[单项选择]The Renaissance refers to the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries, which was under the reign of Queen ______ and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was ______.
A. Victoria; poetry
B. Elizabeth; drama
C. Mary; novel
D. James; drama

[填空题]Harlem Renaisance refers to a period lasting for more than 10 years, during which a group of African and American writers produced a lot of literary works.

[单项选择]The English Renaissance period was an age of ______.
A. poetry and drama
B. drama and novel
C. novel and poetry
D. romance and poetry

[单项选择]The period of the Old English Literature refers to the______
A. 9th to 11th centuries
B. 14th to mid 17th centuries
C. 14th to mid 18th centuries
D. 16th to 18th centuries

[单项选择]The Victorian Period refers to______
A. 1798 -1832
B. 1836 1901
C. the Romantic period
D. the neoclassical period

[单项选择]The term "ice age" refers to any of several periods of time when glaciers covered considerably more of Earth’s surface...... (a)as is today (b)than today is (c)than they do today (d)that today

[填空题]The highest oil price in the period between 1970 to 2000 was in 1980 and the lowest in 1972.

[单项选择]In the period between 1918 and 1939, various political, economic, and geographic (factors combined) in (determine) the extent (to which) a country (developed) civil aviation.（　）
A. factors combined
B. determine
C. to which
D. developed

[简答题]next term’s programme 14th September

[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