[单项选择]During the 18th century land was cheap, grain was plentiful, and meat was ______.
A. abundant
B. sufficient
C. enough
D. adequate

[单项选择]During the 18th century land was cheap, grain was plentiful, and meat was ______.
A. abundant
B. sufficient
C. enough
D. adequate

[单项选择]During the 18th century, people disposed their waste in many ways EXCEPT for ______.
A. burying it
B. recycling it
C. burning it
D. throwing it into rivers

[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

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Passage Four During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the Youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for them to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’ s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and she can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty. This important change in women’ s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usua
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. needn' t worry about food for her children
D. can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty

[单项选择]During the industrialized twentieth century, the role of women _________.
A. was strengthened
B. was as important as early
C. was decline
D. was more reinforced than early days

[单项选择]People in the 18th and 19th centuries slept about 9.5 hours a night because ______.
A. they were forced by their parents to do so
B. they knew what was best for their health
C. they had to do so because of their life style and the lack of electricity
D. they were not so dynamic and ambitious as modem people are

[单项选择]The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries meant that people were
A. no longer legally entitled to their own land
B. badly paid for the work they managed to find
C. not adequately compensated for the loss of their land
D. forced to look elsewhere for means for supporting themselves

[单项选择]During the eighteenth century, Little Turtle was the chief of the Miami tribe whose territory became ______ is now Indiana and Ohio.
A. there
B. where
C. that
D. what

[单项选择]People in the 18th and 19th centuries used to sleep about 9. 5 hours a night because they had ______.
A. no drive and ambition
B. no electric lighting
C. the best sleep habits
D. nothing to do in the evening