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【正文】 o attack the enemy from their back C) a secret passage for the king and queen to swim in the moat and play the chaseandhide game in the forest D) a secret passage for the king and queen to escape when the castle was captured 正確答案是 38. According to the passage, why was it not fortable to live in a castle? A) People living in a castle could not go out of the castle freely. B) It was cold and humid inside the rooms of a castle and the smoke from their fireplaces had no chimney to go out. C) Every time they wanted to go out of the castle, they had to ask the soldiers to lower the drawbridge. D) The castle was not big enough to ride horse or to take a walk. 正確答案是 39. It can be inferred from the people39。s eating habit in a castle that ______. A) they lived a luxurious life and their diet was very delicate B) they lived a primitive life and their table manner was often rude C) they lived a highly civilized court life D) they lived a paratively luxurious but notsocivilized life 正確答案是 40. The main topic of this passage is ______. A) why people built castles and their structure B) castles39。 structure and the people who lived in them C) castles39。 structure and the life in them D) castles39。 structure and the eating habit in them 正確答案是 Passage 9 Several thousand years ago chickens were wild birds living in the jungles of southeast Asia. Early records tell us that the Chinese started to tame them around 1400 . Centuries later, in the 1600s, English colonists brought farm chickens to America. Today thousands of American farmers raise more than three billion chickens every year. Families of chickens are made up of roosters, hens, and baby chicks. The rooster, a fullgrown male chicken, is sometimes called the farmer39。s alarm clock because he crows every morning. This is how everyone on a farm wakes up. Only hens, fullgrown female chickens, can lay eggs. The hen hatches her baby chicks by sitting on her eggs for twentyone days. An average smallfarm family keeps ten chickens in its barnyard. Because one hen can lay as many as 240 eggs yearly, this flock will give enough eggs to feed a family of five people. But they provide other food as well. Each year most Americans eat forty pounds of chicken meat in addition to the eggs. Chickens are different from other birds. Their wings are small and weak, and their bodies are very heavy. Thus, they can fly only a few feet at a time. The chicken is also the only bird with a b, or small piece of flesh, on the top of its head. Both the chicken and the turkey have wattles or pieces of flesh, banging under their chins. Breeders raise about 100 different kinds of chickens. But not all of them get eaten. Some people make chickenraising a hobby. They take their prize birds to pete in shows and fairs. One of these special breeds, the Yokohama, has tail feathers twelve feet long. Another breed, called the Silky, has feathers as fine as hair. 41. Chickens were wild birds in jungles thousands of years ago before ______. A) they were tamed more than a thousand years before the Birth of Christ B) they were brought from the Great Britain to America C) they were brought by the European colonists to America in the 1600s . D) they were brought by Chinese to America in 1600s 正確答案是 42. The word chick (Para. 2) in the context is probably ______. A) the short form for chicken B) a young woman C) a young chicken D) a young bird 正確答案是 43. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. A) there are five people in an average smallfarm family B) ten chickens were usually raised by an average smallfarm family C )Americans eat not only eggs but also chicken meat D) chickens were probably first raised to lay eggs rather than to provide chicken meat 正確答案是 44. According to the passage, in what ways are chickens and turkeys in mon? A) Neither birds can fly far at a time. B) Both birds have a b on top of their heads. C) Both birds have pieces of flesh hanging under their chins. D) Both birds have small and weak wings and heavy bodies. 正確答案是 45. Chickens are raised not only for food but also ______. A) as pets B) to replace dogs C) as an self enjoyment in one39。s free time D) to fight with neighbor39。s chickens 正確答案是 Passage 10 The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated munities scarcely knew that a war was on. America39。s War of Independence heralded the birth of three modern nations. One was Canada, which received its first large influx of Englishspeaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from the United States. Another was Australia, which became a penal colony now that America was no longer available for prisoners and debtors. The third newer the United States based itself squarely on republican principles. Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose. In some states, notably Connecticut and Rhode Island, the war largely ratified a colonial selfrule already existing. British officials, everywhere ousted, were replaced by a homegrown governing class, which promptly sought a local substitute for king and Parliament. of the following would be the best title for the passage? A) The United States: An Isolated Community. B) Breathtaking Events During the American Revolution. C) Canada and the American War of Independence. D) Th