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[单项选择]In the (nineteenth) century, people (lived) in the northern area grew (their) crops on river (bottom lands).
A. nineteenth
B. lived
C. their
D. bottom lands
[单项选择]Until the end of the nineteenth century meteoritic iron was used to ______.
A. provide special weapons for royalty
B. build churches and temples
C. manufacture sturdy tools
D. all of the above
[单项选择]According to this passage, the nineteenth century seems to be an age of ______.
A. enlightenment
B. literature
C. journals
D. homesteaders
[单项选择]In the nineteenth century, poor Europeans seeking to make their fortunes turned to America as a matter of course().
A. automatically
B. obviously
C. traditionally
D. resignedly
[单项选择]According to the author, in the nineteenth century people gradually ______.
A. emigrated to other countries
B. often settled in the West
C. tended to change the place in which they lived
D. had a higher rate of birth than ever before
[单项选择]In the nineteenth century, abortion was only allowed ______
A. when the woman was not well with herself
B. when surgical procedures were unsafe
C. when the mother requested to have one
D. while the family was in financial straits
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In the nineteenth century Charles Dickens, the English novelist, wrote excitedly (1) a stage-coach, pulled along by a team of horses, that could (2) more than twenty miles of road within sixty minutes. To us in the twentieth century in (3) man is able to move and to communicate with such rapidity, the (4) of the stage-coach seems no speed at all. Aeroplanes fly many hundreds of miles in an hour; express trains (5) four times the speed of the stage-coach; and even without (6) we can, by wireless or telegraph, communicate within seconds with people on (7) side of the’ globe. The (8) of these increased speeds are numerous. Business (9) say, from Europe to America or to the Far East can save much time. (10) a journey that would once have taken weeks, it (11) now, by air, only twenty-four hours. Fruit, vegetables and other goods that would decay (12) a long, slow journey can now be safely sent to
A. for
B. in
C. at
D. of