[填空题]By the 17th century a few public libraries had ________.

[填空题]By the 17th century a few public libraries had ________.

[填空题]As a result of the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries,

[填空题]Few people believed the dam had been burst because there had been too many false alarms.

[单项选择]It was from only a few supplies that she had bought in the village （　） the hostess cooked such a nice dinner.
A. where
B. that
C. when
D. which

[单项选择]A radical new bicycle had its first public showing at the National British Cycling Championships in Shrewsbury last weekend. Based on the gold medal- winning design from the Barcelona Olympics, it is the first commercial mountain bike made of a single piece of carbon fibre.
Bicycles for amateurs have up to now been made of steel, aluminum or magnesium tubes welded together into the conventional "A-frame" shape. But last year, the British competitor Chris Boardman set world records while winning titles in the Olympic cycling pursuit events on a custom-built, carbon-fibre bicycle with lower weight and wind resistance than standard models. Because carbon fibre is born light and extremely strong, it does not need the A-frame shape, saving further weight Carbon fibre can also be moulded in a single piece, avoiding the weakness of welds.
The new bike, which will cost between $ 2000 and $ 3000 when it reaches the shops next month, has the same advantages as the Olympic model, it wei
A. it was made from the gold medal-winning design of the Barcelona Olympics
B. it was the first commercial mountain bike
C. its public showing last weekend aroused many people’s curiosity
D. it was made of one single piece of carbon fibre

[简答题]17th century sailing ships were small and rolled heavily in rough seas, so most of the passengers were seasick. ( Passage 2 )

[简答题]Employment became widespread when the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.

[填空题]After they had worked a few miracles, their imagination increased, and their ambition ________ . (large)

[单项选择]In the last few years many companies have had no choice but _______ their business.
A. closing
B. close
C. having closed
D. to close

[单项选择]In 17th-century New England, almost everyone believed in witches. Struggling to survive in a vast and sometimes unforgiving land, America’s earliest European settlers understood themselves to be surrounded by an inscrutable universe filled with invisible spirits, both benevolent and evil, that affected their lives. They often attributed a sudden illness, a household disaster or a financial setback to a witch’s curse. The belief in witchcraft was, at bottom, an attempt to make sense of the unknown.
While witchcraft was often feared, it was punished only infrequently. In the first 70 years of the New England settlement, about 100 people were formally charged with being witches; fewer than two dozen were convicted and fewer still were executed.
Then came 1692. In January of that year, two young girls living in the household of the Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village began experiencing strange fits. The doctor identified witchcraft as the cause. After weeks of questioning, th