We had a party last night. I’ve had to spend______morning clearing up the mess.A.wholeB.en
We had a party last night. I’ve had to spend______morning clearing up the mess.
A.whole
B.entire
C.all
D.most
We had a party last night. I’ve had to spend______morning clearing up the mess.
A.whole
B.entire
C.all
D.most
A.Wish them a happy journey.
B.May they have a more comfortable home.
C.They are really going to be missed.
D.We can't stay together forever, can we?
A、had learned
B、learned
C、have learned
D、would have learned
Petra
It ____1____ one night at our local nightclub. I was dancing, and suddenly I ____2____ the feeling that someone was watching me. I looked around and saw a boy on the other side of the room staring at me. I ____3____ to be brave and walked over to him. Hans was very shy but we had a drink and started talking. We just clicked and we quickly became friends.
Ricardo
It was New Year’s Eve and I ___4____ some people around to my house to celebrate. I planned a quiet party but my friends brought other friends and by twelve o’clock there were lots of people. I was ____5____ some drinks in the kitchen when I noticed this woman on her ____6____. She didn’t seem to know anybody, so I ____7____ over to her and ____8____ myself. She said, “So you’re not Antonio, then!” She was at the wrong party– she had made a____9____ with the address! I asked her to stay and we got on really ____10____…and now we’re together.
1、A、came
B、happened
C、went
2、A、had
B、felt
C、sensed
3、A、told
B、liked
C、decided
4、A、invited
B、loved
C、asking
5、A、washing
B、making
C、playing
6、A、side
B、self
C、own
7、A、ran
B、went
C、leaned
8、A、introduced
B、asked
C、talked
9、A、fuss
B、wrong
C、mistake
10、A、good
B、well
C、fine
When we got there, the party was already in full swing. They had a bar in a separate room in the house and roommate and I walked right over to it as soon as we saw it. And man, did they have cheap drinks So we were like "yeah let's have a few." Of course at that point we weren't thinking about how we were going to get back to our dorm.
After two whiskey sours and two screw drivers, I was gone. I didn't realize that I was drunk until I hit my head on (the hard part of the couch) and felt absolutely no pain. One of my friends was trying to take my money away so I couldn't buy any more to drink. Not that it would have mattered anyway, as I was sneaking sips from other people' s drinks by then.
An hour later, I was completely drunk, and we made a group decision to leave the party. One problem, though, no one knew how to get home, so I drunkenly said" I know how to get home. Thanks for the great party!"
Of course, no one offered to walk us back. I guess they though that 8 girls, including 2 who were completely trashed, would be fine walking alone back to campus. And I guess they believed my drunken rambling, who knows.
Luckily, I have a pretty good sense of direction and we walked the 4 to 6 blocks back to campus. My roommate and I couldn't walk that well so the walk seemed to take forever. Once we got back to campus, however, we met up with this guy who was going to take us to another frat party just off campus (across the street from campus, actually). I was all pumped to go but--first things first---all of us had to pee.
So we stopped in a nearby dorm. One of my friends went in first and ended up overflowing the toilet (the funny thing is that she was stone sober). My drunk roommate and I then decided that we had to really pee and that we would just go back to our dorm.
So the two of us wandered back to our dorm, making a short stop at the emergency
phone to call a friend and tell hex that we were drunk. After that, we managed to get back to our dorm, without any problems.
1.When the author and his fellows got there, the party____.
A.had ended
B.was having reached a very active stage
C.was ending
D.was just beginning
2.That night, the author was____.
A.seriously drunk.
B.completely lost
C.out of touch with his fellows
D.all of the above
3.What happened to them on their way back to campus?____
A.It took them a long time to get to the campus.
B.They met another guy who would like to take them to another party.
C.He felt like relieving nature.
D.All of the above.
4.Who was not drunk according to the passage?____
A.The author herself.
B.A girl who ended up ore, owing the toilet.
C.The author's drunk roommate.
D.All of them.
5.From the context, the word "dry'' in line two means____.
A.not wet
B.lacking humidity,
C.producing
D.thirstdull
Mercedes experienced one of its worst years ever in 1992. The auto maker's worldwide car sales fell by 5 percent from the previous year, to a low of 527,500. Before the decline, in 1988, the company could sell close to 600,000 cars per year. In Germany alone, there were 30,000 fewer new Mercedes registrations last year than in 1991. As a result, production has plunged by almost 50,000 cars to 529, 400 last year, a level well beneath the company's potential capacity of 650,000. Mercedes's competitors have been catching up in the U.S., the world's largest car market. In 1986, Mercedes sold 100,000 vehicles in America; by 1991, the number had declined to 39,000. Over the last two years, the struggling company has lost a slice of its U.S. market share to BMW, Toyota and Nissan. And BMW outsold Mercedes in America last year for the first time in its history. Meanwhile, just as Mercedes began making some headway in Japan, a notoriously difficult market, the Japanese economy fell on hard times and the company saw its sales decline by 13 percent in that country.
Revenues(收益) will hardly improve this year, and the time has come for getting down to business. At Mercedes, that means cutting payrolls, streamlining production and opening up to consumer needs. Revolutionary steps for a company that once considered itself beyond improvement.
The author's intention in citing various nationalities' interests in Mercedes is to illustrate Mercedes' ______.
A.sale strategies
B.market monopoly
C.superior quality
D.past record
A.are
B.were
C.have
D.was
Mary regretted ____ to John’s birthday party last Sunday.
A. not going B. not to go C. not having been going D. not to be going
years in the UK we have had a very large increase in the number of couples who get divorced
After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform. Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces.The rate increased steadily and in recent years has increased much more rapidly.But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married.At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down qui te a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the last 10 years.Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK are born to couples who aren't married or are born to lone parents.There are quite a large number of lone parent families, 90 per cent of these are headed by a woman rather than a man
The average family size now in the UK is 1.8 children per couple, which
Means that there’s been quite a decline in the birth rate in the UK along with other European countries.
21.What does the passage mainly discuss?()
A.The declining divorce rate in the UK.
B.Trends in marriage and divorce in the UK.
C.The increasing divorce rate in the UK.
22.During the last ten years,()
A.the marriage rate has gone down more rapidly in the UK
B.the marriage rate has gone up a lot in the UK
C.40% of children were born to unwed couples in the UK
23.According to the passage, the cohabitation rate in the UK tends to ___
A.decline
B.soar
C.stay stable
24.According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.The highest divorce rate was around 1969.
B.The marriage rate has gone down in recent years.
C.The marriage rate is currently 70 percent.
25.The last paragraph tells us()
A.the birth rate in the UK is increasing at the moment
B.the birth rate in other European countries keeps increasing
C.the birth rate in the UK is decreasing rapidly now
第二篇Milosevic’s Death
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead last Saturday in his cell at the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.The 64-year-old had been on trial there since February 2002.
Born in provincial Pozarevac in 1941,he was the second son of a priest and a school teacher.Both of his parents died when he was still a young adult.The young Milosevic was“untypical”,says Slavoljub Djukic,his unofficial biographer.He was“not interested in sports,avoided excursions(短途旅行)and used to come to school dressed in the old-fashioned way-white shirt and tie.”One of his old friends said,he could“imagine him as a station-master or punctilious(一丝不苟的)civil servant.”职称英语教材
Indeed that is exactly what he might have become,had he not married Mira.She was widely believed to be his driving force.
At university and beyond he did well.He worked for various firms and was a communist party member.By 1986 he was head of Serbia’s Central Committee.But still he had not yet really been noticed.
It was Kosovo that gave him his chance.An autonomous province of Serbia,Kosovo was home to an Albanian majority and a Serbian minority.In 1989,he was sent there to calm fears of Serbians who felt they were discriminated against.But instead he played the nationalist card and became their champion.In so doing,he changed into a ruthless (无情的) and determined man.At home with Mira he plotted the downfall of his political enemies.Conspiring(密谋)with the director of Serbian TV,he mounted a modern media campaign which aimed to get him the most power in the country.
He was elected Serbian president in 1990.In 1997,he became president of Yugoslavia.The rest of the story is well-known:his nationalist card caused Yugoslavia’s other ethnic groups to fight for their own rights,power and lands.Yugoslavia broke up when four of the six republics declared independence in 1991.War started and lasted for years and millions died.Then Western countries intervened.NATO bombed Yugoslavia,and he eventually stepped down as state leader in 2000.
Soon after this,Serbia’s new government,led by Zoran Djindjic,arrested him and sent him to face justice at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
36.Where did Milosevic die?
A.In a basement.
B.In a prison.
C.In Kosovo.
D.In his own country.
1. A、have
B、had to
C、could
D、ought
2. A、in order that
B、so that
C、in order to
D、for to
3. A、take
B、get
C、carry
D、bring
4. A、couldn’t
B、managed
C、unable
D、were able to
5. A、can’t
B、must
C、hadn’t
D、could
6. A、since
B、on account of
C、as a result of
D、owing to
7. A、shouldn’t
B、should have
C、shouldn’t have
D、should be
8. A、ought not have
B、must not
C、couldn’t have
D、would have
9. A、taken
B、fetched
C、brought
D、had
10. A、could
B、able
C、knew
D、managed
11. A、information
B、solution
C、suggestion
D、investigation
12. A、took
B、passed
C、wrote
D、made
13. A、part
B、care
C、place
D、control
14. A、qualification
B、education
C、experience
D、travel
15. A、bring
B、choose
C、have
D、take