[单项选择]（　）many times, but he still couldn’t understand it.
A. Having been told
B. He was told
C. Though he had been told
D. Having told

[单项选择]To be （）I couldn’t understand what he was getting at. If you wanted to know you’d better ask someone else.
A. sly
B. humble
C. honest
D. cowardly

[单项选择]I couldn’t understand why he pretended（）in the street.
A. Not to see me
B. not see me
C. to see me not
D. to see not me

[单项选择]I didn’t understand at first why he couldn’t pass the test, no matter（）hard he had tried.
A. when
B. where
C. what
D. how

[单项选择]To be（）I couldn’t understand what he was getting at. If you wanted to know you’d better ask someone else.
A. sly
B. humble
C. honest
D. cowardly

[单项选择]
How many times has he been late this month
A. (A) Two.
B. (B) Three.
C. (C) Four.
D. (D) Eight.

[单项选择]He failed the test many times. （　）, he didn’t stop trying.
A. But
B. So
C. Although
D. However

[单项选择]He speaks so ______ that we couldn’t understand
A. fast; him
B. quick; ourselves
C. slow; us

[填空题]Nine times as many Americans died in the farmlands near Antietam Creek in the fall of 1862 than died on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the so-called longest day of World War II. The bloodiest single day of war in the nation’s history came when General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army undertook its first engagement on northern soil. According to the Antietam National Battlefield park service, when the fighting had subsided, more than 23,000 soldiers lay dead or wounded, more than all of the dead or wounded Americans in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, and Spanish-American War combined.
Just a week after his army’s victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Lee resolved to advance the front into Northern territory. The vast farm fields of western Maryland were ready for harvest, and Lee saw in them an opportunity to nourish his soldiers, replenish his supplies, and turn the residents of the undecided border state to his cause.
Which of the following most logical
A. A．How then did this terrible battle come about
B．The Confederacy was famous for the tactical genius of its generals.
C．Clearly the battle strategy on both sides was ineffective.
D．Despite these casualties, the war dragged on for another three years.
E．It was an inexcusable waste of human lif

[单项选择]Although he had been many times given the caveat emptor, Feldman purchased paintings and______in quantity, often without______them first.
A. baubles… rejecting
B. supplies… appraising
C. antiques… examining
D. collectibles … shipping
E. trinkets … criticizing

[单项选择]There are still many problems ahead of us, but fortunately we can see the light at the end of the ______ by the terrific feedback I got from the market this time.
A. campaign
B. day
C. tunnel
D. road

[单项选择]There are still many problems ahead of us, but by this time next year we can see light at the end of the_______.
A. battle
B. day
C. road
D. tunnel

[单项选择]Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact 61 she had never, in her thirty-five-year driving, been punished 62 a driving offence（违法）. Then one day she nearly 63 her record. A police car 64 her, and the policemen in it saw her 65 a red lighr without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed 66 that she would be punished. 67 Mrs. Jones come up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was 68 old to drive a car, and that the 69 why she had not stopped at the red 70 was most probably that her eyes had become weak 71 old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was 72 , Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was 73 and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 74 a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had 75 done
A. dismissed
B. passed
C. settled
D. studied