問題詳情
四、閱讀測驗 (每題 2 分) 8% The war that many people commonly refer to as the Civil War has had manyappellations throughout history. While the war was being fought, the Southlabeled it the “War between the States.” Sundry Southerners used the term “TheSecond American Revolutionary War,” emphasizing their belief that they wereattempting to secede from what they considered a tyrannical federal government. One primary etiology of the Civil War may have been the 1820 MissouriCompromise. The compromise admitted Missouri into the Union as a slavestate, while accepting Maine as a free state. The compromise also bannedslavery in all western territories. However, it wasn’t until 1860 when AbrahamLincoln, who was known to be against slavery, was elected president that SouthCarolina withdrew from the Union. At that time, the president was JamesBuchanan, who did not fight against the secession. By 1860, six more states hadwithdrawn, banding together to form the Confederate States of America, whicheventually was comprised of 11 states. Their president was Jefferson Davis; theConfederacy’s capital, which originally was Montgomery, Alabama, moved toRichmond, Virginia. The first battle of the Civil War was fought at Bull Run in Virginia.Schoolchildren today are still told how the local people treated the battle as if itwere a social event, taking picnic baskets and sitting on top of the hill to watchthe fighting. The Federal troops lost the battle and had to retreat. Later, theSecond Battle of Bull Run was fought, and the Union lost it as well. General Ulysses S. Grant, later president of the United States, gained fame asa great Civil War strategist. When he captured Vicksburg, Mississippi, he madeit possible for the Union to control all the Mississippi River, a critical point giventhat goods were often shipped along that river. The Union, therefore, was ableto prevent materials from reaching the Confederate troops, a situation whichmany historians considered essential to the quick termination of the war. Granthad the honor of receiving the surrender of the South from General Robert Lee atAppomattox Court House, near Richmond, Virginia, on April 9, 1865. It wasonly five days later that the President Lincoln was assassinated. The Civil War was the first war to have photographers, leaving to posteritythe real evidence of the battles. This war also was more industrialized thanmany other wars, employing railroads, iron ships, and submarines.
【題組】31. All of the following were mentioned in the passage except _____.
(A) the South after the Civil War
(B) the important factor in the Confederacy’s defeat in the Civil War
(C) the causes of the Civil War
(D) great generals of the Civil War
參考答案
答案：A
難度：適中0.666667
統計：A(2),B(1),C(0),D(0),E(0)