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Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.
Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone
A. fine weather
B. high tower
C. the spelling system
D. arm movements

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Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.
Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone
A. Telephone was invented by a French engineer.
B. Roman soldiers sent the important message by spelling out the words.
C. African soldiers shouted from tower to tower to pass message.
D. Only by using telephone could people send speech sounds quickly.

[填空题]Some experts believe that the reason why the Roman Catholic Church set the birth of Christ on December 25th is that that day was the New Year’ s Day for the ancient Romans.

[填空题]How long was the extension of the road built by the Roman by the end of the 3rd century

[单项选择]The tower was built to hold ______.

[填空题]Some studies have suggested that long periods of typing and incorrect work habits may (link) （）to injuries.

[单项选择]According to some estimates, at most for how long can we use the fossil fuel reserves
A. 20-50 years.
B. 50-100 years.
C. 100-120 years.
D. 200-500 years.

[简答题]Some students prefer to study for only one long time during a week. Other students prefer to study for several short times during a week. Which do you prefer and why Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

[单项选择]根据下面短文回答下列问题。
Long ago, a high tower was built. The tower was in the town of Pisa in Italy. It was a beautiful bell tower.
But soon the tower did something strange. It began to lean to one side. The tower leaned and leaned. After a while, people gave the tower a new name. They called it the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Millions of people visit Pisa every year. They go there just to see the Leaning Tower. Will the tower ever fall No one knows.
The tower was built to hold
A. bells
B. animals
C. stores

[单项选择]John liked to wear his hair very long. Some of his friends thought it looked like a girl’s hair, but they never made jokes (玩笑) about it, because John was a big, strong man, and he didn’t think jokes about his hair funny(有趣的)。
John always went to the barber’s (理发店)twice a month to have his hair cut and washed,and one day the barber said to him,"Now why don’t you let me cut most of this hair off and make your head tidy(整洁) Nobody would recognize(认出)you if I had that,I am sure."
John said nothing for a few seconds,and then he said. "Perhaps you are right,but I am sure that nobody would recognize you. either, if you did that to my hair./

His friends never made jokes about the hair because ______.
A. the hair wasn’t funny
B. John didn’t like jokes about his hair and they were afraid of him
C. John was big and strong