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45 .In this passage, the phrase come to terms probably means_ .
(A)submit
(B) contract
(C) enfold
(D) ascend) IV Vocabulary in Context: 10% , Ryu Icy u was once a s 1 n country. It was a kingdom founded in 1492, It took nearly 450 years before Japan occupied it in 1879. During these years, it was in 2 ted into the circle of Chinese culture. In fact, one part of the country known as “Tso-San” started to present t3 e to Chinese Emperor in 1372. The other two parts of it also were submissive to Chinese emperor. At that time, it was the beginning of Ming Dynasty in Chinese Mainland. Later, these parts of it was granted one name “San-san” by the great Chinese Emperor. The first Chinese character “San” here means the figure “three” and the second “mountains” or sometimes “islands”. Then, agate, ivory, gold and silver were sent to China.Dvmng these years, Chinese Emperor rarely i 4 ned in its domestic affairs. All the Chinese Emperor did was de 5 h capable people to help its kingdom deal with its domestic affairs. One of the most famous people was “Hwai-Gi”，who helped the ruler of “Tso-san” u 6 y these islands to form a real country and made great contributions to building its royal palace and a harbor. Afterwards, the Chinese Emperor gave the kingdom the name RyQkyCi and its king a Chinese surname .“Shan”, Its ldng also ordered some of his people to study at the school, which Chinese Emperor buiJt in the Chinese capital. The Chinese Emperor also ordered that the people coming from thrity-six different surname families in Fujian Province moved to the kingdom. But Satsuam, coming from Kagoshima (Japan) attacked the kingdom in 1607. The kingdom could not but s 7 ted to it in private but it was still one of the Chinese vassal countries in public That is，the kingdom had to pay heavy taxes Satsuam was i—_8_sing increasingly to it Nevertheless, the kingdom tried its best to lay c 9 m to its independence, so it made an agreement with the U.S., France and Holland in the 19th centiny. But all was gone as Japan occupied it. Although the U.S. placed it under trysteeship from 1945 to 1972, the people there seemed to forget it was once an a_10__y. It came back to Japan in 1972, still being one county of the country.