大学英语大学英语大学英语四级(CET4)大学英语四级模拟题18

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• 11Webster first tried to earn his living in the field of ____.

  A.education

  B.journalism

  C.law

  D.medicine

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• 12Webster earned most of his money from the sale of his ____.

  A.dictionary of 1828

  B.spelling book

  C.grammar

  D.reader

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• 13Apparently Webster published his first books while he was a____.

  A.teacher

  B.student

  C.lawyer

  D.doctor

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• 14This article could be entitled ____.

  A.Noah Webster and American English Spelling

  B.Noah Webster, the author of An American Dictionary of the English Language

  C.Noah Webster

  D.Noah Webster and American English Grammar

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• 15According to the article, Webster ____.

  A.had created American English and its usages

  B.had discovered American English and improved it

  C.had tried his best and left a milestone on the language of his country

  D.had left a language which was not used in England.

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• 16“…the United States seemed to have plenty of land to go around ”means that ____.

  A.the United States seemed to have vast land for its people to walk around

  B.the United States seemed to have enough land for sharing with everyone

  C.the United States could provide whatever its inhabitents' needs

  D.the United States was not able to allow its people to do what they wanted to

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• 17The sentence of “Plenty of rivers to dam and plenty of rural valleys left over” suggests that ____.

  A.the United States had a lot of rivers to dam and many rural valleys,too

  B.the rivers could be damed later

  C.rural valleys would be considered in the future

  D.people needn't think of the rivers and valleys

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• 18“Now the land has been spoken for, …” tells us that ____.

  A.today, land has shown its values

  B.now, people have said something about land

  C.nowadays, land has been claimed by human beings

  D.recently, people spoke for the land

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• 19The phrase of “swallows up” informed us that ____.

  A.these usages of land have good results

  B.these lands must be used totally

  C.the precious space was taken completely

  D.the precious space were eaten up

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• 20The word “sprawl” indicates that ____.

  A.cities are developing very fast to meet the people's demands

  B.urban areas are diminishing smoothly

  C.urban areas are enlarging steadily in a planned way

  D.cities are spreading out without any plans

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