[单项选择]He has never been late for school. He is always the first one ______.
A. arriving
B. arrives
C. to arrive
D. arrive

[单项选择]We're ______ late. He has already gone.
A. nearly
B. terribly
C. terrible

[单项选择]You're ______ late. He has already gone.

[单项选择]The witness has been warned that he would be getting into great trouble（　）report to the police.
A. were he to
B. he will
C. he was to
D. would he

[单项选择]— How long has he been in the army
— Oh, he joined the army as far ______ as 1997.
A. ago
B. away
C. from
D. back

[单项选择]He got home two hours late and said he had been ______ in the office by business.
A. detached
B. detained
C. obstructed
D. obsessed

[单项选择]He is accustomed （　） late on weekends for he has the habit of working at night.
A. to sit up
B. to sitting up
C. at sitting up
D. for sitting up

[单项选择]He used to stay up very late，but now he has got used to going to bed early.
A. 他习惯于熬夜很晚，但现在已经习惯很早上床睡觉了。
B. 他过去常常熬夜很晚，但现在已经习惯很早上床睡觉了。
C. 他过去习惯熬夜很晚，但现在不得不很早上床睡觉。
D. 他过去熬夜很晚，但现在已经习惯很早就上床睡觉了。

[单项选择]You're always late. You ______ late three times this week.

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Passage Two
American has long been considered the land of opportunity by those from other countries. Americans, too, believe that the United States provides almost limifiess opportunity for those who want to open businesses on their own.
Today, Americans are still fond of trying their hand at becoming small business people, even though only one out of two survives the first two years. Many of these people start their businesses for the wrong reasons: to get away from the paper work of their present jobs or to exchange the responsibility of their present jobs for freer life styles. But more, not less, paper work and responsibility come with ownership of a small business. John Shuttleworth, owner of the recently successful life-ecology news magazine Mother Earth, reports having had to work sixty hours straight in order to bring out the first issue.
John Shuttleworth waited years after conceiving the idea for Mother Earth before he attempted to put out
A. John Shuttleworth
B. starting a small business
C. America
D. the failure of businesses