【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ent of the Metropolitan Opera A B C Company in 1955. D 19. Widely acknowledged as a great and important playwright, Eugene O’Neill brought A to the United States stage it was probably its first really serious drama. 8 B C D 20. Because some critics considered it decadent, subversive, and inprehensibly, A B abstract art encountered much opposition in its early years. C D 21. To survive, most birds must eat at least half their own weigh in food every day. A B C D 22. The glass tube in a fluorescent lamp contains mercury vapor under small pressure. A B C D 23. In 1977, Marilyn Yadlowski, a undergraduate at Cornell University, found that pigeons A had excellent lowfrequency hearing, far surpassing that of humans. B C D 24. The General Accounting Office reviews the accounting systems used by federal A agencies to determination whether expenditures conform to laws, and it also settles claims. B C D 25. Australian koalas are furry, gray animal that live in trees and feed on leaves. A B C D 26. Won its war for independence in 1783, the United States then struggled to establish A B its own economic and financial system. C D 27. The first known radio program among the United States was broadcast on Christmas A B C Eve, 1906, by Reginald Fessenden from his experimental station at Brant Rock, Massachusetts. D 28. A typical featurelength film costs millions of dollars to make and requires A B C the skillful of hundreds of workers. D 29. After his trips to the West between 1869 and 1872, Ralph Albert Blakelock would A B often painted American Indian encampments on brownandyellowtoned canvases. C D 30. Artist Helen Frankenthaler returned home from college in 1949 to her native New York, A B the city producing the most art revolutionary of the day. C D 31. The giraffe’s long neck and legs are the most obvious features that make different A B C from all other animals. D 32. Tilling means preparation the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best A B C condition to help crop grow until it is ready for harvesting. D 33. The city of Boston was settled in 1630 on a hilly, wooded peninsula where the Charles A B C River flows into a natural harbors. D 34. Critical thinkers are able to identify main issues, recognize underlying assumptions, 9 A B C and evaluating evidence. D 35. Because of its maneuverability and ability to land and take off in small areas the A B C helicopter is used in wide range of services. D 36. Melting glaciers may account the rise in sea level that has taken place during A B C D this century. 37. Farce is a dramatic form that derives much of its humorous from improbable characters A B C D and situations. 38. Anthropologist Jane Goodall has contributed a wealth information concerning primate A B behavior through her studies of chimpanzees. C D 39. The discovery of gold in 1848 transformed San Francisco suddenly from a quiet port A B C into one of the world’s richest and most famous city. D 40. The outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere is very hot that its gases continually A B C D expand away from the Sun. Section Three: Reading Comprehension Questions 110 Another early Native American tribe in what is now the southwestern part of the United States was the Anasazi. By A. D. 800 the Anasazi Indians were constructing multistory pueblosmassive, stone apartment pounds. Each one was virtually a stone town, which is why the Spanish would later call them pueblos, the Spanish word (5) for towns. These pueblos represent one of the Anasazis39。 supreme achievements. At least a dozen large stone houses took shape below the bluffs of Chiaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico. They were built with masonry walls more than a meter thick and adjoining apartments to acmodate dozens, even hundreds, of families. The largest, later named Pueblo Bonito (Pretty Town) by the Spanish, rose in five terraced (10) stories, contained more than 800 rooms, and could have housed a population of 1,000 or more. Besides living quarters, each pueblo included one or more kivascircular underground chambers faced with stone. They functioned as sanctuaries where the elders met to plan festivals, perform ritual dances, settle pueblo affairs, and impart (15) tribal lore to the younger generation. Some kivas were enormous. Of the 30 or so at pueblo Bonito, two measured 20 meters across. They contained niches for ceremonial objects, a central fire pit, and holes in the floor for municating with the spirits of tribal ancestors. Each pueblo represented an astonishing amount of wellanized labor. Using only (20) stone and wood tools, and without benefit of wheels or draft animals, the builders quarried ton upon ton of sandstone from the canyon walls, cut it into small blocks, hauled the blocks to the construction site, and fitted them together with mud mortar. Roof beams