In the United States, many high schools and colleges with a football team usually have a homecoming day. This can be the most important event of the year next to graduation. Students plan homecoming day for many weeks. When the day arrives,they begin before dawn to decorate the schools. There are signs to wish luck to the team and many other signs to welcome back the graduates from other years. Many people still come to homecoming clubs to build booths and sell lemonade,apples or sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors. During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school. Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over,the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the homecoming queen/king appears. All the students vote for another student who is popular. It is a great honor to become______________. Homecoming is a happy day. Even if the team loses,the students still enjoy homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance,and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day to remember for a long,long time.
小题1:What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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小题2:Of all the events,what are the two things that all the students do on this day?
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小题3:Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.
(Please answer within 10 words.)
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小题4:Why do the students still enjoy homecoming even if the team loses?
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小题5:Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth — but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.
Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to among other things, soap operas and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction (生育), they describe middle and upper class values: not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working,” says Martine. “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.”
Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers (消费者). “This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction,” says Martine.
小题1:What is the passage mainly about? (within 8 words)
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小题2:What’s Brazil’s population growth rate between 1981 and 1990? (within 4 words)
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小题3:What are the two main factors in helping Brazil lower its birthrate? (within 6 words)
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小题4:How long does the most popular television network in Brazil show soap operas every week? (within 2 words)
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小题5:What changes have soap operas brought to Brazilians? (within 8 words)
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