[单项选择]When in his rebellious years, that is when he was sixteen or eighteen, Frank Anderson ______ going around with a strange set of people and staying out very late.
A. took to
B. took up
C. took on
D. took in

[单项选择]When he was 15 years old, he started going on the______ and gradually became a little star.
A. stage
B. platform
C. shortcut
D. alien

[单项选择]When he lost his jobs he tried to ______ his fortunes by robbing a bank.
A. revive
B. retrieve
C. rectify
D. recycle

[单项选择]He _____ his homework when his mother came back yesterday evening.
A. was doing
B. is doing
C. did
D. does

[单项选择]When the boy came back years later, he found the empty old house there.
A. none but
B. none other than
C. nothing but
D. no other than

[单项选择]When he lost his job he tried to _________ his fortunes by robbing a bank.
A. revive
B. retrieve
C. rectify
D. recycle

[单项选择]When Paul met Clara again 20 years later, he decided
A. to share the $600 with her.
B. not to marry her.
C. to ask back the $600,
D. not to refuse her offer.

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When he fails his final examination, he is sure of a university place.（）

A. If
B. In case
C. Even when
D. Even if

[单项选择]During his 12 years in Congress he has ______ with the chemical, drug and power companies on behalf of the ordinary person's right to breathe clean air.
A. capsized
B. actuated
C. tussled
D. fidgeted

[单项选择]When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we______the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen: a superman, ______ , a demigod walking the earth.
A. (A) hymned … a nonpareil
B. (B) exasperated … a dabbler
C. (C) inveighed … a genius
D. (D) lauded … an obscurantist
E. (E) apostatized … a commoner

[单项选择]His mother died when he was five, his father never remarried, and by the time he was eight （） in three different countries.
A. had lived
B. was lived
C. was living
D. will have lived

[单项选择]He didn' t give up hope when his firm went bankrupt. Instead, he ______ everything from the start.
A. addressed himself to do
B. addressed him to do
C. addressed himself to doing
D. addressed him into doing

[单项选择]When he arrived home, he deposited his coat on the door.
A. kept
B. located
C. stored
D. placed

[单项选择]He had（）returned to his office when he was told to see his boss again.
A. nearly
B. hardly
C. mostly
D. almost

[单项选择]When he came back after graduation, he found his hometown completely ______.
A. changed
B. changing
C. to change
D. to be changed

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He landed in this country when he was 4 years old without a word of English, and there he has recently graduated with honors from Loyola Academy. An immigrant kid whose family rents an apartment in a city two-flat, lie attended the North Shore School with full scholarship. All the aunts and uncles were so proud that they made their way from the old country or from various comers of this country to celebrate his graduation. A debate is raging about whether immigrant children should first be taught English, then their other subjects; or whether they should be taught other subjects in their native tongue as they are more gradually introduced to English over two to three years. California voters recently banished the gradual approach--bilingual education--in favor of immersion in the English language. The Chicago public schools in February put a three-year deadline on moving into all English classes in-most cases. But that was never an issue for this graduate, and it never came up fo
A. It is absolutely unnecessary.
B. It is thought-provoking.
C. What is argued about is sometimes not related to reality.
D. The two sides' arguments do make sense.