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[单项选择]Thomas Jefferson was the first President to take office in the new capital, Washington D. C. Although Washington was a new city, it was already familiar to president Jefferson. In fact, Jefferson had helped plan the capital’ s streets and public buildings. Besides being a city planner, the new President was a writer, a scientist, and the inventor of several tools.
Jefferson moved into the Presidential Palace after he took office. The Palace was more than a home, it had offices for the President and some other men of the government. It also had dining and reception rooms, where the President could receive his guests. However, president Jefferson did not give many formal parties. This was partly be cause there was no First Lady; his wife died in 1782. It was also be cause Jefferson liked to live in a simple way. He once showed up for an important meeting wearing old clothes and worn slippers! Neither Washington nor Adams would ever have dressed like that.
Jefferson was differen
A. Jefferson knew the new capital very well.
B. Jefferson was a world-famous inventor.
C. Jefferson was a writer and a scientist as well.
D. President Jefferson was the first to live in Washington D. C.
[单项选择]Jefferson was vice president under which president
A. President Washington.
B. President Adams.
C. President Hamilton.
D. President Monroe.
[单项选择]Property Market Downturn
Over the first quarter of (144) year, there has only been $50 million of turnover in the local real estate market. This compares unfavorably with the $90 million recorded at the same time last year.
Beverley Hauritz, the chair of the Professional Realty Association, told reporters that she was not surprised by the figures, which she believes are a result of the global financial crisis. (145) , she is anticipating an even bigger decrease next quarter, as investors look to reduce spending even further.
Although there has been talk among (146) that property prices may continue falling throughout the rest of the year, Ms. Hauritz remains confident that the property market will begin to pick up again in the future. Her prediction is that prices will return to their previous levels by the end of the year.
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[单项选择]Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories By The North Gates, in 1962, two years after she had received her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and become an instructor of English at the University of Detroit. Her productivity since then has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of Detroit to the University of Windsor, in Ontario, and in 1978 to Princeton University. Reviewers have admired her enormous energy, but find a productivity of such magnitude difficult to assess.
In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic quality
A. It was part of her MA thesis.
B. It was a volume of short fiction.
C. It was not successful.
D. It was about an English instructor in Detroit.
