[单项选择]James had to reach the airport at half past eight.

[单项选择]James had to reach the airport at half past eight.

[单项选择]It's half past four in the afternoon. The students are playing ______ basketball now.

[单项选择]To reach a correct conclusion, they had debated the subject ______.
A. naturally
B. elegantly
C. at last
D. at length

[单项选择]If Jane had taken more exercises in the past few years, she ______ so fat now.

[单项选择]Had you worked harder in the past three years, you ______ already a college student as your best friend Torn is.
A. are
B. have been
C. were
D. be

[单项选择]If that Shell had hit us half a second sooner, it ______ the pilot.
A. might have hit
B. might hit
C. must have hit
D. would hit

[单项选择]For the past few years Susan had been _______ her income by the creation of fiction under a pen name.
A. extending
B. magnifying
C. exceeding
D. supplementing

[单项选择]I had to wait for half an hour before he ______ see me.
A. can
B. may
C. might
D. could

[单项选择]Mr. and Mrs. Smith ______ in the past.[A] had often stayed in a big hotel in London[B] had traveled to many places[C] often stayed in a small inn

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Passage Three
The war had begun, and George had joined the air force. He wanted to be a pilot and after some months he managed to get to the air force training school, where they taught pilots to fly’.
There, the first thing that new students had to do was to be taken up in a plane by an experienced pi lot, to give them some ideas what it felt like. Even those who had traveled as passengers in commercial (商业的 ) airline planes before found it strange to be in the cockpit (驾驶舱)of a small fighter plane, and most of the students felt nervous.
The officer who had to take the students up for their first flight allowed them to fly the plane for a few seconds if’ they wanted to and if they were not too frightened to try, but be was always ready to take over as soon as the plane started to do dangerous things.
George was one of those who took over the controls of the plane when he went up in it for the first time, and after the officer ha
A. the students to fly the plane all the time
B. all students to fly the plane
C. the students who were not frightened to fly on their own
D. some students to fly a little while

[单项选择]She had recently left a job and had helped herself to copies of the company's client data, which she intended to ______ in starting her own business.
A. dwell on
B. come upon
C. base on
D. draw upon