Scotland provides superb opportunities to enjoy wild and grand scenery which is even more impressive than the postcards suggest. It also offers towns and cities with a rich cultural life, a good mix of accommodation and places to eat and drink. Friendly and welcoming, it is an interesting and colorful all-season destination, where landscapes and the environment, sport and leisure pursuits, heritage and history, culture and cuisine are all part of a rewarding experience.
The best reason for choosing to go on holiday to Scotland is: one of the last places inside the crowded and frenetic European Union where it is possible to be alone isolated countryside. This is not to say that Scotland, like everywhere else, does not have its tourist traps, its crowded roads or its popular beauty spots. But it is relatively easy to escape from them.
It would be a mistake to think that Scotland is merely an extension of England.
Indeed, no attitude is capable of causing greater offence to the Scots. They successfully resisted English attempts at domination for seven hundred years, and many differences between the two countries persist.
Scotland’s history, embodied in its castles, battlefields, and ancient links with France, Flanders and Scandinavia, is special.

A:was dominated by England for seven hundred years B:dominated England for seven hundred years C:kept out English invaders for seven hundred years D:became part of England for seven hundred years

A few hundred years ago news did not ______.

A:receive attention B:travel fast C:travel slowly D:spread to other countries

Visitors from space may have landed on our planet dozens, even hundreds of times during the long, empty ages while Man was still a dream of the distant future. Indeed, they could have landed on 90 percent of the earth as recently as two or three hundred years ago, and we could never have heard of it. If one searches through old newspapers and local records, one can find many reports of strange incidents that could be interpreted as visits from outer space. A stimulating writer, Charles Fort, has made a collection of UFO sighting in his book! One is tempted to believe them more than any modern reports, for the simple reason that they happened long before anyone had ever thought of space travel. Yet at the same time, one can’t take them too seriously, for before scientific education was widespread, even sightings of meteors, comets, auroras, and so on, gave rise to the most incredible stories, as they still do today.
According to the passage, visitors from space may have landed on the earth ______.

A:long before man had dreamed of it B:long before there were human beings C:in the last few hundred years D:after the space age began

Passage Two

A:long before man had dreamed of it B:long before there were human beings C:in the last few hundred years D:after the space age began

There had not been such a severe storm in Trumbull County for a hundred years.

A:A．

There had not been such a severe storm in Trumbull, County for a hundred years.

A:A．

A hundred years ago many kids died at an early age.

A:A．