[单项选择]Recently he______ every night until after one o' clock, preparing for the final exam.
A. shows up
B. show off
C. stays in
D. stays up

[单项选择]The disturbances continued night after night until they finally petered out on September 5．At the Old Bailey Judge Salmon later handed down exemplary _____ of four years each on nine white youths who had gone“nigger hunting”．
A. decisions
B. statements
C. trials
D. sentences

[单项选择]You are lucky that the storm ________ until after your tennis match.
A. hung over
B. hung up
C. held up
D. held off

[单项选择]We were given a ______ kick after one of our players was hit.
A. fantasy
B. penalty
C. pastime
D. symposium

[单项选择]It was (not until) after Emily Dickinson's death in 1886 that, (hidden away) in her bureau, (overly) one thousand unpublished poems (were discovered)
A. not until
B. hidden away
C. overly
D. were discovered

[单项选择]Not until last night ______ the news.

[单项选择]No one knew about this beautiful place until last year．
A. 直到去年，人们才知道有这么美丽的地方。
B. 到去年还没有人知道这个美丽的地方。
C. 没有人知道这个美丽的地方，直到去年。
D. 去年才有人到过这个美丽的地方。

[单项选择]One night he found that the table beside the stove was burning.

[单项选择]After （） seemed an endless night, it was time for them to open the boxes of presents.
A. it
B. that
C. what
D. there

[单项选择]One night Tom found that the wood beside the stove was burning.

[单项选择]One terrible thing after another kept happening all day.

[单项选择]After a night's sound sleep, the clerk seems to be ______ enough to finish the heavy task in several hours.
A. radiant
B. conscientious
C. conspicuous
D. energetic

[单项选择]After reading the passage, one would refrain from concluding that ______.
A. Ph. D. s are not earning what they deserve in nonacademic positions
B. colleges and universities employ a substantial number of Ph. D. dropouts
C. a Ph. D. dropout, by and large, does not have what it takes to learn the degree
D. optimism reigns in regard to getting Ph. D. dropouts to return to their pursuit of the degree

[单项选择]One night Peter found that. the wood beside the stove was burning.

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Text 3 After Wall Street closed one recent Friday, a young man in jeans and a sports jacket strode into the showroom of the Classic Car Club of Manhattan, a few blocks north of Tribeca. He paced between an Aston Martin v8, a Rolls-Royce Corniche, two vintage Ferraris and a dozen others, eager to find something for a night out. Ten minutes later he zipped through the hangar doors in a 2005 Lotus Elise, a bright red, curvy little number. There was no bill to pay and no insurance form to sign. Luxury-car clubs are well established in Europe. Now they are catching on in the United States. The idea is that for an annual membership fee, plus (sometimes) a weekly charge, members can have their choice of smart cars. Ron Van Horssen, who recently opened a club near Phoenix, says the model is based on executive-jet sharing. Rich people, he thinks, are realising that "owning an asset is not necessarily the best way of getting the benefits of using it". A spin in a Van Horss
A. young people are now living a luxurious life.
B. luxurious cars are very expensive.
C. luxury-car club is now very popular.
D. renting a car from a club is easy and convenient.