1. At the time of Columbus' voyages， Native Americans used an astounding diversity of languages， ________ the diversity used by Europeans. A. the greatest by far B. by far than greater C. by far the greatest D. greater by far than 答案：...
1. The coal industry is important to every industrial nations because most other industries are directly or indirectly dependent on it. 答案：A 分析及考点：同样表示每个，所有，every应该跟名词单数，而nations是复数...
1. Most doctors of the Colonial period believed _______ was caused by an imbalance of humors in the body. A. in disease B. that disease C. of disease D. about disease 答案：B 分析：动词believe 的用法：直接加that引导的宾语从...
1. Frances Perkins， _________ of the United States cabinet， served in the cabinet as secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945. A. the first female member B. was the first female member C. the first female member who D. of whom the first fem...
Jazz has been called the art of expression set to music, and America's great contribution to music. It has functioned as popular art and enjoyed periods of fairly widespread public response, in the jazz age of the 1920s, in the swing era of...
The Moon has been worshipped by primitive peoples and has inspired humans to create everything from lunar calendars to love sonnets, but what do we really know about it? The most accepted theory about the origin of the Moon is that it was f...
People of Hispanic origin were on the North American continent centuries before settlers arrived from Europe in the early 1600s and the thirteen colonies joined together to form the United States in the late 1700s. The first census of the n...
Considered the most influential architect of his time, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was born in the small rural community of Richland Center, Wisconsin. He entered the University of Wisconsin at the age of 15 as a special student, studyin...
The healing power of maggots is not new. Human beings have discovered it several times. The Maya are said to have used maggots for therapeutic purposes a thousand years ago. As early as the sixteenth century, European doctors noticed that s...
For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observ...
1. An underlying assumption of most market research is that people are continually ____ financial decisions based on their desire for goods that give them the most satisfaction. (A) making (B) and make (C) being made (D) having made 2. ____...
Everyone in a particular society recognizes social roles: father, mother, child, teacher, student, police officer, store clerk, doctor, judge, political leader, and so on. Every culture expects certain types of behavior from people who play...
新托福阅读模拟试题 建议完成时间：20分钟 Hormones in the Body Up to the beginning of the twentieth century, the nervous system was thought to control all communication within the body and the resulting integration of behavi...
1. An underlying assumption of most market research is that people are continually ____ financial decisions based on their desire for goods that give them the most satisfaction. (A) making (B) and make (C) being made (D) having made 2. ____...
Glacier National park in Montana shares boundaries with Canada, an American Indian reservation, and a national forest. Along the North Fork of the Flathead River, the park also borders about 17,000 acres of private lands that are currently...
If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic salinity. One of the...
As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America were building with adobe sun-baked brick plastered with mud. Their homes looked remarkably like modem apartment houses. Some were four stories hi...
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) once said that her writing could be called poetry only because there was no other name for it. Indeed her poems appear to be extremely compressed essays that happen to be printed in jagged lines on the page. Her s...
What makes it rain? Rain falls from clouds for the same reason anything falls to Earth. The Earth's gravity pulls it. But every cloud is made of water droplets or ice crystals. Why doesn't rain or snow fall constantly from all clouds? The d...
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skill of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, th...
