[单项选择]Issac Newton, a British scientist, who lived over 300 years ago, said that he saw ______ than others because he stood on the shoulders of giants.


A. further
B. more ahead
C. farther
D. more afar

[单项选择]If Newton lived today, he would be surprise by what ______ in science and technology.
A. had discovered
B. had been discovered
C. has discovered
D. has been discovered

[单项选择]John J. Odlund's "Debate Rages Over Who Owns the Law" was published by


A. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
B. The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
C. The now-defunct Internet Legal Practice Newsletter.
D. The Atlantic, October 1995.

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There once lived a poor tailor who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy (21) would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that (22) died; yet, in spite of his mother’s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways. One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger (23) him if he was not the son of Mustapha the tailor. "I am, sir," replied Aladdin ; "but he (24) a long while ago." On this the stranger, who was a famous magician, fell on his neck and kissed him saying: "I am your uncle, and (25) you from your likeness to my brother. Go to your mother and tell her I am coming." Aladdin ran home and told his mother of his newly found uncle. "Indeed, child," she said, "your father had a (26) , but I always thought he was dead." However, she prepared supper, and told Aladdin to seek his uncl
A. asks
B. asked
C. was asking
D. had asked

[单项选择]Who first lived in the place that is called Greenwich today according to this passage ______.


A. Henry Ⅷ
B. Romans
C. Charles Ⅱ
D. the Saxons

[单项选择]He phoned his uncle who lived in the country, asking him to ______ his two schoolmates for the weekend.
A. assemble
B. accommodate
C. raise
D. resemble

[单项选择]Which of the following is the. man who lived in the U.S. but created art relatively European