[单项选择]As one of the best-known American authors of 20th century, Ernest Hemingway wrote all the following novels EXCEPT （）.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls
B. The Green Hills of Africa
C. The Sound and the Fury
D. The Old Man and the Sea

[单项选择]American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ______.
A. Anne Bradsteet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher

[单项选择]The American Red Cross is one of the volunteer organizations （　） purpose is to help the sick and the needy.
A. its
B. that
C. who
D. whose

[单项选择]Kit Carson, an American frontiersman, was one of the most sensational heroes of the Old West（　）.
A. exciting
B. distracting
C. enigmatic
D. ostentatious

[单项选择]Mark Twain is ______.

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With American sales of Mitsubishi, once one of the hottest car brands, in a free fall, the company’s executives arc trying to engineer a turnaround. It could not come too soon for dealers and employees. "June was a terrible month. I sold 10 cars," said Maria Prendergast-Lunn, general manager of Auddie Brown Mitsubishi in Florence, S. C., 80 miles from the major metropolitan center of Columbia. A year ago the dealership sold 75 Mitsubishis a month. Sales started picking up this month, but even so Ms. Prendergast-Lunn expects the dealership to sell only half the number of vehicles it did a year earlier. "I’m hoping to end July with 35 or 40 sales, ’ she said.
Other dealers are struggling as well. The market share of Mitsubishi Motors North America, the United States unit of the Japanese. automaker, has been halved in just a year, to 0.8 percent last month from 1.5 percent in June 2003, according to the Autodata Corporation. In June, the comp
A. Japan-based automaker
B. US-based automaker
C. Korean automaker
D. parent company of Hyundai

[填空题]When I was a child, one of my favorite authors was Marguerite Henry. ______ Chincoteague is an island off the coast of Virginia and Maryland. For hundreds of years, wild ponies have lived on Chincoteague’s neighboring island, Assateague. The ponies, like the ones in Henry’s book, get to Chincoteague each year by swimming across the channel between the two islands.

• A. I was so glad I was able to see them in person.
• B. She wrote about wild ponies that live on the Island of Chincoteague.
• C. The ponies are a significant part of the history of the islands of Chincoteague and Assateague.
• D. They forage for food in the salty marshlands eating marsh grasses, seaweed and even poison ivy.
• E. You too can begin learning about these beautiful, wild horses by reading Misty of Chincoteague.
• F. Because it was so dark, no one in my family realized we had parked next to a paddock that held a herd of horses.

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One of the industrial giants who changed American society was Henry Ford horn on a farm in Michigan in 1863, and he grew up to bring forth some of the most revolutionary improvements in automotive technology in the early 20th century. His outstanding mechanical ability led him to become interested in the new automobiles in the early 1900s. Though be did not invent the automobile, he improved upon everyone else’s designs. He was a person who believed in inexpensive, efficient production, so he established standards for his plants and workers. He also standardized and produced many new auto parts for his Ford Motor Company cars. Then he studied the workers’ problems and thousands of automobiles per year. In fact, his plants had produced 15 million Model TS by 1927. Ford’s personality was not all thrift (节俭), efficiency and inventiveness, however. He was a man who was cold and who could not keep pace with the competition due to his own rigidity (严格). His company su
A. through great social revolution
B. through automotive technological revolution
C. through numerous mechanical inventions
D. through radical political reforms

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Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest American poets. She was born in a typical New England village in Massachusetts on December 10,1830. She was the second child of he family. She had lived in the same house for Fifty-six years when she died. During her life time she never left her native land. She left her home state only once and she left her village very few times. After 1872 she rarely left her louse and yard. In the later years of her life she retreated to a smeller and smaller circle of family and friends. In hose later years she dressed in white, avoided strangers, and communicated chiefly through notes and poems even with intimates. The doctor who attended her illness was allowed to "examine" her in another room, seeing her walk by an opened door. People in her home village thought of her as a "strange" figure. When she died on May 15,1886, she was unknown to the rest of the world. Only seven of her poems had appeared in print. But to think of Emily
A. Almost all her life.
B. Less than half her life.
C. Until 1830.
D. Before 1872.