[单项选择]The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT ______.
A. the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
B. the vast expansion of British colonies in North America
C. the new discoveries in geography and astrology
D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion

[填空题] Rocket Renaissance
The Ear of Private Spaceflight Is About to Start
Background
Two years ago, people witnessed the first space travel by SpaceShip One. Three people were involved in this flight: Burt Rutan, who designed the craft, and Mike Melvill, who flew it--although they were ably assisted by Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, who paid for it. Certainly, people have long been known that manned spaceflight was possible. What they showed was that it is not just a game for governments. Private individuals can play, too.
People involved
Now, lots of people want to join in, and most of them have just met up at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles, to engage in that mixture of camaraderie and competition that characterises the beginnings of a new technology. And, as might be expected, they have two of the necessary ingredients of succ

[单项选择]Why was Townes' early work with stimulated emission done with microwaves


A. He was not concerned with light amplification.
B. It was easier to work with longer wavelengths.
C. His partner Schawlow had already begun to work on laser.
D. The laser had already been developed.

[填空题]WH-movement is the proposed movement of wh-forms to the beginning of a clause or sentence.In English, WH-preposing is o when a sentence changes from affirmative to interrogative.

[单项选择]The Renaissance was a European phenomenon originated in ______.
A. France
B. Britain
C. Italy
D. Spain

[单项选择]Babies will not be stimulated to smile by a person ______.


A. whose front view is fully perceived
B. whose face is covered with a mask
C. whose face is seen from the side
D. whose face is free of any covering

[单项选择]The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are ______, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Marlowe
C. John Milton
D. Edmund Spenser

[单项选择]The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the ______ world.
A. new English
B. modern
C. feudal
D. capital

[单项选择]In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.
A. getting rid of those old feudalist-ideas
B. getting control of the parliament and government
C. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie
D. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church