Northern provinces and territories tale up four fifths of Canada. （)

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A.half

B.two thirds

C.one third

D.four fifths

听力原文： On June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offer as follows:

We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were taught all your sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, they were totally good for nothing.

We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it, and to show our grateful sense of it. If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know and make men of them.

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A．The educational values of the Indians.

B．The colleges of the northern provinces.

C．The talk between the Indians and the officials.

D．The problems of the Americans in the mid-eighteenth century.

the eighteenthcentury emigration from Ireland was on a small scale; it is doubtful if thenumbers exceeded 5,000 in any one season. The emigrants came mainly fromUlster(厄，).They were Presbyterian()smallfarmers of Scottish descent(),and not paupers(贫);They took some capital and experience with them and their motive was to bettertheir lot().During this period emigration was not easy; all agreements had to be made bythe emigrant himself, who traveled to the port and bargained personally for hispassage with the captain of the ship in which he wished to sail. This practicewas changed as a result of the Napoleonic wars. Before 1807 almost all theimported timber(材)used in Great Britain came from northern Europe. But in that year the Treaty ofTilist()was signed between Napoleon and the emperor Alexander Russia; as a consequence,timber from northern Europe was suddenly cut off, and had to be imported insteadfrom the British provinces in North America. The trade proved immenselyprofitable, and after Waterloo heavy duties were placed on European timber, topreserve the market for British North America. By the eighteen-forties thetrade, which had barely existed thirty years previously, had grown to an annualimportation of over 925 loads of timber.

While the timber trade wasrapidly developing, economic conditions in Ireland became disastrous.Agriculture prices, inflated during the Napoleonic war, dropped heavily afterWaterloo, and Ireland became a country in which, with the exception ofnortheast Ulster, employment for wages virtually ceased to exist. Theextraordinary increase in population continued and standards of life becamealmost unbearably low.

46.In the eighteenth century people left Ireland because______.

A. they wanted to getricher

B. their skill in farmingwas in demand abroad

C. they were desperatelypoor

D. they were religiousrefugees

47. The writer saystraveling overseas was difficult for eighteenth century Irishmen because______.

A. the ships captainshad strong religious prejudices

B. there was no organizedroutine

C. passengers became thecaptains legal property

D. captains took most ofthe emigrants savings

48.The Napoleonic war led to ______.

A. Britain not beingallowed to import wood from northern Europe

B. wood produced inRussia being sold to Napoleon

C. the Britishauthorities putting a stop to Irish travelers arrangements with captains

D. the Russians feelingmuch larger numbers of trees for their own use

49.Timber was taxed in order to ______.

A. maintain good pricesfor European timber

B. encourage Americansales in Britain

C. protect North Americanindustry from overseas imports

D. encourage Britishsales in America

50.Irish people became very poor after the Napoleonic war because______.

A. food prices became solow

B. living standards sankdrastically

C. food prices became sohigh

D. there waspractically no work to do

oo hot today. They say it is 35 degrees, but who believes them？"

Mr. Wang, a retired worker, was echoing the feelings of thousands of Beijing people as summer entered its hottest stage.

Thursday was the hottest day of the year so far, with the temperature officially reported as 36 degrees. But many people believe the government understates the real figure because regulations (条例 ) passed in the 1950s allow workers to stay at home for all or half day if the temperature is higher than 38 degrees.

" It was at least 40 degrees on Thursday, " said Liang Guojun, a middle school teacher. " It was unbearable. But the newspaper said only 36 and forecast rain. Of which there was none.

In Beijing, visitors to Daguanyuan Park in the southwest of the city said the ground temperature reached 55 degrees on Thursday.

The Beijing Evening News reported yesterday that more than 3 , 000 people had been admitted to hospitals suffering from heat stroke (中暑) , while local power companies were struggling to meet the demand for electricity.

A heat wave is sweeping much of the mainland, with temperatures in parts of Beijing, Shandong and Hebei provinces reaching as high as 39 degrees. Xinhua said the average temperature in Beijing on Thursday was 36 degrees but in the northern part of Tanghe Kou it was 39 degrees.

Hundreds of people suffering fevers were treated at hospitals. The Chaoyang hospital in northeast Beijing reported 55 such cases on Wednesday. They said most were caused by the difference in temperature between air-conditioned areas and outdoors.

Mr. Liang said the regulation on stopping work when the temperature reached 38 degrees was passed in the 1950s when Beijing had no air-conditioning and depended on fans—either handheld or electric.

"But in those days the temperature rarely reached 38 degrees, so the rule was not actually used. Now we have had years of global warming and industrial pollution and the summers get hotter each year, which means that the temperature is often higher than 38.

But an official from the Beijing Meteorological Observatory (北京气象台) said they had no knowledge of any such regulation.

Whom does the underlined word "they" (Paragraph 1) refer to？

A．Bus drivers.

B．Weather reports.

C．Newspaper editors.

D．Passengers on the bus.

The awful roads developed the provinces’ sense of isolation and autonomy. （翻译)