George Clark

Ms Clark came to Beijing three years ago.

→ It has been ______.

W: Professor Clark suggested I get a tutor for advanced physics.

M: Well, that might help. Advanced physics is a pretty difficult course.

Q: What does the man mean？

A．Dr Clark is a good teacher.

B．Statistics is a boring course.

C．Two semesters of Statistics are required.

D．The students do not like Dr Clark.

Why does the author mention Colonel Clark's expedition？

A．To explain how one state strengthened its land claims.

B．To criticize an effort to acquire additional agricultural resources.

C．To show that many explorers searched for new lands.

D．To question the validity of Virginia's claims.

Political controversy(争论)about the public-land policy of the United States began with the American Revolution. In fact, even before independence from Britain was won, it became clear that resolving the dilemmas(困境)surrounding the public domain might prove necessary to preserve the Union itself.

At the peace negotiations with Britain, Americans demanded, and got a western boundary at the Mississippi River. Thus the new nation secured for its birthright a vast internal empire rich in agricultural and mineral resources. But under their colonial charters(契约) ,seven states--Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--claimed portions of the western wilderness. Virginia's claim was the largest, stretching north and west to encompass the later states of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. The language of the charters was vague and their validity question able, but during the war Virginia reinforced its title by sponsoring Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 expedition to Vincennes and Kaskaskia, which strengthened America's trans Appalachian pretensions(要求，权利)at the peace table.

The six states holding no claim to the transmountain (在山那边的)region doubted whether a confederacy in which territory was so unevenly apportioned would turely prove what it claimed to be a union to equals. Already New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Maryland were among the smallest and least populous of the states. While they levied(征收) heavy taxes to repay state war debts, their larger neighbors might retire debts out of land sale proceeds.

With which of the following topics is the passage primarily concerned？

A．A controversial public-land policy.

B．How independence from Britain was won.

C．The land holdings of Massachusetts.

D．How New Jersey developed its western land.

According to Kim Clark, a Harvard Business School student should be______.

A．among the best students with honors

B．a strict business leader who is frank, honest and well principled

C．well aware of principles, and with good judgment and highly moral

D．frank, obedient and principled, together with good ethic sense