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[单项选择]Throughout the 20th century, historians have argued about the reasons for the unprecedented drive for colonial expansion that seized Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States, in the last decades of the 19th century. The majority of those engaged in this often heated debates have tended to join one of two camps: those who favor a political explanation for the outburst of territorial enlargement, and those who argue that it was fundamentally economic concerns when deciding to intervene in disputes or to involve in Africa, Asia, or the South Pacific. The British preoccupation with protection strategic overseas naval stations, such as those in Malaya and in South Africa, for example, was linked to an underlying perception of growing threat to their Indian Empire. That empire was in turn more than just their "garrison in the east" and largest colonial possession. It was a major source of raw materials for British industries and a key outlet for both British manufactured good and Br
A. Often simplified understanding does more harm than good.
B. The cause of the late 19th century expansion is not very clear.
C. The reason for colonial expansion is quite a mixed one.
D. In many cases economy distorts politics in international affairs.
[单项选择]No one writes the 19th century novels about 20th--now 21st-- century American better than Allegra Goodman, whose omniscient narrators and impeccably (完美地) polished storytelling seem borrowed from an era when authors were expected to issue cool moral judgments rather than exorcise (驱除) inner demons. In her first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, Goodman captured the subtle currents beneath the surface of an orthodox Jewish enclave in upstate New York. With her superb new Intuition, she turns her gimlet eye on another tight-knit community: a cancer research lab.
Sandy Glass and Marion Mendelssohn run a lab at the Philpot Institute in Cambridge, Mass., and they are like all of Goodman’s characters, cultured, complex, and vividly drawn. A charming, prosperous doctor, Sandy is "always cheerful, brimming with the irrepressible joy of his own intelligence". Married to a lovely, accomplished academic, he has three lovely, accomplished daughters and lives in a luxurious home, for "appearances we
A. novels about the 20th century, written in the 19th century
B. novels about the 19th century, written in the 20th century
C. novels about the 20th century, written in the 19th century way
D. novels about the 19th century; written in the 20th century way
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Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, citizens of the United States maintained a bias against big cities. Most lived on farms and in small towns and believed cities to be centres of (1) , crime, poverty and moral (2) Their distrust was caused, (3) , by a national ideology that (4) farming the greatest occupation and rural living (5) to urban living. This attitude (6) even as the number of urban dwellers increased and cities became an essential (7) of the national landscape. Gradually, economic reality overcame ideology. Thousands (8) the precarious (不稳定的) life on the farm for more secure and better paying jobs in the city. But when these people (9) from the countryside, they carried their fears and suspicions with them. These new urbanities, already convinced that cities were (10) with great problems, eagerly (11) the progressive reforms that promised to bring order out of th
A. embraced
B. adopted
C. hugged
D. contained
