[单项选择]The writer understood his aunt' s saying ______.

[单项选择]The writer understood his aunt' s saying ______.

[单项选择]By saying "His number was up a short while later" ,the writer means ______.
A. the thief knew the mobile phone number soon afterwards.
B. the thief lost his luck before long.
C. the thief forgot the mobile phone number a moment later.
D. the number of the phone was dialed a moment later.

[单项选择]By saying "His idea was a success", the author means ______.
A. the school master made a lot of money and got rich
B. the school master became very famous among young students
C. more and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays
D. more and more young students came to study at his school

[单项选择]My aunt's health is ______, if not poorer than ______.

[单项选择]He felt at a loss when he stayed with his aunt.
A. lost
B. confused
C. worded
D. satisfied

[单项选择]Marlin visited his aunt two days before he ______ town.
A. leaves
B. will leave
C. had left
D. left

[单项选择]His father and aunt blamed Chris for______
A. not restoring their prosperity
B. not succeeding at Oxford University
C. neglecting the family property
D. having no interest in family history

[单项选择]By the time Juan gets home, his aunt ______.
A. will leave
B. leaves
C. will have left
D. is leaving

[单项选择]When his aunt dies, he will ______ her property, as he is her only living relative.


A. resume
B. succeed
C. continue
D. inherit

[单项选择]He is the only relation of his aunt, ______ her last will must be for his favour.
A. therefore
B. then
C. accordingly
D. consequently

[单项选择]We were not glad to have Aunt Clara's family with us because ______.
A. she and four boys
B. our house was small
C. it was the weekend
D. her family was not small

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Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes that the public will listen and understand -- he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.
What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain. Because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.
Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that t
A. more meaningful than words
B. merely beautiful
C. a reflection of his experiences
D. worth looking at