[单项选择]Compared with technologies in the 16^th and 19^th century, technologies today are more ______.


A. ingenious and portable
B. B ) marvelous and effective
C. intuitive and unreliable
D. facile and responsive

[单项选择]People in the 18th and 19th centuries slept about 9.5 hours a night because ______.
A. they were forced by their parents to do so
B. they knew what was best for their health
C. they had to do so because of their life style and the lack of electricity
D. they were not so dynamic and ambitious as modem people are

[单项选择]People in the 18th and 19th centuries used to sleep about 9. 5 hours a night because they had ______.
A. no drive and ambition
B. no electric lighting
C. the best sleep habits
D. nothing to do in the evening

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Passage Three
Early in the 16th century men were trying to reach Asia by traveling west from Europe. In order to find Asia they had to find a way past South America. The man who eventually found the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific was Ferdinand Magellan.
Magellan sailed from Seville in August 1519 with five ships and about 280 men. Fourteen months later, after spending the severe winter on the coast of Patagonia, he discovered the channel which is now called Magellan’s Straits. In November 1520, after many months of dangers from rocks and storms, the three remaining ships entered the ocean on the other side of South America.
They then continued, hoping to reach Asia. Before they arrived at these islands, later known as the Philippines, Magellan was killed in battle. The remaining officers then had to get back to Spain. They decided to sail around Africa. After many difficulties, one ship with eighteen men sailed into Seville three y
A. to become famous at that time
B. to find navigation line from the Atlantic to the Pacific
C. to make a voyage to Asia
D. to carry men to the Seville

[单项选择]At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ______wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people's suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.
A. Thomas More
B. Thomas Marlowe
C. Francis Bacon
D. William Shakespeare