[单项选择]I ______ Mr. Green last week and had a long talk with him.
A. called on
B. called forth
C. called after
D. called off

[单项选择]It seemed scarcely a week since he had been there last.
A. 他好像有一个多星期没去那儿了。
B. 他好像快有一个星期没去那儿了。
C. 自从他上次到那里以后，似乎还没过一个星期。
D. 自从他上次到达那里以来，好像已经过了一个多星期。

[单项选择]A week after he had written to his brother, Jackson began ______.
A. telephoning the bank
B. visiting the bank
C. shouting at the clerks of the bank
D. explaining his problem to the clerks of the bank

[单项选择]This was that annoying day of the week when he had to get his kids to their gym class ______.
A. first thing in the morning
B. the first morning
C. at first in the morning
D. for the first of the morning

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Text 4 Science has long since had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo’s 17th-century trifil’ for his rebelling belief the Catholic Church or poet William Black’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century~ Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics- but no longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked ’ antiscience’ in several books, notably Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from Science and Reason", held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age
A. confrontation
B. dissatisfaction
C. separation
D. contempt

[单项选择]After a long talk the two sides ______ an agreement.
A. arrived
B. arrived in
C. reached out
D. reached

[单项选择]A surprisingly long time had ______ between the discovery of the body and the arrival of the police.
A. elapsed
B. collapsed
C. slipped
D. skipped

[单项选择]How long had the Persians occupied the northern region of Pakistan
A. 300 years.
B. 500 years.
C. 700 years.
D. 200 years.

[单项选择]He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been ______ to the wooden box for over ten hours.
A. confined
B. conformed
C. confronted
D. confirmed

[单项选择]During the long waiting, passengers had nothing to do but______ books and magazines.
A. thumb through
B. thumb over
C. thumbing through
D. thumbing over

[单项选择]He had had a long walk. He was dying to have a drink.
A. 他走了远路。淹淹一息的他还想喝口水。
B. 走了远路之后，他已经奄奄一息了，想喝一点水救命。
C. 走了远路之后，他要死了，只想喝一点水。
D. 走了远路之后，他口渴得要命，想喝口水。

[单项选择]Mary has long had the desire ______ a famous writer even though the study of writing would require years of sacrifice on her part.
A. for becoming
B. to become
C. of becoming
D. becoming

[单项选择]That winter was quite long and farmers who had failed to store up enough ______ for their cattle almost went bankrupt.
A. fodder
B. food
C. grass
D. grain