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Leif Erickson reached North America around the year 1000, but the attempt to explore was started slowly. It would be five centuries __1__ other Europeans landed on that continent.

Why were Europeans the ones to __2__ to the American? The Chinese and Arabs had the __3__ and technology to sail across the seas. __4__ of them tool regular voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Asian Pacific for trade. But exploration? By the mid-15th century China had followed the closed-door policy to __5__ itself from the rest of the world. The Arabs, with access to the minerals and spices (香料) of Africa and the Far East, saw no __6__ to journey into the unknown.

Europe, on the other hand, needed gold and silver; its mines could not __7__ the demand for coinage (铸币). Ottoman Turks blocked the routes across the land to Asia. Only the sea held the promise of new wealth.

__8__ the return of Magellan’s ships in 1522 from its voyage around the world, the belief was __9__ that the oceans were interconnected, promising the age of discovery. The English, as well as the Spanish, Portuguese and French, __10__ themselves to finding the “river of the west” through North America to the east.

A. after B. since   C. before D. when

A. push B. pull    C. draw   D. drive

A. sources    B. resources    C. substances  D. matters

A. Neither    B. Both   C. Any    D. None

A. prevent    B. protect       C. isolate D. differ

A. need B. chance       C. choice D. regret

A. create      B. meet   C. raise   D. develop

A. As    B. For     C. With   D. At

A. extended  B. estimated    C. accepted     D. made

A. contributed   B. referred      C. devoted      D. connected

【小题1】C

【小题2】A

【小题3】B

【小题4】B

【小题5】C

【小题6】A

【小题7】B

【小题8】C

【小题9】C

【小题10】C


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Last week I was invited to a doctor’s

meeting at the Ruth Hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn’t long to live, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.

    “Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 36 , as I knew, but all the time pressing his foot against mine.

    My  37  raced back more than thirty years ---to the  38  days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The place was air-raid shelter, in which I and about one hundred other people   39  every night. Two of the  40  were Mrs West and her son Frank.

     41  wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to  42  each other very well. Frank West   43  me because he wasn’t  44  not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby he has. His“ 45 ”considered of rough sounds---sounds of pleasure or anger---and  46  more. Mrs West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman,  47 she had to be of course, because Frank  48  on her entirely. He needed all the  49  of a baby.

    One night a policeman came and told Mrs West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She lost everything she owned.

    50 that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the  51  ones. So before we  52   that morning, I stood  53  Frank and  54  my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his  55  to me was always the same.

36.A.answer          B.speak         C.smile          D.laugh

37.A.minds       B.memories      C.thoughts       D.brains

38.A.better         B.dark            C.younger        D.high

39.A.slept           B.worked         C.studied         D.lived

40.A.customers      B.regulars         C.visitors          D.mornbers

41.A.Discussion     B.Solving         C.Sharing         D.Suffering

42.A.learn from     B.talk to          C.help            D.know

43.A.needed              B.recognized     C.interested       D.encouraged

44.A.normal          B.common       C.unusual         D.quick

45.A.word           B.speech         C.sentence        D.language

46.A.not            B.no              C.something      D.nothing

47.A.though         B.yet            C.as             D.so

48.A.fed            B.kept          C.lived        D.depended

49.A.attention        B.control        C.treatment       D.management

50.A.While       B.Until          C.Unless       D.When

51.A.lost            B.unlucky         C.angry         D.unpopular

52.A.separated        B.went          C.reunited      D.Returned

53.A.beside       B.against        C.at              D.on

54.A.push          B.tried          C.showed          D.measured

55.A.speaking        B.greeting         C.meeting         D.Acting

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