[单项选择]In the 19^th century, foreign language teachers usually adopted the strategy of combining grammar rules with ______.
A. reading
B. speaking
C. writing
D. translating

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Would-be language teachers everywhere have one thing in common: they all want some recognition of their professional status and skills, and a job. The former requirement is obviously important on a personal level, but it is vital if you are to have any chance of finding work.
Ten years ago, the situation was very different. In virtually every developing country, and in many developed countries as well, being a native English speaker was enough to get you employed as an English teacher.
Now employers will only look at teachers who have the knowledge, the skills and attitudes to teach English effectively. The result of this has been to raise non-native English teachers to the same status as their native counterparts (相对应的人) -- something they have always deserved but seldom enjoyed. Non-natives are now happy linguistic discrimination (语言上的歧视) is a thing of the past .
An ongoing research project, funded by the University of Cambridge, asked a sample of teacher

[单项选择]Through the 19th century, the United States expanded its territories greatly, and the Louisiana Territory is what America acquired from______.
A. Mexico
B. Spain
C. the United Kingdom
D. France

[单项选择]Why was postage high in the early 19th century


A. Because the prices of goods (物价) were very high.
B. Because the post office wanted to earn too much money.
C. Because many people had to be paid for getting the postage.

[单项选择]Why were people in the early 19th century unhappy when they received letters


A. Because they had to buy stamps.
B. Because they had to pay postage.
C. Because the letters always brought them bad news.

[填空题]Until the middle of 19^th century, all inventions by women ______under the law.

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At the end of the 19th century, Austrian physician and neurologist (神经病学家) Sigmund Freud developed a new theory that explained psychology. Freud argued that the mind had deep emotional desires hidden from consciousness. He termed the mental storehouse of hidden desire the unconscious. He claimed that the unconscious was a place of irrational (不合理的), often sexual and aggressive, desires. It was, he believed, also the source of human volition (意志；意志力) and will.
The unconscious was a revolutionary idea, inl9th-century psychology, which commonly asserted that the individual was an entirely rational, self-conscious being. Freud suggested that because the unconscious was the source of human will, truly rational individual behavior was impossible unless the individual came to understand the unconscious wellsprings of behavior. Freud developed psychoanalysis (精神分析学), a method of exploring the unconscious that relied on the analysis of dreams and other irrational phenomena, such a
A. What is the psychology
B. Who is Sigmund Freud
C. Sigmund Freud and his Psychology theory.
D. Unconscious was the source of human will.

[单项选择]Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his______.
A. international theme
B. wasteland imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism

[单项选择]During the 19th century, Jews in most European countries achieved some equality of status with non-Jews. Nonetheless, at times Jews were harassed by anti-Semitic groups.
A. opposed
B. exploited
C. despised
D. annoyed