The topical order is suitable to almost any kind of speech and is thus most widely used.

Topical order is used more often than any other method of speech organization, because it is applicable to almost any subject and to any kind of speech. ()

A、different topics

B、main topics

C、subtopics

D、subtopic

The 19th-century British Aristocracy The British aristocracy had always been involved in industrialization, especially in the development of mining, canals, and railways. It now shrewdly associated itself with the new wave of commercial expansion: most banks and insurance companies had a lord to add tone to the managerial board. It also shored up its fortunes by astute marriages, notably with the new aristocracy of wealth in the United States; the best-known example was the marriage of the duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt. By these means, many of the great aristocratic estates were preserved despite agricultural decline. But they were playthings as well as engines of wealth, and came to be treated as such. The aristocracy came to be known to the urban population chiefly through their representation in the popular press and magazines as men and women of leisure: racing, hunting, shooting, and fishing in the country, gambling and attending the season in London. In a population for which leisure was becoming increasingly important, this did not make the aristocracy unpopular.

In the second sentence of this passage, "had a lord to add tone to the managerial board" means that____.

A．the banks and insurance companies would hire a lord on the board to give advice to their management

B．having lords involved in the management gave the banks or companies a very good public image

C．lords worked for the banks and insurance companies to bring in more profits

D．it had become a fashion to have a lord on the managerial board of a bank or a company

The House of Lords of the U.K. is composed of

A．Ministers and MPs.

B．the Lords Spiritual and MPs.

C．MPs and the Lords Temporal.

D．the Lords Spiritual and the Lords Temporal.

In Britain the real center of political life is in ______.

A．the Queen

B．the House of Lords

C．the House of Commons

D．the Cabinet

9.Poseidon Poseidon is the violent and ill-tempered god of the sea. One of the Twelve Olympians, he was also feared as the provoker of earthquakes and worshipped as the creator of the horse. A hot-blooded deity, Poseidon had many disputes with both gods and men, most famously with Athena and Odysseus. Poseidon’s name is very old, and its meaning is lost to us. Various authors have tried to translate it as either “husband of the earth” or “lord of the waters.” Plato says that it means “knower of many things,” but this is much less likely. Poseidon is nowadays known exclusively as a sea god, but in ancient times, he may have been the god of the earth and fertility or even the supreme god of the sky. In fact, in portrayals, he looks very much like Zeus, a distinguished, bearded man with a dense curly hair and piercing eyes. Homer says that his shriek was as loud as one of ten thousand men combined. Oftentimes, he is depicted riding a four-horse chariot and wielding a trident over the waves. The trident is his most recognizable emblem, though his son, Triton, carries one as well. It is said that Poseidon struck a rock with his trident to create the very first horse, Skyphios. During the Gigantomachy, the god used the trident to break off a piece of the island Kos, under which he subsequently entombed the Giant Polybotes. This piece became today’s island Nisyros. 18.What does Poseidon look like?

A、no bearded.

B、Densely straight hair.

C、Piercing eyes.

D、Piercing voice.

In Britain the real power was in _____.

A．the Monarch

B．the Home of Lords

C．the House of Commons

D．the Queen