[单项选择]Peter had no idea how long will he spend there ______ he got the order.
A. while
B. until
C. after
D. when

[单项选择]Peter had no idea how long will he spend there he got the order,
A. while
B. until
C. after
D. when

[单项选择]
How long has he had the business
A. (A) Four years.
B. (B) Thirteen years.
C. (C) Fourteen years.
D. (D) Thirty years.

[单项选择]He had had a long walk. He was dying to have a drink（）
A. 他走了远路。淹淹一息的他还想喝口水。
B. 走了远路之后，他已经奄奄一息了，想喝一点水救命。
C. 走了远路之后，他要死了，只想喝一点水。
D. 走了远路之后，他口渴得要命，想喝口水。

[单项选择]He told me how he had given me shelter and protection without which I（）of hunger and cold.
A. would be died
B. would have died
C. would die
D. will have died

[单项选择]Nobody knew how he came up with this （　） idea about the trip.
A. weary
B. twilight
C. unanimous
D. weird

[单项选择]He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been ______ to the wooden box for over ten hours.


A. confined
B. conformed
C. confronted
D. confirmed

[单项选择]Nobody knew how he came up with this ______ idea about the trip.
A. weary
B. twilight
C. unanimous
D. weird

[填空题] How to Get a Great Idea
The guests had arrived, and the wine was warm. Once again, I’d forgotten to refrigerate it. "Don’t worry." a friend said, "I can chill it for you right away."
Five minutes later she emerged from the kitchen with the wine perfectly cooled. Asked to reveal her secret, she said, "Easy. I poured the wine in a plastic bag and then dipped it in ice water. After a few minutes the wine was cold. The hard part was getting it back into bottle. I couldn’t find a funnel (漏斗), so I made a cone with wax paper."
My guests applauded. "How wonderful if we could all be that clever," one remarked.
A decade of research has convinced me we can. What separates the average person from Edison, Picasso or even Shakespeare isn’t creative capacity--it’s the ability to use that capacity by encouraging creative impulses and then acting upon them. Most of us seldom achieve our creative potential. I think I know why, and I