2006年考试新辅导之托福写作题库新增试题十七(2)
Presidents since have evaluated
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D
17.The Armory Show,held
in New York in 1913,was a
important exhibition
of
A B C
modern
European art.
D
18.Ripe fruit is often stored in a place who contains much carbon dioxide so that the
A B C
fruit will not decay too rapidly.
D
19.In 1852,Massachusetts passed a law requiring all children from four to eighteen
A B C
years of old to attend school.
D
20.The main purpose of classifying animals is to show the most probable
A B
evolutionary relationship of the different species to each another.
C D
21.Matthew C.Perry,a United States naval commander,gained fame not in war and
A B C
through diplomacy.
D
22.One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European paintings
A B
in the United States can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
C D
23.Three of every four migrating water birds in North America visits the Gulf of
A B C
Mexico's winter wetlands.
D
24.Charleston,West Virginia,was named for Charles Clendenin,who son George
A B
acquired land at the junction of the Elk and Kanawha rivers in 1787.
C D
25.Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the
A B C
National Gallery of Art,where it is now locating.
D
26.Soil temperatures in Death Valley,California,near the Nevada border,have been
A B C
known to reach 90of degrees Celsius.
D
27.When the Sun,Moon,and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the Earth's
A B C
orbital plane,a solar eclipse occurs.
D
28.Mary Cassatt's paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear
A B
rhythm,simple modelings,and harmonies of clear color.
C D
29.Plants synthesize carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of
A B
energy is derived from sunlight.
C D
30.The best American popular music balances a powerful emotions of youth with
A B C
tenderness,grace,and wit.
D
31.In the nineteenth century,women used quilts to inscribe their responses to social,
A B C
economic,and politics issues.
D
32.Fossils in 500-million-year-old rocks demonstrate that life forms in the Cambrian
A B
period were mostly marine animals capability of secreting calcium to form shells.
C D
33.Rainbows in the shape of complete circles are sometimes seen from airplanes
A B
because they are not cutting off by the horizon.
C D
34.Hot at the equator causes the air to expand,rise,and flow toward the poles.
A B C D
35.Although research has been ongoing since 1930,the existence of ESP-perception
A B
and communication without the use of sight,hear,taste,touch,or smell -is still disputed.C D
36.As many as 50percent of the income from motion pictures produced in the United
A B
States comes from marketing the films abroad.
C D
37.Sleep is controlled by the brain and associated by characteristic breathing rhythms.A B C D
33.The walls around the city of Quebec,which was originally a fort military,still
A B
stand,making Quebec the only walled city in North America.
C D
34.The manufacture of automobile was extremely expensive until assembly-line
A B C
techniques made them cheaper to produce.
D
35.The ballad is characterized by informal diction,by a narrative largely dependent
A B
on action and dialogue,by thematic intense,and by stress on repetition.
C D