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It's half past eight.They have to hurry up()the eight-thirty bus.
A.so as not to miss
B.not so as to
C.so as not to be missing
D.not So as to be missing
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A.so as not to miss
B.not so as to
C.so as not to be missing
D.not So as to be missing
A.What time is it; forty-five past seven
B.What's the time; half to seven
C.What time is it; a quarter to eight
D.What's timea quarter past eight
【B5】, this spurt of suburban expansion does not alter the basic fact that the United States【B6】one of the most urban nations on the face of the earth. Census Bureau【B7】show that the【B8】population has been shrinking steadily since 1880. When the United States became a nation it had no large cities at all; today【B9】fifty cities have populations of more than 258,000. Mammoth complexes of cities are developing in the area of the East Coast and the east north central states, on the pacific and Gulf coasts, and near the shores of the Great Lakes. Some sociologists now regard the entire 600-mile stretch between Boston and Washington, D.C.—an area holding a fifth of the country's population—【B10】one vast city or, as they call it, megalopolis.
【B1】
A.past
B.recent
C.future
D.nowadays
In the early fifties, only eight or nine out of a hundred young men changed their jobs within the first three years with the company. In the past few years, almost thirty-five percent of the college-graduated work force changed jobs within the same period. These people want to intensify their management training. Since most jobs take only a year to a year and a half to master, in order to continue learning, they have to make a job change. Even company presidents tend to be seen as mobile specialists, staying with one company an average of only five years.
Company presidents in the United States today tend to be young men who begin their careers with educational backgrounds in engineering science, or business management. They have worked for a few years as technical specialists and quickly moved into higher management positions. Most of them were making $ 30 000 per year by the time they reached thirty. On an average, these men have only twenty years working experience at management level when they become company presidents. On the way to the top, they have an average of eleven promotions and seven city transfers.
Friendships remain casual and are usually derived from business contracts. Families of these career men have little time to put down roots in and become part of a community.
In the past, a few men attained high positions through family and social connections; today, high positions go to men who are mobile, and have good educational, backgrounds.
According to the passage, an increasing number of future company presidents might be ______.
A.people who have spent a number of years with one company
B.young people who do not want to move often, but are steady and dependable
C.people who have spent a long time concerned with community affairs
D.young people who have good education and are willing to move around
Write the verbs in the correct form. of the Present Simple.(用括号中所给动词的一般现在时形式填空。)
Alex 1_________ (be) 21 years old.He 2_________ (live) in the South of Italy, in a small city called Lecce and he 3_________ (work) in a bank.He’s got one brother but he 4_________ (have not got) any sisters.His parents 5_________ (be) doctors.He 6_________ (get up) at half past seven every day, 7_________ (have) a shower, gets dressed and walks to work.He 8_________ (not go) to work on Saturdays or Sundays.
A.After
B.In
C.On
D.By
A: What time does the train leave? B:().
A.On Tuesday
B.In the morning
C.At half past five
The episode recounted in the passage took place ______.
A.just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War
B.bofore Britain entered the Second World War
C.before the United States entered the Second World War
D.while the United States was in the Second World War