[单项选择]You are late. If you ______ a few minutes earlier, you ______ him.


A. come; would meet
B. had come; would have met
C. come; will meet
D. had come; would meet

[单项选择]You are late. If you ______ a few minutes earlier, you ______ him.
A. come; would meet
B. had come; would have met
C. come; will meet
D. had come; would meet

[单项选择]Five minutes earlier, ______ we could have caught the last train.


A. and
B. but
C. or
D. so

[单项选择]You may go earlier if you really have to, but I'd rather you ______ for me.
A. wait
B. waited
C. to wait
D. waiting

[单选题] ---I‟m sorry to have kept you waiting long. ---Never mind. I （） here for only a few minutes.
A. have been
B. have come
C. have arrived
D. waited

[单项选择]The police （） to emergencies in just a few minutes when the accident happened.
A. responded
B. replied
C. adjusted
D. appealed

[单项选择]Can you compress your speech into five minutes due to limited time for the meeting
A. change
B. condense
C. shrink
D. comprise

[单项选择]Why ______ you come a little earlier

[单选题]You will have to let an aircraft with an earlier _______ time take off before you.
A.interval
B.break
C.pause
D.slot

[单项选择]Speaker A: You are 40 minutes late. Your type broke again this morning
Speaker B: ______.

[单项选择]--Why did you buy the car earlier
--I （　）Tom in Boston by car next month, but I've changed my mind.
A. visit
B. will visit
C. am going to visit
D. was going to visit

[单项选择]—Why did you buy the car earlier
—I ______ Tom in Boston by car next month, but I've changed my mind.


A. visit
B. will visit
C. am going to visit
D. was going to visit

[单选题]_______ officer told me a few minutes ago that Shanghai and Wuxi areas are affected by low pressure: A cold and warm front can be seen here on the surface chart.
A.The MET
B.The ATC
C.The NOTAM
D.SNOTAM

[单项选择]If you take (a ten—or fifteen—minutes) vacation (into) the realm of imagination (each day), you may (add much to) the excitement and enjoyment of your life.


A. a ten—or fifteen—minutes
B. into
C. each day
D. add much to

[单项选择]What you said ______ me of something I read a few years ago.
A. remembers
B. reminds
C. recalls
D. arouses

[单选题] Have you finished your work yet? No, not yet. I think it‟ll take （） ten minutes.
A. another
B. other
C. others
D. More

[单项选择]If this kind of machines had been invented earlier ,much more labor would have been saved（）
A. 假如这种机器被发明得更早一点的话，那么更多的劳动将会已经节省下来了。
B. 如果人们早一点发明这种机器，人们就不用干更多的劳动。
C. 一旦这种机器更早一点创造出来，就需要更多的劳动力。
D. 假如这种机器发明更早的话，那么更多的劳动力已经节省下了。

[单项选择]Which film is put on earlier than the other


A. THE WILD(U)
B. RENT(2)
C. Not mentioned

[单项选择]Jeff here five minutes ago.


A. should arrive at
B. was supposed to be
C. should comes

[单项选择]

Why do men die earlier than women The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.
"We have found that the power of .the male heart falls by 20--25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age," said the head of the study, I)avid Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
"Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one third of those cells die and are not replaced in men," said Goldspink. "This is part of the ageing process."
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a
A. women do more exercise to keep heart healthy than men
B. women have more cells than men.
C. ageing takes less loss on women's hearts than on men's
D. women's hearts don't lose cells with age.