She spoke fast that I could not catch a word.A.tooB.veryC.suchD.so
She spoke fast that I could not catch a word.
A.too
B.very
C.such
D.so
She spoke fast that I could not catch a word.
A.too
B.very
C.such
D.so
The teacher spoke so fast that it was hard for the students to ______ what he was saying.
A.take in
B.take out
C.take up
D.take over
A.make over
B.make out
C.make for
D.make sure
A.talked
B.had been talking
C.had talked
D.would talk
- She is running a fever, but now it is under control.
- _________
A:She is running fast.
B:I will go and see her after work.
C:Her mother does not run.
D:She is running away from home.
How did the accident occur?
A.Amy ran a stop sign at an intersection and a truck crashed into their car.
B.Amy was driving too fast to see a coming truck.
C.Amy was too nervous to stop when she saw a truck running towards them.
D.Amy didn't know what to do when she saw the sign.
Sixteen-year-old Maria was waiting in line at the airport in Santo Domingo. She was leaving her native country to join her sister in the United States. She spoke English very well. Though she was very happy she could go abroad, she was feeling sad at leaving her family and friends.
As she was thinking all about this, she suddenly heard the airline employee asking her to pick up her luggage and put it on the scales (称).
Maria pulled and pulled. The bag was too heavy and she just couldn't lift it up. The man behind her got very impatient. He, too, was waiting to check in his luggage.
"What's wrong with this girl?" He said, "Why doesn't she hurry up?" He moved forward and placed his bag on the counter, hoping to check in first.
He was in a hurry to get a good seat.Maria was very angry, but she was very polite. And in her best English she said, "Why are you so upset? There are enough seats for everyone on the plane. If you are in such a hurry, why can't you give me a hand with my luggage?"
The man was surprised to hear Maria speak English. He quickly picked up her luggage and stepped back. Everyone was looking at him with disapproval.
1. Maria's story happened on her way back to Santo Domingo.
A: T B: F
2. You believe that the work of the airline employee mentioned in the story is to check people's luggage at the airport.
A: T B: F
3. "Why are you so upset?" Maria said to the man. She wanted to tell him that he should not be unhappy and worried.
A: T B: F
4. "Everyone was looking at him with disapproval."This sentence means that the people around felt sorry for Maria's manners.
A: T B: F
5. The author mentioned Maria's age at the beginning of the story in order to show that she was young but behaved properly.
A: T B: F
Often when Miss Albert sat down to her evening meal, she【27】sigh and wish the artist might share her food instead of eating his dry bread. One day the customer came in【28】usual and asked for his stale bread. As the sudden noise of the fire engine made him hurry to the door, Miss Albert【29】her opportunity. She cut each of the loaves with a knife, inserted some butter and, when the customer turned round, she was putting them【30】a paper bag.
(46)
A.whom
B.who
C.which
D.that
Women’s fashion is now, some believe, at the turning point of similar magnitude, coinciding with the equally dramatic social transformation of the past several decades. The change has been slow: a century long move away from the padding, corseting, and decoration that made a woman into a kind of ornate bauble(小摆设) and displayed her family’s wealth, and toward the clean, sleek modern lines first introduced with the suffrage movement.
But the shift has accelerated in recent years, thanks to changes in the technology and business of fashion. The use by top designers of "weird, fabulous, unrecognizable synthetics," says Hollander "has ruined the status of certain fabrics, like linen, which has had a leveling effect for the sexes and for' the classes." And the emergence of chains like Club Monaco means that "forward looking style. is disseminated very fast and very cheaply," according to Valerie Steele, a historian and curator of "Shoes: A Lexicon of Style," an exhibition now on view at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Such stores have succeeded, she believes, because "there’s substantial group of people with a sophisticated eye for design" who are eager for an affordable version of what was once thought to be "dog-whistle fashion," pitched so high that only a few would get it. Against that back-ground, the shoes at FIT look like fashion’s last gasp. The exhibit begins with the most symbolically loaded of women’s shoes: high heels, which Steele calls "a prime symbol of women’s sexual power over men."
That same defiance of feminine expectations is visible throughout the FIT show: in the boot, for instance, with its connotations of machismo and. military power, or the androgynous oxford, made girlisl with a big chunky heel. The show ends, fittingly, with the sneaker. No longer simply a downscale kid wear item, the big, brilliantly colored, high-tech sneaker has become one of the today’s most dramatic fashion statements, asserting street hip and futuristic velocity. Maybe shoes aren’t so indifferent to the changes in modem lives, after all.
The end of men’s lavish attention to fashion marks
A.great political and social changes.
B.aristocracy.
C.social ranks.
D.the great renunciation.
Mary, the 17-year-old daughter of a rich textile(纺织品) owner was freed(释放) by her kidnappers(绑匪) after 118 days. She said she spent most of the time in a tent in the woods (1) one foot tied to a tree. She was freed late on Friday (2) her family paid a total of
$1. 8 million, the largest ransom (赎金) ?ever?paid in Italy.
“I was treated (3) , ” the girl told the reporter during the interview, “Biscuits, cakes, often hot food and at times beef. ” She said her nearly four months in trouble was spent in a tent set up inawooded?area.
“I never saw their faces and (4) they spoke, they changed their voices in nasal tones (speaking through nose passage) on purpose , ” she said. “They kept repeating that the only thing they wanted was the money and that they didn' t want to have (5) to do with me or my family. ”
The high school student, who was seized by three face-covered and armed men on July 2, 1983 from her family' s country villa in Tuscany, said she still had no idea?where?exactly she had been held.
(1)A. with
B. and
C. although
(2) A. so
B. after
C. unless
(3) A. good
B. bad
C. well
(4)A. when
B. that
C. which
(5) A. nothing
B. something
C. anything
Many months after, four thousand miles away, a group of United States Marines found a little Chinese girl. No one could tell how she had got there. She refused to talk or give her name. The captain who spoke Chinese named her Patsy Lee because he thought she looked like a white plum blossom.
When the New York Times told about the finding of "Patsy Lee", Mrs. Li's sister saw the news and wrote to her sister about it. Could Patsy Lee be the lost child Patsy Li? The mother made the long voyage to find out. The little "white plum blossom" was indeed her own Pasty Li.
According to the story, what does "Patsy Li" mean?
A.White apple blossom.
B.White peach blossom.
C.White pear blossom.
D.White plum blossom.