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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问题    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.
【C13】

选项 A、accumulation
B、expansion
C、multiplication
D、development

答案B

解析 此题属于语义搭配题。此句是一个定语从句,其中的spark 作动词用,意为“激发”,空格中的词应是spark 的宾语。根据上下文,主句中谈到了巴市经济有了惊人的发展,用到了 expand 一词,下文谈到激励这种发展的力量会持续50年,因此,选项[B]expansion (扩张)与前面的expand 相呼应。选项[A]accumulation 意为“积累”;选项[C]multiplication意为“增加,倍增”;选项[D]development 意为“发展”,均不如选项[B]expansion 更符合题意。
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