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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

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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.

He was（）when he spoke at the company dinner last year.
A. lighter than the year before
B. heavier than the year before
C. with the Weight Watchers
D. planning to go on diet

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He was ______ when he spoke at the company dinner last year.
A. lighter than the year before
B. heavier than the year before
C. with the Weight Watchers
D. planning to go on diet

[单项选择]John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near. There were moments when I was bewildered by the terror he inspired, because I had no appeal whatever against either his menaces or his inflictions; the servants did not like to offend their young master by taking my part against him, and Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject: she never saw him strike or heard him abuse me, though he did both now and then in her very presence, more frequently, however, behind her back.
Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew be would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would
A. he wanted to make it clean and tidy
B. he wanted to teach her to behave well hi his house
C. he wanted her to pay for her expense by working
D. he wanted to hit her with a book