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Relations between the United States and Colombia suffered for many years because of an incident involving the Republic of Panama. By the en& of the Spanish-American War, Americans felt that an easier and faster: way was needed to ,get ships, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Some people in the United States first believed that a canal across Nicaragua was the answer. However, President Theodore Roosevelt decided that a canal through Panama would be a better choice, In order to build the canal, the United States had to negotiate a treaty with Colombia, which at that time controlled Panama. Roosevelt offered Colombia, $10 million plus $ 250,000 a year for 99 years for a six-miles-wide strip of land across Panama. Colombia rejected the United States’offer. This angered President Roosevelt, and negotiations with Colombia, ended. In 1903，a revolution broke out in Panama. United States ships were sent by President: Roosevelt to protect the Panamanian revolutionari
A. argumentative
B. informative
C. humorous
D. sarcastic

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Relations between the United States and Colombia suffered for many years because of an incident involving the Republic of Panama. By the en& of the Spanish-American War, Americans felt that an easier and faster: way was needed to ,get ships, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Some people in the United States first believed that a canal across Nicaragua was the answer. However, President Theodore Roosevelt decided that a canal through Panama would be a better choice, In order to build the canal, the United States had to negotiate a treaty with Colombia, which at that time controlled Panama. Roosevelt offered Colombia, $10 million plus $ 250,000 a year for 99 years for a six-miles-wide strip of land across Panama. Colombia rejected the United States’offer. This angered President Roosevelt, and negotiations with Colombia, ended. In 1903，a revolution broke out in Panama. United States ships were sent by President: Roosevelt to protect the Panamanian revolutionari
A. at first wished to build a canal through Nicaragua
B. promised to pay Colombia $10 million for A Panama
C. wished to build a canal through Panama
D. protected Panamanian revolutionaries from Colombia

[单项选择]The growing trade gap between the United States and its trading partners would continue to widen, due to the continued repercussions of the economic crisis that swept through East Asia during 1997.
A. consequences
B. disputes
C. estimates
D. emergencies

[单项选择]The first summit between the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain during World War II was held in ______ in November 1943.
A. Yalta
B. Cairo
C. Tehran
D. Potsdam

[单项选择]Nowadays the United States undertakes the global security mainly because_______.
A. Britain insisted in transferring this important responsibility to it
B. it could gain some important advantages over any other countries
C. Germany has a good relation with it as an economic giant
D. it wants to have a superiority to both Japan and Russia

[单项选择]Researchers in the United States carried out the study with the help of _______.


A. young people
B. some old people
C. men doctors
D. woman doctors

[单项选择]The 1920s in the United States has been described by many historians as a period of ___________.
A. material failure
B. spiritual frustration
C. political setbacks
D. welfare reform

[单项选择]What's the population of the United States according to the passage


A. 7,000,000.
B. 14,000,000.
C. Twice of the young persons under twenty-five.
D. Not mentioned.

[单项选择]How many states are there in the United States


A. Thirteen.
B. Fifty.
C. Fifty one.
D. Sixty.