阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项。
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2021?原创
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应用文
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主题语境：人与社会—历史、社会与文化
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难度：Standard ¶¶
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322 words
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19版译林选必三Unit 3 Back to the past
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If you want to learn more about American history you have countless books to choose from. But here are some of the best recommendations online:
² A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
Published in 1980, this book focuses on the history of regular people instead of the elite. The book tells the story of immigrant laborers, African-Americans, women, Native-Americans and the working poor. It argues that much of American history is about the majority being exploited by an elite minority.
The book covers everything from Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage to the present day and was last updated to cover events up until 2005.
² 1776
by David McCullough
First published in 2005, this book discusses the events of the year 1776 during the American Revolution. The book focuses on military events and explores the leadership of military and political figures such as George Washington, King George III, General Howe, Henry Knox and Nathaniel Green.
² The Salem Witch Trials (A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege)
by Marilynne K. Roach
Published in 2002, this book lays out the events of the Salem Witch Trials as they happened. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific month in the witch hunt, which began in January of 1692 and ended in May of 1693.
Since the Salem Witch Trials can be confusing and complicated sometimes and involved many events with many different people, this book is great at clearing up the confusion by spelling out exactly what happened and when.
² Mayflower (A Story of Courage, Community and War)
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Published in 2006, this book tackles the many myths and misconceptions about the Mayflower pilgrims and Plymouth Plantation.
The book discusses the pilgrim’s relationship with the Native-Americans by highlighting how the local Wampanoag tribe were nearly destroyed by European diseases brought by the colonists and how the colonists captured and sold the Wampanoags into slavery during King Phillip’s War.
原材料出处：
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/best-books-about-american-history/
21. Which are the books classified into?
A. History. B. Culture.
C. Countries. D. Science.
22. Why is the book The Salem Witch Trials considered to be great?
A. It has exposed an unknown killing.
B. It lays out the events of witch hunt.
C. All the settings were put in Europe.
D. Many confusing data are clarified.
23. The book 1776 focuses on ________.
A. immigrant labourers
B. the American Revolution
C. the witch hunt
D. the Mayflower pilgrims
