Not only Mary but also Alice ________ to the Great Wall.
A.have been
B.have gone
C.has been
D.hasn’t gone
A.have been
B.have gone
C.has been
D.hasn’t gone
Mary is the top student in the class. She studies harder______.
A.than any student
B.than all the students
C.than any other student
D.than some other student
Not only I but also Tom and Mary ______fond of collecting stamps.
A.am
B.will
C.are
D.have
In order to ______ weight, Mary only eats vegetable every day.
A.lose
B.lost
C.loss
D.less
(S= shop assistant M= Mary)
S: Morning.___ 51___miss?
M: Uh,I&39;d like 10 return this tape recorder and get my money back.S:___ 52____ ?
M: It doesn&39;t work.
S:I&39;m very sorry, but___53___
M:I got this recorder only yesterday. Are you sure it won&39;t go wrong again?
S: The service department in our store is quite good at that sort of thing. ___ 54___
what the troubles is?
M; It simply doesn&39;t work. You see, none of the buttons work. Try it yourself.
S:OK, Let me see. Oh, ___55___ miss. Now it works very well.
If you miss Bruce and Robert, you can set your watch when Miss Mary Smith opens the door of the post office. You know it's seven fifty-five. She has five minutes to get ready for work—to put away her raincoat
and take off her hat and coat. Rain or shine, Miss Mary Smith brings raincoat. "You never can tell what the weather will be like when it's time to go home," she always says.
One after another the shops along Main Street open for the day. The clothes shop and the fruit shop get open for business. When Mr. King opens the bookshop, the clock above the shop strides nine.
But every weekday, people go to bed early in Fairfield. The streets are quiet, and the houses are dark when the big clock over the Farmers' Bookshop strikes tell o'clock. The small town is getting ready for tomorrow.
The post office starts its business at ______ every weekday.
A.7:00
B.7:55
C.0.333333
D.0.375
The fastest transatlantic voyage by a packet mentioned by the author was from ______.
A.Liverpool to New York
B.New York to Liverpool
C.Liverpool to Baltimore
D.Baltimore to Liverpool
At school he seems only to have been interested in mathematics. In fact his formal education was surprisingly brief for a gentleman, and incomplete. For unlike other young Virginian gentlemen of that day, he did not go to the College of William and Mary in the Virginian capital of Williamsburg. In terms of formal training then, Washington contrasts sharply with some other early American Presidents such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In later years, Washington probably regretted his lack of intellectual training. He never felt comfortable in a debate in Congress, or on any subject that had not to do with everyday, practical matters. And because he never learned French and could not speak directly to the French leaders, he did not visit the country he admired so much. Thus, unlike Jefferson and Adams, he never reached Europe.
What reason does the author give for Washington not going to college?
A.His family could not afford it.
B.A college education was rather uncommon in his times.
C.He didn't like the young Virginian gentlemen who went to college.
D.The author doesn't give any reason.
Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kins, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children’s behaviour: wrong. Turns out, acdording to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacrurers in the 1930s.
Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a “third stepping stone” between infant wear and older kids’ clothes. Tt was only after “toddler”became a common shoppers’ term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults,into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences – or invent them where they did not previously exist.
By saying "it is...the rainbow"(Line 3, Para.1),the author means pink______.
A.should not be the sole representation of girlhood
B.should not be associated with girls&39; innocence
C.cannot explain girls&39; lack of imagination
D.cannot influence girls&39; lives and interests
Mary:Hello.
Tom:Hello.May I speak to Mary?
Mary:__________.
A.Speaking
B.Yes,I am
C.Who are you,please
D.Wait a moment
Is Mary ______ to join us?
A.supposed
B.exposed
C.supported
D.indicated