[单项选择]Newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s offered their readers gifts to increase their __________.
A. circulation
B. contribution
C. configuration
D. complication

[单项选择]The author implies that in the 1920s and 1930s home deliveries of ice ______.
A. decreased in number
B. were on an irregular schedule
C. increased in cost
D. occurred only in the summer

[单项选择]Most American newspapers try to entertain their readers because ______ .
A. they have to keep up a good relation with them
B. they have to compete with television
C. they have to write about crime, sex and minor
D. they have to give factual news in an interesting way

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In the 1920s demand for American farm products feel, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity (紧缩)programs to reduce their imports. The result was a sharp drop in farm prices. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient. They were paying for machinery, see, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods. The prices of. the items farmers bought remained constant, while prices they received for their products fell. These developments were made worse by the Great Depression which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1930s.
In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized. It established the principle of direct interference with supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers.
President Hoover’ s successor attached even more importance
A. to increase farm production
B. to establish agricultural laws
C. to prevent farmers from going bankrupt
D. to promote the mechanization of agriculture

[单项选择]The 1920s in the United States has been described by many historians as a period of ___________.
A. material failure
B. spiritual frustration
C. political setbacks
D. welfare reform

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In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity (紧缩) programs to reduce their imports. The result was a sharp drop in farm prices. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient. They were paying for machinery, seed, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods. The prices of the items farmers bought remained constant, while prices they received for their products fell. These developments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1930s.
In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized. It established the principle of direct interference with supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers.
President Hoover’s successor attached even more importance
A. The impact of the Great Depression.
B. The shrinking of overseas markets.
C. The destruction caused by the First World War.
D. The increased exports of European countries.

[单项选择]An Englishman invented the fridge in the 1920s.

[单项选择]The 1920s saw the emergence of a new psychological school called ______ founded by a group of psychologists.
A. cognitive psychology
B. behaviourist psychology
C. psychoanalysis
D. Gestalt psychology

[单项选择]Before 1920s, American women were deprived （　）the right to vote to a large extent.
A. of
B. to
C. from
D. with

[单项选择]Cars moved very slowly in the 1920s, but they （　） move more quickly than in 1910.
A. were to can
B. did
C. will
D. can

[单项选择]The 1920s advertising men went wild ______.


A. about salt and household coal
B. over their ads scale and strategy
C. about a psychological weapon
D. to develop an association between the product and the consumers