单选题Photograph was revolutionized in 1831 by the introduction of the collodion process for
A B C
making glass negatives.
D
单选题The initial discovery by humans almost 10,000 years ago that they could exploit metallic mineral deposits was an important milestone in the development civilization.
单选题American Literature: Mark Twain
Professor: Today we are going to discuss ______. Do you know who he is?
Student: Yeah. Everyone has ______! He wrote
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and ______, didn"t he?
Professor: Right.
Student: Well, I don"t know all the books, but he was a newspaper reporter and he wrote different things like historical fiction, travel books, ______, right?
Professor: And ...? That"s it? OK. Well, you"re about to learn some more things ______. Did you know he was ______? Surprised? Well, Mark Twain was his pen name. He was actually born Samuel Clemens. And, today you are going to learn about Mark Twain and his activities in the Anti-Imperial League.
Student: Really? He was friends with Roosevelt and other politicians. I read about it.
Professor: Oh, he was a rebel, a rebel ______. He more than ______. He was the Vice President from 1901-1910. Let"s start at the beginning. The League was ______ in the U.S. and was formed ______ of the Spanish-American war in 1898. Basically, Spain ______ in the Caribbean and Pacific to the U.S. ______. It was called
"The Treaty of Paris"
. It named Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Twain supported the U.S. in the beginning but ______ when he learned about ______. He believed it was just a way for U.S. expansion.
Twain was in Europe at the time of the Spanish-American war and returned to the U.S. in 1900. He was always ready to tell how he felt about the treaty. He ______ Imperialism by making speeches, writing articles and after sending
"A Salutation Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth Century"
to the League ______, he became the Vice President of the League. In a nutshell, he believed that the U.S. could not be ______ at the same time. Twain admired Emilio Aguinaldo tremendously, and what he was all about.
Student: Who was he?
Professor: Well, he was a Filipino rebel. He wanted freedom for his country. He organized ______ the Spanish and ______ Hong Kong before the war. When the war started, he went back to the Philippines thinking the U.S. was going to help free the Philippines. Wrong! I don"t think he realized that the U.S. wanted the Philippines for its own. In the end, the U.S. kept the Philippines. The U.S. criticized the Spanish for ______ and used it as propaganda against them. Then they turned around and did the same thing—open concentration camps in the Philippines. This is what ______. Anyway, Twain was thoroughly displeased by the whole thing. When he went back to the U.S. in 1901 he published
To the Person Sitting in the Darkness
. This ______ and the government"s dishonesty. It came to be the League"s most popular publication. That same year, he did it again and ______
To the American People
. This was published in newspapers everywhere and did not make politicians happy.
In 1902, he ______ that made it clear that he knew all about concentration camps, and that he ______. He thought it might help stop the ______. And in 1903, Twain was active in helping the League protest how they treated Filipino"s in their own country. Does that surprise you about Twain? He was ______ until his death in 1910. There was a lot more to Twain than Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
单选题(Despite) their common heritage, background, and homogeneity, the (original) United states (consisted)of 13 distinct political entities, each commanding considerable (loyal)from its citizenry.
单选题The word "subjugated" in line 4 is closest in meaning to
单选题According to the passage, when was the Olmsted Report officially accepted as the master plan .for the Seattle public park system?
单选题Although beavers rarely remain submerged for more than two minutes, they can stay underwater ___fifteen minutes before having to surface for air.
单选题(Through) his essays, poems, and lectures, Ralph Waldo Emerson established (himself) as a major thinker of his time (and as) a (figure leading) of American literature.
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单选题Regional geography examines, on a regional basis, the ways in which the people local interact with the environment of the area where they live.
单选题Photograph was revolutionized in 1851 by the introduction of the collodion process for making glass negatives.
单选题Listen to Track 89.
A. She doubts that the course will fulfill the students' expectations.
B. She hopes that the students selected the course because of their
interest.
C. She is pleased that the course will fulfill the requirements.
D. She is worried that the students might not be familiar with the course
requirements.
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单选题Vitamins A and C and (most of) the B vitamins (are retain) (in foods) that have (been canned.)
单选题While the process of photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used
A B
to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and organic compounds.
C D
单选题AWaystodeterminetheageofafossilBTheidentityofafossilthewomanfoundCAcomparisonoftwoshellfishfossilsDPlansforafieldtriptolookforfossils
单选题The word "key" in line 7 is closest in meaning to
单选题Telecommunication systems involve the transmission of sound, pictures, words, and other types of information by electronic means, training in signals and satellite relays.
单选题The word "scurrying" in line 16 is closest in meaning to
单选题According to the passage, by the year 3000 B.C. the Sumerians had already done all of the following EXCEPT: