[单项选择]Many years had ______ before they returned to their original urban areas.


A. floated
B. elapsed
C. skipped
D. proceeded

[单项选择]Many years had ______ before they returned to their original urban areas.


A. floated
B. elapsed
C. skipped
D. proceeded

[单项选择]How many hotels had explosions last night


A. 4
B. 3
C. 2
D. 5

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Passage Two
Some years ago industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did not need to be as careful as they must today. They did not need to worry a lot about the safety of the new products that they developed. They did not have to pay much attention to the health and safety of the people who worked for them. Often new products were dangerous for the people who used them; often conditions in the work place had very bad effects on the health of the workers.
Of course sometimes there were real disasters which attracted the attention of governments and which showed need for changes. Also scientists who were doing research into the health of workers sometimes produced information which governments could not ignore. At such times, there were inquiries into the causes of the disaster or the problems. New safety rules were often introduced as a result of these inquiries; however, the new rule; came too late to protect the people who died or who becam
A. testing new products
B. designing new products
C. controlling the sale of product
D. inspecting work places

[单项选择]（）three years since Nancy had her vacation.
A. It was
B. There was
C. It is
D. There is

[单项选择]For years the workers had to（）low wages and terrible working conditions.
A. admit
B. allow
C. permit
D. tolerate

[单项选择]Having been ill for a few years, she had a particularly fragile ____________.


A. constitution
B. institution
C. construction
D. instruction

[单项选择]Three years ______ before he returned home from the United States.


A. denoted
B. destined
C. elapsed
D. enveloped

[单项选择]Ten years ago he had no money, so it was _________for him to buy a computer.


A. beyond question
B. without question
C. out of question
D. out of the question

[单项选择]Many young people are choosing to move out of their family home and live ______ .


A. them
B. theirs
C. themselves
D. by themselves

[单项选择]Joe had many regrets when he ______ the years he spent abroad.
A. looked back on
B. looked down upon
C. looked up to
D. looked out of