填空题

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at
the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a"∧" sign and write the word
you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash "—" and put the word in the
blank provided at the end of the line.
The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions
so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events cover 41______
a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the
expression of one intellectual and social movement; yet the historical process 42______
which culminates in the ascent of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency 43______
can be regarded as the outstanding example not only of the birth of a new
way of life but nationalism as a new way of life. The American Revolution 44______
represents the link between the seventeenth century, in which modem England
became conscious of itself, and the awakening of modem Europe in the 45______
end of the eighteenth century. It may seem strange that the march of history
should have to cross the Atlantic Ocean, but only in the North American 46______
colonies a struggle for civic liberty lead also to the foundation of a new 47______
nation. Here, in the popular rising for a "tyrannical" government, the fruits 48______
were more than the securing of a free constitution. They included the growth 49______
of a nation born in liberty by the will of the people, not from the roots
of common descent, a geographic entity, or the ambitions of king or dynasty.
With the American nation, in the first time, a nation was born, not in the 50______
dim past of history but before the eyes of the whole world.