[填空题]Surprisingly enough,none of us has passed tile final exam.
It ______ that all of us have failed(不及格) in the exam.

Surprisingly enough, modem historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively "Southern"——the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain’s North American empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written almost as if the Southern colonies had never existed. The American culture that emerged during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras has been depicted as having been simply an extension of New England Puritan culture. However, Professor Davis has recently argued that the South stood apart from the rest of American society during this early period, following its own unique pattern of cultural development. The case for Southern distinctiveness rests upon two related premises: first, that the cultural similarities among the five Southern colonies were far more impressive than the differences, and second, t
A. fact that historians have overestimated the importance of the Puritans in the development of American culture
B. fact that early American culture was deeply influenced by the strong religious oriencolonists
C. extent to which Massachusetts and Connecticut served as cultural models for the other American colonies
D. extent to which colonial America resisted assimilating cultural patterns that were typically English