[单项选择]The largest and smallest states of the United States are ______.
A. Alaska and Rhode Island
B. Texas and Maine
C. Texas and Rhode Island
D. Alaska and Maine

[单项选择]The largest and smallest states of the United States are ______.


A. Alaska and Rhode Island
B. Texas and Maine
C. Texas and Rhode Island
D. Alaska and Maine

[单项选择]The two newest states which joined the United States are ______.


A. Alaska and Kentucky.
B. Hawaii and Arizona.
C. Alaska and Hawaii.
D. Vermont and New Mexico.

[单项选择]Passage 1 Nikolai arrived in the United States from Eastern Europe with his wife and two small children. Despite the fact that Nikolai spoke three languages (Russian, German, and Polish), neither he nor his wife spoke any English. They came to the United States as refugees. Nikolai thought he was fortunate to have located a distant cousin, who sponsored him and his family and offered them temporary housing in the apartment building that he owned. Very soon Nikolai began picking up English words. He needed a job to support his family, but because of his poor English and lack of formal education, he worried about his job prospects in the United States. A neighbor in the apartment building told him that job advertisements were frequently posted on a nearby bulletin board (公告牌). Nikolai went to the bulletin board together with an acquaintance, who read and spoke both Russian and English, to see what jobs were available. Nikolai listened intently as the acquaintance read several
A. he had a distant cousin to help him
B. he found temporary housing
C. he could support his family
D. he spoke three languages

[单项选择]The passage seems to indicate that the United States is a country where______.


A. few people are indifferent to high imaginative art
B. handicrafts and decoration work lack artistic quality
C. handicraftsmen find it difficult to live a decent life
D. most artists seem to indulge in fancy day-dreaming

[单项选择]Because of her dual nationality in the United States and Mexico, Maria was almost required to pay taxes in both countries until her accountant ______ with a satisfactory solution for both countries.
A. intercepted
B. interacted
C. interpreted
D. intervened

[单项选择]A Cuban diplomat was deported from the United States last weekend for______.


A. alleged espionage
B. greeting Fidel Castro
C. boarding a plane to Havana
D. bombing the embassy

[单项选择]One of the major rivers of the western United States, ____ flows for some 1,5000 miles from Colorado to northwestern Mexico.
A. it is the Colorado River
B. the Colorado River which
C. and the Colorado River
D. the Colorado River

[单项选择]When did the pro-Aided radio blast the United States


A. Wednesday morning.
B. Thursday morning.
C. Wednesday night.
D. Thursday night.