[单项选择]It was a pity that the great writer died ______ his works unfinished.
A. for
B. with
C. form
D. of

[填空题]It is a great pity that we (not catch) ______ the train.

[单项选择]It’s a great pity that the girl _________ halfway and dropped out of the competition.
A. gave off
B. gave out
C. gave over
D. gave up

[填空题]It is a great pity that we (not catch)______the train.

[单项选择]She was extremely lucky; when her great-uncle died, she（）a fortune.
A. came by
B. came over
C. came into
D. came about

[单项选择]Samuel Johnson, the great writer and critic of eighteenth-century England, once said "The future is purchased by the present." This concise and truthful comment forces us to ask, "Are we willing to be more conservative in our life requirements, and are we willing to moderate our use of the world’s resources to insure a better environment and a greater abundance of natural wealth for others today throughout the world and for future generations Can we, in fact, reduce our consumption of petroleum, coal and electricity, in order to reduce the pollution and environmental pressures created by excessive energy use and to allow others to live a better life Are we willing to spend more money for pollution control and environmental restoration Are we willing to devote more effort to recycling Can we moderate our demand for fat-rich diets and super-processed convenience food Can we reduce world-wide militarism and violence so that fewer of the earth’s resources are spent on security forces
A. are successful but not harmful
B. have not been recognized
C. bring about both positive and negative results
D. are changing in recent time

[单项选择]Her great dream of becoming a writer has finally become __________
A. practice
B. event
C. duty
D. reality

[填空题]According to the writer, in the future the great majority of people still ______.

[多项选择]Section C Guernica was the last great history-painting. It was also the last modem painting of major importance that took its subject from politics with the intention of changing the way large numbers of people thought and felt about power. Since 1937, there have been a few admirable works of art that contained political references—some of Joseph Beuys’s work or Robert Motherwell’s Elegies to the Spanish Republic. But the idea that an artist, by making a painting or sculpture, could insert images into the stream of public speech, and thus change political discourse has gone, probably for good, along with the nineteenth-century ideal of the artist as public man. Mass media took away the political speech of art. When Picasso painted Guernica, regular TV broadcasting had been in existence for only a year in English and nobody in France, except a few electronics experts, has seen a television set. There were perhaps fifteen thousand such sets in New York City. Televisio