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In the early 1860's many Chinese work crews were imported to ______.
A．be railway builders
B．be miners
C．do the laundry
D．run restaurants
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第1题
[A] the 1860s
[B] 1860’s
[C] the 1860
[D] 1865s
第2题
The New York Sun, founded in 1833, was the first successful penny paper, and it was followed two years later by the New York Herald, published by James Gordon Bennett. Not long after, Ho race Greeley issued the New York Tribune, which was destined to become the most influential paper in America. Greeley gave space to the issues that deeply touched the American people before tile Civil Warabolitionism, temperance, free homesteads, Utopian cooperate settlements, and the problems of labor. The weekly edition of the Tribune, with I00,000 subscribers, had a remarkable influence in rural areas, especially in Western communities.
Americans were reputed to be the most avid (热心的) readers of periodicals in the world. An English observer enviously calculated that, in 1829, the number of newspapers circulated in Great Britain was enough to reach only one out of every thirtysix inhabitants weekly; Pennsylvania in that same year had a newspaper circulation which reached one out of every four inhabitants weekly. Statistics seemed to justify the common belief that Americans were devoted to periodicals. Newspapers in the United States increased from 1,200 in 1833 to 3,000 by the early 1860's, on the eve of the Civil War. This far exceeded the number and circulation of newspapers in Eng land and France.
What is the author's main point in the first paragraph？
A．The penny press was modeled on earlier papers.
B．The press in the nineteenth century reached only a small proportion of the population,
C．The penny press became an important way of disseminating information in the first half of the nineteenth century.
D．The penny press focused mainly on analysis of polities.
第3题
An important new industry, oil refining(炼油), grew after the Civil War．Crude oil,or petroleum--a dark, thick ooze from the earth--had been known for hundreds of years.But little use had ever been made of it．In the 1850s Samuel M．Kier, a manufacturer in western Pennsylvania, began collecting the oil from local seepages(油苗)and refining it into kerosene(煤油)．Refining, like smelting(锻造), is a process of removing impurities from a raw material.
Kerosene was used to light lamps．It was a cheap substitute for whale oil, which was becoming harder to get．Soon there was a large demand for kerosene．People began to search for new supplies of petroleum,
The first oil well was drilled by E．L． Drake, a retired railroad conductor．In 1859 he began drilling in Titusville, Pennsylvania．The whole venture seemed so impractical and foolish that onlookers called it "Drake's Folly"．But when he had drilled down about 70 feet (21 meters), Drake struck oil;his well began to yield 20 barrels of crude oil a day.
News of Drake's success brought oil prospectors(探寻者)to the scene, By the early 1860 s these wildcatters(盲目采油者)were drilling for "black gold" all over western Pennsylvania．The boom rivald the California gold rush of 1848 in its excitement and Wild West atmosphere,And it brought far more wealth to the prospectors than any gold rush.
Crude oil could be refined into many products.For some years kerosene continued to be the principal one．It was sold in grocery stores and door to door．In the 1880s and 1890 s refiners learned how to make other petroleum(石油) products such as waxes(石蜡)and lubricating oils (润滑油)．Petroleum was not then used to make gasoline or heating oil.
第 31 题 What is the main idea of the passage？
A．Oil refining: a historical perspective.
B．The California gold rush: get rich quickly.
C．Private property: trespassers will be prosecuted.
D．Kerosene lamps: a light in the tunnel.
第4题
A．separated
B．neighboring
C．colonial
D．competing
第5题
A．the track did not take the direct route from one city to the next
B．passengers and freight had to transfer to other modes of transportation to reach western destinations
C．passengers preferred stagecoaches
D．railroad travel was quite expensive
第6题
听力原文： The agricultural revolution in the 19th century involved two things: the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture. Labor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce. "In Europe." said Thomas Jefferson, "the object is to make the most of their land, labor being rich enough; here it is to make the most of our labor, land being rich enough." It was in the United States, therefore, that the great advances in nineteenth-century agricultural machinery first came.
At the opening of the century, with the exception of crude equipment, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs; by 1860, most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form. The most important of the inventions was the iron plow. As early as 1790 Charles Newbold of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow andspent his entire fortune in introducing his invention. The farmers, however, were not interested in it, believing that the iron poisoned the soil and made the weeds row. Nevertheless, many people devoted their attention to the plow, until in 1869 James Oliver of South Bend, Indiana turned out the first steel plow.
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A．The invention of machine that can save labor and the progress of scientific agriculture.
B．The invention of crude equipments and agricultural implements.
C．The advance of agriculture machinery and the iron plow.
D．The idea of a cast-iron plow and steel plow.
第7题
The high point in railroad building came with the construction of the first transcontinental system. In 1862 Congress authorized two western railroad companies to build lines from Nebraska westward and from California eastward to a meeting point, so as to complete a transcontinental crossing linking the Atlantic seaboard with the Pacific. The Government helped the railroads generously with money and land. Actual work on this project began four years later. The Central Pacific Company, starting from California, used Chinese labor, while the Union Pacific employed crews of Irish laborers. The two groups worked at remarkable speed, each trying to cover a greater distance than the other. In 1869 they met at a place called Promontory in what is now the state of Utah. Many visitors came there for the great occasion. There were joyous celebrations all over the country, with parades and the ringing of church bells to honor the great achievement.
The railroad was very important in encouraging westward movement. It also helped build up industry and farming by moving raw materials and by distributing products rapidly to distant markets. In linking towns and people to one another it helped unify the United States.
第36题：The major problems with America’s railroad system in the mid 19th century lay in ________.
A) poor quality rails and unreliable stopping systems
B) lack of financial support for development
C) limited railroad lines
D) lack of a transcontinental railroad
第8题
When Lincoln was a young man, his family moved to the new state of Illinois. Lincoln had to earn a living at an early age, but in his leisure time he studied law. He soon became one of the best known lawyers in the state capital at Springfield, Illinois. It was here that Lincoln became famous for his debates with Stephen A. Douglas on the subject of slavery.
In 1860, Lincoln was elected President of the United States. He was the candidate of the new Republican Party. This party opposed the creation of new slave states. Soon after his election, some of the Southern states withdrew from the Union and set up the Confederate States of America. This action brought on the terrible Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865.
On January 1, 1863, during the war, Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. In 1865, after the war ended, the Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution of the United States. This amendment put an end to slavery everywhere in the United States.
Early in 1865, the Civil War came to an end with the defeat of the South by the North. Only a few days after the end of the war, Lincoln was shot by an actor named John Wilkes Booth. The President died on April 14, 1865. In his death, the world lost one of the greatest men of all time.
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A．In 1809.
B．In 1863.
C．In 1865.
D．In 1860.
第9题
听力原文： Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. When he was a small boy, his family moved to file frontier of Indiana. Here, his mother taught him to read and write.
When Lincoln was a young man, his family moved to the new state of Illinois. Lincoln had to earn a living at an early age, but in his leisure time he studied law. He soon became one of the best known lawyers in the state capital at Springfield, Illinois. It was here that Lincoln became famous for his debates with Stephen A. Douglas on the subject of slavery.
In 1860, Lincoln was elected President of the United States. He was the candidate of the new Republican Party. This party opposed the creation of new slave states. Soon after his election, some of the Southern states withdrew from the Union and set up the Confederate States of America. This action brought on the terrible Civil War which lasted from 1861 to 1865.
On January 1, 1863, during the war, Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. In 1865, after the war ended, the Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution of the United States. This amendment put an end to slavery everywhere in the United States.
Early in 1865, the Civil War came to an end with the defeat of the South by the North. Only a few days after the end of the war, Lincoln was shot by an actor named John Wilkes Booth. The President died on April 14, 1865. In his death, the world lost one of the greatest men of all time.
(26)
A．In 1809.
B．In 1863.
C．In 1865.
D．In 1860.
