[单项选择]We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. "Yes, you too have been in Arcadia", we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don’t know who has it now, and don’t want to know; it’s enough to be so sure that if I should ring the bell there would be no such luck for me as that Brooksmith should open the door. Mr. Offord, the most agreeable, the most attaching of bachelors, was a retired diplomatist, living on his pension and on something of his own over and above; a good deal confined, by his infirmities, to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year, from five o’lock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up. Brooksmith was his butler and his most intimate friend, to whom we all stood, or I should say sat, in the same relation in which the subject of the sov
A. gloomy
B. delightful
C. horrid
D. foreign

[单项选择]We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. "Yes, you too have been in Arcadia", we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don’t know who has it now, and don’t want to know; it’s enough to be so sure that if I should ring the bell there would be no such luck for me as that Brooksmith should open the door. Mr. Offord, the most agreeable, the most attaching of bachelors, was a retired diplomatist, living on his pension and on something of his own over and above; a good deal confined, by his infirmities, to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year, from five o’lock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up. Brooksmith was his butler and his most intimate friend, to whom we all stood, or I should say sat, in the same relation in which the subject of the sov
A. there was a garden in Mr. Offord’s drawing-room
B. Mr. Offord was completely under the control of Brooksmith
C. Brooksmith took good care of Mr. Offord’s guests
D. I never took any notice of Brooksmith’s efforts

[单项选择]It（）be quite late now, we should go and catch the last bus.
A. can
B. must
C. would
D. may

[单项选择]It （） now pretty late, we took our candles and retired to our room.
A. is
B. being
C. turned
D. got

[单项选择]（） pretty late, we decided to leave at once, as we didn’t want to risk missing the last bus.
A. It being
B. Being
C. As is being
D. It was being

[填空题]It was rather late when we came out the cinema. 76. _____
We all knew that the last train will leave at 11:50. So 77. ______
we ran as quick as we could to the station. 78. ______
It was just a quarter past 11 that we arrived 79. ______
in the station, but the trains often leave a 80. ______
little lately and there was a train at 81. ______
the platform. However we got on. We waited 82. ______
for half an hour, and then we got out. We find a 83. ______
station worker and asking when the train was 84. ______
going to leave. "Tomorrow, six o’clock," he 85. ______
said to us.

[单项选择]It’s quite late now and Mr. White （） hasn’t left his office.
A. still
B. already
C. since
D. yet

[填空题]We’ve been friends ever since we (meet)（）at school.