[单项选择]The first American state that ended the practice of death penalty is______.


A. Pennsylvania
B. New York State
C. New Mexico
D. Arizona

[单项选择]The first American state that ended the practice of death penalty is______.


A. Pennsylvania
B. New York State
C. New Mexico
D. Arizona

[单项选择]Which of the following states is the first state that passed the compulsory education law in the United States

[单项选择]It is considered impolite in China to first-name one's seniors（）
A. 在中国，直呼长辈的姓被认为是不礼貌的。
B. 在中国，给长辈起外号是不礼貌的。
C. 在中国，直呼长辈的名字被认为是不礼貌的。
D. 在中国，直呼领导的名字是不礼貌的。

[单项选择]It is the first of several agreements United States hopes to reach as it attempts to reduce, labor costs by $5.8 billion and ______ bankruptcy.
A. dispel
B. revert
C. transfer
D. avert

[单项选择]Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories By The North Gates, in 1962, two years after she had received her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and become an instructor of English at the University of Detroit. Her productivity since then has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of Detroit to the University of Windsor, in Ontario, and in 1978 to Princeton University. Reviewers have admired her enormous energy, but find a productivity of such magnitude difficult to assess.
In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic qualit
A. It was part of her MA thesis.
B. It was a volume of short fiction.
C. It was not successful.
D. It was about an English instructor in Detroit.

[单项选择]Which state ranks the first of all the states in America in the aspect of production


A. New York.
B. Mississippi.
C. Washington.
D. California

[单项选择]They planned to cover 150 miles on the first day of their journey.
A. walk
B. fly
C. reach
D. travel

[单项选择]All of the following are the "first" in the life of Elizabeth Blackwell, except that ______.


A. she became the first female physician
B. she was the first woman surgeon
C. she founded the first hospital for women and children
D. she established the first medical school for women

[单项选择]Contrasting to the first round election, the run-off election


A. experienced more violence
B. were rejected by some voters
C. went through more smoothly
D. were controlled by General Rios Montt

[单项选择]It's a ______ state of affairs when you can't go out at night for ______ of being attacked.
A. sad; afraid
B. sad; fear
C. sadly; afraid
D. sadly; fear

[单项选择]The medical team consists of at first 10, ______ of 15 members.


A. late
B. lately
C. later
D. latter

[单项选择]How can the tenancy be ended


A. The tenant must write a notice.
B. The landlord must write a notice.
C. There must be a written notice to either side.
D. There must be a written notice to both sides.

[单项选择]Eugene O'Neil's first full length play, ______ made a great hit and won him the first Pulitzer Prize.


A. Anna Christie
B. Beyond the Horizon
C. Bound East to Cardiff
D. The long Voyage Home