[单项选择]Who was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism
A. Washington Irving.
B. James Fenimore Cooper.
C. William Cullen Bryant.
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[单项选择]Who was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism
A. Washington Irving.
B. James Fenimore Cooper.
C. William Cullen Bryant.
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[单项选择]______ was the first great prose stylist of American Romantism, and among the first of the moderns to write good history and biography as literary’entertainment.
A. Hemingway
B. Whitman
C. Irving
D. Cooper

[单项选择]________ was the first great prose stylist of American Romantism, and among the first of the modems to write good history and biography as literary entertainment,
A. Hemingway
B. Whitman
C. Irving
D. Cooper

[单项选择]______is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Moby Dick
D. Torn Sawyer

[单项选择]Who was the first great American poet to use free verse
A. Edgar Allen Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D. Henry David Thoreau

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There have been many great (21) . The first great invention was one that is still very important to day--the wheel. This made it easier to carry (22) things and to travel long distances.
In the early 1800s the world (23) to change. There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. They began to work instead to make life belier.
In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. Among them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These all became a big part (24) our life today.
The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions: the helicopter in 1909, movies with sound in 1926, the computer in 1928, and jet planes in 1930. This was also a time (25) a new material was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wore.
The middle part of the 20th century brought new ways to help people (26) disea
A. while
B. when
C. where
D. at

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Text 4
The first great cliche of the Internet was, "Information wants to be free." The notion was that no one should have to pay for "content" words and pictures and stuff like that and, in the friction-free world of cyberspace, no one would have to.
The reigning notion today is that the laws of economics are not, after all, suspended in cyberspace like the laws of gravity in outer space. Content needs to be paid for on the Web just as in any other medium. And it probably has to be paid for the same way most other things are paid for. by the people who use it. We tried charging the customers at Slate. It didn’t work. Future experiments may be more successful. But meanwhile, let’s look again at this notion that in every medium except the Internet, people pay for the content they consume. It’s not really true.
TV is the most obvious case. A few weeks ago a producer from "Nightline" contacted Slate while
A. wants consumers to pay for information.
B. fails to see the prospect of a brand new business.
C. provides outdated rather than updated information to consumers.
D. tries to use information to manipulate consumers' minds.