[单项选择]Diana made a lot of effort to persuade her parents into（）to her going to the United States to study business administration in MIT.
A. contending
B. contesting
C. contenting
D. consenting

[单项选择]Diana made a lot of effort to persuade her parents into（）to her going to the United States to study business administration in MIT.
A. contending
B. contesting
C. contenting
D. consenting

[单项选择]Martha has made up her mind to buy her favorite furniture, disregard how much money she would pay（）.
A. no matter how much it costs
B. no matter how much does it cost
C. no matter how it costs
D. no matter how does it cost

[单项选择]Mary has made up her mind not to go to the meeting.
A. tried
B. promised
C. decided
D. attempted

[填空题]Mary had made up her mind to go and what I said to her didn’t make any (different) ______.

[单项选择]______ made her disappointed was her son’s failure in the exam.
A. How
B. What
C. That
D. Why

[单项选择]The（）improvement in her typing has made her boss very pleased.
A. distinct
B. distinctive
C. distinguished
D. distinguishing

[填空题]A tremendous effort has been made to repair the palaces and churches, and ______ (保护湖泊不受未来灾难的侵袭).

[简答题]
Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She was a property developer, and she also owned and operated three McDonald’s franchises (经销特许权) in lllinois, but as a divorced mother of three boys, she longed for a business that would provide for her children and let her spend more time with them.
Her amazing moment struck, strangely enough, after she was appointed in 1992 to be on the McDonald’s bun (小圆面包) committee. "The other franchisees, all men, thought that was funny because of the word bun" she recalls. "But the joke was on them: They didn’t know the company would be picking me up in a jet to see bakeries around the world. Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!"
The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined

[单项选择]
Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She was a property developer, and she also owned and operated three McDonald’s franchises (经销特许权) in lllinois, but as a divorced mother of three boys, she longed for a business that would provide for her children and let her spend more time with them.
Her amazing moment struck, strangely enough, after she was appointed in 1992 to be on the McDonald’s bun (小圆面包) committee. "The other franchisees, all men, thought that was funny because of the word bun" she recalls. "But the joke was on them: They didn’t know the company would be picking me up in a jet to see bakeries around the world. Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!"
The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined to wi
A. To become the new bun supplier.
B. To study the bakery business.
C. To build an automated bakery. D. To see bakeries around the world.