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Two hundred years ago, news between ihe continents was carried______.
A．by telephone
B．by land
C．by air
D．by sea
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Two hundred years ago, news between the continents was carried______.
A．by air
B．by sea
C．by land
D．by telephone and telegraph
Both games had been invented a thousand years before. In the first kind of football game ever played, all the men from one village tried to kick a ball into another village. The men of the second village tried to kick the ball into the first. Hundreds of people joined in, running everywhere, running crops and knocking down fences. In time, people agreed on some rules to keep order, but many roles were left open to change. Different rules developed in different places.
When the two colleges met to play football, each followed its own rules. They mixed the games together and invented a new game. A hundred years later we call that game American football.
In what ways do you suppose the game we know now will have changed in another hundred years？
When the two colleges first met to play "football", the players followed ______.
A．the rules of soccer
B．the rules of rugby
C．different rules
D．college rules
According to the passage, visitors from space may have landed on the earth ______.
A．long before man had dreamed of it
B．long before there were human beings
C．in the last few hundred years
D．after the space age began
The word horsepower(马力) was first used two hundred years ago. (200年前“马力”这个词首次使用。) James Watt had made the first widely used steam(蒸气)engine. He had no way of tellingpeople exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring (测量)power.Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called thatunit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.He discovered that a horse could lift a 3,300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. Hisengine could lift a 3,300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute.Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepowerengine.
6.The passagesays that Watt made the first widely used steam engine.
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B.F
7.Watt made up a unit of measurement based on the strength of a horse.
A.T
B.F
8.Watt wanted to find a way to lift a 3300-pound weight.
A.T
B.F
9.One horsepower would equal the weight a horse could lift.
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B.F
10.The title of the passageis "How the Term Horsepower Came into Being".
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B.F
Passage Two
How can a single postage stamp be worth $ 16,800？
Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one in expensive' postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.
The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small is land in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer, and Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.
Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball (舞会) was planned at Mauritius' Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the de sign for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the sever al hundred stamps that he printed.
Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left--fourteen "One Penny Orange-Reds" and twelve "Two Penny Blues". Because of the Two Penny Blue's rareness (罕见) and age, collectors have paid as much as $ 16,800 for it.
36. A postage stamp's value to collectors is raised if ______.
A. there are few others like it
B. there are no errors on the stamps
C. a mistake is made in the ,printing
D. both A and C
Most people ______.
A．are left-handed
B．are right-handed
C．can use both hands equally well
D．never use left hands
This view, 【B7】 is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists 【B8】 history and economics, have 【B9】 two things: that the period from 1650 to 1750 was 【B10】 by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace.
【B1】
A．admitted
B．believed
C．claimed
D．predicted
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important e vents that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful in formation. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
The habit of reading newspapers is ______.
A．widespread
B．found among a few families
C．not popular
D．uncommon
How can a single postage stamp be worth $ 16,800？
Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one in expensive' postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.
The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small is land in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer, and Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.
Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball (舞会) was planned at Mauritius' Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the de sign for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the sever al hundred stamps that he printed.
Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left--fourteen "One Penny Orange-Reds" and twelve "Two Penny Blues". Because of the Two Penny Blue's rareness (罕见) and age, collectors have paid as much as $ 16,800 for it.
A postage stamp's value to collectors is raised if ______.
A．there are few others like it
B．there are no errors on the stamps
C．a mistake is made in the ,printing
D．both A and C
