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Which three foreign languages are traditionally taught in the USA

[单项选择]If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written on it an aceount(记录) of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.
It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes people did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.
Sometimes, of course, even if the people can not write, they may know som
A. "Remembered history", compared with written history, is less reliable.
B. Written records of the past play a most important role in our learning of the human history.
C. A written account of our daily. activities helps us to be able to answer any questions.
D. Where there are no written records, there is no history.

[填空题]Which three-letter word, when placed in the brackets, forms two different words: one with the letter on the left outside the brackets and the other with the letters on the right Y( ) RING

[单项选择]According to the speaker，in which country were the earliest known diamonds found
A. South Africa.
B. Eastern Russia.
C. India.
D. Congo.