[填空题]He was too young to join the army.
He was ______ young ______ he couldn’t join the army.

[单项选择]He is a very tall young man. He is the second （） man in his company.
A. tall
B. taller
C. tallest
D. most tall

[填空题]Could signalmen see the young driver while he was traveling along（）

[填空题]He was too young to go to school.
He was ______ enough to go to school.

[填空题]He seemed very young, but he was (real) _______ older than all of us.

[单项选择]While a young man, he decided to put aside a little money every month to make for his old age（）
A. provision    
B. supply      
C. adjustment  
D. insurance

[单项选择]He is too young to be able to ______ between right and wrong.
A. discard
B. discern
C. disperse
D. disregard

[简答题]Young though he was, did he manage to make a living on his own.

[单项选择]Young as he was, he was equal to the task.（）
A. 像他那么年轻是能够胜任这项任务的。
B. 像他那么年轻是适合干这项工作的。
C. 虽然他很年轻，但他适合干这项工作。
D. 尽管他还年轻，但他能胜任这项工作。

[填空题]When he was young, he would sit before the TV set waiting for his (favor)（）programs.

[单项选择]His parents died when he was young so he was （　） by his aunt.
A. bred
B. fed up
C. grown up
D. brought up

[单项选择]Young as he is, he is fairly________.


A. practicable
B. permanent
C. portable
D. practical

[单项选择]______ he is still young, he is going very grey.
A. As long as
B. As
C. While
D. Even

[单项选择]The young man is too bashful to speak to strangers.（　）
A. shy
B. haughty
C. indifferent
D. upset

[单项选择]Life insurance, before available only to young, healthy persons, can now be obtained for quite a large proportion of the elderly population, and, sorry, even for pet animals.


A. before young, healthy persons available only,
B. available only to young, healthy persons before,
C. available only to persons young, but more healthy,
D. before young and healthy persons only available to,

[单项选择]

Passage 1
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. (1) I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance (自由栏目) writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, however, I stil
A. He wasn’t able to produce a single book.
B. He hadn’t seen a change for the better.
C. He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year.
D. He thought that he lacked imagination.