This approach stems from a strongly held belief that voluntary action ____ a major force for positive environment change.
A. measures
B. changes
C. supports
D. represents
Contrary to early expectations his ratings ____, and he soon had an audience of a million.
A. raised
B. soared
C. strengthened
D. intensified
一、填空题(共10空格,每空1分,共10分) Directions: Please fill in the blanks with the appropriate answers. 1. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, ______ and the pursuit of happiness. 2. According to ________ (author), a representative writer of dark romanticism, melancholy is the most appropriate tone for poetry and “death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”, because it provokes the deepest melancholy. 3. Born in Boston in 1706, ______ (author)published his famous Poor Richard’s Almanac, an annual collection of proverbs. His best writing is found in his own Autobiography, one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. 4. ______ _(author) is hailed as “the greatest female poet since Sappho”, and considered the precursor of the Imagist Movement. Her famous poems include “Because I could not stop for Death-.”5. ______ (author) is much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people. His famous poems include “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening” 6. “In a Station of Metro,” a famous imagist poem reads, “The _______ __ of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” 7. The Scarlet Letter, a novel by _______ (author), published in 1850, explores guilt, revenge, and redemption in colonial America. It is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. 8. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, ________ (author), established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie and the Hairy Ape. 9. ______ _ refers to a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights, poets, and novelists who presented new insights into the American experience and prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black writers after mid-century. 10. _______ (author), the first important American novelist, wrote historical novels known as The Leatherstocking Tales. His master work The Last of the Mohicans (1826) is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War.