[单项选择]The plane ______ a few minutes after it took off and most of the passengers died.
A. collided B. crushed C. crashed D. smashed

[单项选择]The plane （　） a few minutes after it took off and most of the passengers died.
A. collided
B. crushed
C. crashed
D. smashed

[单项选择]Although the economy seemed, after a few tense months, to（）the storm without serious long-term damage, the banks were hit hard.
A. wipe out
B. rub out
C. sniff out
D. ride out

[单项选择]After a few rounds of talks, both sides regarded the territory dispute （）.
A. being settled
B. to be settled
C. had settled
D. as settled

[单项选择]After a few short but interminable seconds, U. S. Astronaut Neil Armstrong placed his foot firmly on the fine-grained surface of the moon. The time was 10.. 56 pm, July 20,1969.（　）
A. inseparable
B. fast
C. indelible
D. long

[填空题]How was Ann sitting before the plane took off
______ part of the seat.

[填空题]After a few months, the immigrants____________(就习惯了新环境).

[单项选择]Without any hesitation, she took off her shoes, ______ up her skirt and splashed across the stream.
A. tucked
B. revolved
C. twisted
D. curled

[单项选择]It was not until she took off her dark glasses ______ I realized she was a famous film star.
A. that
B. so that
C. before
D. when

[单项选择]

On the night of May 7,1942, a plane took off from an Air Force base in England to stop German fighters over the English Channel. Pilot of the plane was Captain Thomas Nash. Looking eastward, Nash saw twelve orange lights in a row, moving at a fantastic rate of speed. As a sophisticated flyer, he had never seen anything like them. Thinking that they might be a new German weapon, he decided to chase them. But when he swung the plane around and headed directly for the lights, they vanished.
Captain Nash may have been the first to see such orange lights but he wasn’t the last. His experience was repeated several times by pilots during World War II in Europe and the Far East. What were they No one knows for sure, but there is an interesting theory to explain them. According to this theory, the orange lights are space animals -- animals specially adapted to life in the upper atmosphere just as some creatures are adapted to life at the bottom of the sea. These space animal
A. escape detection
B. arouse curiosity
C. search for man-made energy
D. make contact with man