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From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English literature （） flourished. They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated middle age castles.
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The most important features in the growth of American economy in the early 20th cenruty were（）
A . the use of steam and electricity as chief energy,the development of lare corporation and the development of railway
B . the development of large corporation,urbanization and the employment in production of new technology
C . the appearance of airplane,the use of electricity on a large scale and urbanization
D . the rapid development of industry,railway and large citie
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Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.
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In the 20th century, women were given the right to ______.
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Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
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The 20th century short stories were represented by ______.
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______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.
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Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups : the ( ) group and the radical group.
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The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____. What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.
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Many of the English writers in the 18th century were Enlighteners. They fell into two groups: _______.
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In the 19th century, the education system in America was deeply＿against people of color. Many black students were blocked from having advanced education.
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The main literary stream of the 18 th century was_____.What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.
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The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent poetry writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.
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Back in the 17th century, intellectual property rights were primarily ____ to protect newly-developed manufacturing processes against stealing.
A.brought out
B.carried out
C.turned out
D.set out
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The author suggests that 19th century parents were chiefly interested in a child's_____.
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（) a bit, or youll make yourself ill.
A．Slow
B．Slow up
C．Slowly
D．Slovenly
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Early in the 16th century men were trying to reach Asia by traveling west from Europe. In order to find Asia they had to find a way past South America. The man who eventually found the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific was Ferdinand Magellan.
Magellan sailed from Seville in August 1519 with five ships and about 280 men. Fourteen months later, after spending the severe winter on the coast of Patagonia, he discovered the channel which is now called Magellan's Straits. In November 1520, after many months of dangers from rocks and storms, the three remaining ships entered the ocean on the other side of South America.
They then continued, hoping to reach Asia. Before they arrived at these islands, later known as the Philippines, Magellan was killed in battle. The remaining officers then had to get back to Spain. They decided to sail around Africa. After many difficulties, one ship with eighteen men sailed into Seville three years after leaving. They were all that remained of Magellan's expedition. However, their achievement was great. They were the first men to sail round the world.
The purpose of Magellan's expedition was ______.
A．to become famous at that time
B．to find navigation line from the Atlantic to the Pacific
C．to make a voyage to Asia
D．to carry men to the Seville
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In the 20th decennial U. S. census, taken in 1980, the resident population in the United States numbered 226, 547,346 . About 188.3 million (83.2%) were classified as white, 26.5 million (11.7%) as black, ll.7 million (5.1%) as members of other races.
The history of the United States is really the story of various immigrants groups working together to build a unique nation. During the 1500s, French and Spanish explorers visited the New World. But the first Europeans who came to stay were mostly the English. In 1790, when the first U. S. census was taken, the white population of the 13 original states totaled slightly more than 3 million. About 75 percent of these first Americans were of British ancestry; the rest were German, Dutch, French, Swiss, and Spanish. The English gave the new nation its language, its laws and its philosophy of government
The composition of the American population:
Census of 1980: the number of the United States is (46) .
About (47) percent were classified as white. The history of the United States:
(48)were mostly the first Europeans who came to stay.
The total white population in 1790 numbered about (49) .
The language, laws, and philosophy of government of the U. S. come from (50) .
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听力原文： Before the 20th century, the horse provided day to day transportation in the United States. Trains were used only for long-distance transportation.
Today the car is the most popular sort of transportation in all of the United States. It has completely replaced the horse as a means of everyday transportation. Americans use their car for nearly 90 percent of all personal trips.
Most Americans are able to buy cars. The average price of a recently made car was $ 2050 in 1950, $ 2740 in 1960 and up to $ 4750 in 1975. During this period American car manufacturers set about improving their products and work efficiency. As a result, the yearly income of the average family increased from 1950 to 1975 faster than the price of cars. For this reason purchasing a new car takes a smaller part of a family's total earnings today.
What was the only use of trains before the 20th century？
A．The use for short-distance transportation.
B．The use for day to day transportation.
C．The use for long-distance transportation.
D．The use for transportation of precious things.
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On April the 18th, 1960, it was a few minutes after 5 o'clock in the morning. Most people in San Francisco were a-sleep, but the rattling of the milkmen's carts and bottles meant that the city was waking to another busy day.
At that moment the land suddenly moved. The vibration was so strong that great buildings fell down, including the new seven-million-dollar City Hall, which the community had good reason to be proud of. Main water pipes burst. Cooking stoves overturned and electric wires flashed. The fires which started caused damage in large areas of the city.
What had happened.'？ The rocks had broken apart along nearly three hundred miles of a crack in the earth of California, a feature of the physical map of that region known as a "fault".
The damage was greatest in San Francisco which was near the center of the fault. Many buildings were destroyed by fire or by the earthquake itself, and hundreds of people were killed. Many people also died from diseases which broke out in the dirty camps later occupied by homeless people. The fires got out of control and, before they died out, four square mi-les of the city were burnt out.
The loss of property was serious. The loss from fire alone amounted to 400,000,000 dollars, more than nine-tenths of the total damage. In those days this was an enormous sum.
The effects of the earthquake were widespread. Rivers and streams began to run in new directions and their flow pat-terns were changed. Trees six feet in diameter were uprooted within half a mile of the central break. An area of wet fields on the side of a hill actually moved half a mile downwards. A road which crossed the fault burst apart and a gap of 21 feet remained between the broken ends.
The California earthquake is remembered because it was so sudden and because it occurred in a city, where the dam-age and destruction were plainly visible and where many people were killed simultaneously. Actually, deaths on American roads from car accidents are now greater in almost any week of the year, but we are so accustomed to road accidents that we do not pay much attention to them.
Scientists and engineers studied the effects of the San Francisco earthquake. The city was rebuilt, and new features were introduced to strengthen buildings and maintain a constant water supply in the event of. another earthquake. The water mains were fitted with control values which would enable water to travel by different routes round broken places. Large underground tanks were constructed to supply water if normal supplies could not be tapped. Special measures were taken to prevent fires, which often do more damage than earthquakes themselves.
The San Francisco earthquake provided scientists with valuable information, since the effects of the break were visible and reports of the incident were an important contribution to the world's store of knowledge about earthquakes.
The main cause of the great loss of property 'after the San Francisco earthquake in 1960 is______.
A．falling buildings
B．broken pipes
C．fires
D．floods
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The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.
British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names.
In fact, over fifty percent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first, had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwise, Simpson means "the son of Simon", as might be expected.
Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognizable after a little thought: Arther, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Taylor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings and testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are "Day", (Old English for breadmaker) and "Walker" (a fuller whose job was to clean and thicken newly, made cloth).
All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, which descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like "Long", "Short" or "Little", are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinking: their meanings are slightly different from the modern ones. "Black" and. "White" implied dark and fair respectively. "Sharp" meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever.
Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in all England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be picturesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the commoner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times are "Mil ton" (middle enclosure) and "Hilton" (enclosure on a hill).
Surnames are said to be ______ in Anglo-Saxon England.
A．common
B．vocational
C．unusual
D．descriptive
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The following authors were women writers who wrote novels in the late 19th and early 20thcentury with the exception of().
A．Emily Dickinson
B．Edith Wharton
C．Willia Cather
D．Kate Chopin
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Suppose that there were 25 people who had a reservation price of $500, and the 26th person had a reservation price of $200. What would the equilibrium price be if there were 24 apartments to rent？
A．＄500
B．＄200
C．＄350
D．＄488
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Some construction workers_______________（偶然发现一些古币)that were made in the 9th century.
