[单项选择]They decided to chase the wounded deer as far north（）the border.
A. as
B. before
C. front
D. behind

[单项选择]According to the author, children in colonial North America were mainly valued for their ______.


A. academic achievements
B. survival instincts
C. physical characteristics
D. productive roles

[单项选择]The (people native) to the northwest coast of North American have long (be known) (for) wood carvings (of) stunning beauty and extraordinary quality.
A. people native
B. be known
C. for
D. of

[单项选择]There would be not a good harvest of wheat in North China this year______the big snow.
A. in spite of
B. apart from
C. due to
D. in case of

[单项选择]

(1) exactly a year ago, in a small village in Northern India, Andrea Milliner was bitten on the leg by a dog. "It must have (2) your nice white flesh", joked the doctor (3) he dressed the wound. Andrea and her husband Nigel were determined not to let it (4) their holiday, and thought no more about the dog, which had meanwhile (5) disappeared from the village.
"We didn’t (6) there was anything wrong with it," says Nigel. "It was such a small, (7) dog that rabies didn’t (8) my mind". But, six weeks later, 23-year-old Andrea was dead. The dog had been rabid. No one had thought it necessary to (9) her antirabies treatment. When, back home in England, she began to show the classic (10) unable to drink, catching her breath her own doctor put it (11) to hysteria. Even when she was (12) into an (13) , hallucinating, recoiling in terror at the sight
A. because
B. though
C. if
D. as