单选题

A、 Michael had not made any mistakes in the grammar section.
B、 Michael is the second to have had made grammatical mistakes.
C、 Michael didn"t rank the first in the final exam.
D、 Michael failed in the final exam.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析]
Michael would have been second to nobody in his class if he had not made any mistakes in the grammar section of the final exam.

A、 Sixty people gathered at the rally.
B、 Women outnumbered men twice.
C、 Men outnumbered women every time.
D、 About one hundred and twenty people came to the rally.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析]
They had expected sixty people at the rally, but twice that many showed up. Beyond expectation, women outnumbered men for the first time.

A、 In the following months, the sales will increase after initial drop.
B、 It"s hard to sustain the increase of sales, thus it keep dropping in the following months.
C、 The sales went through ups and downs in the past months.
D、 The sales situation is on the rise from the very beginning.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析]
A further drop in sales was sustained over the following months, but after that the situation picked up and the sales increased quite sharply.

A、 Our assignment can hardly be completed without a computer of my own.
B、 The statistics in the student center are messed up, thus making our assignment difficult to complete.
C、 I"m planning to finish my own assignment as soon as possible.
D、 Our assignment has to wait till the computers in the student center get repaired.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析]
We are supposed to do our assignments for statistics on the computer, but those in the student center are always tied up. I"m plfanning to get my own soon.

A、 Students left high school earlier than usual.
B、 The completion of high school bears relevance to qualification level in job markets.
C、 Students must get high school diploma so as to be qualified in looking for jobs.
D、 Compared with the past, young people nowadays are more incompetent.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析]
There are more high school dropouts than before. Thus, there are more unqualified young people looking for jobs than there used to be.