[单项选择]The book took ten years of thorough research.
A. basic
B. careful
C. social
D. major

[单项选择]The book took ten years of thorough research
A. basic
B. careful.
C. social
D. major

[单项选择]The book took ten years of {{U}}thorough{{/U}} research
A. basic
B. social
C. careful
D. major

[单项选择]Speaker A: It took me ten years to build up my business, and it almost killed me. Speaker B: Well, you know what they say:（）.
A. There is no smoke without fire.
B. Practice makes perfect.
C. All roads lead to Rome.
D. No pains, no gains.

[单项选择]It took them more than ten years to ______ the defensive works.
A. build
B. build into
C. build on
D. build up

[单项选择]He took away ten papers, but only seven were in his pocket. What had become ______ three
A. of another
B. with others
C. with the other
D. of the other

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Passage Five The murder took place around ten o’ clock p. m. on June 10. Thirty-two people watched Kitty being killed right beneath their windows. She was their neighbor. Yet, none of the 32 helped her. Not even one called the police. Was this inhuman cruelty Was it lack of feeling for one’ s fellow man "Not so," say scientists Dr. Darley and Dr. Fatane. They’ ve found the reasons why people don’ t act. According to them, a person has to go through two steps before he can help. First he has to notice there is an emergency. Suppose you see u middle-aged man fall onto the ground. Is he having a heart attack, or some other physical trouble Or is he simply about to sleep off a drunk So it’ s not always easy to tell if you are faced with a real emergency. Second and more important, the person faced with an emergency must feel himself responsible. He must feel that he must help. The researchers found that a lot depends on how many people a
A. Someone is falling onto the ground.
B. Someone is having a heart attack.
C. Someone is having a trouble.
D. Someone is sleeping off a drunk.

[单项选择]During the past years, most working women took vacation ______ .
A. by car
B. by bike
C. by air
D. on foot

[单项选择]In the past ten years skyscrapers have developed ______ in Chicago and New York City.
A. homogeneously
B. simultaneously
C. spontaneously
D. harmoniously

[单项选择]Ten years after the event, her death still remains a {{U}}puzzle{{/U}}.
A. mist
B. fog
C. secret
D. mystery

[单项选择]During these ten years, many new methods have been ______ in the field of foreign language teaching.
A. adopted
B. adapted
C. alarmed
D. aided