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13/07/2023 1,930Read the following passage and choose the option that indicates the correct answer to each of the following questions.(2.0 pts)
In the United States in the early 1800's, individual state governments had more effect on the economy than did the federal government. States chartered manufacturing, banking, mining, and transportation firms and participated in the construction of various internal improvements such as canals, turnpikes, and railroads. The states encouraged internal improvements in two distinct ways; first, by actually establishing state companies to build such improvements; second, by providing part of the capital for mixed public-private companies setting out to make a profit.
In the early nineteenth century, state governments also engaged in a surprisingly large amount of direct regulatory activity, including extensive licensing and inspection programs. Licensing targets reflected both similarities and differences between the economy of the nineteenth century and that of today: in the nineteenth century, state regulation through licensing fell especially on peddlers, innkeepers, and retail merchants of various kinds. The perishable commodities of trade generally came understate inspection, and such important frontier staples as lumber and gunpowder were also subject to state control. Finally, state governments experimented with direct labor and business regulation designed to help the individual laborer or consumer, including setting maximum limits on hours of work and restrictions on price-fixing by businesses.
Although the states dominated economic activity during this period, the federal government was not inactive. Its goals were the facilitation of western settlement and the development of native industries. Toward these ends, the federal government pursued several courses of action. It established a national bank to stabilize banking activities in the country and, in part, to provide a supply of relatively easy money to the frontier, where it was greatly needed for settlement. It permitted access to public western lands on increasingly easy terms, culminating in the Homestead Act of 1862, by which title to land could be claimed on the basis of residence alone. Finally, it set up a system of tariffs that was basically protectionist in effect, although maneuvering for position by various regional interests produced frequent changes in tariff rates throughout the nineteenth century.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
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Chọn C
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Câu 2:
The word “effect” in bold in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to __________.
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Chọn C
Câu 3:
All of the following are mentioned in the passage as areas that involved statevernments in the nineteenth century EXCEPT _________.
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Chọn D
Câu 4:
The word “distinct” in bold in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to_________.
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Chọn A
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Chọn D
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Chọn B
Câu 7:
The word “setting” in bold in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________.
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Chọn C
Câu 8:
The word “ends” in bold in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.
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Chọn D
Câu 9:
According to the passage, which of the following is true of the Homestead Act of 1862?
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Chọn A
Câu 10:
Which of the following activities was the responsibility of the federal government in the nineteenth century?
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Chọn C
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There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.
It seems that the mystery of why the Pyramids were built may have solved. Until quite recently people got used to think that they were just tombs for pharaohs. Instead, the connection with astronomy seems much more important. Egyptologists have often asked them how long it spent to build them and why people built them in first place. Experts came up with a suggestion that the Egyptians may have believed in the River Nile was the earthly equivalent of the Milky Way. Many agree that the sizes of the three Giza Pyramids are in promotion to the three stars of Orion. Nothing, then, was by the chance. Rather, the souls of dead pharaohs were deliberately being project through shafts to reach at their goal of the Orion constellation.
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Only after the atomic bomb ________ and development in the air travel _______, ______ science fiction really become popular.
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