[单项选择]The 16th Asian Games （）in Guangzhou in November, 2010.
A. holds
B. will hold
C. was held
D. will be held

[单项选择]The 13th Asian Games was a complete success EXCEPT that ______.


A. less records were broken than its immediate predecessors
B. some Southeastern Asian countries failed to participate
C. it was held in the midst of the financial crisis of Asia
D. there was animosity between the North and South Koreas

[单项选择]Compared with technologies in the 16^th and 19^th century, technologies today are more ______.


A. ingenious and portable
B. B ) marvelous and effective
C. intuitive and unreliable
D. facile and responsive

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Passage Three
Early in the 16th century men were trying to reach Asia by traveling west from Europe. In order to find Asia they had to find a way past South America. The man who eventually found the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific was Ferdinand Magellan.
Magellan sailed from Seville in August 1519 with five ships and about 280 men. Fourteen months later, after spending the severe winter on the coast of Patagonia, he discovered the channel which is now called Magellan’s Straits. In November 1520, after many months of dangers from rocks and storms, the three remaining ships entered the ocean on the other side of South America.
They then continued, hoping to reach Asia. Before they arrived at these islands, later known as the Philippines, Magellan was killed in battle. The remaining officers then had to get back to Spain. They decided to sail around Africa. After many difficulties, one ship with eighteen men sailed into Seville three y
A. to become famous at that time
B. to find navigation line from the Atlantic to the Pacific
C. to make a voyage to Asia
D. to carry men to the Seville

[单项选择]At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ______wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people's suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.
A. Thomas More
B. Thomas Marlowe
C. Francis Bacon
D. William Shakespeare

[单项选择]If you leave for Hong Kong on March 16^th, you pay（）
A. $ 799.
B. $ 849.
C. $ 829.
D. $ 969.

[单项选择]In the 16th century, Quebec was ______.


A. an Indian village
B. a city in Canada
C. the place which we call Canada today
D. a village facing the Gulf of the St. Lawrence

[单项选择]In the late 16th century, ______ ruled England.


A. Henry Ⅴ
B. Elizabeth Ⅰ
C. Queen Mary
D. Elizabeth Ⅱ