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[单项选择]Legends about King Arthur have existed since the 6th century. Stories of the man and his doings have grown far beyond anything that could be regarded as factual history. Here are some of the highlights.
Arthur was born as a result of the wizardry of Merlin, who arranged all adulterous liaison between Arthur’s father, King Uther Pendragon, and his lover, a married duchess. Merlin agreed to do this only if the lovers allowed him to bring up the child born of the affair. When Uther Pendragon died some years later, there was confusion in the kingdom about who should inherit the throne. Merlin arranged a pageant where many knights came to try their luck at pulling a sword out of a stone. Whoever successfully extracted the blade was the rightful king. After many a brave knight had tried and failed, Merlin presented the young Arthur who, to everyone’s surprise, easily pulled out the sword.
As king, Arthur established the knightly fellowship of the Round Table at his castle of Camelo
A. a brief history of King Arthur
B. the story of the Round Table Knights
C. a legendary life of King Arthur
D. the death of King Arthur
[单项选择]Who does Brian Fry work for now
A. ANK Oil
B. The PTl
C. The Government
[单项选择]Brian says his success is due to
A. quick service.
B. quality food.
C. cheap prices.
[单项选择]Arthur Miller was all the following but （ ）.
A. a political activist
B. a dramatist
C. a playwright
D. a novelist
[单项选择]Arthur Miller died at the age of （ ）.
A. 80
B. 90
C. 95
D. 100
[单项选择]Arthur Miller’s plays will probably be performed for many years because his plays （ ）.
A. criticize the mental pain average people suffer in their daily lives
B. reveal the emotional pain of average people in their daily lives
C. describe how average people try to fight with the emotional pain
D. demonstrate the method average people use to amuse themselves
[单项选择]（ ） is the peak of the romances about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
A. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
B. Beowulf
C. Sir Garwain and the Green Knight
D. The Canterbury Tales
[单项选择]Brian says the average British lunch break is
A. just over 30 minutes.
B. more than 45 minutes.
C. about 60 minutes.
[单项选择]Why does the man mention his friend Brian
A. To introduce the woman to someone who has researched blushing.
B. To illustrate the benefits of a public-speaking class.
C. To give an example of someone who blushes easily.
D. To explain a way to overcome blushing.
[单项选择]D. H. Lawrence was the fourth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall, and their first to have been born in Eastwood. Ever since their marriage in 1875, the couple had been on the move: Arthur’s job as a miner had taken them where the best-paid work had been during the boom years of the 1870s, and they had lived in a succession of small and recently built grimy colliery villages all over Nottinghamshire. But when they moved to Eastwood in 1883, it was to a place where they would remain for the rest of their lives; the move seems to have marked a watershed in their early history.
For one thing, they were settling down. Arthur Lawrence would work at Brinsley colliery until he retired in 1909. For another, they now had three small children and Lydia may have wanted to give them the kind of continuity in schooling they had never previously had. It was also the case that, when they came to Eastwood, they took a house with a shop window, and Lydia ran a small clothes shop: presumab
A. surely
B. undoubted
C. doubleless
D. doubleful
