[单项选择]Far too many owners of electric appliances have a hard time （） qualified repairmen to fix their ma- chines.
A. finding
B. to find
C. to finding
D. having found

[单项选择]Far too many owners of electric appliances have a hard time ______ qualified repairmen to fix their machines.
A. finding
B. to find
C. to finding
D. having found

[单项选择]You have made too many mistakes in your exercises. You ______ the text.
A. must have prepared
B. should have prepared
C. can have prepared
D. need have prepared

[单项选择]She is far too sensible to believe these ridiculous lies.（）
A. 她很聪明，不会相信这些荒谬的谎言。
B. 她太敏感了，竟然相信了这些荒谬的谎言。
C. 她太聪明了，以至于不能相信这些花言巧语。
D. 她很敏感，以至于认为这些是荒谬的谎言。

[单项选择]The problem with activists is that far too often they merely ______ the protection of various ecosystems, instead of taking a lead role in their ______ .
A. (A) circumvent.. stability
B. (B) abridge.. solution
C. (C) diversify .. precedent
D. (D) advocate .. management
E. (E) abhor.. demise

[单项选择]A man can never have too many ties（）
A. 男人没办法买到太多的领带。
B. 男人有再多的领带也不为过。
C. 男人永远别买太多的领带。
D. 人不能有太多的领带。

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Most boys, and many girls too, have at some time or other started a stamp collection. Stamp-collecting, or, to call it (21) its correct name, philately, (22) an increasing popular hobby from as (23) as 1854 -- for less than two decades (十年) after postage stamps (24) . Today the hobby numbers (25) are not only boys and girls, but also men and women from all ranks (阶层) in society. So rapidly (26) the interest in stamp-collecting increase in the United States of America (27) in 1921 the United States Post Office found itself (28) set up a special department to (29) the needs of collectors. At present the yearly (30) of this department total over three hundred thousand dollars.

21（）
A. that
B. so that
C. where
D. when

[单项选择]The hotel was awful!（）, our room was far too small. Then we found that the shower didn’t work.
A. To begin with
B. After all
C. In reality
D. As a whole