Britain is an important oil exporter since its oil industry has a long history.（)

People produce food in many ways.Agriculture，or farming，developed thousands of years ago. ___11___about 100 years ago, most farmers in the United States Produced only enough food for their own___12___Today,modern equipment and farming methods have greatly ___13___the American farmer’s productivity.

In various parts of the world,people___14___many animals that supply meat and milk. Cattle, horses, goats, sheep, and pigs are important food animals. In the United States, the cow is the major source of milk products. Chickens___15___ people with both meat and eggs.

Fishing is an important source of food, ___16___in areas near the sea. Some countries, like Japan, consume much more fish than meat.

The wealthy areas of the world consume the most food , ___17___include the United States, Canada, and Europe. Many countries are able to import food if it cannot be produced at home. ___18___Great Britain imports about 75percent of its meat，and grows less than half the food its people require.

___19___people of the poor countries of the world usually eat only what they are able to produce themselves. In some parts of Asia, people live ___20___rice alone.

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12.A.needs B.reasons C.efforts D.interests

13.A.protected B.supported C.increased D.reflected

14.A.grow B.raise C.train D.store

15.A.prepare B.treat C.serve D.provide

16.A.certainly B.actually C.occasionally D.especially

17.A.these B.where C.which D.they

18.A.In addition B.For example C.Above all D.After all

19.A.However B.Therefore C.Moreover D.instead

20.A.with B.for C.on D.through

While the timber trade wasrapidly developing, economic conditions in Ireland became disastrous.Agriculture prices, inflated during the Napoleonic war, dropped heavily afterWaterloo, and Ireland became a country in which, with the exception ofnortheast Ulster, employment for wages virtually ceased to exist. Theextraordinary increase in population continued and standards of life becamealmost unbearably low.

46.In the eighteenth century people left Ireland because______.

A. they wanted to getricher

B. their skill in farmingwas in demand abroad

C. they were desperatelypoor

D. they were religiousrefugees

47. The writer saystraveling overseas was difficult for eighteenth century Irishmen because______.

A. the ships captainshad strong religious prejudices

B. there was no organizedroutine

C. passengers became thecaptains legal property

D. captains took most ofthe emigrants savings

48.The Napoleonic war led to ______.

A. Britain not beingallowed to import wood from northern Europe

B. wood produced inRussia being sold to Napoleon

C. the Britishauthorities putting a stop to Irish travelers arrangements with captains

D. the Russians feelingmuch larger numbers of trees for their own use

49.Timber was taxed in order to ______.

A. maintain good pricesfor European timber

B. encourage Americansales in Britain

C. protect North Americanindustry from overseas imports

D. encourage Britishsales in America

50.Irish people became very poor after the Napoleonic war because______.

A. food prices became solow

B. living standards sankdrastically

C. food prices became sohigh

D. there waspractically no work to do

Which of the following sports was NOT invented in Britain？

A.Football.

B.Tennis.

C.Basketball

D.Cricket.

Britain won the Battle of Yorktown.()

A.import java.applet.Applet；

B.import java.io.*；

C.import java.awt.event；

D.import java.lang.*；

A.import javax.swing.*;

B.import java.util.Scanner;

C.import lang;

D.import javax.util.Scanner;

A.import java.io.*;

B.import java.sql.*;

C.import java.util.*;

D.import java.net.*;

when people outside the uk talk about england，they mistake it as britain sometimes. ()