[单项选择]It's a long time since he left his hometown, ______

[单项选择]It's a long time since he left his England, ______

[单项选择]I waited for a long time, but he still didn't ______.
A) turn up C) turn down
B) turn oat D) turn over

[单选题] Tom （） there for 10 months since he （） back to his hometown.
A. has lived， gets
B. has lived， got
C. lived， go
D. lived， has got

[单项选择]The lecture ______, he left his seat so quietly that no one complained that his leaving disturbed the speaker.


A. began
B. beginning
C. having begun
D. being beginning

[单项选择]He looked as if he ______ ill for a long time.


A. was
B. were
C. has been
D. had been

[单项选择]Linton looked as though he（）ill for a long time.
A. were
B. was
C. has been
D. had been

[单项选择]The wind（　）his candle and he was left in the dark.
A. blew out
B. blew up
C. blew for
D. blew off

[单项选择]If he had left in time for the last bus, he ______ it.

[单项选择]A long time ago, at
A. A．a .national conference on biology, he cautiously ______ his new theory on life. advancedB. relievedC. producedD. thrust

[单项选择]______ he does his work, I don't mind what time he arrives at the office.
A. So far as
B. So long as
C. In case
D. Meanwhile

[单项选择]Up until the time, his interest had focused almost ___________ on fully mastering the skills and the techniques of his crafts.


A. radically
B. restrictively
C. exclusively
D. inclusively

[单项选择]He was very iii for a time, but he managed to ______.


A. pull on
B. pull in
C. pull up
D. pull through

[单项选择]Yesterday I stared at the map for a long time to _________ my memory of the route.


A. remedy
B. relax
C. recover
D. refresh

[单项选择]The young visitor stayed a long time in my friend's house.

[单项选择]

Text 2
For a long time, researchers have tried to nail down just what shapes us--or what, at least, shapes us most. And over the years, they’ve had a lot of finding moments. First it was our parents, particularly our mothers. Then it was our genes. Next it was our peers, who show up last but hold great sway. And all those ideas were good ones--but only as far as they went.
The fact is once investigators had exposed all the data from those theories, they still came away with as many questions as answers. Somewhere, there was a sort of temperamental dark matter exerting an invisible gravitational pull of its own. More and more, scientists are concluding that this un explained force is our siblings.
From the time they are born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and cautionary tales. They are our scolds, protectors, goads, tormentors, playmates, counselors, sources of envy, objects of pride. They te
A. they can provide important suggestions for us.
B. they can accompany us throughout our life.
C. they may offer us great help.
D. they plan our journey for us.