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Baltimore was founded in 1729. For a generation it seemed no different from a dozen other small settlements【C1】______up at the h
Baltimore was founded in 1729. For a generation it seemed no different from a dozen other small settlements【C1】______up at the h
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Baltimore was founded in 1729. For a generation it seemed no different from a dozen other small settlements【C1】______up at the head of the Chesapeake Bays. Its claim【C2】______distinction consisted of a blacksmith’s shop, flour【C3】______, and tobacco warehouse. Yet Baltimore was【C4】______for a more dynamic future than its slow beginnings seemed to【C5】______Spurred by an agricultural revolution in the Maryland and Pennsylvania countryside【C6】______dramatic disruptions in the Atlantic economy, Baltimore at mid-century began to【C7】______. By 1799 it had risen to become the new Republic’s fourth largest city with【C8】______to overtake the three still【C9】______: New York, Philadelphia and Boston.【C10】______the Baltimore village of the Jeffersonian era looked utterly unlike the colonial village from【C11】______it had emerged, the two shared more than it might be apparent【C12】______the first glance. Baltimore’s economy had expanded tremendously, to be sure, but the same forces that sparked【C13】______around 1750 continued to【C14】______it fifty years later.【C15】______the establishment of new government at the state level in 1776, national level in 1788, and【C16】______level in 1797, the same irritating issues continued to attack its politics. If Baltimore had become richer and bigger, its occupational structure, wealth【C17】______and residential patterns withstood the pressure of growth and looked about the same in 1790 as in 1812.【C18】______, beneath the frozen and seemingly chaotic pace of【C19】______, Baltimore enjoyed a strong element of stability. For in 1812, no【C20】______than in 1729, Baltimore was a pre-industrial town.
【C7】
选项
A、doom
B、decline
C、steam
D、boom
答案
D
解析
此题属于语义搭配题。boom 意为“蓬勃发展”,例如:The economy is booming.根据上下文的意思,此句讲巴市经过农业革命和大西洋地区经济巨变之后所发生的变化,下文谈及该市崛起并成为美国的第四大城市,故选项[D] boom 符合题意。选项[A] doom 意为“注定(不好的命运)”,例如:Their plan was doomed to fail/failure.选项[D] decline 意为“衰退”,选项[C] steam 意为“蒸发”。
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