1 . 语法填空
Some inventions happen in strange ways. The potato chip is one of them.
Moon’s Lake House was
The one thing that really upset Crum was
On August 24, 1853, a customer returned his fried potatoes to the kitchen,
Now, do you know
Today, potato chips are one of Americans’
2 . Following Cook’s death in 1779, the Endeavour journal of James Cook is thought to have been held by his wife Elizabeth. There is no record of the journal’s movements following Elizabeth Cook’s death in 1835 until its appearance in 1923 when it was offered at auction (拍卖) by its owners the Bolckow family of Yorkshire. The family were unable to explain how they came to hold the journal. It had apparently been in the family’s library ‘for over fifty years, having been purchased by the late Bolckow’s uncle, but from whom and in what circumstances is unknown’.
On 21 March 1923 the Australian government purchased the Endeavour journal for £5000 for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
The Mitchell Library, Sydney, had been chasing the journal since its discovery with the Bolckow family in 1922 before the auction, and had approached the Commonwealth Government for a financial contribution towards the purchase. Though Interim (临时的) Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian Arthur Wadsworth had guaranteed the Mitchell that there would be no competition for the item, Kenneth Binns (to be Wadsworth’s successor) felt that the Endeavour journal was more suited to remain within the nation’s library.
Binns put forward an eventually persuasive argument that the Commonwealth could not finance the Mitchell, ‘which was, after all, a private institution’. Prime Minister Bruce telegraphed the officer in London to instruct the Mitchell Library’s Chief Librarian, already in England anticipating the auction, to bid on behalf of the Commonwealth. The Mitchell Library accepted upon the understanding that it would be the keeper of the journal until such time that the Commonwealth Government had a suitable storing place, a National Library.
Upon arrival in Australia the journal was exhibited in Queens Hall, Melbourne, for a month after which it was taken to the Mitchell Library which held it for four years, before it was removed to Canberra.
1. Who owned the Endeavour journal of James Cook at last ?A.James Cook. | B.Elizabeth Cook. |
C.The Bolckow family of Yorkshire. | D.The Australian government. |
A.Melbourne . | B.The Mitchell Library. |
C.The Commonwealth Government. | D.Canberra. |
A.Cook’s wife Elizabeth passed on the Endeavour journal to the Blockow family. |
B.The Endeavour journal was on show in Melbourne before being taken to Sydney. |
C.The Mitchell Library bought the Endeavour journal at its own expense. |
D.The National Library of Australia is in Melbourne. |
A.How the Endeavour journal came to the National Library of Australia. |
B.How the Endeavour journey came to the Mitchell Library of Sydney. |
C.How the Endeavour journey came to the Bolckow family of Yorkshire. |
D.How important the Endeavour journey is to Australian. |
If history doesn’t quite repeat
For a few heady years in the 1890s, the bicycle was the must-have — swift, affordable, stylish transportation that could take you anywhere you cared to go, anytime you
Society
By 1898 cycling had become
4 . Vasco da Gama, born around 1469 in Sines, Portugal, is best remembered as the first European to sail from Europe to India. The sea
As a young man, studying navigation, he served as an officer in the Portuguese
Earlier Portuguese expeditions had
In July, Gama
Farther north, on the coast of Kenya, Gama hired an Arab to
Then in 1502, Gama made a
A.product | B.chart | C.kingdom | D.route |
A.government | B.navy | C.land force | D.air force |
A.convinced | B.cheated | C.appointed | D.acknowledged |
A.discuss | B.cut | C.control | D.adopt |
A.blocked | B.destroyed | C.occupied | D.rounded |
A.dangerous | B.comfortable | C.delicate | D.initial |
A.vehicle | B.flight | C.voyage | D.war |
A.landed | B.stopped | C.dived | D.departed |
A.attacked | B.reached | C.assisted | D.sheltered |
A.accidentally | B.possibly | C.exceptionally | D.subsequently |
A.blew | B.drove | C.paid | D.dusted |
A.navigate | B.drag | C.push | D.leak |
A.apart | B.alone | C.available | D.aboard |
A.talk | B.bargain | C.live | D.trade |
A.first | B.second | C.third | D.fourth |
A.bleeding | B.visible | C.secret | D.financial |
A.witnessed | B.sank | C.bought | D.repaired |
A.because | B.where | C.unless | D.before |
A.loaded | B.combined | C.unfolded | D.surrounded |
A.However | B.Meanwhile | C.Instead | D.Therefore |
On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered in the Sierra mountains about 160 km from San Francisco. Everyone
No one obeyed the law and everything was
But with powerful measures
By 1855, the gold rush was over. Today, San Francisco is one of the major cities in the United States. And it is all
The word hutong was borrowed from the Mongolian word to mean, “water well”, about 700 years ago. Later it referred to a place
When the People’s Republic of China
Hutong that still exist are like oases (绿洲) of calm surrounded by the
Zhaobi, a wall that can be found outside the entrance of a building, has a long and storied history in China.
The earliest form of zhaobi
With the passing of time, zhaobi took on a more abstract purpose, coming to play
Moving further forward in time, zhaobi became more of a form of artistic expression and creativity, with poetry,
By evolving and adapting its functions, zhaobi has been a silent spectator of China’s long history since
Paper lanterns are beautiful decorative lanterns,
Due
The only color not traditionally used in making paper lanterns is white; it is often used in memory of
It is very unusual today to see paper lanterns that hold candles, unless the paper
China is
The earliest written Chinese was
China’s present is connected with its past by written Chinese. People in modern times can read the classic works
Why do people use different words to describe the UK?