[单项选择]In the 17th century,the English government encouraged people from Scotland and Northern England to emigrate to the north of Ireland because（）
A. they wanted to increase its control over Ireland
B. they had too many people and didn’t have enough space for them to live in Britain
C. they intended to expand their investment
D. they believed that Ireland was the best place for them

[单项选择]At the beginning of the 17th century the English language was brought to North America by colonists from England who used the language spoken in England, that is, the ______,language used by Shakespeare, Milton and Banyan.

[单项选择]The English Civil War in the 17th century is also called ______.
A. the Puritan Revolution
B. the second Magna Carta
C. the Long Parliament
D. the Anglican War

[单项选择]In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early riffles.
A. Remanism
B. Naturalism
C. Realism
D. Critical Realism

[单项选择]John Locke, the well-known 18th century English thinker, emphasized experience as the condition for expansion of human knowledge.
A. incompatible
B. incredible
C. indefinite
D. indispensable

[单项选择]In the late 17th century, the most famous writers were ______.
A. John Bunyan and John Milton
B. John Bunyan and John Donne
C. John Donne and John Milton
D. John Donne and Francis Bacon

[单项选择]Tim collected some stamps, ______the 17th century.
A. dates from
B. that dated from
C. which was dated from
D. dating from

[单项选择]The 18th century in English literature is an age of ______.
A. novel
B. poem
C. prose
D. play

[单项选择]The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries meant that people were
A. no longer legally entitled to their own land
B. badly paid for the work they managed to find
C. not adequately compensated for the loss of their land
D. forced to look elsewhere for means for supporting themselves

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Text 4 Shortly after dawn on February 17th 2003, the world’s most ambitious road pricing experiment will start in London. Though cordon toll schemes have been operating in Norway for years, and Singapore has an electronic system, no one has ever tried to charge motorists in a city of the size and complexity of London. For decades, transport planners have been demanding that motorists should pay directly for the use of roads. According to the professionals, it is the only way of civilizing cities and restraining the growth of inter urban traffic. Politicians have mostly turned a deaf ear, fearing that charging for something what was previously free was a quick route to electoral suicide. But London’s initiative suggests that the point where road pricing becomes generally accepted as the most efficient way to restrain traffic is much nearer than most drivers realize. The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has pinned his political reputation on the scheme’s s
A. his interest in traffic.
B. the weak response of politicians.
C. his political motives.
D. the complexity of the problem.