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[A] His bike is broken on his way to school.[B] The traffic is too heavy.[C] He gets up late in the morning.

[单项选择]The broken bike （） here by Mr. Smith.
A. can mend
B. can mended
C. can be mended

[填空题]The broken bike needs (repair) ______.

[单项选择]He carefully zigzagged his way through the field, （） the frogs lying there.
A. avoiding
B. avoid
C. avoided
D. and avoid

[单项选择]On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill was presented with his portrait by a well-known modem artist, Graham Sutherland. The painting had been ordered and paid for by the members of Parliament,
Though moved by this mark of respect and affection, neither Sir Winston nor Lady Churchill liked it. "It makes me look stupid — which I am not!" protested Churchill in private. Publicly, he only remarked that it was "a fine example of modern art."
The Churchills were so unhappy about the portrait that finally they had it destroyed. Churchill died at ninety in 1965. Lady Churchill followed him in 1977. Shortly after her death, the public learned what had happened to Sutherland’s painting, and a heated argument broke out. The painter was understandably sad. The artistic community, shocked and angry, claimed that the destruction of the picture had been a crime. Historians said that they regretted the disappearance of a historical document. All agreed that the Churc
A. Graham Sutherland
B. The Parliament
C. Lady Churchill
D. Some historians

[填空题]On his way back home, he found his wallet ______ (miss).

[填空题]The push for excellence is powerful all the way through to higher education.

[填空题]Half a year after his 60th birthday, Forbes had his prostate and lymph nodes removed and his bladder to his urethra reattached(尿道).

[填空题]On his way home he suddenly remembered that he (not lock) _______the door of the office,

[单项选择]On his way to school yesterday morning, Prof. Wang came across an old friend and stopped talking with him for quite a while.（　）
A. On his way
B. came across
C. stopped talking
D. quite a while

[单项选择]In 1990, William Deresiewicz was on his way to gaining a Ph.D. in English literature at Columbia University. Describing that time in the opening pages of his sharp, endearingly selfeffacing new book, A Jane Austen Education, Deresiewicz explains that he faced one crucial obstacle. He loathed not just Jane Austen but the entire gang of 19th-century British novelists ~ Hardy, Dickens, Eliot ... the lot.
At 26, Deresiewicz wasn’t experiencing the hatred born of surfeit that Mark Twain described when he told a friend, "Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shinbone. " What Deresiewicz was going through was the rebel phase in which Dostoyevsky rules Planet Gloom, that stage during which the best available image of marriage is a prison gate.
Sardonic students do not, as Deresiewicz points out, make suitable shrine-tenders for a female novelist whose books, while short on wedding scenes, never skimp on proposals. Emma Bova
A. brought back recollections
B. struck a straight line
C. played musical notes
D. identified with something