[单项选择]Thomas Jefferson's achievements as an architect rival his contributions ______ a politician.
A. such
B. more
C. as
D. than

[单项选择]The world-renowned architect's ______ for the site involves extensive construction and landscaping.
A. proposal
B. assertion
C. employment
D. indication

[单项选择]Thomas Edison's office was always disorganized with books and papers.
A. discarded
B. scattered
C. sorted
D. decorated

[单项选择]Carl Stehle told his students Thomas Paine' s story in order to ______.


A. teach the students how to write an essay on preventing polystyrene from harming the environment
B. inspire the students to do something to persuade the Board of Education to change its decision
C. ask the students to work hard together to fight against the decision made by the Board of Education
D. let them know the power and influence of the effective essay written by Thomas Paine in the past

[单项选择]Thomas Jefferson's opinion about the library was that ______.


A. it should buy books on law
B. it should be the largest in the world
C. it should have books on all subjects
D. it should answer all kinds of questions

[单项选择]Thomas Hardy's novels are said to suffer from the "long arm of coincidence" because too many events seem to have a casual rather than a （） connection.
A. incidental
B. substantial
C. causal
D. plausible

[单项选择]Which of the following is Thomas Hardy's best-known novel

[单项选择]Thomas would have been more successful if he had studied harder, ______.

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Text 2
Thomas Hardy’s impulses as a writer, all of which indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters’ psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. Occasionally he felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well as the impulse to farce, but he was more often inclined to see tragedy and record it. He was also inclined to literary realism in the several senses of that phrase; He wanted to describe ordinary human beings. He wanted to speculate on their dilemmas rationally (and, unfortunately even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe. Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange.
In his novels th
A. sensitivity.
B. obscurity.
C. preciseness.
D. deviation.

[单项选择]The man's name is Thomas Edison. You can call him ______.

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Text 4
Thomas Huxley (“Darwin’s bulldog") is said to have come up with the most famous defense of the atheist belief that life was created by chance. In a debate at Oxford, he is reported to have stated that if enough monkeys randomly pressed typewriter keys for a long enough time, sooner or later Psalm 23 would emerge. Not all atheists use this argument, but it accurately represents the atheist belief that with enough time and enough solar systems, you’ll get you, Bach’s cello suites, and me. This belief has always struck me as implausible, and although I fully acknowledge the great challenge to theism--the rampant and seemingly random unfairness built into human life, no intellectually honest atheist should deny the great challenge to atheism--the existence of design and intelligence.
Scientists have taken up Huxley’s proposition and found from experiments with monkeys near a typewriter that very few even ended up hittin
A. chance can produce everything over a long enough time.
B. life is too complicated to be explained.
C. not everything in life can be explained.
D. there is existence of design and intelligence.