[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]. It took more than fourteen years to carve the faces of four United States A B C Presidents into the granite cliffs to Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. D

[单项选择]More than ten people were killed in the head-on ______between a bus and a truck.
A. collision
B. collaboration
C. corrosion
D. confrontation

[单项选择]It took more than two years to build "The Castle Mall".

[单项选择]More than ten percent of the workers ______ from Italy.
A. is
B. comes
C. was
D. are

[单项选择]—It took them more than half an hour to work out the chemistry problem. —Really It（）be an easy one.
A. can't
B. needn't
C. mustn't
D. won't

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

[单项选择]Who is "them" in "We are offering them more services"

[单项选择]Television advertisements do more than merely reflect dominant ideologies.
A. exactly
B. faithfully
C. repeatedly
D. simply

[单项选择]The Smithsonian Institution preserves more than sixty-five million items of scientific, historical, or artistic interest, _________ winning the popular title, "attic of the nation".
A. however
B. thus
C. and
D. moreover

[单项选择]Communicating orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be ______ to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive

[单项选择]Victoria likes competitions more than anything else.

[单项选择]Communication orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be ______ to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive

[单项选择] Accounting is More Than Numbers Accounting could date back to about 7,000 years ago. People of that time relied on old accounting methods to record the growth of crops and herds. Accounting has greatly developed with the growth of joints tock companies . When you think of accounting， you may find pages of tables and numbers. That image doesn’t usually give you too much excitement. When you have your ownbusiness， though， those numbers come to mean the world to you because they give you the record of how much money you’ve earned or lost. Actually， accounting is not simply about strange dollar amounts or boring numbers； they’re your sales figures， your costs， and your profits. In other words， accounting is alanguage of business. Once you know how to work with those numbers， how to read those numbers and how to read the story they tell， you will be able to manage your business toward greater success. According to the writer, accounting is（）.
A. a language of business
B. your sales figures, your costs, and your profits
C. Both A and B