单选题
Baltimore was founded in 1729. For a generation it seemed no different from a dozen other small settlements
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up at the head of the Chesapeake Bays. Its claim to
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consisted of a blacksmith"s shop, flour
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, and tobacco warehouse. Yet Baltimore was
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for a more dynamic future than its slow beginnings seemed to
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.
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by an agricultural revolution in the Maryland and Pennsylvania countryside as well as dramatic disruptions in the Atlantic economy, Baltimore at mid-century began to
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. By 1799 it had risen to become the new Republic"s fourth largest city with
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to overtake the three still
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: New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
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the Baltimore village of the Jeffersonian era looked utterly unlike the colonial village from
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it had emerged, the two shared more than it might be
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at the first glance. Baltimore"s economy had expanded tremendously, to be sure, but the same forces that sparked
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around 1750 continued to
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it fifty years later.
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the establishment of new government at the state level in 1776, national level in 1788, and
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level in 1797, the same irritating issues continued to attack its politics. If Baltimore had become richer and bigger, its occupational structure, wealth
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and residential patterns withstood the pressure of growth and looked about the same in 1790 as in 1812. In other words,
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the frozen and seemingly chaotic pace of
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, Baltimore enjoyed a strong element of stability. For in 1812, no
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than in 1729, Baltimore was a pre-industrial town.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。spring up=to come into being意为“出现，涌现”，例如：Towns had sprung up in what was a dry desert．其他选项中的动词与句中的up一词构成的短语不能修饰settlements，故只有选项C. springing正确。选项A. come(up)=happen意为“发生”；选项B. rise(up)意为“反抗”；选项D. go(up)意为“上涨，(建筑)被兴建”，例如：How many houses have gone up this year?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。选项A. character表示“特征，性质”，例如：It well assorts with her character.选项B. distinction表示“区别，差别”，例如：He is fair to us without distinction.选项C. similarity表示“相同点，相似点”选项D. characteristic表示“特色，特性”，例如：Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing.根据上文关键词“different from”以及文中意思，可知选项B. distinction为正确答案。
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。be destined to do/for sth．意为“注定要有”，例如：she"s destined for an extremely successful career.根据句意：巴市一定会有更为辉煌的前途，故选项A. destined符合要求。选项B. determined常与to连用，意为“下决心的”；选项C. faced常与with连用，意为“面对”，例如：They are faced with financial penalties.选项D. entitled常与to连用，意为“有权利做”，例如：The employer is entitled to ask for references.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。此处需要一个动词与名词future构成动宾关系，只有选项A. indicate(暗示，预示)可与之搭配。选项B. appear意为“出现”；选项C. pretend意为“假装”；选项D. present意为“赠送；陈述；呈现”，例如：This report should have been presented much sooner.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。选项A. Encouraged表“鼓励”，例如：Children should be encouraged to be independent thinkers.选项B. Spurred表示“策动，驱动”，例如：The availability of credit and low interest costs had spurred lease deals. C. Affected表示“影响”；选项D. Inspired表示“激发，鼓舞”，例如：His words inspired confidence in me.由文中可知，马里兰的农业革命驱动，激励了巴市的发展，选项A、D主语通常是人，故可知选项B. Spurred正确。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。boom意为“蓬勃发展”，例如：The economy is booming.根据上下文的意思，此句讲巴市经过农业革命和大西洋地区经济巨变之后所发生的变化，下文谈及该市崛起并成为美国的第四大城市，故选项D. boom符合题意。选项A. doom意为“注定(不好的命运)”，例如：Their plan was doomed to fail/failure.选项B. decline意为“衰退”；选项C. steam意为“蒸发”。
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。选项A. visible表示“看得见的”，例如：Note that some of these classes are not visible.选项B. familiar表示“熟悉的”；选项C. obscure表示“模糊的”，例如：The meaning is still obscure to me.选项D. apparent表示“明显的”，根据文中意思，巴市不同时期的相同之处比我们乍看之下更明显。故可知选项D. apparent为正确答案。
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。sustain意为“维持”，例如：We don"t have sufficient resources to sustain our campaign for long.根据句意：这一力量在以后的50年继续维持其发展，故选项B. sustain正确。选项A. endure意为“忍受(长期的、不愉快的折磨)”，例如：The country is enduring the worst recession since the 1930s.选项C. undergo意为“经历”，例如：Cinema in Britain is undergoing a revival of popularity.选项D. nurture意为“培养”，例如：As a record company director, his job is to nurture young talent.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语篇连接题。此句的前半句提到各级政府的建立，然而句子的意思却是：令人困扰的问题动摇着其政治，根据逻辑推理，前面的短语和句子的主要成分应是一种让步关系，故选项D. Despite(尽管)正确。选项A. In respect to意为“与……有关”；选项B. Given意为“鉴于”，例如：Given the time available to us, we will have to submit the report in draft form.选项C. Considering意为“鉴于，考虑到”，例如：You did very well to lift all those books considering how small you are.
【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。根据上文可知，巴市在各个方面都保持着稳定性，因此，1729年和1812年的情况都是相同的，选项B. less与前后文构成no less than，表明这种稳定程度不亚于1729年，符合题意。选项A. older和选项C. longer讲述年代的久远；选项D. more与前后文构成no more than意为“不比……多，仅仅”。