[单项选择]The sentence" It was not too long ago that the sight of a woman behind the wheel would attract stares. "means ______.
A. When women drove they looked very attractive
B. Women drivers could attract more people
C. here were a lot of women drivers
D. There were few women drivers

[单项选择]Long long ago, there were ______ people in the world.

[单项选择]But the Swiss discovered long years ago that constant warfare brought them ______ suffering and poverty.
A. anything but
B. nothing but
C. none other than
D. no more than

[单项选择]A long time ago, at a national conference on biology, he cautiously ______ his new theory on life.
A. advanced
B. relieved
C. produced
D. thrust

[单项选择]A long time ago, at a .national conference on biology, he cautiously ______ his new theory on life.
A. advanced
B. relieved
C. produced
D. thrust

[单项选择]Long, long ago there were very ______ people in this place, but now it has become a town with 5,000,000 population.
A. few
B. little
C. a few
D. a little

[单项选择]Why didn't men climb mountains long ago

[单项选择]As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman made ______ the discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed.
A. distinct
B. substantial
C. noticeable
D. significant

[单项选择]What do we learn from the sentence "it is too powerful a weapon to be allowed to flourish in totalitarian regimes "
A. It can reveal the truth of political events with satire.
B. It can arouse people to riot.
C. It shows that tragedy and comedy are related.
D. It can make people laugh.

[单项选择]Not long ago, a person whom I know very well was _________ an accident.
A. related to
B. involved in
C. included in
D. subjected to

[单项选择]I wonder how long ago this school ______.
A. has begun
B. begins
C. had begun
D. began

[单项选择]I've ______ that idea long ago and now I have got some new idea about it.
A. given over
B. given off
C. given out
D. given up

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Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modem society has changed people’s natural relations, loosened their responsibilities to kin and neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the "obvious" is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.
Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more and less urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with
A. Similarities in the interpersonal relationships between urbanites and small-town dwellers.
B. Advantages of living in big cities as compared with living in small towns.
C. The positive role that urbanism plays in modern life.
D. The strong feeling of alienation of city inhabitants.