[单项选择]He has been interested in computer since his childhood, so he specialized______ computer science when he was in college.
A. on
B. at
C. for
D. in

[单项选择]Ever since he ______ his job, Allen has been much happier than before.
A. has changed
B. had changed
C. changed
D. changes

[单项选择]Ever since he______ his job, Allen has been much happier than before.
A. changed
B. had changed
C. has changed
D. changes

[单项选择]Throughout his political career he has always been in the ____.
A. twilight
B. spotlight
C. streetlight
D. torchlight

[单项选择]The author was adopted since his childhood, so he ______.
A. left his step mother to try to find his birth parents
B. resented his adoptive mother covering the truth
C. was obsessed by the feeling of abandonment
D. felt grateful for his adoptive parents

[单项选择]The child tried his best, but he could not get his kite because it is ______ his reach.
A. near
B. within
C. out on
D. beyond

[单项选择]Since his children have all grown up, he has nothing now.
A. to worry about
B. worrying about
C. to be worried
D. worried

[单项选择]A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises (出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar (奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is （）.
A. repeated without any change
B. treated as a joke
C. made some changes by the parent
D. set in the present

[单项选择]Child as he is，he has a ready tongue．
A. 因为他是一个小孩，他有一根准备好的舌头。
B. 当他是一个小孩的时候，他很会说话。
C. 尽管他是一个小孩，却有着敏捷的口才。
D. 作为一个小孩，他口才不错。

[单项选择]All his investments have been successful and he was believed to be (extreme) ______ rich.

[单项选择]Since he began work, he hasn't ______ asked his father for money.
A. badly
B. ever
C. greatly
D. very much

[单项选择]The witness has been warned that he would be getting into great trouble______report to the police.
A. were he to
B. he will
C. he was to
D. would he

[单项选择]Since ___, he had to postpone his departure for Europe.
A. he was ill
B. his ill
C. being ill
D. ill

[单项选择]Has he been ______ of his father's death yet
A. said
B. declared
C. mentioned
D. informed

[单项选择]He is a(n) ______ and well-behaved child, but his parents worry about him for he talks too little.
A. obedient
B. transient
C. conscious
D. passionate

[单项选择]He is a ________and well-behaved child, but his parents worry about him for he talks too little.
A. obedient
B. transient
C. conscious
D. passionate