[填空题]I have lived in Chongqing for several years and I’m now accustomed to (eat) ______ hot food.

[填空题]I have lived in Chongqing for several years and I’m now accustomed to (eat) ______ hot food.

[单项选择]I’ve lived in Nanchang for several years and I’m now accustomed to ______ hot food.
A. eat
B. ate
C. eating
D. eats

[单项选择]Though eight years have passed, I still remember（）to Mr. Ma during my visit there.
A. introducing
B. being introduced
C. to be introduced
D. introduced

[单项选择]They have lived in this country for 10 years, but have never really integrated.
A. 他们已在这个国家住了10年，但还没有真正地互相认识并融合在一起。
B. 他们已在这个国家住了10年，但尚未真正地与之融为一体。
C. 他们在这个国家住了10年之后还没有真正地互相团结起来。
D. 虽然他们已在这个国家住了10多年，但从来没有真正地互相团结起来过。

[单项选择]Over the past several years, I have interviewed dozens of senior executives of Fortune 1,000 companies and asked two questions: "Is there information that would help you run your company far better if you had it in real time, and, if m, what is it " Without exception, they answered yes to the first question, then ticked off the one to three items they wanted. Dave Dorman at AT&T said he wanted real-time customer transaction information, such as contract renewals and cancellations. Rick Wagoner at GM wanted real-time progress reports on new vehicle development. Others on his senior team wanted certain narrowly defined data on product quality and productivity. Dick Notebaert at Qwest wanted customer satisfaction numbers. The CEO of a well-known services business wished he had real- time transaction volume data on a limited group of his best customers, while the CEO of an events business wanted to see minute-by-minute tracking of how much show-floor space has been sold.
Oddly, though,
A. concerns customers and business transactions.
B. is helpful to these companies.
C. means different things in different professions.
D. provides practical information.

[填空题]We have lived in this house for more than 30 years. It now needs (repair) ______.

[简答题]For years I have been mercilessly lampooned by friends and acquaintances alike for my unorthodox lifestyle choice of having no TV. In an age of increasingly large flat-screens and surround sound which accost you the minute you walk into someone’s house, people regularly look at me like I’m either severely handicapped or chronically hard done by when I mention that I have no television. I can see the mixture of genuine pity, raw pathos and sheer disbelief in their faces as they stare at me open-mouthed. And no, contrary to the jokes and insinuations from the equally incredulous young people I mentor, it’s not because I can’t afford to pay the TV license.
To be sure, television is a great invention, if handled in moderation. The composite etymological derivation (from the Greek and the Latin words—literally meaning "to see from afar") tells of a tremendous technological feat which certainly deserves to be applauded. What’s more, if one is discerning, it can be the source of some q