[单项选择]His parents were once well-off but they lost all their money.
A. in good health
B. not happy
C. well-to-do
D. not rich

[单项选择]His parents were once well-off but they lost all their money.
A. in good health
B. not happy
C. well-to-do
D. not rich

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Dick was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. (21) this ,he managed to get to the university, but it was (22) expensive to study there that during the holidays he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time (23) enough money to pay for his studies.
(24) he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop during the daytime, and another in a hospital at night .In the shop, he learnt to cut meat up quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to ", all the serving while he went into a room behind the shop to the accounts. In the hospital, (25) he was, of course, allowed (26) only the simplest job, like (27) to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shop and at the hospital, Dick had to wear white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Dick had to help to carry
A. was to have
B. had
C. has had
D. had had

[单项选择]Once lost （　）.
A. it is hard to get such a chance again
B. to get such a chance will be difficult
C. one can never get such a chance again
D. such a chance might never come again

[单项选择]Jack's parents were both farmers.

[单项选择]If animal parents were judged by human standards, the cuckoo would be one of nature's more creatures, blithely laying its eggs in the nests of other birds, and leaving the incubating and nurturing to them.
A. mettlesome
B. industrious
C. domestic
D. irresponsible

[单项选择]The parents were much kinder to their youngest child than they were to the others, ______, of course, made the others jealous.
A. which
B. that
C. what
D. who