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20. The most worst economic reversal of the twentieth century, the Great Depression of the 1930‘s,
began in the United states and spread abroad.
21. Many narcotic plants and its products, such as nicotine, are effective in controlling insects.
22. In some occupations, the computer has already replaced the motor vehicle as the principal
conserve of time and laboring.
23. Farming becomes more expensive when farmers are forced to apply greater quantities of costly
fertilizers for to sustain yields.
24. The metaphors we use routinely are the means which by we describe our everyday experiences.
25. Scientists finding out that the universe is even larger and more complex than anyone has ever
imagined.
26. Because their properties differ from those of their constituents, proper alloys can great increase
the corrosion resistance of a metal.
27. The ability to retain a mental record of earlier experiences are referred to as ―memory‖.
28. The aging process is not entirely determined by heredity, but is influenced by different
environmental and social circumstances as good.
29. The waterwheel is a mechanism designed to harness energy from a source instead than animals.
30. If they are prepared skillfully, soybeans they can be appetizing as well as nutritious.
31. Studies of either vision and physical optics began almost as early as civilization itself.
32. James Whitcomb Riley, the ―Hoosier Poet,‖ wrote many of his work in standard English,but he
wrote his most popular poems in the dialect of his home state, Indiana.
33. The city of Green Bay, established in 1745, was the first permanent settler in Wisconsin.
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34. Whichever they may differ widely in function, all cells have a surrounding membrane and an
internal, water-rich substance called cytoplasm.
35. Booker T. Washington, an educational leader, worked throughout the lifetime to improve economic
conditions for Black people in the United States.
36. In the Middle Ages, books called bestiaries were prepared in an attempt to describe animals, real
or imagine, that exemplified human traits.
37. Pumps can operate under pressures ranging between a fraction of a pound to more than 10,000
pounds per square inch.
38. Approximately fifty percent of the package utilized in the United States are for foods and
beverages.
39. Whether as statesman, scientist, and philosopher, Benjamin Franklin was destined to gain lasting
honor throughout much of the world.
40. A traditional Halloween decoration is a jack-o-lantern, which is a hollowed-out pumpkin with a
scary face cut into them.
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1992 年 08 月语法题
1. With affection and humor, poet Phyllis McGinley ---of ordinary life.
(A) the virtues were praised
(B) praised the virtues
(C) she praised the virtues
(D) her praise of the virtues
2. Scientists think ---helps some tree to conserve water in the winter.
(A) when losing leaves
(B) leaves are lost
(C) that losing leaves
(D) the leaves losing
3. The ancient Hopewell people of North America probably cultivated corn and ---crops, but hunting
and gathering were still of critical importance in their economy.
(A) another
(B) the other‘s
(C) other
(D) other than
4. Lunar eclipses occur each time the Earth blocks the Sun‘s light from the Moon --- the Moon‘s full
phase.
(A) during
(B) whether
(C) in which
(D) whenever
5. --- all data into electronic pulses.
(A) The computer input unit changes
(B) Changing input, the computer unit
(C) Which changes the computer input unit
(D) Changes in the computer input units
6. Robert S. Duncanson was considered a painter of the Hudson River school, ---on scenes of
America‘s untamed wilderness.
(A) which concentrated
(B) which concentrated it
(C) which it concentrated
(D) and which concentrated
7. --- their senses, many-celled animals perceive what is happening in their environment.
(A) Means of
(B) By means of
(C) Of the means by
(D) By means
8. In central Georgia, archaeological evidence indicates that Native Americans first inhabited the area
---.
(A) since thirteen centuries
(B) thirteen centuries ago
(C) the previous thirteen centuries
(D) thirteen centuries were before
9. The large compound eyes of the dragonfly --- to see moving objects almost eighteen feet away.
(A) to enable it
(B) enabling it
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(C) it enables
(D) enable it
10. Using many symbols makes --- to put a large amount of information on a single map.
(A) possible
(B) it possible
(C) it is possible
(D) that possible
11. Anarchism is a term describing a cluster of doctrines an attitudes --- principal uniting feature is the
belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary.
(A) and
(B) whose
(C) since
(D) for
12. After the great blizzard of 1888 in the northeastern United States, it took some --- the snow away
from their homes.
(A) days to shovel people several
(B) people several days to shovel
(C) several days people to shovel
(D) people to shovel several days
13. Probably no man had more effect on the daily lives of most people in the United States --- Henry
Ford a pioneer in automobile production.
(A) as was
(B) than was
(C) than did
(D) as did
14. In copper engravings and etchings --- caused by the edges of the plate is clearly visible on the
paper.
(A) the impression is
(B) if the impression
(C) impressions
(D) the impression
15. Cora reefs have always been --- hazards to ships sailing in tropical seas.
(A) one of the greatest
(B) the greatest ones
(C) ones greatest
(D) the greatest were.
16. For a long time cotton ranked first between Alabama‘s crops, but today it accounts for only a
fraction of the agricultural production.
17. Margaret Fuller was not active in the women‘s-rights movement, but she asking for a fair chance
for women in her book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
18. Most cities major in the United States have at least one daily newspaper.
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19. The survival of a forest depends not only on the amount of annual rainfall it receives, and also on
the seasonal distribution of the rain.
20. James Farmer, an American civil rights leader, he helped establish the Congress of Racial
Equality, an organization that is dedicated to the principle of nonviolence.
21. A merger is a combination of two or more businesses down below a single management.
22. In its simplest form, a transformer is composed of two coils of wire place together without no wires
actually in contact.
23. The greatest natural resource of the state of North Dakota is their fertile farmland.
24. The doctrine of eminent domain is based the legal tradition that all real property is subject to the
control of the state.
25. In a controversial eating guide entitled Are You Hungry? Jane Hirschmann and Lela
Zaphiropolous argue that children instinctively know what foods are good for selves.
26. Bats rely to their hearing to navigate and to find food at night.
27. Once an important port of entry for immigrants to the United States, Ellis Island recent reopened
its great hall as a museum of immigration.
28. Every year Colorado is visited by millions of tourists who come for a variety of reason.
29. The energy needed for animal grow is derived primarily from carbohydrates and fats.
30. Countries tend to specialize in the production and export of those goods and services that it can
produce relatively cheaply.
31. Antique auctions have become popular in the United States because a steadily increasing
awareness of the investment value of antiques.