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Questionsarebasedonthefollowingpassage: TheUnitedStates（41）alargepartoftheNorthAmericancontinent．ItsneighborsareCanada（42）thenorth,andMexicotothesouth．（43）theUnitedStatesisabigcountry,it'snotthelargestintheworld,In1964itspopulationwasover185,000,000,Whenthislandfirstbecameanation,afterwinningindependencefromEngland,ithadthirteenstates,（44）ofthestateswasrepresentedontheAmericanflagbyastarAllthestateswereintheeasternpartofthecontinent．Asthenationgrewtowardsthewest,newstateswereintheeasternpartofthecontinent．Asthenationgrewtowardsthewest,newstateswereaddedandnewstarsappearedontheflag．
Foralongtime,therewere48states．In1959,however,two（45）starswereaddedtotheflag（46）thenewstates（47）AlaskaandHawaii．
SometimesitissaidthattheIndiansaretheonlyrealAmericans．MostAmericans,however,aredescendants(后代)ofpeoplewhocamefromallovertheworldtofindanewlifeinanewland．Thosewhocamefirstand（48）greatestnumberstomaketheirhome（49）theeasterncoastofNorthAmericaweremostlyfromEngland．Itis（50）thatreasonthatthelanguageoftheUnitedStatesisEnglishandthatitscultureandcustomsaremorelikethoseofEnglandthanofanyothercountryintheworld．
第（41）题选 A．does
B．makes
C．covers
D．gives
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