Cindy: ______Rose: No, what happened? Cindy: They let him go as he is suspected to be chea
A.Did you know John?
B.Did you like John?
C.Did you hate John?
D.Did you hear about John?
A.Did you know John?
B.Did you like John?
C.Did you hate John?
D.Did you hear about John?
A.She was almost cheated by a telephone call.
B.She got a phone call from a special number.
C.She was overcharged by the phone company.
D.She prepared for her vacation with her friend.
A.Yes, I am Mr. Smith.
B.No, he is not in the office right now.
C.Speaking!
D.He is not here. Can I speak for him?
A.How do you do? My project has gone well.
B.Nice to meet you, too. My project has gone well as we expected.
C.Hi, Mike. My project has gone well.
D.I'm glad to meet you. My project is really a difficult one.
A.slip into
B.make up for
C.set up
D.catch up with
A.raising the world's temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth
B.lowering the world's temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disaster
C.almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade
D.the world's temperature will remain constant in the years to come
But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England.For a while it outsold (销得比…多) every book in the world, except the Bible.
Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America's most popular play for 80 years.
(79) It might appear that" Uncle Tom's Cabin was universally popular, but this was certainly not true. Many people during those pre-Civil War days—particularly defenders of the slavery sys tem—condemned it as false propaganda and poorly written melodrama(传奇剧作品).
Harriet did have strong religious views against slavery (When asked how she came to write the book, she replied, "God wrote it. " ), and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong, so per haps the book could be considered propaganda.But if so, it was true propaganda, because it accurately described the evils of slavery.
Though she was born in Connecticut, 1832, as a young woman she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when her father accepted the presidency of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary(神学院). Ohio was a free state, but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Harriet saw slavery in action. She lived 18 years in Cincinnati, marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college. In 1851, Harriet Beeper Stowe began her book.
Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system. Today some historians(历史学家) think that it helped bring on the American Civil War.
In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War, he said, "So, this is the little lady who started this big war. "
Before the publication of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" _________.
A.Harriet knew that it would be a great success
B.the publisher wanted Harriet to publish it at her own expense
C.nobody knew that it would become a very popular book
D.no publisher wanted to publish this anti-slavery book
A.the author was merely an unknown little lady
B.they thought it was mere propaganda
C.the book was poorly written
D.the book might lead to a terrible war
A.the greenhouse effect
B.the burning of fossil fuels
C.the potential effect of air pollution
D.the likelihood of a new ice age
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