[填空题]Its so hot today.

[单项选择]It （　） hot so far this summer. It is reported that it will still be hot in the coming two days.
A. had been
B. has been
C. was
D. is

[填空题]You should stand the table on its legs, so that the top is (horizon) （）

[单项选择]Jeans are so hot these days that big name stars appear on TV advertising for their ______ brands.
A. favorite
B. unique
C. permanent
D. intimate

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The loss of lusitania and so many of its passengers, including 128 U.S. citizens, aroused a wave of indignation in the United States（）

A. perplexity
B. wrath
C. distress
D. skepticism

[单项选择]Here, so profligate has its use become the air conditioner is almost ______ the automobile of the national tendency to overindulge in every technical possibility, to sue every convenience to such excess that country looks downright coddled.
A. as glaring symptom as
B. as glaring a symptom as
C. as symptom glaring as
D. as glaring as a symptom

[单项选择]It is so hot. You should put the food into the refrigerator now. Otherwise, it will __________ soon.
A. harm
B. hurt
C. spoil
D. damage

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W: The room is so hot that I can hardly breathe．
M: I’ll open the windows．

What will the man do （　）
A. Close the windows.
B. Open the doors.
C. Open the windows.

[单项选择]The cute puppy dog ______ so happy in its new home.
A. makes
B. seems
C. smells
D. comes

[单项选择]A: I can’t believe it’s so hot. I think I’m dying from the heat. It’s not even noon yet. B: __________________
A. What will happen then
B. Willyou please turn on the air conditioner
C. That means it will get even hotter
D. I’m sure I will die from it.

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M: It’s so hot in here.
F: Why don’t you open the window

Who will open the window（）
A. Neither of them.
B. The woman.
C. The man.

[填空题]I wish it(be) ______ not so hot today, it has been hot for half a month.

[简答题]Hot spot

[单项选择]A. Its price. C. Its location. B. Its comfort. D. Its facilities.

[单项选择]A. Its popularity. B. Its philosophy. C. Its perspective. D. Its briskness.

[简答题]They began to appreciate its simplicity and its deep meaning. It was a speech which only A bra ham Lincoln could have made. (Passage1)

[单项选择]With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject matter and widely-varying methods of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature, or, at least, as a distinct, even though a slightly disreputable, offshoot of the traditional novel.
The detective story is probably the most respectable (at any rate in the narrow sense of the word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of university teachers, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, but the world in which they happen, the village, seaside resort, college or studio, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizably human and consistent as our less intimate associates. A story set in a more remote envi
A. The many seeming impossible events.
B. The fact that the guilty are always found out and the innocent cleared.
C. The existence of a neat closely-knit story.
D. The lack of interest in genuine character revelations.