The office is on the tenth floor. It will be too tiring if we climb the stairs; we’d better take the .
(A)elevator
(B)tram
(C)ascender
(D)riser
If you want to lose weight, you should not eat between .
(A)terms
(B)travels
(C)meals
(D)limits
He is addicted to caffeine. Every morning, he will never truly wake up until he sips a cup of freshlycoffee.
(A)squeezed
(B)brewed
(C)drained
(D)cooked
Many vineyard owners are concerned that oversupply may cause the prices of wine to drop on themarket.
(A)quota
(B)retail
(C)surplus
(D)tariff
On our way to the movie theater, we met five girls, two of wore red skirts.
(A)them
(B)those
(C)who
(D)whom
She can share with us her experience abroad. She has many countries around the world.
(A)gone to
(B)been visited
(C)been to
(D)touring
the necessary qualifications, the applicant was not considered suitable for the job.
(A)Lacking
(B)He lacked
(C)Lacked
(D)Lacked of
Mr. Lin: Hello, may I speak to Mr. Wang, please?Ms. Chen: Would you like to leave a message?Mr. Lin: I’ll call him later. Thank you.
(A)Hold on, please.
(B)Sorry, wrong number.
(C)He is not available right now.
(D)I will put you through.
Danny: What’s the matter? You really look down.Michael:Danny: Cheer up! It’s not the end of the world.
(A)I am in a fever of excitement.
(B)My boss was mad at me for making a mistake.
(C)I never look down upon you.
(D)You must have got out of bed on the wrong side.
Gary: How was your trip to Thailand?Janet: Awful. I spent most of my time in the hotel.Gary:Janet: It was raining heavily when I was there.Gary: That was too bad.
(A)Was it fun?
(B)How come?
(C)Why won’t you go out?
(D)Which hotel?
Betty: Would you like some more beef?Henry: I’m already too full.Betty: How about some fruit?
(A)Yes, please.
(B)No, thanks.
(C)That’s great.
(D)No wonder.We know that, for the most part, the bigger people’s muscles are, the stronger they are. Can it besaid, then, that the larger or heavier people’s brains are, the smarter they are? The answer is no. There areonly two animals that have larger brains than human beings: the whale and the elephant. Yet in proportionto 42 , a person’s brain is larger. An average human brain usually weighs about 1.4 kilograms (3 pounds),and the weight of the whole body is only about 40 to 50 times 43 . The whale’s body, on the otherhand, is thousands of times heavier than its brain, 44 the elephant’s body is about 500 times asheavy. We know that geniuses have existed who 45 very large brains, but there have been otherswhose brains are small. Hence, we may conclude that large or heavy brains do not seem to ensure greatintelligence.
(A)produce
(B)possess
(C)contain
(D)includeWith just a few minutes left before school was to start, my six-year-old, Dustin, was pouting. “Idon’t want to go,” he said. As he entered first grade, he began to hate school. What’s going on?Every kid occasionally grumbles about school. But five to ten percent of kids dislike it so much thatthey don’t want to 46 it. “If a child seems depressed or 47 about school, fakes illness to stayhome, repeatedly winds up in the nurse’s or principal’s office, or refuses to talk about large chunks of theschool day, you should be concerned,” say school psychologists Michael Martin and CynthiaWaltman-Greenwood. 48 , you can usually solve the problem—sometimes very easily. In our case,my husband and I visited Dustin’s class and noticed that the teacher, fresh out of college, 49 only onkids who scrambled to sit right under her nose. Dustin, who generally sat near the back, was 50 . Wesimply told him to move up front. He did, and his enthusiasm returned.