填空题 {{B}} Directions: {{/B}}{{I}}In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. While listening to the talk, you may take notes on the important points so that you can have enough information to complete a gap-filling task on a separate ANSWER BOOKLET. You will not get your ANSWER BOOKLET until after you have listened to the talk.{{/I}}
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Not all immigrants were {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}with open arms. Quakes and Jews could not {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}in court in New York City. But after all, the infant colonies were {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}for the basic resource: {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}.
In the 1840s, for the first time, the English were {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}at American ports by Germans and Irish, who made up {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}of America's foreign-born by 1860.
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