[单项选择]For a long time after the operation, Linda found ______difficult to fall asleep.
A. this
B. one
C. it
D. that

[单项选择]It was a long time ______ the neighbors found that the old lady had been dead of cold.
A. when
B. until
C. since
D. before

[单项选择]It is a long time（）
A. since I saw you last
B. after I saw you last
C. before I saw you last
D. when I saw you last

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People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed, h is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from one another, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The controversy is often referred to as "nature/nurture".
Those who support the "nature" side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, charac
A. supports the nature theory
B. supports the nurture theory
C. believes both are completely wrong
D. thinks that the correct explanation of human behavior will take ideas from both theories

[单项选择]Measles（　）a long time to get over.
A. spend
B. spends
C. take
D. takes

[单项选择]I sat near the entrance for a long time expecting him, but he didn't arrive.（　）
A. waiting for
B. waiting
C. looking for
D. watching

[单项选择]After long time of hesitation, the woman gave free vent to her {{U}}pent-up{{/U}} emotion.
A. intense
B. written
C. strong
D. confined

[单项选择]Small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words—though they mean little at the time to the people who say them—can have enormous power.
A. 落花有意，流水无情。
B. 有些瞬间虽然倏忽即逝，却常常令人久久不能忘怀。同样，有些话虽然对说的人来说算不了什么，但是对听的人来说却具有深远的影响。
C. 小的片刻有时持续很长时间。而且很少的几个字在当时对于说这些字的人而言没有什么，最终能有很大的力量。
D. 有些瞬间能持续久远。有些只言片语却意义非凡。

[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]The young visitor stayed a long time in my friend's house.