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In the United States today, coffee is a more popular drink (1)_____ tea, but tea played (2)_____ interesting part in the history
In the United States today, coffee is a more popular drink (1)_____ tea, but tea played (2)_____ interesting part in the history
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In the United States today, coffee is a more popular drink (1)_____ tea, but tea played (2)_____ interesting part in the history of the United States. Before they won their (3)_____ from Britain, the colonists were forced to (4)_____ taxes on many goods imported into America. The tax money was (5)_____ to support colonial governors and officials sent to the colonies by the British. In 1770 the British Prime Minister had repealed most of the taxes, but King George (6)_____ on retaining the tax (7)_____ tea. The King saw the tax as a (8)_____ of the British right to tax the colonies. American merchants (9)_____ smuggled nine-tenths of America’s tea into the country and (10)_____ paying the taxes.
(11)_____ the tax savings, the price of tea remained expensive due. to (12)_____ shipping costs. When the British Parliament (13)_____ a new law which would allow British companies to import tea more (14)_____ than American shipping companies, the (15)_____ were alarmed and they (16)_____ a protest. In Boston citizens and merchants, who (17)_____ disguised as Indians, boarded a British ship and (18)_____ $15,000 worth of tea into the harbor. This protest (19)_____ Great Britain is known as the Boston Tea Party. It was one of the earliest acts of (20)_____ against British rule.
选项
A、assistance
B、aggression
C、resistence
D、assurance
答案
C
解析
resistence意为"抵抗";assistance意为"帮助";aggression意为"侵略";assurance意为"保险,保证"。句意为:这是美国人对英国最早的反抗行为之一。因此,只有resistence符合文意。
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