Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature. （)

We may safely conclude that ______.

A．the author belongs to the anti-railway group

B．the author belongs to the pro-railway group

C．the author speaks highly of the railway

D．the author may never take train because of its potential dangers

We may safely conclude that ______.

A．the author belongs to the anti-railway group

B．the author belongs to the pro-railway group

C．the author speaks highly of the railway

D．the author may never take train because of its potential dangers

A. Edward Albee

B. Arthur Kopit

C. August Wilson

D. David Mamet

E. Sam Shepard

A. Tennessee Williams

B. Arthur Miller

C. David Mamet

D. William Inge

E. Arthur Kopit

听力原文： In 1789 the U. S. government passed a law which said that the land of the American Indians could never be taken from them without their agreement. One hundred years later, however, the Indians only had a very small part of the land that originally belonged to them. How did this great injustice occur?

After 1812, white settlers began to move west across North America. At first, the settlers and the Indians lived in peace. However, the number of settlers increased greatly every year, (32) and slowly the Indians began to see the white settlers as a danger to their survival. To feed themselves, the settlers killed more and more wild animals. The Indians, who depended on these animals for food, (33) had to struggle against starvation. The Settler also brought with them many diseases which were common in white society, but which were new for the Indians. Great numbers of Indians became sick and died. Between 1843 and 1854 the Indian population in one area of the country went down from 100 000 to 30 000.

More land was needed for the Increasing number of white settlers. In Washington, the old respect for the rights of the Indians disappeared. The old promises to the Indians were broken, the federal government began to move groups of Indians from their original homelands to other poorer parts of the country. (34) Some Indians reacted angrily and violently to this treatment. They began to attack white settlers. And the Indian Wars began. For thirty years, until the late 1880s, different groups of Indians fought against the injustices of the white man. Many Indians were killed, the survivors were moved from their homelands to different areas of the country. (35) It was a terrible chapter in the history of a country that promised freedom and equality to everyone.

(33)

A．When the white settlers began to move west in 1812.

B．When the increasing white settlers began to kill wild animals.

C．When many Indians began to die from the diseases.

D．When the white settlers wanted to occupy the land.

Which does NOT belong to the two unique days in American history?

A．Thanksgiving Day.

B．Christmas Eve.

C．Independence Day.

D．National Day.

The Cherokee Nation

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

According to the author, which one of the following does NOT belong to the category of antioxidants besides vitamin E?

A．Vitamin Ａ.

B．Vitamin Ｂ.

C．Vitamin Ｃ.

D．Carotene.

The Oxbow belongs to ________ in America.

A.the Hudson River School

B.Florence School

C.the Dutch art school

D.Surrealism