[单项选择]All was quiet the whole night _______the light noise given out by the electric fan.
A. besides
B. except that
C. beside
D. except for

[单项选择]All was quiet the whole night ______ the light noise given by the electric fan.
A. besides
B. except that
C. beside
D. except for

[单项选择]I wish you ______ here last night. All of us were waiting for your arrival.
A. came
B. come
C. had come
D. will come

[单项选择]It was so deep in the night. All was quiet ______ an occasional baby cry in the neighboring building.
A. except for
B. but
C. except
D. beside

[单项选择] After working all night and successfully configuring a Cisco router for the TestKing network you save your changes on the startup config, reboot the router, and go out for a cigarette. When you return, none of your changes are active and the router boots to the initial configuration mode! Which of the choices below indicates the source of your problem?（）
A. Hardware failure in NVRAM prevents the router from loading the config
B. Startup-config in flash is corrupt and cannot be analyzed
C. Router configuration-register set to bypass startup configuration
D. Startup-config in NVRAM is corrupt and cannot be analyzed
E. None of the above

[单项选择]The servant ______ all day and all night.
A. made to work
B. was made to work
C. was made work
D. was made working

[单项选择]A large group of demonstrators stayed up all night praying for ________ between the two countries.
A. preservation
B. refreshment
C. regiment
D. reconciliation

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Text 3 Of all the components of a good night’ s sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just "mental noise" --the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind’ s emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is "off-line." And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, "It’s your dream", says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago’ s Medical Center, "If you don’ t like it, change
A. can be modified in their courses
B. are susceptible to emotional changes
C. reflect our innermost desires and fears
D. are a random outcome of neural repairs

[单项选择]I stayed up all night （） to find a new solution to the problem.
A. trying
B. have tried
C. try
D. tried

[单项选择]All plants need light, a suitable climate, and a(n) ______ supply of water and minerals from the soil, but some species grow best in the sun and others thrive in the shade.
A. boundless
B. supplementary
C. continual
D. ample

[单项选择](Staying up) all night, Tom (finished not only) the homework (but also read) many poems of his (favorite) poets.
A. Staying up
B. finished not only
C. but also read
D. favorite

[单项选择]The ______ noise whistles kept me awake all night.
A. incarnate
B. incessant
C. repetitious
D. rampant

[单项选择]We kept our ______ all night to frighten the wolves.
A. burning fire
B. burnt fire
C. fire burning
D. fire burnt

[单项选择]I stayed up all night ______ to find a new solution to the problem.
A. trying
B. have tried
C. try
D. tried

[单项选择]All the ground was covered ______ snow last night.