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单选题By the time he was thirteen, Thomas ______ to make a living by himself.

单选题Once environmental damage ______, it takes many decades for the system to recover.

单选题It is high time that you ______ for the job interview.

单选题The phrase "be well on their way to" (L.1, Par

单选题Not until I arrived at the gate of school ______ back,A) he had turnedB) he didn't turnC) that he turnedD) did he turn

单选题Recently I bought an ancient Chinese vase, ______ was very reasonable. A. which price C. its price B. the price of which D. the price of whose

单选题When we talk with a foreign lady, in most cases we should not ask such personal questions as her age.

单选题The police knew nothing about the case ______ your father phone them. A. after B. since C. as D. until

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单选题It was dark, we decided to ______ for the night at the farm house.

单选题Paul Newman was not only a movie star. He was also politically active, and fought for liberal causes. In 1968, he helped the Democratic Party presidential candidate in election. Newman protested the Vietnam War in front of the American Embassy in London. He expressed great pride that he was named on President Nixon's list of enemies. Paul Newman also worked on social issues important to him. In 1978, his twenty-eight year old son Scott died after taking too much drugs and alcohol. In response, Newman created the Scott Newman centre to help educate children and families on preventing drug abuse (吸毒). In the 1980s, Newman decided to start selling a salad dressing he had created and given to many friends as gifts. The "Newman Own" company he started with his friends A.E. Hotchner became a huge success selling different food products. Over the gears, more than two hundred fifty million dollars in company profits have been donated to social causes and organizations. One of these is the Wall Gang Camp, started by Paul Newman in 1988. Its aim is to provide a free summer camp experience to children with cancer and other serious diseases. There are now camps in the United States and several other countries. Newman said that he started the organization as a way to honor the role that luck has played in his life. He said that the camp is a way to help children who are unfairly affected by luck's cruelty.

单选题It ______ for a week and the streets were flooded. A. has rained B. had been raining C. was raining D. rained

单选题I can leave this note to ______ is in charge of foreign affairs of the university.

单选题Not until the bell had rung ______ the classroom in a hurry.

单选题Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations. There are 2 recorded conversations in it. Af-ter each conversation, there are some recorded questions. Both the cotwersations and questions will be spoken twotimes. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A) , B),C) , D) given in your test paper. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a sin-gle line through the center.

单选题To know what is good and ______ are two different things. A. doing what is right B. to do what be right C. did what was right D. to do what is right

单选题It was a personal _____and she had no intention of talking to any journalist about it.

单选题I' ve done the work before, so I know what ______ in my new job here.

单选题The Yellow River is ______ river in China.A) the longestB) the second longestC) second longerD) the second longer