[单项选择]In the first decades of the twentieth century, the individual gene could not be seen, but could be worked with fruitfully.
A. blindly
B. completely
C. productively
D. carefully

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A. blindly
B. completely
C. productively
D. carefully

[单项选择]The passage suggests that twentieth-century Marxists would have admired Jane Austin ' s novels more if the novels as the Marxists understood them, had ______.
A. described the values of upper-middle class society
B. avoided moral instruction and sermonizing
C. depicted ordinary society in a more flattering light
D. portrayed characters from more than one class of society

[单项选择]In the flint decades of the twentieth century, the individual gem could not be seen, but could be worked with fruitfully.
A. blindly
B. completely
C. productively
D. carefully

[单项选择]According to the passage, early-twentieth-century education reformers believed that ______.
A. different groups needed different kinds of education
B. special programs Should be set up in frontier communities to modernize them
C. corporations and other organizations damaged educational progress
D. more women should be involved in education and industry

[单项选择]During the first half of the twentieth century, the average American household was ______ by the introduction of a group of machines that profoundly altered the daily lives of housewives.


A. transformed
B. transferred
C. transmitted
D. transported

[单项选择]In the first decades of this century, the individual gene could be worked with fruitfully.
A. blindly
B. completely
C. productively
D. carefully

[单项选择]In the twentieth century Britain experienced many wars, of which ______ brought the country the largest number of casualties.
A. the Invasion against Egypt
B. the First World War
C. the Second World War
D. the Falkland Islands War

[单项选择]The twentieth century has witnessed an enormous worldwide political, economic and cultural______.
A. tradition
B. transportation
C. transmission
D. transformation

[单项选择]During the industrialized twentieth century, the role of women _________.
A. was strengthened
B. was as important as early
C. was decline
D. was more reinforced than early days

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Passage Four During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the Youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for them to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’ s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and she can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty. This important change in women’ s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usua
A. few children died before they were five
B. seven or eight children lived to be more than five
C. the youngest child would be fifteen
D. four or five children died when they were five