[单项选择]The______talks between China and the Uuited States were the base of the later agreement.
A. original
B. primary
C. initial
D. primitive

[单项选择]The（　）talks between China and the Uuited States were the base of the later agreement.
A. original
B. primary
C. initial
D. primitive

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Relations between the United States and Colombia suffered for many years because of an incident involving the Republic of Panama. By the en& of the Spanish-American War, Americans felt that an easier and faster: way was needed to ,get ships, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Some people in the United States first believed that a canal across Nicaragua was the answer. However, President Theodore Roosevelt decided that a canal through Panama would be a better choice, In order to build the canal, the United States had to negotiate a treaty with Colombia, which at that time controlled Panama. Roosevelt offered Colombia, $10 million plus $ 250,000 a year for 99 years for a six-miles-wide strip of land across Panama. Colombia rejected the United States’offer. This angered President Roosevelt, and negotiations with Colombia, ended. In 1903，a revolution broke out in Panama. United States ships were sent by President: Roosevelt to protect the Panamanian revolutionari
A. to learn to accept something
B. on conditions that one/somebody else decides
C. to have a bad relationship
D. to get along with somebody

[单项选择]The ______ talks between China and the United States were the base of the later agreement.
A. original
B. primary
C. initial
D. primitive

[单项选择]In the United States as well as in China, only children tend to be______ by their grandparents.


A. spoiled
B. injured
C. damaged
D. wounded

[单项选择]Eleven states, including the adjoining states of North and South Carolina, seceded from the United States in the 1860's and formed a southern confederacy.


A. separated
B. neighboring
C. colonial
D. competing

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The United States is a confederation of states. Each state has the (1) to make laws with regard to the state. (2), based on public opinion, states can (3) policies regarding education, and they may (4) a state income tax; they also determine the speed (5), housing codes, and the drinking age.
In most parts of the United States, you (6) be 21 years old to buy alcohol in a liquor store, bar,(7) restaurant. In some states you may buy beer in a grocery store. If a store sells alcohol to a minor, the (8) of the store is usually (9) a large sum of money. (10) , many areas have an open-container law, (11) means that people may not drink alcohol on the street or in a car. Anyone (12) with an open container of alcohol may be arrested.
(13) , with all of these laws, the (14) of alcohol is a serious (15) in the United States and Canada. Drinking on college campuses, (16) there are many underage drinkers has (17) greatly. In fact, alcohol sales have gone up (18) the legal dri
A. when
B. since
C. before
D. after

[单项选择]The United States is a confederation of states．Each state has the (26) to make laws with regard to the state． (27) , based on public opinion，states can (28) policies regarding education, and they may (29) a state income tax; they also determine the speed (30) , housing codes and the drinking age．
In most parts of the United States, you (31) be 21 years old to buy alcohol in a liquor store, bar (32) restaurant．In some states you may buy beer in a grocery store．If a store sells alcohol to a minor,the (33) of the store is usually (34) a large sum of money．
(35) many areas have an open-container law, (36) means that people may not drink alcohol on the street or in a car．Anyone (37) with an open container of alcohol may be arrested．
(38) with all these laws, the (39) of alcohol is a serious (40) in the United
A. fined
B. charged
C. punished
D. suffered