The sentence “In Kids Country we do not permit middle-aged” underlined in Paragraph 2 means that middle-aged .
The United States is a typical country _____.
The country was torn apart by strife()
Living in the western part of the country has its problems, ______ obtaining fresh water is not the least.
Holland is a tiny country. It has no more than 200 miles long and just 1.____
over 150 miles wide. Yet in the 1600s, this small nation in the North 2.____
Sea was a great sea power. Her more than 10,000 ships went to all part 3.____
of the world. Today there are many ways for passengers and with cargo 4.____
to travel. But once, if you have to go to a country across the ocean or 5.____
send a cargo over the seas, you had only one choice: the sailing ship.
In the 1600s, Dutch made a ship called a flyboat. It was a slow, 6.____
clumsy boat, but it could carry a lot of cargo. Since the Dutch
could carry most cargo, they could do more trading. Trading 7.____
brought against the building of new colonies. It was not long before 8.____
there were Dutch colonies in the Americas, in Africa, in the West
India, and in the East India. The great city of the New York began 9.____
as the Dutch colony New Amsterdam. The Dutch used the seas to
become a great trading nation. They also used the seas to become a
great power in the world. Dutch ships helped Holland ruled other 10.____
lands for more than 200 years.
Practice 8 (1) Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.
Education cannot be () in any country.
When a country’s government wishes to take a strong stance on a crucial international relations issue, they often
A B
enter into treaties and cooperative agreements with nations that under other circum—stances might be considered
C D
enemies. No error
E
With regard to its size,Australia is()country in the world.
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world()