[单项选择]I called at his house but was refused ______.
A. admission
B. access
C. reception
D. admittance

[填空题]他碰巧外出 when I called at his home the other day.

[单项选择]Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne （　） in American Literature.
A. the father of mystery-haunted novels
B. the greatest American scholar
C. the largest brain with the largest heart
D. the most versatile American writer

[单项选择]Randy Smith called his broker, Pare Durbin, and asked her to borrow 100 shares of Zylex Corp. stock. Randy then sold the stock at the current market price of $45 while anticipating that Durbin would be able to buy the stock back for him at a lower price in the future. What type of order did Smith place（）
A. Short sale.
B. Market order.
C. Margin order.

[单项选择]He（）losing his house when his company went bankrupt.
A. endangered
B. chanced
C. threatened
D. risked

[填空题]One day Mike called his doctor Mr. Brown.
One day Mr. Brown ______ a call from Mike.

[单项选择]They greeted his proposal with ______ and refused to give it serious study.
A. incredulity
B. fickleness
C. derision
D. intensity

[填空题]The interviewee refused to ______(disclosure) his name.

[单项选择]He openly called on the President to trim his 1993 defence budget by 16 billion to 20 billion dollars before sending it to Capital Hill.（）
A. 他曾公开请求总统在将预算案提交国会以前将1993年度国防预算削减160至200亿美元。
B. 他曾公开打电话给总统要求他在将预算案提交国会以前将1993年度国防预算削减160到200亿美元。
C. 在将预算案提交国会之前，他曾公开请求总统将1993年度国防预算削减16至20亿美元。
D. 在将预算案提交国会之前，他曾公开打电话给总统要求他将1993年度国防预算削减16至20亿美元。

[单项选择]The scheme was so impracticable that I refused even （　）.
A. to consider supporting it
B. considering to support it
C. to considering to support it
D. considering supporting it

[单项选择]（）I admit his good points, I can still see his shortcomings.
A. Since
B. Unless
C. While
D. Before

[单项选择]Tom goes to see his grandfather with his father. In the train Tom often puts his head out of the window. His father says, "Tom, don’t put your head out of the window." But Torn goes on putting his head out of the window.
His father takes Tom’s hat quickly and hides it behind his back and says to Tom, "You see your hat is gone." Tom is afraid, his father says, "Well, if you whistle once, perhaps your hat will come back." Tom whistles. His father puts his hat on Tom’s head quickly. "Oh, it’s wonderful," Tom laughs and says. He quickly takes his father’s hat and throws it out of the window. "Now it’s your turn to whistle, Dad! "he says happily.

Both Tom and his father whistle and his hat is on Tom’s head again.
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.