is well-known that the three biggest cities in the United States of America
are New York City, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas._______________
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错
第二章测试
1.When Christopher Columbus, the famous explorer landed on the island in the
Mediterranean Sea in 1492, he truly lifted the curtain, which led so many
followers from Europe to settle in this “the New World” later on.__________
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错
2.The French settlers lived by the side of a river. It’s called James River, which
was named after their King, and they built a town called Jamestown there.
_______________
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错
3.Generally speaking, people who came and settled in this “New World” had
personal as well as many other reasons for leaving their own
countries._______________ ___________
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对
4.In 1620, 35 Puritans and 67 non-Puritans took the ship called Mayflower for
North America, and some colonists didn’t survive the first year in North
America..________________
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错
5.According to Don’s explanation, his ancestors came from Sicily near Italy just
an island off the coast of Italy, and they came around 1900 or so.
_______________ .
参考答案:
对
6.Many Southerners thought slavery was wrong, whereas most white
Northerners considered slavery part of their way of life. _______________
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错
7.After the founding of the USA , the new nation adopted “the Constitution”,
Boston was chosen as the capital for the time being, and George Washington became the first president of the US in 1791. ______
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错
8.So, “the American Dream” for the settlers’ was to own their own land, have
their own farms and not be controlled or have to live under the authority of a land owner.___________
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对
9.In 1814, when the Americans and British fought another war, a British
expedition landed and captured Washington, D.C., and British soldiers set fire to the President’s Mansion. _______
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对
10.In 1821, France ceded control of Florida to the USA, and Florida finally
became a US state in 1845._______________
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错
第三章测试
1.The cause of World War I was due to the assassination of an Austrian duke in
June, 1914 in Serbia, which was part of former Yugoslavia. __________
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对
2.On May 7, 1915, a German aircraft carrier sank the British ocean liner
Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, among them 128 of them were Americans.
_______________
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错
3.After World War I, the United States enjoyed a period of prosperity. For
example, in 1927, many families purchased their first electric fan and
microwave oven, and cars also became common in the 1920s. ___________
参考答案:
错
4.In 1939, when World War II began, Germany launched a lightning attack on
Poland and also conquered Denmark, Norway, Holland and France in the
following year. ________
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对
5.On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission became
the first man to set foot on the moon. _______________
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对
第四章测试
1.The Executive Branch carries out and enforces the laws, and includes the
President, Vice President, the Cabinet, 15 executive departments, and
independent agencies, and so on. ____
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对
2.The US President is the head of state, commander in chief of the US Armed
Forces, and he serves a four-year term and can be elected to no more than
three terms. ______
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错
3.Traditionally speaking, the American political system, throughout most of its
history, has been dominated by a two-party system: Democratic Party and
the Conservative Party. _______
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错
4.In the USA, one of the major political parties is the Democratic Party, and its
symbol of this party is the elephant. _______
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错
5.According to the US Constitutional requirements, a Presidential candidate
must be at least 35 years old, a natural born citizen and a resident of the US for at least 14 years. ________
参考答案:
对
第五章测试
1.Among the 45 men who have served as president of the US, 31 had military
service. Yet, former presidents, like Barack Obama and President Trump did not serve in the military._____
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对
2.The history of the US Army began in 1775, when the Continental Army was
founded in order to fight the invading British Army during the Mexican-
American War.________
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错
3.The day when Dr. Pan interviewed Edward was the day when American
President Donald Trump paid his first visit to China. ______
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对
4.Before Edward became a soldier, his job was working in a Wal-Mart
Supermarket, and he had a low pay and not many opportunities for
advancement. ________
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错
5.The reason why Edward wanted to become a solider was that when he went
to see the recruiter, who showed many videos, the soldiers in service were
doing some exciting things, like jumping out of airplanes and shooting
guns.________
参考答案:
对
第六章测试
cational policy is a plan of action adopted by one nation in its diplomatic
dealings with other countries as a systemic way to deal with issues that may
arise with other countries. __
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错
2.American “Anti-War Mom” Cindy Sheehan was an American anti-war activist，
whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed in the Afghanistan War in 2001. ______
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错
3.As a new nation, from its establishment after the American Revaluation until
the Spanish- American War, America’s prime national interest was to
maintain its independence from more powerful European countries. ______
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对
4.Protected by the Atlantic Ocean, its major foreign policy, known as the
Monroe Doctrine, was to limit European attempts of further colonization of
the Western Hemisphere, which truly reflected the country’s regional, as
compared to global focus. ________
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对
5.Throughout the 19th century, America concentrated on creating a nation that
spanned the continent. For example, the 1903 Louisiana Purchase from
France doubled the nation’s geographical area. _____
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错
6.America’s victory over Spain in 1898 also brought the Philippines and Puerto
Rico in American territories as well as oversight of Cuba. _______
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对
第七章测试
1.What’s important to keep in mind is that from the colonial period to the mid-
nineteenth century,
the US was primarily an industrial society.________
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错
2.Generally speaking, the reason why the US economy is able to become the
engine of the world economy is through a combination of many factors,
including political stability, an independent legal system, and regulatory
structures provided by the American government. _____
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对
3.Most Americans fully believe that the rise of their nation as the largest global
economy could not have occurred without the economic freedom or “Laissez-faire”.________
参考答案:
对
4.In the video, Tim says that he I didn’t like having his own business because
he basically didn’t have the freedom to choose and do what he wanted to
do.________
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错
5.As a matter of fact, America’s free enterprise system is “not completely” free,
especially when the country withstood great difficulties or even catastrophe, the US government regulations shaped many aspects of business operation.
_______
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对
第八章测试
1.Clearly, the United States is a highly-developed country with modern science
and technology, yet it’s also a land of religions, in which Americans have
religious faith._________
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对
2.In fact, American society has also been profoundly influenced by religions in
the fields of culture, politics, social life and standards for personal morality.
______
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对
3.In 1620, some Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims took the ship “Aprilflower” from
Holland for North America for religious freedom and settled at Plymouth,
Massachusetts.______
参考答案:
错
4.According to the recent survey via telephone from the Gallup International, it
indicates that 37% of Americans report that they attend religious services
monthly or nearly-monthly._______
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错
5.Church attendance is a central religious practice for many American
Christians, who are required to regularly attend church services on the
Lord’s Day or Friday in keeping with the Ten Commandments.______
参考答案:
错
第九章测试
1.As a matter of fact, until the Mexican-American War and the founding of the
USA, American literature shows its own characteristics as a mirror, reflecting the social life, a separate path and tradition.__________
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错
2.Truly speaking, from the birth of the new nation to the present day, American
literature, in one sense, has recorded the story and development of American
society, and its literature typically falls into four categories.___________
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错
3.In the video, Tim says that he likes James Michener, who wrote a lot of books
and his books became famous as movies, and the author also represented the American point of view____
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对
4.Don mentions that his favorite contemporary novelist would be Philip Roth,
who has put out about one book a year, and Don would always read them.
________
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对
5.From the historical perspective, America didn’t have its fiction until James
Cooper (1783 -1859) appeared. In the people’s view, he’s considered “The Father of American Literature”. ________
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错
6.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is currently regarded as the “Father of
Detective Stories” in America. Among his fifty stories, the 5 best short ones were The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, The Pit and the Pendulum, Hop-Frog and The Imp of the Perverse. ______
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对
7.Walt Whitman (1811-1896) wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an antislavery novel
that changed forever how Americans viewed slavery and struggled for
freedom and equality._____
参考答案:
错
8.Mark Twain (1835-1910), the pen name used by Samuel Clemens, wrote his
regional masterpieces about his home town. They were the memoir: Life on the Mississippi and the novels: Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ______
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对
9.Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was the most influential writer. He wrote
The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved which earned him the Nobel Prize in literature. ______
参考答案:
错
10.In the video, Dr. Pan mentioned that Mark Twain has been called the
“Abraham Lincoln” or “Real Father” of American Literature. By the time of his death in 1910, he was already famous all over the world. _______
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对
第十章测试
1.On the whole, there are some 5,300 US colleges or universities, which
normally comprise at least four categories of institutions across the whole
country, such as public or private colleges or universities, four-year colleges or universities, and so on. __________
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对
2.Generally speaking, the public or private universities are large in size, and
contain several colleges and one or more graduate schools for students to
obtain only their bachelor’s degree.___________
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错
3.The technical training institutions are sometimes called junior or two-year
colleges, providing a lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates or
associate degrees for students to obtain.
And prepare some students to pursue their bachelor's degree. _________
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错
4.In the video, Don says that he graduated from the University of Denver, in the
state of Colorado. It’s a private university, and is sometimes referred to as
“the Harvard of the West”.______
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对
5.In 1944, the US Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act or “GI
Bill”. According to the Act, it promised spiritual aid, including aid for higher education to the ex-soldiers or veterans after the end of World War II. ________
参考答案:
错
6.In postwar America, the enrollment of African-Americans in higher education
began to increase. Before World War II, female students constituted less than 30%, but from 1945-1965, the number of women pursuing a college
education tripled. ______
参考答案:
错
7.Moreover, US colleges and universities are also enrolling a higher percentage
of non-traditional students, who have worked for several years before
starting college or students who go to school part-time while holding down a job. ______
参考答案:
对
8.In the video, Tim says that when he went to school to get his teaching
certificate. he was the only male in that class. All the other students were
female, partly because that was for teachers of elementary education. ______
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对
9.In the United States, the requirements for an undergraduate student to earn
at least 220 credits in order to receive his or her bachelor’s degree. ________
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错
10.The prestigious universities, like eight universities in Ivy Leagues, such as
Harvard University and Yale University are still many candidates’ first choice in America._________
参考答案:
对
第十一章测试
1.Generally speaking, from emergence as an independent nation, the United
States has truly encouraged science and innovation. The Constitution gives
the House of Representatives the power “to promote the progress of science and useful arts.__________
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错
2.In the United States, while nurturing and training a great number of world-
famous scientists in its own country, it has also invited many scientists from other countries as well, to help the US become a modern and highly
productive world power in the late 20th century._______
参考答案:
对
3.In the video, Tim thinks that technology has allowed the average person to
have much more opportunity to learn and participate in the local economy,
and even if they work for a major corporation, they can still stay home and
work on a computer._________
参考答案:
错
4.During the first half of the 19th century, the first heroic inventor was John
Hall who invented the cotton gin in 1794, which was a machine designed to remove the seeds from cotton and it made the cotton industry of the South explode. ________
参考答案:
错
5. A famous American inventors in the early 19th century was Cyrus
McCormick who invented his mechanical reaper to harvest countless acres of wheat in the Midwestern plains.________
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对
6.Alexander Graham Bell who was a Scottish-born scientist, engineer, inventor
and innovator, invented the Internet and allowed people to talk from a long distance. In fact, his new technology of communication has altered the
texture of business, war and even politics. ________
参考答案:
错
7.Thomas Edison, an American inventor, who was the most famous inventor
during the second half of the 19th century, developed the phonograph, the first long-lasting light bulb, and the first viable movie camera, among many other important inventions. _________
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对
8.In 1957, the former Soviet Union first lunched Sputnik I into space, the first
artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. Then, four months later, the United States launched its first satellite Explorer I, becoming the second nation to launch a satellite into orbit during the Cold War. ________
参考答案:
对
9.In 1969, the Apollo II was launched in America, and Neil Armstrong, an
astronaut became the first human to set foot on the Mars surface. So, even
today, his famous words are still echoing in our ears: “That’s one small step
for a man, one gia nt leap for mankind”. ________
参考答案:
错
10.During the 20th Century, American microprocessor companies were set up in
Silicon Valley, California, including Adobe Systems by John Warnock and
Charles Geschke, IBM and Apple by Steve Jobs, and Microsoft started in
Seattle, Washington._______
参考答案:
对
第十二章测试
1.Nowadays, when it comes to American tourist attractions, the first things
that comes to Dr. Pan’s mind are the skyscrapers of New York and Chicago,
the natural wonders of Wyoming and Alaska to the sunny beaches of
California, Florida and Hawaii.___________
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对
2.Edward tells us that he comes form the state of Arizona, which is located in
the southwestern region of America, his hometown is very famous for
Hollywood and Disneyland, which is a very large and beautiful natural area.
_______
参考答案:
错
3.In D on’s mind, he would say that Mount Rushmore, or the United States
Presidential Memorial Park is one of the more iconic attractions in the US, which is the one where four presidents’ faces are carved into rock.__________
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对
4.One of the must-see attractions to visit on the East Coast must be the Niagara
Falls in the state of Pennsylvania, which is divided into three waterfalls. They are American Falls, Horseshoe Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. _________
参考答案:
错
5.Clearly, Boston’s most famous landmarks a re the Statue of Liberty, the
Empire State Building. Other attractions are Broadway and Shubert Alley,
Fifth Avenue, Times Square, Wall Street, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. _____
参考答案:
错
6.The state of Washington has its national symbols, such as the White House
and the US Capitol that are accessible to visitors from both at home and
abroad. The others are the National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial, the
Washington Monument, and, Library of Congress, etc._______
参考答案:
错
7.As every one knows, the hottest attractions in Florida, which is known as “the
Sunshine State” is Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, the Everglades
National Park, the Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Keys. __________
参考答案:
对
8.In general, the second largest state in the US is Texas, which is known as the
“Lone Star State” and offers a diversity of landscapes, from desert regions to the caves systems to mountains, and the splendid coastal scenery along the Gulf of Mexico. _________
参考答案:
对
9.The must-see attractions in Seattle, Washington are the Mount Rainier
National Park, which is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an International Biosphere Reserve, and the Washington Museum of the Flight with the displays of all kinds of ships. ________
参考答案:
错
10.Los Angeles is known as the entertainment capital of the world, such as
Disneyland. The others are Universal Studios Hollywood, and Hollywood
Walk of Fame, and the Hollywood sign that has come to represent the
glamour and excitement of the movie industry.________
参考答案:
对
第十三章测试
1.Surely, United States is a sports-loving country, and watching or attending
sports events also
remains very important in the lives of all American people. Strangely enough, in some Americans’ eyes, sports are more important than birth or
death.__________
参考答案:
错
2.In the video, Edward says that the NBA is popular throughout the America,
especially in his hometown, the Phoenix Suns is their city’s team. Edward
also notices that many Chinese students in the university know more about
the NBA and its players than he does. ________
参考答案:
对
3.Tim says in the video that he participated in American football when he was
in high school. In his mind, American football is a kind of unique expression
of American culture: aggressiveness, and organization and specialization and inclusiveness.__________
参考答案:
对
4.Don comes from the city of Denver, where American baseball is very popular.
In recent years, they have won the Super Bowl for two times. As for him
personally, he only likes watching football on TV, and does go to the stadium until the Super Bowl comes.________
参考答案:
错
5.As far as Dr. Pan is concerned, Yao Ming is his favorite NBA player. And
because of him in the past, he began to watch the NBA program a lot in
general, and the Houston Rockets, one of the American professional
basketball teams in particular on TV. ______
参考答案:
对
6.It is generally known that the “Small Three” sports in America are football,
baseball and basketball, and other favorite sports include ice hockey, soccer, boxing, tennis, golf, bowling, swimming, fishing, hunting, boating and track and field, and so on.______
参考答案:
错
7.As is known to all, American basketball is played during the late summer or
preseason, the fall or regular season and the winter until late in January or post-season. And this sports event truly culminates in the Super Bowl to
decide the champion team for the year. _________
参考答案:
错
8.In the US, baseball is still widely considered a national sport, although it lags
behind football in popularity, it’s commonly referred as “America’s pastime”, which is also a popular game in Japan, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and so on._________
参考答案:
对
9.Unlike American football, basketball is an indoor sports. During the snowy
winter months, when outdoor sports like football activities couldn’t be
played, basketball, as an indoor activity will replace it. And the NBA made
this game more professional and popular worldwide.___
参考答案:
对
10.When Yao Ming played for the Houston Rockets from 2002 to 2011, he
became the global symbol of basketball and made this sport very popular in China in general and in Chinese colleges and universities in particular.________
参考答案:
对
第十四章测试
1.Nowadays, whenever we talk about American movies, the first place that
occurs to our mind
is probably Hollywood in Los Angeles, which has had a profound effect on
cinema across the world since the early 19th century.__________
参考答案:
错
2.The history of American movies development is separated into four main
periods: the silent film era, the classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood and the contemporary period after 1980. And this industry has lost a lot of
money since the 1920s. _______
参考答案:
错
3.By the mid-1920s, American film industry came into the hands of a few
powerful companies,
which controlled production, distribution and exhibition. Normally, they
w ere called “the Big Five” and “the Little Three” as well.________
参考答案:
对
4.Tim says that he has a lot of favorite American movies, in particular, the
movie “Avatar” because he likes science fiction movies a lot. “Avatar” was the most successful movie in history due to its computer graphics that created a new world on another planet.____
参考答案:
对
5.On of the masterpieces of Universal Pictures includes Uncle Tom’s Cabin in
1972. Compared with its novel, its movie, in Dr. Pan’s mind is able to tug the hearts trings even more since “A picture is worth a thousand words” and a movie is worth one thousand pictures. _____
参考答案:
错
6.The masterpieces of Columbia Pictures include The Bridge on the River Kwai
in 1957; which tells the story during World War I, about the POWs who were forced by Japanese invaders to build a bridge across the River Kwai on the Thai-Myanmar border in Northern Thailand._______
参考答案:
错
7.In the video, Edward says that his favorite movie studio is the Universal
studio in California. He once paid a visit to that studio, which produces his
favorite sitcom, called Friends, one of the most popular TV show from
America.__________
参考答案:
对
8.Take the 89th Academy Awards ceremony on February 26, 2017 for example,
Justin Timberlake was invited to sing for the closing ceremony. Then, the
biggest winners were the movies of La La Land and Moonlight, which won
the best pictures for Oscars in 2017.________
参考答案:
错
9.In reality, America is also regarded as “a Cultural Melting Pot” since it’s music
is influenced by a mixture of West African styles as well as, Irish, Scottish,
French, German, Italian and Latin music in Europe, and even by Chinese,
Japanese and Indian music in Asia._____
参考答案:
对
10.The major types of American music are jazz, blues, country, rock ‘n’ roll, and
hip hop, or rap music. Despite its short history, it has helped to express a
national identity on the one hand, and achieved great international acclaim since the 21st century on the other.________
参考答案:
对
第十五章测试
1.In the video, D. Pan mentions that there are ten and a half public holidays
that are celebrated each year in the United States. Among them, New Year's
Day and Christmas Day are commonly shared with many other countries.
However, the other eight holidays are quite unique._____
参考答案:
对
2.The eight unique holidays in the US are Thanksgiving Day, Independence Day
or the Fourth of September, Martin Luther King Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day and Veterans Day.________
参考答案:
错
3.During the public holidays, some Americans like to do many delightful things,
such as reading a book outside, going to the zoo with kids, hosting a tea party with friends, seeing their favorite movies or doing a hike in their nearest
national park. _______
参考答案:
错
4.Edward’s favorite festival in America would have to be Christmas time. He
truly enjoys giving gifts, and seeing the delight on his nephew and niece’s
faces when the kids open up their own presents.________
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对
5.As far as Don is concerned, his favorite festival would have to be
Thanksgiving Day. The reason is simple since this day is a festival of gratitude.
However, what Don lik es about Thanksgiving is that it’s a high time when
their family moves to play outside.______
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错
6.As for Tim, Christmas is his favorite festival, although it has become
commercialized. This time of year is also called the Christmas season which starts on Thanksgiving a month before, to encourage people to go shopping to buy gifts and give them to the others.______
参考答案:
对
7.In America, celebrating the New Year’s Day includes counting down to 12:00
midnight on New Year’s Eve, which is often accompani ed with fireworks
displays and parties. “The ball drop” at Times Square in New York City has
become a national New Year’s Eve event. ________
参考答案:
对
8.Washington’s Birthday is also called Presidents’ Day, which is celebrated on
the third Monday in February in order to commemorate both George
Washington and Franklin Roosevelt. But today, this holiday is considered to honor all American presidents.________
参考答案:
错
9.Interestingly enough, Groundhog Day isn’t a public holiday, but a traditional
observance on February 2nd each year. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, the spring season。