______ 1895 did Cornell University begin to offer a degree in ornithology (鸟类学).A.Not u
______ 1895 did Cornell University begin to offer a degree in ornithology (鸟类学).
A.Not until
B.Not since
C.Until
D.In
______ 1895 did Cornell University begin to offer a degree in ornithology (鸟类学).
A.Not until
B.Not since
C.Until
D.In
What did Jalpur plan to do when the harvest was good?
A.He planned to sell the corn and live with his son.
B.He planned to sell the fields and live with his son.
C.He planned to invite his son to live with him.
D.He planned to invite his grandchildren to live with him.
听力原文: During the early American colonial years, corn was more plentiful than wheat, so corn bread was more common than wheat bread. Friendly Indians showed colonists how to grow corn and how to prepare it for food and pioneer women then improved the Indian cooking techniques. When people traveled, they went on foot or horseback, sleeping and eating in the forests. They carried corn bread for sustenance. The corn bread came to be called journeyeake. Later when roads and taverns were built and stagecoaches carried passengers, journeycake became johnnycake, a name many easterners still use for corn bread. The kinds of bread made with cornmeal were and still are almost without limit. Every region has its specialties.
From the start, southerners showed a preference for white eorm:neal, northerners for yellow. And pioneers on the frontier, when they ran out of yeast, made salt-rising bread. They stirred together water, a little water ground cornmeal, potatoes, and salt. They set the mixture, uncovered, in a warm place until it absorbed bacteria from the air and began to ferment. Then they removed the potatoes and used the liquid as leavening for their bread, made with white flour.
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A.The colonists preferred corn bread.
B.Corn was more abundant.
C.The colonists did not know how to make wheat bread.
D.Corn bread did not spoil as rapidly as wheat bread did.
What did the professor not cover that she originally intended to?
A.Robert Torren"s theory on comparative advantage.
B.The corn trade in England in the 19th century.
C.The trading history between England and Portugal.
D.Portugal"s specialization in wine production.
How did Jalpur save the village people?
A.He asked the villagers to come out to see what was going on.
B.He shouted to the people.
C.He ran down the hills to warn people.
D.He set fire on his corn to attract people's attention.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: In 1946 there was a program in the Rio Grande valley to substitute the hybrid com, which is produced by mixing several types of corn, for the native corn. The native corn was of poor nutritional quality and gave a poor quantity of grain, while the hybrid corn was of excellent quality and gave about three times as large a crop as the native variety. In the first year, half of the 84 farmers in the village planted the hybrid corn and doubled the corn production. Three years later, however, only three farmers planted the hybrid corn. The others were planting the traditional variety. At the beginning of the project, the program leader studied the pattern of the natural relations of plants, animals, and people to each other and to their surroundings of the area and showed films demonstrating the superiority of the new corn. The farmers agreed that the hybrid com had great advantages. The size of the corn confirmed these advantages. Why did they stop planting it? They complained that it wasn't good for cooking and they didn't like the flavor.
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A.Replacing the native corn with the hybrid corn.
B.Replacing the hybrid corn with the native corn.
C.Replacing the new type of corn with the traditional corn.
D.Replacing the traditional corn with the native corn.
A.corn borer
B.Japanese beetle
C.gypsy moth
D.fire ant
听力原文: Once a thief stole a bag of corn from a farmer's house. The farmer went to the judge and told him about this. The judge ordered all the people of the farm to come before him. He took many sticks of equal length and gave one stick to each man.
He then said, "Come before me again tomorrow. I shall know which of you is the thief because the thief's stick will be one inch longer than any of the others. "The thief was afraid of the judge's words, and so cut an inch off his stick.
The next day, people saw the thief's stick was one inch shorter than any of the others. In this way the thief was found out, and was at once taken to prison.
What did the thief steal?
A.A bag of rice.
B.A bag of corn.
C.A stick.
In colonial times, why was com bread more common than wheat bread?
A.The colonists preferred com breed.
B.Corn was more abundant.
C.The colonists did not know how to make wheat bread.
D.Com bread did not spoil as rapidly as wheat breed did.
He then said, "Come before me again tomorrow. I shall then know which of you is the thief because the thief's stick will be one inch longer than any of the others."
The thief was afraid of the judge's words, and so cut an inch off his stick.
The next day, people saw the thief's stick was one inch shorter than any of the others. In this way the thief was found out, and was at once taken to prison.
What did the thief steal?
A.A bag of rice.
B.A bag of corn.
C.A stick.
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