Whenever I visit him, he ____ on his job.
A.works
B.is working
C.is going to work
D.will work
A.works
B.is working
C.is going to work
D.will work
A.paid for a visit
B.made him visit
C.visited him
D.did him a visit
A.were
B.had been
C.have been
D.was
Once upon a time a poor farmer taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know 【B1】 to do when it slipped from his horse and fell 【B2】 the road. The sack was 【B3】 heavy for him to 【B4】,and his only hope was that 【B5】 some one would come riding by and 【B6】a hand.
It was not long 【B7】 a rider appeared,but the farmer’s heart sank when he 【B8】 him ,for it was the great man who lived in a castle nearby. The farmer 【B9】 have dared to ask 【B10】 farmer to help, or any poor man who might have come 【B11】 the road,but he could not beg a 【B12】 of so great a man. 【B13】,as soon as the great man came up he got 【B14】 his horse, saying ul see you’ve had bad luck, friend. How good it is 【B15】 V m here just at the 【B16】 time. ’’Then he took one 【B17】 of the sack, the farmer the other, and between them they lifted it on the horse.
“Sir,” asked the farmer, “how can I pay you?”
“Easily enough,” the great man 【B18】 . “Whenever you see 【B19】 else in trouble, 【B20】 the same for him.”
【B1】
A.how
B.what
C.which
D.whether
A、that he visits
B、to his to visit
C、that he visit
D、to him for visiting
He returned from his first visit to the place in late autumn, and could not get back until the snow melted in the following spring.Then he went to the pilot of a small plane, who earned his living by carrying hunters over parts of the country where there were no roads and no railways.He asked the pilot to take him back to the piece of forest.
The pilot did not know the place, so the hunter showed it to him on the map.“But there is nowhere to land there,” said the pilot.“I have flown over that we can’t land anywhere between this river and these mountains.”
“I thought you were a wonderful pilot,” said the hunter, “some of my friends said you could land a plane on a postage stamp.”
“That’s right,” answered the pilot.“I can land a plane where nobody else can.But I tell you there is nowhere to land in the place you are talking about.”
“And what if I tell you that another pilot did land me there last spring?” said the hunter.
“Is that true?” asked the pilot.
“Yes, it is.I swear it.”
Well, this pilot could not let himself beaten by another, so he agreed to take the hunter.
When they reached the place, the hunter pointed out a small spot without trees in the middle of the forest, with a steep rise(陡坡) at one end.The pilot thought there was not enough room to land there, but the hunter said that the other pilot had done so the year before, so down went the plane.When it came to the rise, it turned right over onto its back.As the hunter climbed out, he smiled happily and said, “Yes, that is exactly how the other pilot managed it last time.”.
6.The hunter in the story went to the forest ().
A.once
B.two times
C.many times
D.none of the above
7.In the story the hunter asked a pilot to take him to the piece of forest.This pilot was ().
A.the same pilot who had taken him to the place once
B.a different pilot who had never been to that part of the country
C.a pilot who had been to the place many times
D.a pilot who had never heard of such a place
8.It was difficult for the pilot to land the plane because ().
A.the place for landing was as big as a room
B.the place for landing was as small as a postage stamp
C.there wasn't any place to land
D.there was a room near the landing place
9.“When it came to the rise, I turned right over onto its back.” What do the words “its back” refer to?()
A.the back of the rise
B.the pilot’s back
C.the back of the plane
D.the back of the small spot
10.The hunter got to the plane the first time().
A.by jumping out of the place during the flight
B.in an entirely different way
C.exactly the same way as he got there the second time
D.by climbing down the tree on which the place hand landed
A.cut
B.set
C.put
D.let
A.to
B.in
C.wth
One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known. Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert's appointment in the Times, calls him "an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him. " As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.
For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one. To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music. All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.
Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point. For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20' century. There recordings are cheap, a-vailable everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today's live performances; moreover , they can be " consumed" at a time and place of the listener's choosing. The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.
One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record. Gilbert's own interest in new music has been widely noted; Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into " a markedly different, more vibrant organization. " But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra's repertoire will not be enough. If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America's oldest orchestra and the new audience it hopes to attract.
I have never been to Rome. But that's the city ______.
A.where I most like to visit
B.I'd most like to visit
C.I like to visit it most
D.which I like to visit it most