Growing up in Georgia in the 1970s,I always felt that the bad old day of Southern prejudice (偏见) and ignorance had passed and that we were__a new South built upon hard-won racial equality, charity and the sense that no one was __ than anyone else.
I’m not so__anymore.Lately,I feel like our moral compass has been__,spinning to intolerance, greed and meanness.
In times of __ ,I put my faith in Elvis Presley, who__the South’s better angles. He was a hard worker, and __ he lived the high life, he never forgot that he had been born into __. I don't think you’ll ___hear an interview with the man when he didn’t express __for all that life had given him.
And he was a self-made talent, perhaps the__entertainer of all time, born in a two-room shack(棚屋) in Tupelo, Mississippi. I've been there many times, reflecting on what it says about America .Greatness can be born__.
Elvis was famous for his generosity---__cars, expensive gifts and other handouts to anyone in need. That’s how the Presleys__ the Great Depression(1929-1933). His father Vernon was a laborer who was often out of__ , and the Presleys relied on the kindness of family and neighbors to get them __ the hard time.
Today’s politicians please the crowds with messages that praise the rich and powerful and think of the poor as __ their fate__, the crowds believe that their problems could be solved if only the poor people below them didn't __ so much. To blame an immigrant (移民)for “ __ ” a job, instead of the CEO who won’t pay a living wage.
Yet, I still believe, as Elvis once said,“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’away”.
1.A. entering B. finishing C. deserting D. keeping
2.A. jail B. better C. smarter D. prettier
3.A. worried B. sure C. happy D. calm
4.A. checked B. fixed C. broken D. adjusted
5.A. danger B. war C. trouble D. debt
6.A. considered B. changed C. improved D. represented
7.A. after B. since C. although D. because
8.A. honor B. wealth C. fame D. poverty
9.A. never B. ever C. always D. still
10.A. concern B. anger C. appreciation D. surprise
11.A. greatest B. richest C. youngest D. handsomest
12.A. nowhere B. everywhere C. somewhere D. anywhere
13.A. giving away B. taking up C. picking up D. putting away
14.A. suffered B. survived C. faced D. avoided
15.A. work B. mind C. action D. breath
16.A. by B. over C. behind D. through
17.A. fighting B. escaping C. ignoring D. deserving
18.A. Consequently B. Fortunately C. Surprisingly D. Disappointedly
19.A. reflect on B. ask for C. take on D. care for
20.A. losing B. cutting C. stealing D. taking
---You don't so well, Betty. What's the matter with you?
---I’m going to have the first round of interview tomorrow, so I’m____.
A. feeling on cloud nine B. feeling hot under the collar
C. felling down in the dumps D. feeling butterflies in my stomach
Alice had graduated from university and ____as a volunteer in the countryside when I contacted her last year.
A. has been working B. was working C. has worked D. had worked
---I Love the movie Venom so much!
---Me too. The box office is reported ____approximately $2 billion.
A. reaching B. having reached C. to reach D. to have reached
____in smog as the pollution worsened, many cities of the Yangtze River Delta region had to close several freeways.
A. Blanketed B. Having blanketed C. Being blanketed D. Blanketing
Owing to his fault Kiprop is banned from training, ____competing, with other athletes.
A. regardless of B. in favor of C. in regard to D. let alone
