[简答题]The domestic iron and steel producers found themselves ______(正在同世界上的跨国公司争夺潜在客户).

[简答题]They found it difficult to learn French.
They found it ______ to learn French.

[单项选择]

Ice skates manufactured entirely of iron were first sold in the 1800’s（）

A. mainly
B. successfully
C. solely
D. routinely

[单项选择]1 David Smith worked primarily in iron, exploring its possibilities more fully than any other sculptor before or since. To Smith, iron spoke of the power, mobility, and vigor of the industrial age. Smith was born in Indiana in 1906, the descendant of a nineteenth- century blacksmith. His iron sculptures flowed naturally out of the mechanized heart of America, a landscape of railroads and factories. As a child, Smith played on trains and around factories, as well as in nature on hills and near creeks. He originally wanted to be a painter, but after seeing photographs of the metal sculpture of Picasso in an art magazine, he began to realize that iron could be handled as directly as paint.
2 Many of Smith’s sculptures are "totems" that suggest variations on the human figure. They are not large iron dolls, although several have "heads" or "legs." Still, they forcefully convey posture and gesture. Their message flows from the internal relations of the forms and from t
A. They are the best-known examples of Smith’s "totem" sculptures.
B. Smith originally intended to use iron instead of stainless steel.
C. The Sentinels are made of blue steel, and the Cubis are of gold steel.
D. They each consist of a number of pieces placed in outdoor settings.