[单项选择]Maggie tiptoed over and took the clock away because she hated to hear ______ it when she was trying to get some sleep.


A. sounding
B. humming
C. ticking
D. ringing

[单项选择]Maggie tiptoed over and took the clock away because she hated to hear it _______ when she was trying to go to sleep.


A. sounding
B. humming
C. ticking
D. ringing

[单项选择]Mary tiptoed over and took the clock away because she hated to hear it ______ when she was trying to go to sleep.
A. sounding
B. ringing
C. ticking
D. humming

[单项选择]The man beat me ______ and took away all my money.
A. down
B. off
C. up
D. in

[单项选择]The stranger turned away and walked quickly because he knew soon he would get to the village.

[单项选择]Mary doesn't want to get married right away because she thinks that if she ______ husband she probably wouldn't be able to stay with her parents very often.


A. had got
B. could have got
C. has to get
D. were to get

[单项选择]The barman didn't want to send the man away because ______.
A. the man paid the bill every time he brought it to him
B. the man was too tired to leave
C. he was kind-hearted
D. he lidded his job very much

[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
The clock tower looks out over a 38-hectare campus graced by an ornamental lake and a pillared central hall. Add a little ivy and it could be almost any respected seat of learning in the West. Only the hemisphere is wrong. This is Ningbo campus of Nottingham University in China’s Zhejiang province, half a world away from its British home. Teaching is in English, the first language of the staff. Last year the college, a joint venture with a Chinese enterprise, opened its doors to 900 local students looking for an international education without leaving home. Within five years their numbers are forecast to reach 4, 000. Say Nottingham University provost Ina Gow: "Why go all the way to Britain when you can study in China at half the price"
Good question. International education is now a global industry worth $ 30 billion a year, with some 2 million students studying abroad, a figure that’s forecast to treble by 2020. In particular,
A. The U. S. stays firmly as No. 1 choice for students.
B. Britain raised by 20 percent its overseas students last year.
C. Both countries forecast a rise in the student number.
D. Both countries are losing their market share.