[填空题]He has a _____ habit of biting his lips when he is puzzled.

[简答题]…a writer, when he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous, unending, and unpredictable battle.

[单项选择]
When will he take his vacation
A. (A) August.
B. (B) September.
C. (C) November.
D. (D) December.

[单项选择]When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we______the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen: a superman, ______ , a demigod walking the earth.
A. hymned … a nonpareil
B. exasperated … a dabbler
C. inveighed … a genius
D. lauded … an obscurantist
E. apostatized … a commoner

[单项选择]His mother died when he was five, his father never remarried, and by the time he was eight he （）in three different countries.
A. had lived
B. was lived
C. was living
D. will have lived

[填空题]He will go to visit his grandparents when he (finish) ______ his homework.

[填空题]What was the condition when he found his newspaper The newspaper was often covered with ______.

[单项选择]A He has to work with his brother. B He has no definite plans. C He usually works on weekends. D His plants depend on the woman.

[填空题]He was just about to get into his car when he saw a girl come ______ (run) across the street toward him.

[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

[填空题]When he heard the news that his father died, he stood___________________(好像被钉在地上一样).

[单项选择]He has just broken his leg. He knows that a trip to Europe this winter is（　）
A. in question
B. without question
C. beyond question
D. out of the question

[填空题]When did he publish his book, The Art of Deception

[单项选择]

When someone has money that he wants to put in a safe place, he naturally takes it to a bank. Until recently the very appearance of the bank building was designed to assure people that their money would be safe. There were thick, solid walls and barred windows. All the windows and doors were wired to set off the burglar alarms if anyone tried to force his way in. The vaults where the money was kept had huge, steel doors with complicated locks. Uniformed guards with pistols in their holsters were always on duty in the bank. The tellers’ cages - the cubicles where the bank clerks, or tellers, worked - actually resembled cages. They had gratings across the front, high sides and back, and a door that could be opened only by pushing a release button.
The new style of bank design retains some of these protective features, but the idea now is to make the hank seem like a friendly place rather than a forbidding fortress. The tellers’ cages have been replaced by flat,
A. the bank building looks like a safe place
B. there are thick, solid walls in a bank building
C. uniformed guards are always on duty in a bank
D. bank clerks work in cages