[单项选择]In 1864 the American Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth gained critical acclaim when he__________Hamlet at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
A. perform
B. performed
C. had been performing
D. having performed

[单项选择]The famous actor is familiar （）every American, young and old.
A. with
B. to
C. about
D. on

[单项选择] Edwin Hubble Edwin Hubble changed our ideas about the universe and how it developed. The work of few other scientists changed our understanding of 【51】 suddenly. He made his most important discoveries in the 1920s. Today, other scientists continue the work he began back then. Edwin Powell Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri. He 【52】 his early years in the state of Kentucky. Then he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago, taking mathematics and astronomy 【53】 his specialty. As a student, Hubble was also a member of the University’’s basketball team and an excellent boxer. Several people urged him 【54】 for the world heavy weight boxing championship after college. Instead he decided to continue his 【55】 . In his first observations from Mount Wilson, California, Hubble used a telescope with one-hundred fifty-two and began 【56】 more and more distant objects. His first great discovery was
A. the nature
B. nature
C. world
D. the earth

[单项选择]In Shakespearean line " rats and mice and such small deer", " deer" obviously designates "______" in general.
A. a doe
B. animal
C. a deer-like animal
D. buck

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American has always been a land of beginnings. After Europeans "discovered" America in the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine hope of a new life, an escape from poverty and persecution, a chance to start again. We can say that, as nation, America begins with that hope. When, however, does American literature begin
American literature begins with American experiences. Long before the first colonists arrived, before Christopher Columbus, before the Northmen who "found" America about the year 1,000, Native Americans lived here. Each tribe’s literature was tightly woven into the fabric of daily life and reflected the unmistakably American experience of lining with the land. Another kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement, found its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers sent home in Spain, French and English. In addition, t
A. in the early days most American writers were from Great Britain
B. people with rich life experiences became writers
C. there were many writers in the early days of American history
D. early-day experience provided the foundation for American literature