[简答题]I tried very hard, but I failed in finding a job. ______, I failed in finding a job.

[单项选择]—I have tried very hard to find a solution to the problem,but in vain.
—Why not consult with Frank You see,（）.
A. great minds think alike
B. two heads are better than one
C. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
D. it’s better to think twice before doing something

[单项选择]1 tried very hard to persuade her to join our study group but I met with flat（）
A. decline
B. rejection
C. refusal
D. refutation

[单项选择]He tried very hard to （） the authorities of his capabilities and loyalty, only to find that the more he tried, the less they believed him.
A. tell
B. show
C. convince
D. encourage

[简答题]I found my father a very hard man to understand when I was young. He was very short and thin and had large blue eyes. I could have loved him as I did my mother, but he seemed to hold us off so that we could not approach him or sit on his knee as love to do. I believe he had a hard life as a child, and I know that he left school at the age of ten and started to work. This made him an unsociable man, unfriendly even to the people closest to him. I never knew him to have a close friend as the other men did.
Everything he did had to be precise. If he chopped the sticks for the fire, each stick would be the same length and thickness as all the others, and they would all be stacked (堆放) without one out of place. His motto (座右铭) was "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well". In our household his word was law and nobody dared dispute it.
My father would take off his clothes and get into bed on Saturday afternoons, leaving my mother to mend his working clothes. This she disl
A. A．rejected affection
B．looked distant
C．ill-treated the family
D．hated keeping company with children

[单项选择]

I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(怪癖) farmer. I had never met him before although I had heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and talked for a minute or so before I understood anything. Even then all I could make out was that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident. I didn’t have the slightest idea who she was but obviously I had to go.
It was snowing heavily that day and I didn’t know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for, me. "She meant more to me than anyone... even my own wife!" he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal(丑闻). I was even more shocked when he told me that he had put her in the barn(厩). "I wouldn’t leave her out in the cold!" he said.
Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was abou
A. on the floor of a room
B. on the ground of a barn
C. in bed in a barn
D. in bed in a room