When Mr. Black retired, his son______the business.A.took upB.took overC.took onD.took out
When Mr. Black retired, his son______the business.
A.took up
B.took over
C.took on
D.took out
When Mr. Black retired, his son______the business.
A.took up
B.took over
C.took on
D.took out
When Mr. Black retired , his son () the business from him.
A. took in
B. took over
C. took after
D. took off
Mr. Black didn't come to office yesterday. He ______ ill.
A.can be
B.must be
C.must have been
D.would be
Mr. Scrushy made donations to the black groups probably because ________.
A. he had close relations with Birmingham's African-American population
B. he wanted the church to set up more buildings
C. he was very benevolent
D. he wanted to get support from the blacks in his trial
None of the servants were ______ when Mr. Smith wanted to send a message.
A.available
B.attainable
C.approachable
D.applicable
A.sixties
B.in sixties
C.in the sixties
D.in his sixties
The Grand Prairie Area Demonstration Project seemed, at first, a fine idea. The Grand Prairie is the fourth-largest rice-bowl in the world, with 363,000 acres under paddies. But it is running out of water, with farmers driving wells deeper and deeper into the underlying aquifer. The new project, dreamed up around a decade ago, would tap excess water from the White river when it floods and pumps it, at the rate of about one billion gallons a day, to storage tanks on around 1000 rice farms.
Unfortunately, it would also divert water from the region's huge, swampy wildlife refuges, home to black bears and alligators and the pallid sturgeon. Tiny swamp towns like Clarendon and Brinkley, which are heavily black and almost destitute, rely on nature tourism for the little economic activity they have. In Brinkley, the barber offers an "ivorybill" haircut that makes you look like one.
The project has some powerful local backers. They include Blanche Lincoln, the state's senior senator, who grew up on a rice farm in Helena, and Dale Bumpers, a former four-term senator and governor of Arkansas. Mr. Bumpers, long an icon of the environmental movement and prominent in the efforts to establish the refuges, now believes the water project is important for national security in food and trade, and that it will not damage the forests he has worked to protect.
Opponents worry that the project, apart from its environmental risks, will overwhelm the innovative water conservation methods that rice-farmers are already using, and give the biggest water users an unfair advantage. They also object that it means using subsidised pumps to provide subsidised water for a crop that doesn't pay. Rice is one of the most heavily assisted crops in America; rice payments cost taxpayers almost $10 billion between 1995 and 2004, and rich farmers round Stuttgart in Arkansas County (an efficient and politically shrewd group) took in $21.2m in subsidies in 2004 alone.
It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ______.
A.an ivory-billed woodpecker was shot by a lone kayaker two years ago.
B.the ivory-billed woodpecker was accustomed to living among cypress trees.
C.the irrigation project is probably broken off by the ivory-billed woodpecker.
D.the appearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker may make the irrigation project terminated.
A.to meet
B.to be met
C.not to meet
D.not to be met
When he traveled abroad, Mr. Smith ______.
A.learned boxing
B.forgot all about his business
C.raised the level of production
D.shook his head all the time
Mr. Smith became very ______ when it was suggested that he had made a mistake.
A.ingenious
B.empirical
C.objective
D.indignant
A.I hope you will meet him at the airport when he().
B.arrives
C.has arrived
D.will arrive
E.is arriving