[单项选择]Tom（）have met us three times last year, but’ the first two meetings were canceled.
A. will
B. should
C. had
D. must

[填空题]Last Sunday Tom was very busy. Last Sunday Tom ______.

[单项选择]We have ______ rainfall this year than last year.
A. less
B. little
C. fewer
D. few

[填空题]Last month’s rainfall was three times (much) ______ than the average for that period.

[单项选择]（）last year, traffic accidents have decreased by 10% this year.
A. Related to
B. Compared with
C. Concerned about
D. Dealt with

[单项选择]Last year’s economy should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent; profits soared; exports flourished; and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture a lousy B rating The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic situation was good, but the microeconomic numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were permanent, good jobs paying enough to support a family. Job insecurity was rampant. Even as they announced higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were in a tailspin, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the recession year of 1991.
Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so discouraged they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full-time work were only partially employed; and another large group was either overqualified or sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost a mi

[单项选择]I have been to the West Lake three times ______ 1970.
A. since
B. until
C. from
D. after

[填空题]

Last year’s economy should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent; profits soared; exports flourished; and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year.
41._______. Jobs insecurity was rampant. Even as they announced higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were in a tailspin, cutting 516, 069 jobs in 2003 alone, almost as many as in the recession year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down.
But over one million workers were so discouraged they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full-time work were only partially employed; and another large group was either overqualified or sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1998 and 2002, continuing the trend that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half of that today. 42._____.
All this happened in a country where peopl

[单项选择]If I (worked) (with him) last year, I (would) have got on very (well) with him.（　）
A. worked
B. with him
C. would
D. well

[填空题]He failed to pass the examination three times but ______ he passed it.
A. at the end B. at the last C. in the end D. at least

[单项选择]What did Tiger do last year