【正文】 ocial status (C) Her subject39。s water balance is regulated by the constant circulation of water in A B C Liquid and vapor tom among the oceans, the atmospheric, and the land. D 17. The major purpose of the United States Department of Education are to ensure A equal educational opportunity for all and to improve the quality of education. B C D 18. Massive gains in puter speed, power, and reliably have been largely due A B C to advances in silicon tec~logics and manufacturing processes. D 19. The sunflower, the official state flower of Kansas, and is widespread in A B the prairies of the western United States. C D 8 20. Lake Superior, part of the United StatesCanadian boundary, is a largest A B C freshwater lake in the world. D 21. The snapper, a largeheaded fish with a long dorsal fin, is named to its A B characteristic way of suddenly, shutting its mouth. C D 22. The aim of the decorative arts is to beautiful our surroundings. A B C D 23. Modern digital synthesizers, based on microprocessors, are virtually unlimited A B in the number and range of musical sounds it can produce. C D 24. During the years he posed, Charles Ives was isolation from the music world。s books in the Untied States increased but remained largely reprints of British books, often those published by John Newbery, the first publisher to produce books aimed primarily at diverting a child audience. Ultimate]y, Line however, it was not the cheerful, mercialminded Newhery, but AngloIrish author 5 Maria Edgeworth who had the strongest influence on this period of American children39。s books began to encourage American writers to write for American children. When they responded, the pattern established by Maria Edgeworth was at hand, attractive 20 to most of them for both its rationalism and its high moral tone. Early in the 182039。s books (D) vehicles (B) The development of children39。s (C) written by American authors literature than any other (D) intended only for religious and publisher, moral instruction (C) He published books aimed amusing children rather than instructing them. (D) He was mercially minded and cheerful. 3. The word notwithstanding in line 8 is closest in meaning to (A) in spite of (B) in addition to (C) as a result of (D) as a part of 7. By the end of the eighteenth 9. According to the passage, American century, the publishers of children’s children39。 efforts for several decades until the early nieenth century when several key hieroglyphic phrases were decoded using the Greek inscriptions. Unfortunately, we have no Old European Rosetta stone to chart correspond。 certain of these lichen colonies have been established for an estimated 2,000 years. 20 For decades, scientists wondered how the offspring of an alga and a fungus got together to form a new lichen, it seemed unlikely that they would just happen lo encounter one another. It was finally discovered that in many cases the two partners have never been separated. Stalklike buds that form on certain lichens are broken off by the wind or by animals。s books in Britain and North America (A)clarify (B) attack (D) Basic differences between (C)reduce British and American (D) confirm 11 literature for children 2. The publisher John Newbery is 6: It can be inferred from the passage principally known for which of the that American children39。s tone, though rarely her lively style. Imitative as they were, these early American stories wee quite distinguishable from their British 25 counterparts. Few servants appeared in them, and if class distinctions had by no means disappeared, there was much democratic insistence on the worthiness of every level of birth and work. The characters of children in this fiction were serious, conscientious. selfreflective, and independenttestimony to the continuing influence of the earlier American moralistic tradition in children39。s books as vehicles for instruction, not amusement, though they would accept a moderate amount of fictional 10 entertainment for the sake of more successful instruction. As the children39。s stood out as the warmest decade for what we have weather A B C D records. 27. Silicon chips are reliable and cheap to produce in large numbers and are A used them in puters, calculators, programmed household appliances, and B C most electronic applications. D 28. Because its pitch cannot easily be altered, the oboe serves as the standard A B which by the symphony orchestra is tuned. C D 29. Bursae are fluidfilled sacs that form cushions between tendons and bones and A B C protect them while movement. D 30. In 1916, United States suffragist Alice Paul founded the National Woman, s Patty, A a political party ded