【正文】 ee home delivery became a mark of urbanism. As late as 1887, a town had to have 10,000 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 27 頁 共 40 頁 people to be eligible for free home delivery. In 1890, of the 75 million people in the United States, fewer than 20 million had mail delivered free to their doors. The rest, nearly threequarters of the population, still received no mail unless they went to their post office. does the passage mainly discuss? (A) The increased use of private mail services. (B) The development of a government postal system. (C) A parison of urban and postal services. (D) The history of postage stamps. word varied in line 2 could best be replaced by 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 28 頁 共 40 頁 (A) increased (B) differed (C) returned (D) started of the following was seen as a disadvantage of the postage stamp? (A) It had to be purchased by the sender in advance. (B) It increased the cost of mail delivery. (C) It was difficult to affix to letters. (D) It was easy to counterfeit. does the author mention the city of Philadephia in line 13? 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 29 頁 共 40 頁 (A) It was the site of the first post office in the United States. (B) Its postal service was inadequate for its population. (C) It was the largest city in the United States in 1847. (D) It was memorated by the first United States postage stamp. word cumbersome in line 17 is closest in meaning to (A) burdensome (B) handsome (C) loathsome (D) quarrelsome word they in line 20 refers to 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 30 頁 共 40 頁 (A) Boston and Philadephia (B) businesses (C) arrangements (D) letters private postal services of the nieenth century claimed that they could do which of the following better than the government? (A) Deliver a higher volume of mail. (B) Deliver mail more cheaply. (C) Deliver mail faster. (D) Deliver mail to rural areas. 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 31 頁 共 40 頁 1863 the United States government began providing which of the following to mail carriers? (A) A salary (B) Housing (C) Transportation (D) Free postage stamps word confined in line 29 is closest in meaning to (A) granted (B) scheduled (C) limited (D) remended 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 32 頁 共 40 頁 Questions 4250 Archaeology has long been an accepted tool for studying prehistoric cultures. Relatively recently the same techniques have been systematically applied to studies of the more immediate past. This has been called historical archaeology, a term that is used in the United States to refer to any archaeological investigation into North American sites that postdate the arrival of Europeans. Back in the 193039。 notebooks were lost. (B) Several people were developing the idea at the same time. (C) No one claimed credit for the development until recently. (D) The work is still inplete. Questions 1121 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 8 頁 共 40 頁 Panel painting, mon in thirteenth and fourteenth century Europe , involved a painstaking , laborious process. Wooden planks were joined, covered with gesso to prepare the surface for painting , and then polished smooth with special tools. On this perfect surface, the artist would sketch a position with chalk, refine it with inks, and then begin the deliberate process of applying thin layers of egg tempera paint (egg yolk in which pigments are suspended) with small brushes. The successive layering of these meticulously applied paints produced the final, translucent colors. Backgrounds of gold were made by carefully applying sheets of gold leaf, and then embellishing of decorating the gold leaf by punching it with a metal rod on which a pattern 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 9 頁 共 40 頁 had been embossed. Every step in the process was slow and deliberate . The quickdrying tempera demanded that the artist know exactly where each stroke be placed before the brush met the panel, and it required the use of fine brushes. It was, therefore , an ideal technique for emphasizing the hard linear edges and pure, fine areas of color that were so much a part of the overall aesthetic of the time. The notion that an artist could or would dash off an idea in a fit of spontaneous inspiration was pletely alien to