2010.03.20 考試 (33-34)

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2010/03/20考試

Reading 33

1. What Charles Lindbergh did in the Spirit of St. Louis is really not enough to explain the extent to which he was idolized by practically the entire nation.

2. It was his daring, his genuine honesty, his handsome appearance, his unerring courtesy and quite good taste that explain the almost hysterical adulation accorded him by millions of his fellow countrymen.

Reading 34

1. Baltimore was founded in 1729. For a generation it seemed no different from a dozen other small settlements springing up at the head of the Chesapeake Bay; its claim to distinction consisted of a blacksmith’s shop, flour mill, and tobacco warehouse.

2. By 1790 it had risen to become the new republic’s fourth largest city with aspirations to overtake the three still ahead: New York, Philadelphia, and Boston.