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简答题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 persuns, and distant localities as the
expression of one intellectual and social movement; yet the historical process 42._______
which culminates in the ascent of Thbmas 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.
根据以上内容,回答题。
第(41)题__________.

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cover—covering。本题考查非谓语动词。如果使用动词原形cover,则会导致that弓l导的结果状语从句内部在没有任何连词的情况下出现两个谓语动词:is和cover(to attempt和to represent是非谓语动词),不符合语法,因而此处应使用相应的非谓语动词形式,由于cover和它的逻辑主语events之间是主动关系,所以应使用其现在分词形式covering。