[单项选择]Scott arrived at the South Pole on January 17th, only to find that someone had got there before him.
A. 斯科特在1月17号到达南极, 发现已经有人在那里驻扎了。
B. 斯科特在1月17号到达南极, 很遗憾地发现只有他一个人到达。
C. 斯科特在1月17号到达南极, 仅仅发现已经有人在他之前到达。
D. 斯科特在1月17号到达南极, 结果发现已经有人在他之前到达那里。

[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]As a result of the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries people were______.
A. legally entitled to own land
B. forced to look elsewhere for means of supporting themselves
C. not adequately compensated(补偿) for the loss of their land
D. badly paid for the work they managed to find

[单项选择]The 17 th century English physician William Harvey discovered the _______ of the blood.
A. circulation
B. Circus
C. circumstance
D. circuit

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Text 4
Shortly after dawn on February 17th 2003, the world’s most ambitious road pricing experiment will start in London. Though cordon toll schemes have been operating in Norway for years, and Singapore has an electronic system, no one has ever tried to charge motorists in a city of the size and complexity of London.
For decades, transport planners have been demanding that motorists should pay directly for the use of roads. According to the professionals, it is the only way of civilizing cities and restraining the growth of inter urban traffic. Politicians have mostly turned a deaf ear, fearing that charging for something what was previously free was a quick route to electoral suicide. But London’s initiative suggests that the point where road pricing becomes generally accepted as the most efficient way to restrain traffic is much nearer than most drivers realize.
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has pinned his political reputation
A. out of the question.
B. anything but new.
C. for the sake of safety.
D. nowhere near success.

[单项选择]At the beginning of the 17^th century the English language was brought to North America by colonists from England who used the language spoken in England, that is,______, the language used by Shakespeare, Milton and Banyan.

[单项选择]The English Civil War in the 17th century is also called ______.
A. the Puritan Revolution
B. the second Magna Carta
C. the Long Parliament
D. the Anglican War

[单项选择]In the late 17th century, the most famous writers were ______.
A. John Bunyan and John Milton
B. John Bunyan and John Donne
C. John Donne and John Milton
D. John Donne and Francis Bacon