[单项选择]Thus（）between England and France which was to last for 100 years.
A. broke out a war
B. did a war break out
C. a war broke out
D. was a war broken

[填空题]Difference Between Japan and England

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[简答题]Zambia’s copper industry, which only last year still boasted a rosy future, seems to be staggering towards a rather gloomier end. A group of worried bystanders—the World Bank, the Zambian government, private investors, the mine workers and their families—are looking on, wringing their hands. Some 15,000 jobs and Zambia’s biggest industry are threatened by the mines’ possible closure. What has gone wrong
Consider first the invisible hand of the market. Zambia’s copper is too expensive. Two years ago, when the mines were privatized, it cost 100 cents to dig out every pound of copper. But the world price at the time was just 84 cents. Last year, efficiency improved and the Konk01a Copper Mines (the country’s largest) turned out a pound of copper for 85 cents. But that, sadly, was still well over the market price, which had by then fallen to 75 cents.

[填空题]The language used in England between 450 and 1150 is called ______.

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In England, afternoon tea, taken between four and five, is the most (1) meal of the day. If you are a friend of the family, you may drop in for tea without an (2) or telling you are coming. Very often it is not (3) at a table. The members and (4) take tea in the sitting-room. Each person has a cup and saucer, a spoon and a small plate for bread-and-butter and cake. By the way, do not help yourself to cake first, bread-and-butter first, then cake if there is any. Another piece of (5): do not put more than one piece of bread or cake at the same time.

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[单项选择]If you want to have tea at a friend’s home, ______. [A] you may ask if there is tea in his home [B] it is important to wait for his invitation [C] it is not necessary to let him know before