[单项选择]Upton Sinclair, an American writer of the 20th century, showed his ______ genius for recreating social history in his novels.
A. original
B. particular
C. unique
D. uncommon

[单项选择]In the early 20th century Americans believed science and technology could ______.

[单项选择]From Neolithic pottery to the 20th century posters, the extant varieties of arts in China______those who search for continuity; nonetheless, certain______values are reflected in China's artistic traditions.
A. (A) gratify… evanescent
B. (B) perplex … ancient
C. (C) mollify… perpetual
D. (D) vindicate… tentative
E. (E) confound… enduring

[单项选择]Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.
A. Walt Whitman
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D. T. S. Eliot

[单项选择]What advantage did the 20th century have over the 19th century


A. The new invention of the train made traveling possible.
B. Information could be spread immediately.
C. People didn’t get as much exercise anymore.
D. Travelling by boat was still dangerous.

[单项选择]Many hunting and gathering people of the late 20th century have recently adopted some form of organized agriculture to ______ their wild food resources.
A. compliment
B. implement
C. supply
D. supplement

[单项选择]If America had a national poet in the 20^th century, it is certainly______.
A. Frost
B. Pound
C. Poe
D. Whitman

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The 20th century may have been the age of scientific advancement but, as the new millennium begins, (1) world health the progress has been surprisingly slow .
Who would believe that there is still no (2) for cancer, that 100 years on diarrhea is still on the top 10 lists of world - wide killers and that tuberculosis usually (3) . Victorian squalor--would have reemerged in the West (4) growing threat
The fact is that despite growing life (5) and economic growth, a billion people entered the 21st century (6) having a share in medical advances--their lives (7) or scarred by disease.
According to the World Health Organization’ s latest report , diarrhea killed 2.2m people in 1998 and yet it is a condition that can easily be (8) through cheap rehydration therapy. It was the sixth biggest killer of 1998, an honour shared with stillbirth and infant deaths (9) cause of death that smacks of the 19
A. with regards
B. in terms of
C. in respect of
D. concerning with