Dancers who have performed at Chicago Cultural Center are from Hubbard Street Two, which i
听力原文: Ballroom dancing used to be seen as something rather unfashionable that old people might do. For the past five years though, the popularity of ballroom dancing has soared thanks to a reality TV show. "Strictly Come Dancing" is one of the big TV shows. Millions of people tune in every Saturday night to watch the show which airs from September right up to Christmas. In the show a number of professional ballroom dancers each dance with a celebrity. Every week they have to learn a different ballroom dance and perform. it live on TV on the Saturday night.
The show demonstrates how glamorous ballroom dancing is. The celebrities get to wear colourful dresses and suits to dance in, and it looks like a lot of fun. The TV programme also shows what good exercise it can be to ballroom dance and what hard work is involved in learning the dances and performing them properly.
Dance schools around the country have seen a boost in the numbers of people wanting to learn how to dance. And it's not only older people who're interested. Lots of children and young people in their 20s are keen to learn.
Ballroom dancing used to be associated with______.
A.TV shows
B.old people
C.celebrities
D.professional dancers
Who may receive and provide grants of up to $400 annually?
A.Program participants who have volunteered for more than 50 hours per year.
B.Children's sports teams that are building community leagues.
C.Handicapped children who want to go to college.
D.Corporations that have donated more than $100,000.
A.the most important factor influencing birth rate is the economy
B.factors other than the economy influence birth rate
C.women who have a high income usually have few children
D.the birth rate depends on per capita income
e of the children.
B.The upper limit of household expense per week is $100, within which they might have own independent choice
C.For anything exceeding their own upper limit, they will not buy before reaching a common ground.
D.They can buy whatever they want so long it does not exceed $100 per week.
听力原文: People still celebrate ancient festivals in different parts of Europe with folk dances and processions, even though in many cases those who take part and put on special costumes are no longer sure what the dances represent. Almost all of them are associated with seasonal procedures that have been adapted to the Christian calendar. There are two main types found in a number of countries. The first, combat dances normally take place in winter or early spring and celebrate the battle between the old year and the new. In Austria, for example, at celebration time, people wear masks and dress up as ghosts and witches, and there are processions of men and women with drums and whips.
The other main group of dances takes place in early summer, especially at Whit sun or on May Day. In England, there are dances of men in some villages. Groups of trained dancers, dressed in white, dance with bolls on their legs and bodies. They leap in processions in double files, waving white handkerchiefs or green branches. In some places, there are men with animal masks or a Jack-in-the-Green, a man dressed in leaves who stands for the new vegetation of the summer.
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A.The birthday of some ancient people.
B.The birthday of Jesus Christ.
C.Ancient festivals.
D.Some modem days.
One thing that man can do is to limit【C8】______of babies born. The need【C9】______this is obvious, but it is【C10】______to achieve. People have to【C11】______to limit their families. In the countries of the population【C12】______,many people like big families. The parents think that this【C13】______a bigger income for the family and ensures there will be someone in the family who will look【C14】______them in old age.
Several governments have【C15】______birth control policies in recent years.【C16】______them are Japan, China, India and Egypt. In some【C17】______the results have not been【C18】______. Japan has been an exception. The Japanese adopted a birth control policy in 1948. People【C19】______to limit their families. The birth rate fell from 34.3 per thousand per year to about 17.0 per thousand per year【C20】______.
【C1】
A.increasing
B.to increase
C.and increase
D.with increasing
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A.increasing
B.to increase
C.and increase
D.with increasing
Few ballet performers become nearsighted because ______.
A.the reason remains to be seen
B.they have special food for themselves as dancers
C.they have special ways to keep slim
D.they dance on their tiptoes
In the early 1950s,historians who studied pre-industrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the pre-industrial European population than the 2 or3 per cent who comprised the political and social elite' the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. One difficulty, however, was that few of the remaining 97 percent recorded their thoughts or had them chronicled by contemporaries. Faced with this situation, many historians based their investigations on the only records that seemed to exist: birth, marriage, and death records. As a result, much of the early work on the non-elite was aridly statistical in nature; reducing the vast majority of the population to a set of numbers was hardly more enlightening than ignoring them altogether. Historians still did not know what these people thought or felt.
One way out of this dilemma was to turn to the records of legal courts, for here the voices of the non-elite can most often be heard, as witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants. These documents have acted as" a point of entry into the mental world of the poor. "Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illustrated the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include, but are not confined to, attitudes toward crime and the law) and have revealed how the authorities administered justice. It has been societies that have had a developed police system and practiced Roman law, with its written depositions, whose court records have yielded the most data to historians. In Anglo-Saxon countries hardly any of these benefits obtain, but it has still been possible to glean information from the study of legal documents.
The extraction of case histories is not, however, the only use to which court records may be put. Historians who study pre-industrial Europe have used the records to establish a series of categories of crime and to quantify indictments that were issued over a given number of years. This use of the re cords does yield some information about the non-elite, but this information gives us little insight into the mental lives of the non-elite. We also know that the number of indictments in pre-industrial Europe bears little relation to the number of actual criminal acts, and we strongly suspect that the relationship has varied widely over time. In addition, aggregate population estimates are very shaky, which makes it difficult for historians to compare rates of crime per thousand in one decade of the pre-industrial period with rates in another decade. Given these inadequacies, it is clear why the case history Use of court records is to be preferred.
How is in the investigations carried out by historians in 1950s different from previous studies?
A.They had new findings.
B.They expanded the period defined as pre-industrial Europe.
C.They investigated the common people who took up the majority of the population.
D.The investigations were on the kings, generals ,judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates.
A.particular
B.essential
C.special
D.peculiar