[简答题]

Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide if emigration- one of the great folk wanderings of history- swept from Europe to America. (46) This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent. (47) The United States is the product of two principal forces- the immigration of European people with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempt to transplant their habits and traditions to new world. (48) But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon once another, and the

[单项选择]A hundred (41) years ago there were a lot of dinosaurs (恐龙) in the world. Some lived on land. Some lived in the sea. Some (42) fly. A lot of them (43) very large and some had horns (角) or long teeth (44) the monsters (怪物) in films. Most of the dinosaurs were plant-eaters, but some of them could kill (45) eat very big animals.
The world was full of dinosaurs for 135 million (百万，百万个) years. 60 million years ago, however (然而，不管怎样), they were (46) dead. (47) happened to them
Some scientists say that about 65 million years ago the world’s climate (气候) (48) cold (寒冷的，伤风) and this cold climate killed the dinosaurs.
Now we eau only see dinosaur bones (骨骼) in (49) , but we can not see a (50) dinosaur any more.


A. hundred
B. thousands
C. million

[单项选择]Passage Three
Within fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste. The word rubbish could lose its meaning because everything which goes into the dustbin would be made into something useful. Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else.
The new concept of recycling waste is taking shape at the British technological laboratory at Warren Spring, not far from the north of London. Today, the laboratory spends four times as much money in studying recycling as it did five years ago.
The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but
A. A．1) probably means ______ finished withB. nearing completionC. getting ready to startD. making improvements on

[单项选择]A hundred years ago, chocolate was something
A. that only wealthy people could eat.
B. that people all eat like today.
C. nobody could afford.