問題詳情

49. What is true about the dancing marathon in America?
(A) The hourly time ratio of dancing and rest was about 4 to 1.
(B) The all-time lengthiest one lasted for about seven months.
(C) The competition was once written into a story as a book.
(D) The prize money of the record-long contest was rather humble.

參考答案

答案：B

統計：A:6,B:31,C:9,D:12,E:0

難度：適中

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During the 1920s, dancing for amusement started gaining wider acceptance, and the number of newly invented dances soared. In America, this obsession was the foundation of a novel competition: the dance marathon, where contestants showed off their dancing skills and physical endurance. During every hour, couples would dance for 45 minutes and then take a 15-minute break.(A) It was not unusual for these marathons to last for weeks or even months! The longest one ended after 5,152 hours (B), and the winning pair got $2,000, about 1.5 times the average of American’s annual salary at the time! (D)