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[单项选择]With the population explosion, scientists will have to ______ new methods of increasing the world's food supply.
A. come up with
B. carry out
C. lead to
D. stick to
[单项选择]Why did Webster write A Grammatical Institute of the English Language
A. He wanted to supplement his income.
B. There were no books available after the Revolutionary War.
C. He felt that British books were not appropriate for American children.
D. The children did not know how to spell.
[单项选择]The possibility that the explosion was caused by sabotage cannot be ______.
A. broken out
B. cancelled out
C. ruled out
D. wiped out
[单项选择]The explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle is mentioned to show that______.
A. technology is always unreliable
B. man should be responsible for the technology created by it
C. man is losing control of such technology
D. human beings should not create such technology
[单项选择]Honorifics are defined by Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary as a class of grammatical forms used in speaking to or about a social ______. ( )
A. inferior
B. superior
C. equal
D. equivalent
[单项选择]The explosion in the mine was by a careless miner who lit a match.
A. triggered
B. claimed
C. hampered
D. protested
[填空题]The explosion of a hydrogen bomb is the result of uncontrolled nuclear fusion. It is the most terrible weapon of war which man has invented（）.
[单项选择]Hardly （） when a loud explosion was heard.
A. the train had started
B. the train had been started
C. had the train started
D. did the train start
[单项选择]Had the explosion broken out, the passengers in the plane should have been killed, for it was ______ timed with the plane's take-off.
A. spontaneously
B. instantaneously
C. simultaneously
D. conscientiously
[单项选择]In the explosion ______.
A. the windows of the bank were blown out
B. the van was burned
C. the contents of the van were damaged
D. everything in the van was all right
[单项选择]Which one of the following had been Webster's profession
A. Editor.
B. Lawyer.
C. Book seller.
D. Linguist.
[单项选择]Noah Webster was a ______.
A. novelist
B. poet
C. lexicographer
D. essayist
[单项选择]According to the author, Webster's purpose in writing An American Dictionary of the English Language was to ______.
A. respond to the need for new schoolbooks
B. demonstrate the distinct development of the English language in America
C. promote spelling forms based on British models
D. influence the pronunciation of the English language
[单项选择]According to legend, Daniel Webster made a ______ with Satan, but managed to talk his way out of it at the last moment.
A. economy
B. standard
C. van
D. compact
