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[单选题]Passage 1 NBA centre Jason Collins recently announced he was gay in a cover story for Sports Illustraied. In other words, he "came out of the closet." This expression for revealing one's homosexuality may seem natural. Being in the closet implies hiding from the outside world, and the act of coming out of it implies the will to stop hiding. But though the closet has long been a metaphor for privacy or secrecy, its use with reference to homosexuality is relatively recent. According to George Chauncey's comprehensive history of modern gay culture, Gay New York, the closet metaphor was not used by gay people until the 1960s. Before then, it doesn't appear anywhere "in the records of the gay movement or in the novels, diaries, or letters of gay men and lesbians." "Coming out," however, has long been used in the gay community, but it first meant something different than it does now. "A gay man's coming out originally referred to his being formally presented to the largest collective manifestation of prewar gay society, the enormous dra~; balls that were patterned on the debutante and masquerade balls of the dominant culture and were regularly held in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other cities." The phrase "coming out" did not refer to coming out of hiding, but to joining into a society of peers. The phrase was borrowed from the world of debutante balls, where young women "came out" in being officially introduced to society. The gay debutante balls were a matter of public record and often covered in the newspaper, so "coming out" within gay society often meant revealing your sexual orientation in the wider society as well, but the phrase didn't necessarily carry the implication that if you hadn't yet come out, you were keeping it a secret. There were other metaphors for the act of hiding or revealing homosexuality. Gay people could "wear a mask" or "take off the mask". A man could "wear his hair up" or "let his hair down", or "drop hairpins" that would only be recognized by other gay men. It is unclear exactly when gay people start.ed using the closet metaphor, but "it may have been used initially because many men who remained 'covert' thought of their homosexuality as a sort of 'skeleton in the closet'." It may also have come from outsiders who viewed it that way. It seems that "coming out of the closet" was born as a mixture of two metaphors: a debutante proudly stepping into the arms of a community and a shocking secret being kept in hiding. Now the community is the wider community, and the secret is no longer shocking. "Coming out" is a useful phrase, but it need not imply a closet.

Why did "come out of the closet" seem natural when refers to revealing one's homosexuality?

A. Because homosexual couples live in a place named Closet.
B. Because both the closet and homosexuality mean privacy.
C. Because Jason Collins has refrained from NBA.
D. Because people always use "closet" to refer to homosexuality.

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[单选题]教师的根本任务是( )。

A. 教学
B. 班级管理
C. 发展学生智力
D. 教书育人

[单选题]随意对学生进行搜查，关禁闭的行为主要侵犯了学生的( )。

A. 人格尊严权
B. 隐私权
C. 生命健康权
D. 人身自由权

[单选题]Which of the following strategies does not belong to English learning strategies?

A. cognitive strategies
B. interpersonal strategies
C. resource strategies
D. communication strategies

[单选题]以纲要的形式对某一具体学科教学内容进行编订的指导性文件是( )。

A. 教学计划
B. 课程标准
C. 教科书
D. 教学大纲

[单选题]下列事件中，不是在秦始皇时期发生的是( )。

A. 统一货币
B. 修长城
C. 文景之治
D. 修筑灵渠

[单选题]学生掌握了"哺乳动物"的概念后，理解"鲸"的含义，属于( )。

A. 下位学习
B. 总括性学习
C. 上位学习
D. 并列结合学习

[单选题]下列对教材理解正确的是( )。

A. 教材就是教科书
B. 教材是指与教科书有关的教学资源
C. 教材就是课程
D. 教学参考书不属于教材

[单选题]练习曲线是开始时进步慢，后期进步快。( )A.正确B.错误

A. B

[单选题] Like most people, I've long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I'm treated as a person. Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they'd never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned me back with his finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I'd been. I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I'd be sitting at their table, waiting to be served. Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked-cordially. I soon found out differently, I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me. My job title made people treat me with courtesy. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry. It's no secret that there's a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry, by definition, exists to cater to others' needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn't get the difference between server and servant. I'm now applying to graduate school, which means someday I'll. return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I'll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.

The purpose of taking his clients to dinner is to ________.

A. arouse their sympathy for people living a humble life
B. see what kind of person they are
C. show her generosity towards people inferior to her
D. experience the feeling of being served

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