[单项选择]Nature is named "the manifesto of American （　）".
A. transcendentalism
B. postmodernism
C. naturalism
D. modernism

[单项选择]Who was named the "Father of the American detective stories"（　）
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Herman Melville
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. James Fenimore Cooper

[简答题]nature preserves

[填空题]What was "Florida" named for "Florida" was named for ______.

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American has always been a land of beginnings. After Europeans‘iscovered’ America in the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine hope of a new life, an escape from poverty and persecution, a chance to start again. We can say that, as nation, America begins with that hope. When, however, does American literature begin
American literature begins with American experiences. Long before the first colonists arrived, before Christopher Columbus, before the Northmen who ’found’ America about the year 1,000, Native Americans lived here. Each tribe’s literature was tightly woven into the fabric of daily life and reflected the unmistakably American experience of lining with the land. Another kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement, found its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers sent home in Spain, France and England. In addition, t
A. The hope that America would be discovered.
B. The hope to start a new iife.
C. The hope to see the mysteries of the New World.
D. The hope to find poverty here.

[单项选择]Beauty in nature is the same everywhere. Nature is full of colour. Plants, animals, birds and insects have many beautiful colours. Colour, however, for animals, birds and insects is not only for beauty. It means life to them, because it helps them hide from the enemies. Birds, for example, use colour to tell other birds to stay away from their nests. They sing and move their wings to show the colour as a warning to other birds. One kind of butterfly is black. It tastes bad to birds. Once a bird eats this kind of butterfly, it remembers the bad taste. One kind of fish can change its colour to the colour of the surrounding plants and rocks. This prevents the fish’s enemies from finding and eating it. Colour is very important to nature, animals, birds and insects. It often save their lives.（）
A. Because colours help them show off.
B. Because colours help them survive.
C. Because colours help them move their wings.
D. Because colours help them change themselves.

[单项选择] Man and Nature The balance of nature is a delicate system of checks and counter-checks. Nature has its own way of checking the life and distribution of the different organisms and helping their growth. An epidemic may be considered nature’’ s way of checking population growth. Man in his attempt to conquer nature and to utilize it to his advantage has interfered with the balance of nature, thereby creating problems of a complex nature. Nature’’ s ways of maintaining the balance are intricate and not easily understood and man’’ s application of his scientific knowledge and techniques has upset this balance so much that today, being aware of the disastrous consequences, he takes measures against them. No animal or plant can live in isolation ,for different organisms are parts of a vast dynamic complex of living things. As no man or community is self-sufficient, no organism can live by itself. When man interferes with the interdependence and interrelat
A. Y
B. N
C. NG

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In nature, fighting is such an ever-present process that its behavior mechanisms and weapons are highly developed. Almost every animal capable of self-defense from the smallest upwards fights furiously when it is cornered and has no means of escape.
However, in another respect the fight between hunter and hunted is not a fight in the real sense of the word: the stroke of the paw with which a lion kills his prey may resemble the movements that he makes when he strikes his rival, but the inner motives of the hunter are basically different from those of the fighter. The buffalo which the lion fells provokes his aggression as little as the appetizing turkey which I have just seen hanging in the larder provokes mine. The difference in these inner drives can clearly be seen in the expression movements of the animal: a dog about to catch a hunted rabbit has the same kind of excited happy expression as he has whe
A. the young birds can learn about the enemy’s appearance
B. these kinds of birds are born to know their enemy
C. the young birds can escape to safe places by mobbing
D. the young birds can learn to fight with their enemy