[单项选择]In the twentieth century Britain experienced many wars, of which ______ brought the country the largest number of casualties.
A. the Invasion against Egypt
B. the First World War
C. the Second World War
D. the Falkland Islands War

[单项选择]In the twentieth century Britain experienced many wars, of which ________brought the country the largest number of casualties.
A. the Invasion against Egypt
B. the First World War.
C. the Second World War.
D. the Falkland Islands War.

[单项选择]During the industrialized twentieth century, the role of women _________.
A. was strengthened
B. was as important as early
C. was decline
D. was more reinforced than early days

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Passage Four During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the Youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for them to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’ s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and she can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty. This important change in women’ s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usua
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. needn' t worry about food for her children
D. can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty

[单项选择]The twentieth century has witnessed an enormous worldwide political, economic and cultural _______.
A. tradition
B. transportation
C. transmission
D. transformation

[单项选择]In the twentieth century new drugs have markedly improved health throughout the world.
A. recently
B. consistently
C. supposedly
D. noticeably

[单项选择]The twentieth century has been a period of enormous growth in mathematical research and in the number of mathematicians and fields __________them.
A. ( they require
B. ( requiring
C. ( require
D. ( as required

[单项选择]In the first decades of the twentieth century, the individual gene could not be seen, but could be worked with fruitfully.
A. blindly
B. completely
C. productively
D. carefully

[单项选择]In the flint decades of the twentieth century, the individual gem could not be seen, but could be worked with fruitfully.
A. blindly
B. completely
C. productively
D. carefully

[单项选择]In the middle of the twentieth century, people in North America ______.
A. were tired of the Nuclear Family
B. wanted to give up the Nuclear Family
C. believed that the Nuclear Family was hopeful
D. were indifferent to the Nuclear Family

[单项选择]The passage suggests that twentieth-century Marxists would have admired Jane Austin ' s novels more if the novels as the Marxists understood them, had ______.
A. described the values of upper-middle class society
B. avoided moral instruction and sermonizing
C. depicted ordinary society in a more flattering light
D. portrayed characters from more than one class of society

[单项选择]According to the passage, early-twentieth-century education reformers believed that ______.
A. different groups needed different kinds of education
B. special programs Should be set up in frontier communities to modernize them
C. corporations and other organizations damaged educational progress
D. more women should be involved in education and industry

[单项选择]By the early 19th century,Britain had a road network of some（）miles.
A. 115，000
B. 120，000
C. 125，000
D. 130，000

[单项选择]Under Margaret Thatcher Britain experienced（）
A. economic recession
B. economic expansion
C. economic decline
D. economic depression