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In 1803, the United States paid France $15 000 000 for the Louisiana Territory, an area more than four times the size of France. The land which was bought included everything between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River except Texas. The main port for the second longest river system in the world was within this territory. Although few realized it at that time, the purchase included the vast forests of Arkansas and Minnesota, the oilfields of Oklahoma, the cornfields of Iowa, the wheatlands of the Dkotas, the copper, silver, and gold of Colorado and Montana, the rice and sugar of Louisiana. Without doubt, the Louisiana Purchase was one of the greatest events in the history of the United States. In a single action, a third class nation doubled its size, united its states and population, and became a great power in the world.

Shortly before 1800, half a million Americans were living in the おwest of the Allegheny Mountains. The settlers in the towns and villages there needed trade. In order to get trade, they had to send their flour, tobacco, and whisky by water. There were no usable roads to the eastern cities and ports. The entire Mississippi, except its mouth at New Orleans, was open to the settlers. Spain owned New Orleans and the great Louisiana Territory to the west of the river. The western settlers solved their problem by getting the “right of deposit” from Spain. This gave the settlers the right to unload goods at New Orleans and put it in warehouses before shipping it to the east.

1. Before 1803, the United States_______.

A. was as strong as France

B. was the strongest country in the world

C. was not so powerful as it is today

D. was the largest country in the world

2. At that time people in the western United States mainly lived by_______.

A. farming　　　　　　   B. fishing

C. traveling　　　　　　  D. hunting

3. To the Americans at that time, the purpose of the purchase was______.

A. to develop the resources of the area

B. to help the French government

C. to enlarge its area

D. to make the western people trade easily

4. From this passage we can find that the Mississippi River goes________.

A. from France to America

B. from east to west

C. from island to the sea

D. from America to France

 

答案：C;A;C;C
解析：

1、从文中第一段最后一句话可知。

2、文中第二段第三句话中的信息词flour, tobacco等都清楚地说明了当时美国西部的人们主要从事农业。

3、根据第一段的后半部分可以得出答案。

4、密西西北河的发源地是在内陆，而入海口是在新奥尔良。

 


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In 1803, the United States paid France $15 000 000 for the Louisiana Territory, an area more than four times the size of France. The land which was bought included everything between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River except Texas. The main port for the second longest river system in the world was within this territory. Although few realized it at that time, the purchase included the vast forests of Arkansas and Minnesota, the oilfields of Oklahoma, the cornfields of Iowa, the wheatlands of the Dkotas, the copper, silver, and gold of Colorado and Montana, the rice and sugar of Louisiana. Without doubt, the Louisiana Purchase was one of the greatest events in the history of the United States. In a single action, a third class nation doubled its size, united its states and population, and became a great power in the world.

Shortly before 1800, half a million Americans were living in the おwest of the Allegheny Mountains. The settlers in the towns and villages there needed trade. In order to get trade, they had to send their flour, tobacco, and whisky by water. There were no usable roads to the eastern cities and ports. The entire Mississippi, except its mouth at New Orleans, was open to the settlers. Spain owned New Orleans and the great Louisiana Territory to the west of the river. The western settlers solved their problem by getting the “right of deposit” from Spain. This gave the settlers the right to unload goods at New Orleans and put it in warehouses before shipping it to the east.

1. Before 1803, the United States_______.

A. was as strong as France

B. was the strongest country in the world

C. was not so powerful as it is today

D. was the largest country in the world

2. At that time people in the western United States mainly lived by_______.

A. farming　　　　　　   B. fishing

C. traveling　　　　　　  D. hunting

3. To the Americans at that time, the purpose of the purchase was______.

A. to develop the resources of the area

B. to help the French government

C. to enlarge its area

D. to make the western people trade easily

4. From this passage we can find that the Mississippi River goes________.

A. from France to America

B. from east to west

C. from island to the sea

D. from America to France

 

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　　In 1803, the United States paid France ＄15 000 000 for the Louisiana Territory, an area more than four times the size of France．The land which was bought included everything between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River except Texas．The main port for the second longest river system in the world was within this territory．Although few realized it at that time, the purchase included the vast forests of Arkansas and Minnesota, the oilfields of Oklahoma, the cornfields of Iowa, the wheatlands of the Dkotas, the copper, silver, and gold of Colorado and Montana, the rice and sugar of Louisiana．Without doubt, the Louisiana Purchase was one of the greatest events in the history of the United States．In a single action, a third class nation doubled its size, united its states and population, and became a great power in the world．

　　Shortly before 1800, half a million Americans were living west of the Allegheny Mountains．The settlers in the towns and villages there needed trade．In order to get trade, they had to send their flour, tobacco, and whisky by water．There were no usable roads to the eastern cities and ports．The entire Mississippi, except its mouth at New Orleans, was open to the settlers．Spain owned New Orleans and the great Louisiana Territory to the west of the river．The western settlers solved their problem by getting the “right of deposit” from Spain．This gave the settlers the right to unload goods at New Orleans and put it in warehouses before shipping it to the east．

(1)

Before 1803, the United States ________．

[　　]

A．

was as strong as France

B．

was the strongest country in the world

C．

was not so powerful as it is today

D．

was the largest country in the world

(2)

At that time people in the western United States mainly lived by ________．

[　　]

A．

farming

B．

fishing

C．

traveling

D．

hunting

(3)

To the Americans at that time, the purpose of the purchase was ________．

[　　]

A．

to develop the resources of the area

B．

to help the French government

C．

to enlarge its area

D．

to make the western people trade easily

(4)

From this passage we can find that the Mississippi River goes ________．

[　　]

A．

from France to America

B．

from east to west

C．

from island to the sea

D．

from America to France

By the mid-nineteenth century, the “icebox” had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families of their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursors of modern refrigerator, had been invented.

Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.

But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium(奖金) price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

1.What does the passage mainly discuss?

A．The influence of ice on the diet.

B．The development of refrigeration.

C．The transportation of goods to market.

D．Sources of ice in the nineteenth century.

2.According to the passage, when did the word “icebox” become part of the language of the United States?

A．in 1803                               B．sometime bore 1850

C．during the civil war                      D．near the end of the nineteenth century.

3.The phrase “forward-looking” in line 3 is closest in meaning to______.

A．progressive        B．popular           C．thrifty            D．well-established

4.The author mentions “fish” in the passage because _____.

A．many fish dealers also sold ice.

B．fish was shipped in refrigerated freight cars.

C．fish dealers were among the early commercial users of ice

D．fish was not part of the ordinary person’s diet before the invention of the icebox.

 

Chicago, a city in the State of Illinois, is the second largest in the United States. It stretches for 29 miles along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan. Its splendid centre faces the lake behind a pleasant park. The Chicago River flows through the heart of the city. The city of Chicago, 713 miles west of New York and 1858 miles east of San Francisco, is located at the conjunction(连接) of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system and surrounded by the productive farmlands of the Midwest. This makes the city the crossroads of the nation and the “ bread basket” of the nation. From its beginning as a frontier fort(要塞) settlement in 1803, commerce(商业) has been the key to Chicago’s development, especially since the railroads and stockyards(牲畜围栏) were built in the 1840s and 1850s. Thousands of foreigners, attracted by the promise of steady jobs, have lived and worked there since the second half of the 19th century; thousands more come to visit its famous fairs, and millions of others cross it every day by road or railway. Chicago is the world’s biggest road and railway centre, and it should claim(要求得到身份或权利的承认) the world’s busiest airport.

66. If you go to New York from Chicago, you go _____ for _____ miles.

A. east…713   B. west…713   C. east…1858   D. west…1858

67. From the passage, we can see that there is _____.

A. a lake right in the middle of the city

B. the Mississippi River in the middle of the city

C. a park in the middle of the city

D. a lake 29 miles away from the city

68. Chicago is called the “ bread basket” of the nation because _____.

A. there is a river flowing through the city

B. it is located at the conjunction of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system

C. it is near the city of New York

D. there are rich farmlands around the city

69. _____ the city developed fastest.

A. Early in the 19th century

B. Around the middle of the 19th century

C. At the end of the 19th century

D. During the second half of the 19th century

70. Since the late 19th century thousands of people have kept coming to Chicago _____. Which of the following is wrong?

A. on business     B. for a visit

C. for better jobs   D. to claim the world’s biggest seaport

 

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