[单项选择]The plane crashed shortly after it took off.

[单项选择]The plane crashed shortly after it took off.

[单项选择]The plane ______ a few minutes after it took off and most of the passengers died.


A. collided
B. crushed
C. crashed
D. smashed

[单项选择]Shortly after his retirement, the former president ______ gardening and hunting.


A. took to
B. took after
C. took on
D. took in

[单项选择]Mr. Bush gardening as his hobby shortly after he retired from the General Motor last year.
A. took up
B. took back
C. took in
D. took over

[单项选择]shortly after tea Leopold heard the music from upstairs. He was astonished because ______.
A. Wolfgang loved the piece so much
B. Wolfgang was playing in the darkness
C. Marianne had never played the piece so beautifully
D. Marianne was washing dishes in the kitchen

[单项选择]It was 12 o'clock （）the plane took off.
A. when
B. that
C. since
D. till

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Text 1
Shortly after September 11th, President Bushes father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion that we could somehow avoid the call of duty to defend freedom in Europe and Asia in World War Two, so, too, should this most recent surprise attack erase the concept in some quarters that America can somehow go it alone in the fight against terrorism or in anything else for that matter.
But America’s allies have begun to wonder whether that is the lesson that has been learned——or whether the Afghanistan campaign’s apparent success shows that unilateralism works just fine. The United States, that argument goes, is so dominant that it can largely afford to go it alone.
It is true that no nation since Rome has loomed so large above the others, but even Rome eventually collapsed. Only a decade ago, the conventional wisdom lamented an America in decline. Bestseller lists featured books that describ
A. Indifferent.
B. Optimistic.
C. Indignant.
D. Apprehensive.

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Text 2
Shortly after September 11th, President Bush’s father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion that we could somehow avoid the call of duty to defend freedom in Europe and Asia in World War Ⅱ, so, too, should this most recent surprise attack erase the concept in some quarters that America can somehow go it alone in the fight against terrorism or in anything else for that matter.
But America’s allies have begun to wonder whether that is the lesson that has been learned--or whether the Afghanistan campaign’s apparent success shows that unilateralism works just fine. The United States, that argument goes, is so dominant that it can largely afford to go it alone.
It is true that no nation since Rome has loomed so large above the others, but even Rome eventually collapsed. Only a decade ago, the conventional wisdom lamented an America in decline. Bestseller lists featured books that described Ameri
A. to warm of the doom of a terrorist attack.
B. to criticize Americans' unilaterialism.
C. to call on Americans to defend freedom.
D. to show the primacy of US economy.