We came finally _________ the conclusion that she has been telling lies all the time.A
A.A.of
B.B.into
C.C.to
D.D.at
A.A.of
B.B.into
C.C.to
D.D.at
Obviously, nuclear power can never be the only (solve) ________ to energy crisis.
27. It was in his childhood that he read most of the books (write) ________ by Mark Twain.
28. Nobody at the meeting would (belief) ________ that the new proposal could be carried out smoothly.
29.If the rent is as much as $750 a month, water, gas and electricity should (include) ________.
30. The lecture was so (bore)________ that many classroom fell asleep.
31. Mr. Smith considered (sell) ________ his car and his house before moving to Beijing.
32. My mother (enjoy) ________ a better health since we came to live in this beautiful seaside city.
33. The government is trying to find a way to deal with the problem of pollution (effective) ________.
34. The young man did not have enough money; otherwise he (buy) ________ a more expensive watch.
35. With the help of the police, the woman finally found her (lose) ________ child after a sleepless night.
A.when
B.in that
C.which
D.in which
A.In that
B.Now that
C.Since that
D.Even though
1. We were limited to two-ten minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch.
2. Working at an apple plant was the worst job I ever had.
3. The second bad feature of the job was the pay.
4. Each carton contained twenty-five pounds of bottled apple juice, and they came down the track almost nonstop.
5. I was getting minimum wage at that time, $3.65 an hour, plus a quarter extra for working the night shift.
6. I was very lonely on the job because I had no interest in common with the other truck loaders.
7. I felt this isolation especially when the production line shut down for the night, and I spent two hours by myself, cleaning the apple vats.
8. First of all, the work was physically hard.
9. I had to work over sixty hours a week to get decent take-home pay.
10. Most of my time was spent outside on the loading dock in near-zero-degree temperatures.
11. The vats were an ugly place to be on a cold morning, and the job was a bitter one to have.
12. For ten hours a night, I took cartons that rolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden skids in a tractor trailer.
13. Finally, I hated the working conditions.
A.2、8、12、4、3、5、9、13、1、10、6、7、11
B.2、8、4、12、9、5、13、1、10、6、7、11
C.2、8、12、4、3、5、9、13、10、1、11、7、6
D.2、4、12、9、8、5、1、13、10、6、7、11、3
A、came close to
B、comes up to
C、comes down to
D、come back to
Five days off work is a harsh penalty for dragging a woman alongside a bus by her arm? Baxa said, "Any time you take money away from someone, it is a harsh punishment. The driver makes $14 an hour. Multiply that by 40 and you can see what he lost. "
Yes, that comes to $560, a tidy sum. But we know that people in the private sector are fired for far less every day. If the people who run the CTA think that the loss of a week's pay is more than enough, I offer them a sporting proposition: Give me a bus. Then have their wives stick their arms in the doorway of the bus, and I'll slam the door shut, stop the gas pedal and take them for a fast one-block jog. And I'll pay $560 to anyone who is bold enough to try it. Any takers? Mr. Baxa? Anybody? I didn't think so.
1.The nurse half-entered one of the buses because____.
A、the bus they wanted didn't stop there
B、she wanted the driver to stop the bus
C、she wanted to get some information from the driver
D、she and her uncle couldn't wait any longer at the corner
2.The reason why the woman trotted alongside the bus was that____.
A、she couldn't get herself away from the bus
B、the driver closed the door before she heard the answer
C、she was dragged by the bus driver
D、she wanted to get the driver's badge number
3.How many blocks was the woman away from the corner where she waited when the bus driver finally let her off? ____
A、Almost one block.
B、Almost two blocks.
C、Probably three blocks.
D、Probably five or six blocks.
4.The bus driver's punishment was____.
A、being dismissed from the CTA
B、being out of work for a week
C、paying a fine of $560
D、working without pay for five days
5.Why did the author offer a sporting proposition? ____
A、Because the CTA paid little attention to the incident.
B、Because the bus driver had not been fired.
C、Because he wanted to threaten the CTA people.
D、Because he thought the penalty was not a harsh on
Passage 2 Questions 1to 5 are based on the following passage:
Sometimes a book can help change history. One book that certainly did was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a book that spoke out against slavery.
As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her book, there were over3.5 million slaves in the United States. Slaves were usually in the cotton-growing states of the South. The Northern States has ended slavery. Yet most northerners were not strongly against slavery. They did not mind that slavery continued in the South.
Stowe decided to make people understand that slavery was very bad. Each night after putting r six children to bed, she worked on her book. She told the owner. She also told how the slaves tried to run away for freedom. Uncle Tom’s Cabin first came in 1852. Over 300,000 books were sold out in a year.
People had different ideas about the book. In the North, many people finally believed that slavery must be ended after they read the book. In the South, many people were very angry at the people in the North. By 1861 the two parts of the country were at war. The Civil War, which lasted until of cease, was made to happen by many things. Yet Uncle Tom’s Cabin surely played a part. Stowe met President Linclon in 1862. As Linclon took her hand, he said, “So you are the woman who starred the big war.”
1、Before Uncle Tom’s Cabin came out, most Northerners ______.
A、were slaves in the South
B、did not know how bad slavery was
C、kept slaves in their homes
D、understood that slavery was wrong
2、While many Northerners agreed with Harriet Beacher Stowe,______.
A、many southerners wanted war
B、many southerners had not read the boo
C、many southerners were angry at her
D、some slaves tried to run away from North
3、From the text, we can infer that _______.
A、Stowe was a very young woman
B、Stowe’s husband was dead when she wrote the story
C、Stowe wrote her book with stories from her six children
D、Stowe could not work on her book at all during the daytime
4、Uncle Tom’s Cabin was _______.
A、a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe
B、a history book
C、a book that helped change history
D、a book about the American Civil war
5、Harriet Beecher Stowe _______.
A、was a little woman who started the American Civil War together with Abraham Linclon
B、was strongly against the slavery
C、helped some slaves to run away from the South
D、met Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War