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No other capital in Europe has more charm(迷人) or a richer past than Vienna, the capital of Austria. Green woods, mountains, and the large Danube River give the city beautiful surroundings.
Vienna has more than 1 600 000 people. Almost one-fourth of all the people of Austria live there. Vienna is sometimes called "a city without a country". It is so big that it does not seem to be suitable (适合的) in so small a country as Austria.
Vienna was a center of science and art and music, too. Many great musicians lived there. It had the name of being a city of spirits, partly because of the dance music and operettas(轻歌剧) written by Viennese musicians.
After World War I, Vienna found itself the capital of a rather poor country of less than 7 000 000 people. World War Ⅱ made Vienna even worse than it was before. Since 1955, however, Vienna has been fast regaining its past greatness.

According to the passage, Vienna was once a center of（）
A. traffic
B. trade and science
C. art and music
D. D.andC.

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No other capital in Europe has more charm(迷人) or a richer past than Vienna, the capital of Austria. Green woods, mountains, and the large Danube River give the city beautiful surroundings.
Vienna has more than 1 600 000 people. Almost one-fourth of all the people of Austria live there. Vienna is sometimes called "a city without a country". It is so big that it does not seem to be suitable (适合的) in so small a country as Austria.
Vienna was a center of science and art and music, too. Many great musicians lived there. It had the name of being a city of spirits, partly because of the dance music and operettas(轻歌剧) written by Viennese musicians.
After World War I, Vienna found itself the capital of a rather poor country of less than 7 000 000 people. World War Ⅱ made Vienna even worse than it was before. Since 1955, however, Vienna has been fast regaining its past greatness.

Vienna is a city which is（）
A. the most beautiful city in Europe
B. so big that it doesn’t belong to Austria
C. the richest capital in Europe now
D. a small capital of a large country

[单项选择]Where Linda has her______charm, and Robert has sense of verve and suavity, Polly has only her superficial______.
A. genteel… uncertainty
B. infectious … pulchritude
C. idolatrous… pluck
D. obsequious … vivacity
E. insufferable … vapidity

[单项选择]The drama critic, on the other hand, has no such advantage. He cannot be selective; he must cover everything that is offered for public scrutiny in the principal playhouses of the city where he works. The column space that seemed, yesterday, so pitifully inadequate to contain his comments on Long Day’s Journey Into Night is roughly the same as that which yawns today for his verdict on the latest scrap of milk-fed Kitsch that has chanced to find for itself a numbskull hacker with a hundred thousand dollars to lose. This state of affairs may help to explain why the New York theater reviewers are so often, and so unjustly, stigmatized as baleful and destructive fiends. They spend most of their professional lives attempting to pronounce intelligent judgments on plays that have no aspiration to intelligence. It is hardly surprising that they lash out occasionally; in fact, what amazes me about them is that they do not lash out more violently and more frequently. As Shaw said of his fellow-c
A. comment on the poor quality of our plays
B. show why book reviewing is easier than play reviewing
C. point up the opinions of Shaw
D. defend the work of the play critic

[单项选择]The other, more publicly acceptable form of geo-engineering would focus on removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it underground. Known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), this idea is behind today’s experimental clean-power plants, which are attracting lots of research and funding. But clean, coal plants will only reduce future emissions, which does not address the root of the problem. Among all the uncertainties that still surround climate change, one thing has become clear: the scary durability of carbon, which will hang in the air for a thousand years, continuing to warm the planet no matter how drastically future emissions are cut. So there is a growing urgency behind the geo-engineer’s dream: to change the climate by artificial means, either sucking the existing carbon out of the air or cooling the air with solar reflectors.
Why is carbon so scary according to the passage
A. It will contihue to warm the globe for many years.
B. It cannot be easily captured and stored.
C. Its emission will increase in the coming years.
D. It cannot be reflected back into the spac

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Possibly no other man has influenced the institutions of government in the United States as much as Thomas Jefferson. He was the author of the American Declaration of Independence, supporter of the Bill of Rights, founder of one of the two major political parties through which the people of United States govern themselves, and the third President of the United States.
What kind of a man was Thomas Jefferson He was born in Shadwell, which is now Albemarle Country, Virginia, on April 13, 1743, into the class of people which, throughout his life, he denied had any right to rule over the lives and minds of other men. His father, Peter Jefferson, was a successful planter who bore an honored name in the community, and his mother belonged to the aristocratic Randlphs, one of the oldest families in Virginia.
Jefferson graduated from William and Mary College in Virginia in 1762, chose law as his profession, and he became extremely successful. Topic: life story of (46)