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The stability that had marked the Iroquois
Confederacy’s generally pro-British position was
shattered with the overthrow of James Ⅱ in 1688,
Line. the colonial uprisings that followed in
(5) Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland, and the
commencement of King William’s War against
Louis XIV of France. The increasing French
threat to English hegemony in the interior of
North America was signalized by French-led or
(10) French-inspired attacks on the Iroquois and on
outlying colonial settlements in New York and
New England. The high point of the Iroquois
response was the spectacular raid of August 5,
1689, in which the Iroquois virtually wiped out
(15) the French village of Lachine, just outside
Montreal. A counterraid by the French on the
English village of Schenectady in March, 1690,
instilled an appropriate measure of fear among the
A. denounce the imperialistic policies of the French
B. disprove the charges of barbarism made against the Indian nations
C. expose the French government’s exploitation of the Iroquois balance of power
D. describe and assess the effect of European military power on the policy of an Indian nation
E. (E) show the inability of the Iroquois to engage in European-style diplomacy

[单项选择]Reading Comprehension
The stability that had marked the Iroquois
Confederacy’s generally pro-British position was
shattered with the overthrow of James Ⅱ in 1688,
Line. the colonial uprisings that followed in
(5) Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland, and the
commencement of King William’s War against
Louis XIV of France. The increasing French
threat to English hegemony in the interior of
North America was signalized by French-led or
(10) French-inspired attacks on the Iroquois and on
outlying colonial settlements in New York and
New England. The high point of the Iroquois
response was the spectacular raid of August 5,
1689, in which the Iroquois virtually wiped out
(15) the French village of Lachine, just outside
Montreal. A counterraid by the French on the
English village of Schenectady in March, 1690,
instilled an appropriate measure of fear among the
A. The Iroquois were able to respond effectively to French acts of aggression.
B. James Ⅱ’s removal from the throne caused dissension to break out among the colonies.
C. The French begrudged the British their alleged high standing among the Iroquois.
D. Iroquois negotiations involved playing one side against the other.
E. (E) The Iroquois ceased to hold the balance of power early in the eighteenth century.

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Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Section A
On December 25, 2000, many people across North America received a rare Christmas treat when the moon passed in front of the sun resulting in a partial solar eclipse.
   Solar eclipses occur when the moon  (1)  between the earth and the sun, and the moon's shadow covers part of the earth; and a total solar eclipse takes place when the moon's shadow blocks out the sun  (2)  . What made this particular solar eclipse unique was that this event has occurred on December twenty-fifth only 30 times  (3)  the past 5000 years, the last time in 1954.
   But people must be exceptionally  (4)  when attempting to view a solar eclipse. Without taking precautionary  (5)  ,one can permanently damage the retina of the eye; however, there are several safe methods of  (6)  this heavenly marvel.
   First, yo

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In the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffalo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl and to provide some fresh meat for his use. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between an anaconda and an earl, I had seven lambs turned into the anaconda’s cage. The grateful snake immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the iambs, and no inclination to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas; always with the same result. The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t; and the earl wantonly destroyed what he has no use for, but the anaconda doesn’t. This seemed to suggest that the anaconda was not d
A. the anaconda is easily satisfied
B. the earl’s ancestor turned out to be the anaconda
C. the anaconda does not harm other animals except when it is hungry

[单项选择]Reading Comprehension
According to the theory of plate tectonics, the lithosphere (earth’s relatively hard and solid outer layer consisting of the crust and part of the under-Line lying mantle) is divided into a few dozen plates
(5) that vary in size and shape; in general, these
plates move in relation to one another. They
move away from one another at a mid-ocean
ridge, a long chain of sub-oceanic mountains that
forms a boundary between plates. At a mid-ocean
(10) ridge, new lithospheric material in the form of hot
magma pushes up from the earth’s interior. The
injection of this new lithospheric material from
below causes the phenomenon known as sea-floor
spreading.
(15) Given that the earth is not expanding in size to
any appreciable degree, how can "new" litho-
sphere be created at a mid-ocean ridge For new
lithosphere to come into being in one region, an
e
A. it marks the boundary line between neighboring plates
B. only the former is located on the ocean floor
C. it is a site for the emergence of new litho- spheric material
D. the former periodically disrupts the earth’s geomagnetic field
E. (E) it is involved with lithospheric destruction rather than lithospheric creation