[单项选择]The 17 th century English physician William Harvey discovered the _______ of the blood.


A. circulation
B. Circus
C. circumstance
D. circuit

[单项选择]The 17 th century English physician William Harvey discovered the _______ of the blood.
A. circulation
B. Circus
C. circumstance
D. circuit

[单项选择]When did English novelist William Golding receive his Nobel Prize in Literature


A. 1981.
B. 1982.
C. 1983.
D. 1984.

[单项选择]John Locke, the well-known 18th-century English thinker, emphasized experience as the ______ condition for expansion of human knowledge.
A. incompatible
B. incredible
C. indefinite
D. indispensable

[单项选择]A century ago the physician ' s word was______ to doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious.
A. inevitable
B. intractable
C. incontrovertible
D. objective

[单项选择]William Pitt (urged) that the English colonists (be given) the same constitutional rights (which) (other English subjects) were entitled.
A. urged
B. be given
C. which
D. other English subjects

[单项选择]The English Civil War in the 17th century is also called ______.


A. the Puritan Revolution
B. the second Magna Carta
C. the Long Parliament
D. the Anglican War

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The exact number of English words in not known. The large dictionaries have over half a million entries, but many of these are compound words (schoolroom, sugarbowl) or different derivatives of the same word, and a good many are obsolete words to help us read older literature. Dictionaries do not attempt to cover completely words that we can draw on; the informal vocabulary, especially slang, localism, the terms of various occupations and professions, words used only occasionally by scientists and specialists in many fields, foreign words borrowed for use in English, or many new words or new senses of words that come into use every year and that may or may not be used long enough to warrant being included. It would be conservative to say that there are over a millon English words that any of us might meet in our listening and reading and that we may draw on in our speaking and listening.
Professor Seashore concluded that first-graders enter school with at least 24 000 wor
A. making a list of words you need and looking up the new ones in a dictionary
B. spending half an hour studying the dictionary
C. consciously using the words you recognize in reading
D. trying to use the words you recognize