[单项选择]Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months, marveling at his （　） spirit and his unfailing good temper.
A. variant
B. gallant
C. pertinent
D. solitary

[单项选择]Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months, marveling at his ______ spirit and his unfailing good temper.
A. variant
B. gallant
C. pertinent
D. solitary

[单项选择]How often do most places have earthquakes

[填空题]Most talented individuals had no good experiences with their initial teachers, and many had developed a very tense relationship with them.

[单项选择]Who had sent them the tickets


A. The people who stole their paintings.
B. Their best friends.
C. The actors in the play.

[单项选择]During the early years, America had so few settlers that neighbors were very important; they were not to be shut out by doors and fences.（）
A. 在早些年间，美国人有很多邻居非常重要，他们就不用关门和栅栏。
B. 在早些年间，美国定居者很少，以至于邻居就显得非常重要；不能用门和栅栏将他们隔在外面。
C. 在早些年间，美国定居者很少，以至于邻居就显得非常重要，他们不用把门和栅栏关上。
D. 在早些年间，美国人有很多邻居非常重要，他们不会被门和栅栏关在外面。
E. 在早些年间，美国有很多定居者，邻居不太重要，他们不把门和栅栏关上。

[单项选择]During the summer vacation, kids are often seen hanging （）in the streets.
A. about
B. on
C. over
D. out

[单项选择]In London, what do the policemen often do during their work-time


A. Direct walking people.
B. Tell others the time.
C. Nothing.
D. Show visitors the right way in the city.

[单项选择]Farmers often use water buffalo to help them in the ______ fields.
A. paddle
B. paddy
C. pagoda
D. pagan

[单项选择]What had been taking place during the time of the Roses


A. the development of England
B. a series of wars
C. the growth of poetry
D. the Battle of the Armada

[单项选择]Jack had to work after class and during his holidays because he wanted to become a rich man.

[单项选择]During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra's conductor seemed （）, without necessary relation to what had gone before.
A. tedious
B. melodious
C. capricious
D. cautious

[单项选择] During the past 15 years, the most important component of executive pay packages, and the one most responsible for the large increase in the level of such compensation, has been stock-option grants. The increased use of option grants was justified as a way to align executives’ interests with shareholders’. For various tax, accounting, and regulatory reasons, stock-option grants have largely comprised " at-the-money options", rights to purchase shares at an "exercise price" equal to the company’s stock price on the grant date. In such at-the-money options, the selection of the grant date for awarding options determines the options’ exercise price and thus can have a significant effect on their value. Earlier research by financial economists on backdating practices focused on the extent to which the company’s stock price went up abnormally after the grant date. My colleagues and I focused instead on how a grant-date’s price ranked in the distribution of stock prices during the month of the grant. Studying the universe of about 19,000 at-the-money, unscheduled grants awarded to public companies’ CEOs during the decade 1996-2005, we found a clear relation between the likelihood of a day’s being selected as a grant date for awarding options, and the rank of the day’s stock price within the price distribution of the month: a day was most likely to be chosen if the stock price was at the lowest level of the month, second most likely to be chosen if the price was at the second-lowest level, and so forth. There is an especially large incidence of "lucky grants" ( defined as grants awarded on days on which the stock price was at the lowest level of the month) : 12 percent of all CEO option grants were lucky grants, while only 4 percent were awarded at the highest price of the month. The passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in August 2002 required firms to report grants within two days of any award. Most firms complied with this requirement, but more than 20 percent of grants continued to be reported after a long delay. Thus, the legislation could be expected to reduce but not eliminate backdating. The patterns of CEO luck are consistent with this expectation: the percentage of grants that were lucky was a high 15 percent before enactment of the law, and declined to a lower, but still abnormally high, level of 8 percent afterwards. Altogether, we estimate that about 1,150 CEO stock-option grants owed their financially advantageous status to opportunistic timing rather than to mere luck. This practice was spread over a significant number of CEOs and firms: we estimate that about 850 CEOs (about 10 percent) and about 720 firms (about 12 percent) received or provided such lucky grants. In addition, we estimate that about 550 additional grants at the second-lowest or third-lowest price of the month owed their status to opportunistic timing. The cases that have come under scrutiny thus far have led to a widespread impression that opportunistic timing has been primarily concentrated in " new economy" firms. But while the frequency of lucky grants has been somewhat higher in such firms, more than 80 percent of the opportunistically timed grants have been awarded in other sectors. Indeed, there is a significantly higher-than-normal incidence of lucky grants in each of the economy’s 12 industries. According to the passage, more stock-options were granted to executives because（）
A. responsibilities increase very fast on the shoulders of the executives
B. they account for a very important part in executives’ pay package
C. shareowners intend to tie executives’ interests with their own
D. shareholders expect executives to buy stocks at exercise price

[单项选择]During the cold and wet winter months, most cities will ______ some shelter and food for the homeless so they need not sleep out in the open.


A. substitute
B. provide
C. supply
D. forward

[单项选择]Winds most often come from the coast, and are（） damp and not too cold.
A. somewhat
B. somehow
C. nevertheless
D. then