[单项选择]In the eighteenth century, the town of Bennington, Vermont, was famous for pottery（）.
A. it made
B. its
C. the making
D. where its

[单项选择]In the eighteenth century, the town of Bennington, Vermont, was famous for________ pottery.
A. it made
B. its
C. the making
D. where its

[单项选择]Eighteenth-century statesmen were totally convinced that war could be used as ______ settling disputes.
A. a mean to
B. a means for
C. some means for
D. meanses for

[单项选择]The author implies that late-eighteenth-century opera differs from contemporary film music in that late-eighteenth-century opera
A. (A) relied more heavily on gender codes in fashion at the time of its composition than does contemporary film music
B. (B) contain gender affects incipiently, whereas contemporary film music contains them in a more salient form
C. (C) evidences a deeper "practical consciousness" of how musical expression works than contemporary film music does
D. (D) tends neither to enact nor resist the gender constructions which have traditionally applied to the sonata form
E. (E) provides a more critically accessible framework for mapping gender codes than contemporary film music does

[单项选择]Benjamin West was an (eighteenth-century) American artist (who) influenced British painters (just so much) as he did (other) American artists.
A. eighteenth-century
B. who
C. just so much
D. other

[单项选择]In the eighteenth century writers ______ hours in coffee houses, discussing the news of the day.
A. used to spending
B. used to spend
C. would be spending
D. were used to spend

[单项选择]In the eighteenth century, Writers ______ hours in coffee houses, discussing the news of the day.
A. used to spending
B. would be spending
C. used to spend
D. were used to spend

[单项选择]In the early eighteenth century, Ohio grew from a virtual wilderness to become-------of the early states had been in 1776,
A. most than more populous
B. more populous than most
C. more than most populous
D. populous most than more

[单项选择]According to the passage, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some Americans ______.
A. worked from sunrise to sunset seven days a week
B. preferred working in factories to working on farms
C. had many of the leisure time activities that people now have
D. fought for shorter working hours and more leisure time

[单项选择]On Tom's eighteenth birthday, he drank together with his father in that bar for______.

[单项选择]OUTSKIRTS: TOWN : :
A. wine: goblet
B. leaf: plant
C. shoulder: thoroughfare
D. wing: helicopter
E. step: stairs

[单项选择]During the nineteenth century the molecular theory of matter was developed, (which) considered (all matter) to (be composed) of tiny, indivisible (entity) called molecules.
A. which
B. all matter
C. be composed
D. entity

[单项选择]The author discussed the fourteenth century intending to
A. make a comparison between the state of affairs at that time and at this moment.
B. get a clear picture of what we human beings are really like today.
C. prove what the French medievalist had written in his book was reasonable.
D. find the difference between what can be reflected in history and what can be easily found.

[单项选择]In the twentieth century Britain experienced many wars, of which ______ brought the country the largest number of casualties.
A. the Invasion against Egypt
B. the First World War
C. the Second World War
D. the Falkland Islands War

[单项选择]In the nineteenth century, poor Europeans seeking to make their fortunes turned to America as a matter of course（）.
A. automatically
B. obviously
C. traditionally
D. resignedly