[填空题]The city was named _____ the first president of the U.S., who decided upon its location in the first place.

[填空题]The city was named _____ the first president of the U.S., who decided upon its location in the first place.

[填空题]The city is named _____ the famous president.

[单项选择]The subject has fascinated me since I first had the ______ of being led into it as a postgraduate student of Professor J. C. Smith in the mid 1960s.
A. preconception
B. propriety
C. prospect
D. privilege

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Which section do the visitors go to see first ？
The （） section.

[填空题]Johnstown was the smallest city and the first city in the country to operate "all electric" St. Louis cars.

[单项选择]I was（　）in my reading, and didn't at first hear the doorbell ting.
A. immured
B. immersed
C. busy
D. infatuated

[单项选择]The first city in the United States that put into effect major plan for the clustering of government buildings was Washington, D.C.

[填空题]活用所给动词完成句子。

Lincoln ______ the 16th President of the United States in 1861. (elect)

[单项选择]The White House is the home of the President of the United States and his family. It wasn’t called the White House until Teddy Roosevelt named it in 1901.
James Hoban designed the White House in 1792. He was awarded the job because he had won a contest sponsored by the government. His design had been selected as the best.
President John Adams was the first to live in the White House. When he and his wife, Abigail moved in, it was a huge mansion in the middle of a swamp. Many of the rooms were unfinished. Abigail used the famous East Room as a drying room for laundry. More rooms were decorated every year. Rare shrubs and trees were planted on the grounds.
Yet, all this work was for nothing. In the war of 1812, the British burned the mansion to the ground. The White House was rebuilt in 1817. The beauty of its decorations and furnishings has been growing ever since.
Which of the following would be the best title for the passage
A. President John Adams and the White House
B. White House Today
C. A House Full of History
D. White House Before 1812

[填空题]The Olympic flame which was first introduced to the Olympics in 1928 symbolizes ______.

[填空题]When did Washington become the first president of the U.S.A.
He became the first president of the U.S.A. （） .

[单项选择]The first American President who inaugurated in Washington City was
A. George Washington.
B. Thomas Jefferson.
C. John Adams.
D. Abraham Lincoln.

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Shortly after September 11th, President Bush’s father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion that we could somehow avoid the call of duty to defend freedom in Europe and Asia in World War Two, so, too, should this most recent surprise attack erase the concept in some quarters that America can somehow go it alone in the fight against terrorism or in anything else for that matter.
But America’s allies have begun to wonder whether that is the lesson that has been learned--or whether the Afghanistan campaign’s apparent success shows that unilateralism works just fine. The United States, that argument goes, is so dominant that it can largely afford to go it alone.
It is true that no nation since Rome has loomed so large above the others, but even Rome eventually collapsed. Only a decade ago, the conventional wisdom lamented an America in decline. Bestseller lists featured books that described America’s fall. Jap
A. to defeat new state challengers.
B. to defend international relations.
C. to maintain high growth rates.
D. to equalize dominant powers.