[简答题]After a year of agreement, preparations for the festival are now proceeding smoothly.

[简答题]After a year of agreement, preparations for the festival are now proceeding smoothly.

[单项选择]We finally ______ an agreement after a lot of hard argument.
A. reached
B. did
C. arrived
D. drove

[单项选择]If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.
Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.
No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashio
A. by mercilessly exploiting women workers in the clothing industry
B. because they are capable of predicting new fashions
C. by constantly changing the fashions in women s clothing
D. because they attach great importance to quality in women s clothing

[单项选择]A. I have learned English the year after next year.
B. I began to learn English the year before last.
C. I’ll learn English in about three years.

[单项选择]After which year did the town really begin to develop

[填空题]After the year 1600, the British Empire began to spread English
around the world. That process was given a huge boost in the 20th century
through the business, technology and post-war re-construction effects (1)
of the US. Beyond this, there were a number of quite extraordinary
trends in culture, science and the arts that were reinforced these developments. (2)
Many of these were spontaneous, but others were high deliberate-the (3)
work of the British Council, for example. Either way, English now
stands challenged as the world’s international language. (4)
But the English language also has some inherent qualities that
enabled this process even far. English is a "mongrel language" (5)
that has always borrowed heavily from the other languages. This has
allowed to grow quic