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How many miles away from the sunken ship was the girl found
[单项选择]In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. The whole region was sparsely settled by people of the frontier—restless souls who no sooner had hewn fairly habitable homes out of the wilderness and attained to that degree of prosperity which today we should call indigence, then, impelled by some mysterious impulse of their nature, they abandoned all and pushed farther westward, to encounter new perils and privations in the effort to regain the meagre comforts which they had voluntarily renounced. Many of them had already forsaken that region for the remoter settlements, but among those remaining was one who had been of those first arriving. He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest, of whose gloom and silence he seemed a part, for no one had ever known him to smile nor speak a needless word. His simple wants were supplied by the sale or barter of skins of wild animals in the ri
A. desolate.
B. hushful.
C. dismal.
D. barren.
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Passengers on cruise ship holidays, as they are (0) on TV programs and films, usually appear to be both rich and elderly. Such people do not, however, accurately represent the 6.8 million (19) who took this kind of holiday last year. Over the last few years the world cruise industry has concentrated on (20) to younger, less wealthy people, giving them a/an (21) more like a floating disco than the traditional quiet holiday on a luxury ship. Even families with young children are no longer so (22) on cruise ship. Partly as a result, the number of passengers taking a cruise has increased by a/an (23) of 8.5 % a year since 1990.
Cruise Star is now the world’s (24) cruise line. The other two major companies are Intersail and Seaways. Together these three carry (25) half the world’s cruise passengers and (26) al
A. goods
B. items
C. provisions
D. supplies