The adventurer started ______ at midnight in a temperature of 30°C below zero.

A．out

B．up

C．off

D．on

聽力原文： No author in American literature is better .known or more loved than Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in Missouri in 1853, he grew on the bank of the Mississippi River and later adopted the pen name of Mark Twain from the call of the boatmen on the Mississippi as they measured the depth of the river. The river environment inspired the two novels which brought him his greatest fame. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Another book, Life on the Mississippi, told of his adventures on the river boats of that period.

It was during the Civil War that Mark Twain's life as a writer started. At that time he was working as a newspaperman in Nevada and California. His short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was an immediate success and his new career began.

In 1870, Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon. He had fallen in love with her picture even before he met her. According to his own story, his wife had a real influence on Twain's later books.

Mark Twain was also a very successful lecturer. His travels around the country giving talks on a variety of subjects helped make him famous and increased the sale of his books.

The pen name Mark Twain came from_____

A．his father's experience as a boatman

B．his friends on the bank of the Mississippi River

C．the call of the boatmen on the Mississippi River

D．the boat on the Mississippi River

I had a lot of trouble getting the Car started this morning．

They set up China's first ( ) foreign-controlled joint-venture travel agency in Beijing last November.他們?nèi)ツ晔辉略诒本┙⒘酥袊?guó)第一家試點(diǎn)性質(zhì)的由外商控股的合資旅行社。

A、pillows

B、pilots

C、pilot

D、pilotage

What was the subject of Joyce Carol Oates's first novel?

A．Loneliness

B．Inanity

C．Teaching

D．Racing

Most boys, and many girls too, have at some time or other started a stamp collection. Stamp-collecting, or, to call it【21】its correct name, philately,【22】an increasing popular hobby from as【23】as 1854 -- for less than two decades (十年) after postage stamps【24】. Today the hobby numbers【25】are not only boys and girls, but also men and women from all ranks (階層) in society. So rapidly【26】the interest in stamp-collecting increase in the United States of America【27】in 1921 the United States Post Office found itself【28】set up a special department to【29】the needs of collectors. At present the yearly【30】of this department total over three hundred thousand dollars.

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A．by

B．in

C．for

D．with