[单项选择]Robert Spring spent 15 years


A. running a bookstore in Philadelphia
B. writing letters to Miss Fanny Jackson
C. as a forger
D. as a respectable seller

[单项选择]Robert Spring spent 15 years _________.


A. running a bookstore in Philadelphia
B. corresponding with Miss Fanny Jackson
C. as a forger
D. as a respectable dealer

[单项选择]Scientists have spent years_________ into the effects of certain chemicals on the human brain with no results.


A. studying
B. investigating
C. researching
D. inspecting

[单项选择]The lad spent seven years as ______ to a master-builder so that he might learn the trade.


A. applicant
B. apprentice
C. learner
D. student

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After ten years spent trying（）to become the number-one west coast service provider, the corporation finally succeeded.
 

A. high
B. down
C. hard
D. soon

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For years and years people have been saying that the railways are dead. "We can do without railways," people say, as if motorcars and planes have made the railways unnecessary. We all keep heating that trains are slow, that they lose money, and that they are dying. But this is far from the troth. In those days of expensive oil, the railways have become highly competitive with motorcars and planes. If you want to carry people or goods from place to place, they are cheaper than planes. And they have much in common with planes. A plane goes in a straight line and so does a railway. ,What is more, it takes from the heart of a city into the heart of another. It doesn’t leave you as a plane does, miles and miles from the city center. It doesn’t hold you up as a car . does, in endless traffic jams. And a single train can carry goods which a plane or motorcar could never do.
Far from being dead, the railways are very much alive. Modem railway lines give you
A. planes and motorcars have taken the place of trains
B. oil is expensive today
C. trains are superfast
D. railways gain a large amount of money

[单项选择]Robert Beaglehole suggested that（）
A. the government decrease tobacco advertising and raise taxes on cigarettes
B. China learn from the experience of developing countries
C. the government prohibit smoking in public places
D. China develop a strategy to combat chronic diseases

[单项选择]After the funeral the widow and family spent several days in ______.


A. solitude
B. isolation
C. retirement
D. seclusion

[单项选择]Anyone who has spent some time with children must be aware of the difference in the way boys and girls respond to ______ situations.


A. same
B. alike
C. similar
D. likely

[单项选择]I spent the whole day yesterday rearranging my books ______ their subjects and frequency of use.
A. as regards
B. as against
C. as of
D. as from

[单项选择]Before the tourists set off, they spent much time setting a limit ______ the expenses of the trip.


A. for
B. in
C. to
D. about

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Most of the meeting was spent going over the salesfrom the previous month（）

A. shapes
B. celebrities
C. figures
D. measures

[单项选择]Before she went abroad she spent as much time as she could ______ English.


A. practise to speak
B. practising speaking
C. practise speaking
D. to practise speaking

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Passage Four 4
There was once a man who spent all his time in his glasshouse. Flowers was his name, and flowers were his main joy in life. He grew flowers of every color under the sun. He grew these flowers in order to enter them for competition. His greatest hope in life was to grow a rose of an entirely new color that would win him the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.
Mr. Flowers’ glasshouse was close to a public path, which was always used by children walking to and from school. Boys were often attracted to throw a stone or two at his glasshouse. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or close by his glasshouse at the beginning and end of the school day.
However, it was not convenient or possible to be on guard all the time. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to prevent harm to his glass; but nothing that he had done had been successful.
Then, just as he was giving up hope of ever winning the battle, and of growing the Rose of the
A. to tell the children not to throw stones at the notice
B. to warn the boys not to throw stones
C. to attract the boys to throw stones at the notice
D. to warn them whoever threw stones would be punished