[单项选择]Canada occupies about ______ of the North American continent.
A. 1/3
B. 1/2
C. 1/4
D. 1/5

[单项选择]Canada occupies about ______ of the North American continent.
A. 1/3
B. 1/2
C. 1/4
D. 1/5

[单项选择]What does the author say about the North American market
A. The American buyers of pictures have not changed their taste.
B. The middle market remains strong.
C. The Americans buy art as a speculation.
D. It is experiencing a major recession.

[单项选择]

Text 3 Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature -- from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway -- one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face -- the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life. Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or
A. In American life, people hardly mention the death.
B. In the Middle Ages, death was surrounded by respect.
C. In primitive cultures, death was faced with awe.
D. In Greek times, people .were afraid of facing death.

[单项选择]Christopher Columbus discovered the North American continent in ______.
A. 1592
B. 1620
C. 1492
D. 1420

[单项选择]North American bison differ from domestic cattle in have 14 rather than 13 A B C D pairs of ribs.

[单项选择]Mexico can not benefit from the North American Free Trade Agreement because it______.
A. can not win the competition between China and other countries.
B. relies on the prosperity of American economy.
C. can not develop into an independently productive economy.
D. mainly engage itself in agriculture.

[单项选择]The North American desert, a vast belt of inhospitable terrain, stretches {{U}}erratically{{/U}} down the western side of the continent.
A. endlessly
B. irregularly
C. ominously
D. longitudinally

[单项选择]The author's attitude towards the North American Free Trade Agreement might be best summarize as one of______.
A. pessimistic.
B. indiffrret.
C. disappointed but expecting.
D. critical.

[单项选择]American scientists are very concerned about the ozone because ______.

[单项选择]The seat of France's North American holdings in the eighteenth century was Quebec, and the French heritage — dominant there.
A. (to remain
B. (remaining
C. (by remaining
D. (has remained

[单项选择]Which of the following about Canada in World War I is NOT true
A. It founded its navy to enter World War I.
B. It took a seat as a member of the League of Nations.
C. It won the right to sign the Peace Treaty of 1919 in its own name.
D. It has found its place among the nations of the world since World War I.

[单项选择]Despite certain______habits of the North American screech owl, it performs the majority of its hunting alone, in alpine forests, unfettered by______
A. (A) predatory… ecology
B. (B) instinctual … behavior
C. (C) exogamous… kinship
D. (D) omnivorous … diet
E. (E) diurnal… darkness