Giddens,anotherscholararguesthat"Globalizationistheintensificationofworldwidesocialrelationswhichlinkdistantlocalitiesinsuchawaythatlocalhappeningsareshapedbyeventsoccurringmanymilesawayandviceversa."
1.[A]as tobe [C]like [D]of
2.[A]economy economics [C]economic [D]economies
3.[A]revolving evolving [C]resolving [D]solving
4.[A]enhancing moving [C]driving [D]motivating
5.[A]case place [C]area [D]space
6.[A]catches influences [C]has [D]draws
7.[A]practitioners' practicers' [C]practists' [D]practicalists'
8.[A]took had [C]played [D]occupied
9.[A]in on [C]within [D]into
10.[A]tobe as [C]/ [D]being
11.[A]butalso also [C]and [D]andalso
12.[A]thinking thoughts [C]ideology [D]theories
13.[A]to into [C]for [D]towards
14.[A]Surprisedly Surprised [C]Surprisingly [D]Surprising
15.[A]on in [C]at [D]of
16.[A]about of [C]in [D]at
17.[A]childhood teenage [C]teens [D]infancy
18.[A]speeding speedy [C]speedyup [D]speedingup
19.[A]shrank shrunk [C]shrinked [D]beenshrunk
20.[A]as being [C]tobe [D]astobe
II.ReadingPassages
PartA阅读理解
PassageOne
Variousaccountshavetracedthe"BigApple"expressiontoDepression-Erasidewalkapplevendors,aHarlemnightclubandapopular1930sdanceknownasthe"BigApple."Onefancifulversionevenlinksthenamewithanotorious19th-centuryprocuress!
Infact,itwasthejazzmusiciansofthe1930sand‘40swhoputthephraseintomoreorlessgeneralcirculation.Ifajazzmancirca1940toldyouhehadagiginthe"BigApple,"youknewhehadanengagementtoplayinthemostcovetedvenueofall,Manhattan,wheretheaudiencewasthebiggest,hippest,andmostappreciativeinthecountry.
TheoldergenerationofjazzmenspecificallycreditFletcherHenderson,oneofthegreatestoftheearlyBigBandleadersandarrangers,withpopularizingit,butsuchthingsareprobablyimpossibletodocument.Bethatasitmay,theultimatesourceactuallywasnotthejazzworldbuttheracetrack.
AsDamonRunyon（amongmanyothers）cheerfullypointedout,NewYorkinthosedaysofferedabettingmanalotofplacestogobroke.Therewerenofewerthanfourmajortracksnearby,anditrequirednofewerthanthreeracingjournalstocoversuchalivelyscene-TheDailyRacingForm（whichstillsurvivesonnewsstandstoday）andTheRunningHorseandTheNewYorkMorningTelegraph（whichdonot）-andtheultimatecreditformarryingNewYorktoitsdurablecatchphrasegoestocolumnistJohnJ.FitzGeraldwhowrotefortheTelegraphforover20years.
Despiteitsturf-relatedorigins,bythe1930sand'40s,thephrasehadbecomefirmlylinkedtothecity'sjazzscene."BigApple"wasthenamebothofapopularnightclubatWest135thStreetandSeventhAvenueinHarlemandajitterbug-stylegroupdancethatorigin
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