首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Hotels were (31) the earliest facilities (32) bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communi
Hotels were (31) the earliest facilities (32) bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communi
admin
2009-06-24
60
问题
Hotels were (31) the earliest facilities (32) bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communities, as (33) as symptoms of the frenetic quest for communities. (34) in the first part of the nineteenth century, Americans were already forming the (35) of gathering from all corners of the nation for both public and (36) business and pleasure purposes. Conventions were the new occasions, and hotels were distinctively American facilities (37) conventions possible. The first national convention of a major party to choose a (38) for President (that of the Clay for President) was held in Baltimore, at a hotel that was then reputed to be the best in the country. The presence in Baltimore (39) Barnum’s City Hotel, a six-storey building with two hundred apartments, helps explain (40) many other early national political conventions were held there.
In the long run, too, American hotels made other national conventions not only possible (41) pleasant. The growing custom of regularly assembling (42) afar the representatives of all kinds of groups—not only for political conventions, but also for commercial, professional, learned, and avocational (43)—in (44) supported the multiplying hotels. By mid-twentieth century, conventions accounted (45) over a third of the yearly room occupancy of all (46) in the nation, about eighteen thousand different conventions were held annually (47) a total attendance of about ten million persons.
Nineteenth-century American hotelkeepers, (48) were no longer the genial, deferential "hosts" of the eighteenth-century European inn, became leading citizens. Holding a large stake in the community, they exercised power to make (49) prosper. As owners or managers of the local "palace of the public", they were makers and shapers of a principal community attraction. Travelers from (50) were mildly shocked by this high social position.
选项
答案
it
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/EcTd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
A.thatofaspeechcommunityB.canaspeechcommunitybeformedC.inordertolearnEnglishbetterD.forthesakeofsimplicity
A.thatofaspeechcommunityB.canaspeechcommunitybeformedC.inordertolearnEnglishbetterD.forthesakeofsimplicity
EnglishandEnglishCommunity1.ThereisnodenyingthatEnglishisausefullanguage.ThepeoplewhospeakEnglishtodaymak
A.thatofaspeechcommunityB.canaspeechcommunitybeformedC.inordertolearnEnglishbetterD.forthesakeofsimplicity
A.thatofaspeechcommunityB.canaspeechcommunitybeformedC.inordertolearnEnglishbetterD.forthesakeofsimplicity
StandardEnglishisthevarietyofEnglishwhichisusuallyusedinprintandwhichisnormallytaughtinschoolsandtonon-nat
StandardEnglishisthevarietyofEnglishwhichisusuallyusedinprintandwhichisnormallytaughtinschoolsandtonon-nat
StandardEnglishisthevarietyofEnglishwhichisusuallyusedinprintandwhichisnormallytaughtinschoolsandtonon-nat
StandardEnglishisthevarietyofEnglishwhichisusuallyusedinprintandwhichisnormallytaughtinschoolsandtonon-nat
TheAmericanFamilyIntheAmericanfamilythehusbandandwifeusuallyshareimportantdecisionmaking.Whenthechildrenar
随机试题
已知某正弦交变电流的瞬时值函数式为,求该交变电流的最大值、有效值、初相角、频率各为多少?
以下对学前儿童掌握科学概念的叙述错误的是()
患者全身水肿,按之没指,小便短小,身体困重,纳呆,舌白腻,脉沉缓,其主方为
初产妇,36岁,孕37周。头胀、头痛、下肢水肿已3天,突发持续性剧烈腹痛3小时,入院。体检:贫血貌,BP160/110mmHg,P110次/分,宫高37cm,腹围102cm,子宫不放松,压痛可疑,胎位不清,胎心音听不清,肛查时发现阴道少量流血,宫颈管未消失
下列不属于非语言沟通范围的是
根据法律规定,下列收入中不免纳个人所得税的是:
索赔成立的前提条件不包括()。
在生活中,下列哪一做法或现象与热胀冷缩无关?
2017年12月19日,北市人民政府印发《北市水资源税改革试点实办法》(以下简称《办法》)。根据《办法》,下列情形中应缴纳水资源税的是:
网络管理系统中的故障管理的目标是
最新回复
(
0
)