[单项选择]The 18th century witnessed a new literary form--the modern English novel, which is contrary to the medieval romance, gives a （　）, presentation of life of the common people.
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic

[单项选择]The 18th century witnessed a new literary form-the modern English novel, which contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic

[单项选择]In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called ______ came to Europe and then to England.
A. romanticism
B. classicism
C. realism
D. restoration

[单项选择]John Locke, the well-known 18th century English thinker, emphasized experience as the （）condition for expansion of human knowledge.
A. incompatible
B. incredible
C. indefinite
D. indispensable

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In the 18th century, New York was smaller than Philadelphia and Boston. Today it is the largest city in America. How to explain the change in its size and importance
To answer this question we must consider certain facts about geography, history and economics. Together these three will explain the huge growth of America’s most famous cities.
The map of the Northeast shows that four of the most heavily-populated areas in this region are around seaports. At these points materials from across tile sea enter America, and the products of the land are sent there for export across the sea.
Economists know that places where transportation lines meet are good places for making raw materials into completed goods, That is why seaports often have cities nearby. But cities like New York needed more than their geographical location in order to become great industrial centers. Their development did not happen simply by chance.
About 1815, when many American
A. Development of Transportation in New York
B. Exports and Imports of New York.
C. How New York Became America’s Largest City
D. How New York Exchanged with Europe

[单项选择]In the mid-l 8th century, a new literary movement called ______ came to Europe and then to England.
A. classicism
B. restoration
C. romanticism
D. realism

[单项选择]The 18th-century battlefield was, compared with that of the 20th century, an intimate theater, especially (41) in the engagement of Revolution, which were usually small even by the standards of the day, soldiers has to come to close quarters to kill; this fact reduced the mystery of battle, though perhaps not its terrors. But at least the battlefield lost some of its impersonality. In fact, in (42) to the 20th century combat, in which the enemy (43) remains unseen and the source of incoming fire unknown, in the 18th-century battles the enemy could be seen and some- times even (44) . (45) one’s enemy may have aroused a singular (46) of feeling uncommon in modern battles. Before the assault occurred tension and anxiety (47) up as the troops marched from their movements was well understood by themselves and their enemies, who must have watched with feelings of dread and fascination. When the order came sending them (48)