单选题
I arrived in the United States on February 6,2005 ,but I remember my flint day there very clearly. My plane
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at Kennedy Airport at three o"clock in the afternoon. The weather was very cold and it was snowing, but I was
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excited to mind. From the airport, my friend and I
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a taxi to my hotel. On the way, I saw the skyline of Manhattan for the first time and I stared
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astonishment at the famous skyscrapers and their
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beauty. My friend helped me unpack at the hotel and then
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me soon because he
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go back to work. He
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to return the next day.
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my friend had left, I went to a restaurant near the hotel to eat something. Because I
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speak a word of English, I couldn"t
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the waiter what I wanted. I was very upset and
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to make some gestures,
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the waiter didn"t understand me. Finally, I
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the same thing the man
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the next table was eating. After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway
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I came to Time Square with its movie theatre, and huge
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of people. I didn"t feel tired so I continued to walk
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the city. When I returned to the hotel, I couldn"t sleep because I
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hearing the fire and police sirens (汽笛) during the night. I
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awake and thought about New York.
【答案解析】promise to do sth．表示“答应，许诺做某事”。从搭配上，A.选项也适合，但从常理和常用性上来说，promise更合适。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】从句子结构看，此处需要一连词连接时间状语从句，A项shortly after表“在…后不久”，符合语境。而B项“在…之前很久”，与语境不符，显然我是在朋友离去之后去的饭馆；C.as soon as表示“一…就”，但在原文，朋友离开(had left)显然发生在我去饭馆之前(went to a restaurant)故此项错误。