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[简答题]The task of writing a history of our nation from Rome’s earliest days fills me, I confess, with some misgivings and even were I confident in the value of my work, I should hesitate to say so. I am aware that for historians to make extravagant claims is, and always has been, all too common: Every writer on history tends to look down his nose at his less cultivated predecessors, happily persuaded that he will better them in point of style, or bring new facts to light. But however that may be, I shall find satisfaction in contributing, not, I hope, ignobly, to the labor of putting on record the story of the greatest nation in the world. Countless others have written on this theme and it may be that I shall pass unnoticed amongst them. If so, I must comfort myself with the greatness and splendor of my rivals, whose work will rob my own of recognition.
My task, moreover, is an immensly laborious one. I shall have to go back more than 700 years, and trace my story from its small beginnings
[单项选择]The main task of our government in the near future is to ______ the living standard of the people.
A. raise B. rise C. arise D. arouse
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[单项选择]"The landscape seen from our windows is certainly charming," said Annabel; "those cherty orchards and green meadows, and the river winding along the valley, and the church tower peeping out among the elms, they all make the most effective picture. There’s something dreadfully sleepy and languorous about it, though ; stagnation seems to be the dominant note. Nothing ever happens here; seedtime and harvest, an occasional outbreak of measles or a mildly destructive thunderstorm, and a little election excitement about once in five years, that is all that we have to modify the monotony of our existence. Rather dreadful, isn’t it"
"On the contrary," said Matilda, "I find it soothing and restful: but then, you see, I’ve lived in countries where things do happen, ever so many at a time, when you’re not ready for them happening all at once. ""That, of course, makes a difference,"said Annabel.
"I have never forgotten," said Matilda, "the occasion when the Bishop of Bequar paid us an
A. languid.
B. repressive.
C. enchanting.
D. boring.
