[单项选择]A rhetorician who spends so much of his time studying the famous______of logic is more than likely to produce a few self-evident statements of his own.
A. self-knots
B. paradoxes
C. twists
D. tautologies
E. platitudes

[填空题]A rhetorician who spends so much of his time studying the famous________of logic is more than likely to produce a few self-evident statements of his own.
A. A．self-knots
B．paradoxes
C．twists
D．tautologies
E．platitudes

[单项选择]There is not much time left, so I shall tell you about it___ .
A. in detail
B. in brief
C. for short
D. in all

[单项选择]He asked the question not so much because of his curiousity as because of his desire for knowledge.
A. 他问这个问题不是出于求知欲而是出于好奇心。
B. 他提出这个问题与其说是出于好奇心不如说是出于求知欲
C. 他问这个问题不是出于好奇心而是出于对知识的渴望，
D. 因为对知识的渴望与好奇，他问了这个问题。

[单项选择]The student continued his university study ___ his family -,vas poor.
A. even though
B. as though
C. now that
D. since

[单项选择]He doesn’t spend much time _____ his homework.
A. in
B. with
C. on
D. for

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A

Ian Johnstone missed his girlfriend so much that he flew back to Britain from Australia to ask her to marry him. The problem is she did the same in the opposite direction. He and Amy Dolby even managed to miss each other when they sat in the same airport waiting room in Singapore at the same time to wait for connecting flights.
After an 11,000-mile flight across the globe, Dolby was greeted by Johnstone’s astonished flatmate asking what she was doing there. "It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on us," she told The Times.
"He is the most romantic(浪漫的)person I have ever known. I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(易冲动的)people. We are always trying to surprise each other. "
Johnstone, a 27-year-old construction worker, had taken a year off to travel round Australia. But he was missing Dolby, a 26-year-old secretary, so much that he got a job on a Sydney building s
A. Both are from Britain.
B. Both are from Australia.
C. Johnstone’s from Britain, Dolby Australia.
D. Johnstone’s from Australia, Dolby Britain.

[单项选择]He had been (forced) to give up much of his time to housework.
A. compelled
B. demanded
C. determined
D. required

[单项选择]While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time（）some important museums and buildings.
A. visiting
B. traveling
C. watching
D. touring

[填空题]Why does promotion matter so much for those who have already acquired high social status

[简答题]One study found women who work with VDTs in early pregnancy are more likely than others to have their pregnancy end unexpectedly. (Passage One)

[填空题]No student is supposed (spend) ______ so much time surfing on the Internet.

[单项选择]

Mr John has paid much attention to his weight reduction programs. Just last year, for example, when he was the main speaker at the company dinner, he said he had put on 30 pounds instead of losing the forty he had promised he would.
The year before that, he joined a health club. He exercised every day and ate less food. After three months however be began making excuses about why he couldn’t go there more often.
As the health club failed to work, he joined Weight Watchers but stopped going because he was the only man there. And he hates following any of the diet programs. John’s latest action is to join a walking club to "walk off" the weight.

Mr John may succeed in losing weight if （　）.
A. he goes back to the health club
B. he stops worrying too much
C. he sticks to a program long enough
D. he makes good excuses for his purposes