[单项选择]Some students like staying up Date into the night,（）their lessons for the coming final examination.
A. to prepare
B. prepare
C. preparing
D. were preparing

[单项选择]Some students like staying up Date into the night,（）their lessons for the coming final examination.
A. to prepare
B. prepare
C. preparing
D. were preparing

[单项选择]Would you bring me some up-to-date catalogues


A. current
B. well-documented
C. lavish
D. hostile

[单项选择]—Hove did you sleep last night
—Like a log. Never slept ______.


A. well
B. deeply
C. better
D. best

[单项选择]—Hove did you sleep last night
—Like a log. Never slept （　）.
A. well
B. deeply
C. better
D. best

[单项选择]Last night someone rang me up at midnight, but he hung up（）I could answer the phone.
A. before
B. as
C. until
D. after

[单项选择]We'd like to clear up some points ( ) with the technical part of the contract.
A. connected
B. connect
C. connecting
D. being connected

[单项选择]Children have a variety of interests. Some like sports; some like music; （） like literature.
A. the others
B. others
C. the other
D. other

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Some people give up trying to learn a foreign language. It can seem too much like hard work. But the problem comes when they go abroad on holidays and find they cannot communicate. How do they ask the way, order a cup of coffee, or ask the price of something
Keith Chiwick thinks he has the answer to this problem. "I have got a machine which talks in different languages. I feel that I could go to any country in the world and converse with any foreigner," he says. Keith is an inventor. His invention is an electronic machine which produces phrases in four different languages, French, German, Italian and English. Unlike the phrase books, this machine has a voice. It looks like a cassette recorder.
Imagine you want to say, "What time is the next train for Munich" in German. First, you find the right card for that question. Each card has four strips of tape on it, one for each language. The cards are small, seven by nine centimeters, and each
A. He wants to put his products into the market.
B. He wants to run an electronics company.
C. He wants to sell his idea of the machine to an electronics company.
D. He wants to go to Germany with his new machine.