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[单项选择]American football and baseball are becoming known to the British public through televised ______ from the United States.
A. transfer
B. deliveries
C. transportation
D. transmissions
[单项选择]American football comes from ______.
A. soccer
B. rugby
C. both soccer and rugby
D. neither soccer nor rugby
[单项选择]In American football players can ______.
A. only kick the ball
B. only throw the ball
C. only carry the ball
D. kick, throw and carry the ball
[单项选择]I play football than baseball.
A. prefer
B. had better
C. would rather
D. like better
[单项选择]American farmers' situation was becoming worse NOT because______.
A. the Great Depression took place
B. they were no longer self-sufficient
C. the Agriculture Adjustment Act was unconstitutional
D. unfavorable weather conditions brought about crop losses
[单项选择]Compared with baseball, football seems to be more__________.
A. civilized
B. barbaric
C. dexterous
D. appealing
[单项选择]To（）his great ambition of becoming well-known all over Denmark, Andersen, though very young, left home for Copenhagen to make his fortune.
A. hold up to
B. let up to
C. hang up to
D. live up to
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Passage One
One of the well-known of American writers is Samuel Clemens, whose pen name is Mark Twain. Born in 1835, Twain grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. As did many other boys of his day, Twain dreamed of traveling on river boats and of someday becoming a riverboat pilot. Twain used his memories of the life of a river town in his two most famous books, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
As a young man, Twain held many jobs. He was a printer, a good miner, and, for a time, he was a riverboat pilot. During his pilot days, he adopted the name Mark Twain. This was a term used by the boatmen to mean that the water measured two fathoms, or twelve feet, which was deep enough for safe passage.
Finally Twain became a successful writer. He traveled a great deal, writing and speaking, and became very popular both in the United States and in Europe.
Twain’s style of writing was simple and direct. Among the things he wr
A. Asia
B. the United States
C. Europe
D. Both B and C
