请选择(5)处的最佳答案. A.possibleB.easyC.not impossible D.impossible
请选择(5)处的最佳答案.
A.possible
B.easy
C.not impossible
D.impossible
请选择(5)处的最佳答案.
A.possible
B.easy
C.not impossible
D.impossible
A.last
B.best
C.ugliest
D.longest
Long before the white man came to the America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.
After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to: invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible--there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sounD.His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.
In 1830, the U. S. Congress passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River
The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the western territory. The sick, the old and the small children, went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4,000 had dieD.It was indeed a march of death.
第 41 题 The Cherokee Nation used to live________
A.on the American continent
B.in the southeastern part of the U. S.
C.beyond the Mississippi River
D.in the western territory
A.when he is two.
B.when he is around four.
C.when he is six.
D.when he is eight.
Fairy Tales for All the World
This year, the world is marking the 200th anniversary of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen with a wide range of events.
Andersen's tales have attracted millions of readers for more than a century.They continue to be among the best-known works of world literature."The Ugly Duckling(小鸭)"and" The Little Mermaid(美人鱼)"are among the most famous.
He was born on April 2,1 805,in the slums of Odense,Denmark.His father was a shoemaker and his mother Worked as a washer—woman.Andersen received very little education.But his fascination with fairy tales inspired him to compose his own stories and arrange puppet(木偶)shows。
His father died when he was 11.He was forced to go to work.first as an apprentice to a weaver and tailor and then in a tobacco factory.At the age of l 4,he moved to Copenhagen to try a career as a singer, dancer and actor.He sang in a boy's choir(合唱团), but he made very little money.He also tried the ballet,but his awkwardness made this impassible
Finally when he was 17,Jonas Collin,a director of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen discovered Andersen.After hearing Andersen read a play, Collin realized that he had talent.And he got money from the king for Andersen's education.
In 1828, Andersen passed the entrance examinations to the university In Copenhagen.His Writings were first published in l 829.In.1 833,he received grant money for travel,which he used to visit, Germany, France,Switzerland,and Italy.These journeys were recorded in his travelogues(旅行见闻).In l 835,Andersen published" Fairy Tales for Children,"which contained four short stories.He eventually wrote around 168 fairy tales.They achieved success, in his life—time and were widely published and translated.
Unhappiness also found its way into many of his tales which were not meant merely for children but for adults.He used very simple language and style. to disguise the moral teachings of his tales
Andersen also wrote novels、plays and poems.He died at his home in Rolighed on August4,1875.
第 16 题 Andersen died on April 4,1 875.()
A.right
B.wrong
C.Not mentioned
A.Those double stars' planets
B.Those planets much hotter than our earth.
C.Those planets similar to the earth.
D.Those planets very close to their suns
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