[填空题]John behaves more (polite) ______ than Bob, so he is more popular.

[填空题]John behaves more (polite) ______ than Bob.

[填空题]My son behaves more (polite) （　） than hers.

[简答题]John runs faster than Bob but slower than Tom. Bill usually runs faster than Bob, sometimes runs faster than John, but never faster than Tom. Who is the fastest runner

[单项选择]John Julius Norwich is the author of more than a dozen books on Norman Sicily, the Sahara, Mount Athos and the Venetian and Byzantine empires. Yet even his immense knowledge is not euough to keep his latest chronicle--of 5, 000 years of Mediterranean history—from appearing somewhat lopsided.
Lord Norwich’s first test, he notes in his introduction to The Middle Sea, was to compensate for an ignorance of Spain. He records that he was fortuitously invited to dinner by "my dear friend" the Spanish ambassador to London and "a few weeks later there came an invitation for nay wife and me to spend ten days in Spain. " It is hard to believe that was all the effort he made, for he acquits himself well, even in the convoluted diplomacy that ended in the war of the Spanish succession.
Lord Norwich’s second task was to strike a balance over time. The Middle Sea reaches from ancient Egypt to the first world war. Like many long, chronological narratives, it becomes progressively more deta
A. cynical.
B. comprehensive.
C. partial.
D. equivocal.

[单项选择]The sentence "I love Jean more than John. " is ambiguous because of ______.
A. homonymy
B. extra-linguistic context
C. grammatical context
D. lexical context

[填空题]He owed his success to luck more than to capacity.

[填空题]John ______ (leave) his keys in the office so he had to wait until his wife came home.

[单项选择]Nice Name But She’s So Deadly 1　More than a million people in the United States were told to leave their homes over the weekend as Hurricane (飓风) Dennis headed to the Gulf coast, after killing at least 15 people in the Caribbean Sea. 2　If you read the news often enough=, you may notice that all hurricanes are given names. Why is that Remember, there can be more than one hurricane operating at one time. Without naming them, we could get confused about which storm we’re talking about. 3　For hundreds of years, hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the particular religious day on which they occurred. One Australian meteorologist (气象学家) began giving women’s names to tropical storms at the end of the 19th century. In 1953, the US National Weather Service, which is responsible for tracking hurricanes and issuing warnings, began using female names for storms. By i979, both women and men’s names were being used. One name for each letter of the alphabet (字母表) is selected, except fo
A. Reason for naming hurricanes
B. Warning of an approaching hurricane
C. Deadly women
D. History of naming hurricanes
E. Organization responsible for naming hurricanes
F. Ways to track hurricanes