[单项选择]— Henry has been teaching English in Beijing University for many years.
— It's no ______ he can speak Chinese so well and idiomatically.
A. matter
B. doubt
C. problem
D. wonder

[单项选择]The first textbooks for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the 16th century.
A. having written
B. to be written
C. being written
D. written

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Passage 4
In her 26 years of teaching English, Shannon McCuire has seen countess misplaced commas, misspelled words and sentence fragments.
But the instructor at US’s Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge said her job is getting harder every day.
"I kid you not, the number of errors that I’ve seen in the past few years have multiplied five times," she said.
Experts say e-mail and instant messaging are at least partly to blame for an increasing indifference toward the rules of grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
They say the problem is most noticeable in college students and recently graduates.
"They used to at least feel guilty (about mistakes)," said Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington, D.C. "They didn’t necessarily write a little better, but at least they felt guilty."
Ironically, Baron’s latest book, "Alphabe
A. It was poorly edited.
B. It failed to come out.
C. It was renamed "Whatever".
D. It caused her to lose her jo

[单项选择]Henry has never been to the Summer Palace, and it’s the place _____.
A. in which he wants to visit
B. that he wants to visit it most
C. where he wants to visit
D. he wants to visit most

[单项选择]The first textbook ______ for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the 16th century.
A. writing
B. written
C. to write
D. to be written

[单项选择]The first textbook______ for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the 16th century.


A. have written
B. to be written
C. being written
D. written

[单项选择]My little brother has never been to Beijing, but it's the place ______.

[单项选择]Henry David Thoreau's work, ______ has always been regarded as at masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.


A. Daisy Miller
B. White Fang
C. Walden
D. The Prince and the Pauper.