[单项选择]Canada occupies about ______ of the North American continent.


A. 1/3
B. 1/2
C. 1/4
D. 1/5

[单项选择]Canada occupies about ______ of the North American continent.


A. 1/3
B. 1/2
C. 1/4
D. 1/5

[单项选择]What does the author say about the North American market


A. The American buyers of pictures have not changed their taste.
B. The middle market remains strong.
C. The Americans, buy art as a speculation.
D. It is experiencing a major recession.

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Text 3
Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature -- from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway -- one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face -- the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emot
A. In American life, people hardly mention the death.
B. In the Middle Ages, death was surrounded by respect.
C. In primitive cultures, death was faced with awe.
D. In Greek times, people .were afraid of facing death.

[单项选择]Christopher Columbus discovered the North American continent in ______.


A. 1592
B. 1620
C. 1492
D. 1420

[单项选择]Historians of North American architecture who have studied early nineteenth-century houses with wooden floors have observed that the boards used on the floors of bigger houses were generally much narrower than those used on the floors of smaller houses. These historians have argued that, since the people for whom the bigger houses were built were generally richer than the people for whom the smaller houses were built, floors made out of narrow floorboards were probably once a status symbol, designed to proclaim the owner’s wealth.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to strengthen the historians’ argument
A. More original floorboards have survived from big early nineteenth-century houses than from small early nineteenth-century houses.
B. In the early nineteenth century, a piece of narrow floorboard was not significantly less expensive than a piece of wide floorboard of the same length.
C. In the early nineteenth-century, smaller houses generally had fewer rooms than did bigger houses.
D. Some early nineteenth century houses had wide floorboards near the walls of each room and narrower floorboards in the center, where the floors were usually carpeted.
E. (E) Many of the biggest early nineteenth-century houses but very few small houses from that period had some floors that were made of materials that were considerably more expensive than wood, such as marble.

[简答题]Read carefully the information below ’about Canada. Write a description of Canada on the following points: 1) location; 2) size and physical background; 3) climatic features; 4) population and language. Canada Capital: Ottawa Total area: 9,976,139 sq. km. Land area: 5 % arable (可耕) , 46% forest, 41% mountain area Climate: temperate in the southern part, mostly cold Annual rainfall: 80cra Population: 26,992,000 ( 1994 ) Density: less than 3 per sq. kin. Language: English and French Location: north of North America, north of USA

[单项选择]If you want to borrow books about American history, which floor would you go to ______.
A. Ground Floor
B. First Floor
C. Third Floor
D. The Fourth Floor

[单项选择]We were talking about the American tourists（）we met during our trip to the Great Wall.
A. what
B. which
C. whom
D. whose

[单项选择]______is not a novel about American Negro life.

[简答题]Multiculturalism in Canada

[单项选择]Geoffrey Chaucer occupies a ______ place in English literature.
A. most unique
B. least unique
C. very unique
D. unique

[单项选择]North America borders both the North ______ and the North ______.


A. Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean
B. Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean
C. Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean
D. Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean

[单项选择]Canada's largest city is


A. Montreal.
B. Toronto.
C. Ottawa.
D. Vancouver.

[单项选择]American Transcendentalism attaches great importance to ______.
A. Inspiration
B. Imagination
C. Intuition
D. Reason