In the seventeenth century English inns set _______ for accommodations in other parts

A.the late sixteenth century

B.the late fifteenth century

C.the late seventeenth century

D.the late nineteenth century

o fit the beginning of the______(twenty)century，but it is much less evident today.

lished European poets to the subject matter confronted in a spring, new environment.__________ Bradstreet was one such poet.

(英译汉)Sometimes books were illustrated with woodcuts. Blocks of wood were carved so that the white parts of the picture were below the surface of the wood. When the surface was inked and stamped onto paper, the dark part of the picture was reproduced. The first attempts, of course, were rather crude, but eventually the block printers were making meticulous and artistic illustrations. Florence, in Italy and Lyons, in France, became famous for their illustrated books.

In the seventeenth century, great numbers of religious pamphlets were printed. These pamphlets were not always neat or artistic because the writers were only interested in spreading their ideas quickly, and the readers did not consider the appearance of the book important.

enth century and then only rather slowly and laboriously. But chemical knowledge is as old as history, being almost entirely concerned with the practical' arts of living. Cooking is essentially a chemical process; so is the inching of metals and the administration of drugs and potions. This basic chemical knowledge, which was applied in most cases as a rule of thumb, was nevertheless dependent on previous experiment. It also served to stimulate a fundamental curiosity about the processes themselves. New information was always being gained as artisans improved techniques to gain better results.

The development of a scientific approach to chemistry was, however, hampered by several factors. The most serious problem was the vast range of material available and the consequent difficulty of organizing it into some system. In addition, there 'were social and intellectual difficulties, chemistry is nothing if not practical, those who practice it must use their hands, they must have a certain practical flair. Yet in many ancient civilizations, practical tasks were primarily the province of a slave population. The thinker or philosopher stood apart from this mundane world, where the practical arts appeared to lack any intellectual content or interest.

The final problem for early chemical science was the element of secrecy. Experts in specific trades had developed their own techniques and guarded their knowledge to prevent others from stealing their livelihood. Another factor that contributed to secrecy was the esoteric nature of the knowledge of alchemists, who were trying to transform. base metals into gold or were concerned with the hunt for the elixir that would bestow the blessing of eternal life. In one sense, the second of these was the more serious impediment because the records of the chemical processes that early alchemists had discovered were often written down in symbolic language intelligible to very few or in symbols that were purposely obscure.

What is the passage mainly about？

A．The scientific revolution in the seventeenth century.

B．Reasons that chemistry developed slowly as a science.

C．The practical aspects of chemistry.

D．Difficulties of organizing chemical knowledge systematically.

Although stage plays have been set to music since the era(年代) of the ancient Greeks when the dramas of Sophocles and Aeschylus were accompanied by lyres(里拉琴) and flutes, the usually accepted date for the beginning of opera as we know it is 1600. As part of the celebration of the marriage of King Henry IV of France to the Italian aristocrat(贵族) Maria de Medici, the Florentine composer Jacopo Peri produced his famous Euridice, generally considered to be the first opera. Following his example, a group of Italian musicians called the Camerata began to revive(复兴) the style. of musical story that had been used in Greek tragedy.

1. This passage is a summary of ____.

A、opera in Italy

B、the Camerata

C、the development of opera

D、 Euridice.

2. According to the author, Jacopo Peri wrote ____.

A、Greek tragedy

B、the first opera

C、the opera Maria de Medici

D、the opera The Camerata

3. We can infer that the Camerata ____.

A、was a group of Greek musicians

B、developed a new musical drama based upon Greek drama

C、was not known in Italy

D、was the name given to the court of King Henry IV

4. The author suggests that Euridice was produced ____.

A、in France

B、originally by Sophocles and Aeschylus

C、without much success

D、for the wedding of King Henry IV

5. According to this passage, modern opera began in the ____.

A、time of the ancient Greeks

B、fifteenth century

C、sixteenth century

D、seventeenth century