[单项选择]Not knowing the language of the country he was visiting, John had a hard time making himself ______.
A. understand
B. understood
C. understanding
D. being understood

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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. From different parts of the country.
B. From the old country.
C. From many streets of the country.
D. From a lot of houses of the country.

[单项选择]Captain Sentry retired to the country because he was ______.

[单项选择]The tourist is forbidden to enter a country if he does not have a (an) ______ passport.
A. operative
B. valid
C. effective
D. efficient

[单项选择]He was （）knowing everything about the courses he was to take at the university.
A. lost in
B. attentive to
C. clear of
D. keen on

[单项选择](Not knowing) the language and (having no) friends in the country, he (found impossible) (to get) a job.
A. Not knowing
B. having no
C. found impossible
D. to get

[单项选择]______ the language in the town, he found it hard to get a piece of work,
A. Not knowing
B. Not know
C. Knowing not
D. Know not

[单项选择]He came to this country for promoting friendship ______for making money.
A. other than
B. more than
C. better than
D. rather than

[单项选择]He had either to leave the country immediately or to surrender himself to the Nazi authorities, and had no other ______.
A. alternative
B. hope
C. resource
D. approach

[单项选择]He was offered the presidency of that country but he declined it, saying that he didn't have good health.
A. inclined
B. decreased
C. refused
D. declared

[单项选择]As my father is not （） with the language, he has asked me to assume the role of private secretary and meet you on his behalf.
A. lounged
B. logged
C. acquainted
D. omitted

[单项选择]He was said ______ a gift from her, knowing that it meant a bride.
A. to be refused
B. to refuse
C. to have been refused
D. to have refused

[单项选择]They told me that he had left for the country some days___________.
A. ago
B. after
C. long
D. before

[单项选择]He began by showing us where the country was and went on______us about its climate.
A. telling
B. to tell
C. to telling
D. to be told

[单项选择]He phoned his uncle who lived in the country, asking him to ______ his two schoolmates for the weekend.
A. assemble
B. accommodate
C. raise
D. resemble