According to the passage, the Presidential Palace was built to be ____ .

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• 1Which of the following statements about Washington, D. C. can be correctly inferred from the passage’、

  A.It contained many old buildings in 1801.

  B.It was not the first capital of the United States.

  C.The Presidential Palace was not located there.

  D.Thomas Jefferson was a newcomer there in 1801.

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• 2The driller is unlucky when

  A.the drill does not bring up any soil.

  B.the drill brings up soil.

  C.the drill strikes oil at a high level.

  D.the drill goes very near the oil without striking it.

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• 3The author mentions Trinidad because

  A.it has a famous lake which was visited by Sir Walter Raleigh.

  B.it probably has large quantities of crude oil under the surface.

  C.it is an example of a place where drilling is not necessary to obtain oil.

  D.its asphalt is very good for making roads.

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• 4“Where there is shale, there is likely to be oil.” The author says this in order to show that

  A.shale is a sedimentary rock.

  B.oil was made from shale.

  C.oil was first formed under the sea.

  D.shale is another form of oil.

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• 5Scientists think that

  A.oil was formed from large deposits of mud on the sea bed.

  B.coal was formed from shale under the surface of the earth.

  C.oil was formed from sea creatures caught between layers of rock.

  D.B.coal was formed from shale under the surface of the earth.C.oil was formed from sea creatures caught between layers of rock.D.oil was formed from sea water by processes of chemistry, pressure and temperatur

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• 6It can be inferred that one reason Thomas Jefferson did not entertain very often in Washington was because____

  A.he and his wife did not have appropriate clothes

  B.he did not enjoy elaborate parties

  C.the food in the area was not good

  D.he could not understand foreign languages

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• 7It can be interred from the passage that George Washington and John Adams both

  A.lived for a long time in Washington,D.C

  B.traveled to many foreign countries

  C.were rather formal gentlemen

  D.encouraged Jefferson to run for the presidency

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• 8According to the passage district courts are also know as ____.

  A.circuit courts

  B.supreme courts

  C.trial courts

  D.intermediate courts

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• 9In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the phrase “engaged in” could best be replaced by which of the following、

  A.committed to

  B.attentive to

  C.involved in

  D.engrossed in

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• 10The passage indicates that litigants who lose their cases in the state trial court may take them to a ____

  A.different trial court in the same state

  B.court in a different geographic region

  C.state supreme court

  D.federal trial court

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