[单项选择]The famous _____ Gold Rush began in the U. S. in the mid-nineteen century.
A. New York State
B. California
C. Pennsylvania
D. Texas

[单项选择]The famous _____ Gold Rush began in the U. S. in the mid-nineteen century.


A. New York State
B. California
C. Pennsylvania
D. Texas

[单项选择]The famous ______ Gold Rush began in the U. S. in the mid-nineteen century.
A. New York State
B. California
C. Pennsylvania
D. Texas

[单项选择]The Gold Rush of 1848 in the USA______.
A. justified the purchase of Alaska
B. ensured the conversion of paper money to gold
C. brought 100 ,000 settlers to a new territory
D. made millionaires of Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller

[单项选择]______ the children to bed, she began to correct the students' exercises.
A. Sending
B. Being sent
C. Sent
D. Having sent

[单项选择]At first ______ , the famous painting doesn't impress the audience at all.
A. glance
B. gaze
C. stare
D. view

[单项选择]At first ______, the famous picture doesn't look very good.
A. gaze
B. stare
C. glance
D. look

[单项选择]It was not until recently many people began to realize they were wrong.
A. when
B. while
C. as
D. that

[单项选择]After 10 hours at the wheel of the car, he began to feel the ______.
A. tension
B. nervous
C. exertion
D. strain

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 We have no idea about when men first began to use salt, but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout the history. For example, it is recorded in many history books the people who lived over three thousand years ago ate salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt, salt was used to preserve the dead. In some periods of history, a person who stole salt was thought to have broken the law. Take the eighteenth century for an example, if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into prison. History also records that only in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century for stealing salt! About one hundred and fifty years ago, in the year 1553, if a man took more than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be seriously punished. The offender’ s ear was cut off. Salt was an important item on the dinner table of a king. It was always placed in front of the king when he sat down
A. nineteenth; lose all his salt
B. sixteenth; be thrown into prison
C. nineteenth; lose an ear
D. sixteenth; lose an ear