[单项选择]In New England, stone walls are used ______.

[单项选择]In England a candle used to burn at auction sales_________


A. because the auction sales took place at night
B. as a signal for the crowd to gather
C. to keep the auction room warm
D. to limit the time when offers of prices could be made

[单项选择]In England a candle is used to burn at auction sales ______.


A. because the auction sales took place at night
B. as a signal for the crowd to gather
C. to keep the auction room warm
D. to limit the time when offers of prices could be made

[单项选择]New England is an area ______.


A. in the United Kingdom of the Great Britain
B. which has been newly discovered by the Englishmen
C. which lies between Australia and New Zealand
D. which lies in the northeastern comer of the United States

[单项选择]______ does not belong to New England.
A. Maine
B. Vermont
C. New York
D. Rhode Island

[单项选择]New England is in the ______ of the United States.


A. northwest
B. southeast
C. southwest
D. northeast

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In 17th-century New England, almost everyone believed in witches. Struggling to survive in a vast and sometimes unforgiving land, America’s earliest European settlers understood themselves to be surrounded by an inscrutable universe filled with invisible spirits, both benevolent and evil, that affected their lives. They often attributed a sudden illness, a household disaster or a financial setback to a witch’s curse. The belief in witchcraft was, at bottom, an attempt to make sense of the Unknown.
While witchcraft was often feared, it was punished only infrequently. In the first 70 years of the New England settlement, about 100 people were formally charged with being witches; fewer than two dozen were convicted and fewer still were executed.
Then came 1692. In January of that year, two young girls living in the household of the Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village began experiencing strange fit
A. Existent.
B. Mysterious.
C. Scared.
D. Fiendish.

[单项选择]SCULPTOR : STONE :
A. essayist : words
B. painter : turpentine
C. composer : symphony
D. logger : timber
E. etcher : acid

[单项选择]The consolidation of the crumbling walls and towers has been carried out （） a program agreed with the Department of the Environment.
A. in case of
B. in accordance with
C. in place of
D. in charge of

[单项选择]The story happened in England.

[单项选择]The walls are made of hollow concret blocks.
　　


A. big
B. empty
C. long
D. new

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The Great Wall of China
Walls and wall building have played a very important role in Chinese culture. These people, from the dim mists of prehistory have been wail-conscious; from the Neolithic period when ramparts of pounded earth were used to the Communist Revolution, walls were an essential part of any village. Not only towns and villages; the houses and the temples within them were somehow walled, and the houses also had no windows overlooking the street, thus giving the feeling of wandering around a huge maze. The name for "city" in Chinese (cheng) means wall, and over these walled cities, villages, houses and temples presides the god of walls and mounts, whose duties were, and still are, to protect and be responsible for the welfare of the inhabitants. Thus a great and extremely laborious task such as constructing a wall, which was supposed to-run throughout the country, must not have seemed such an absurdity.
However, it is indeed a common
A. because they were walled
B. because the houses has no external windows
C. because the name for cities means "wall"
D. because walls have always been important there