[单项选择]My grandfather still plays tennis now and then,（）he，s in his nineties.
A. as long as
B. as if
C. even though
D. in case

[单项选择]
For several years now my newsagent has been spelling my name incorrectly. Every morning I glance hopelessly at the top right - hand corner of my newspaper and wince. There is something vaguely uplifting about seeing one’s own name, one’s correct name written out in blue pencil at the top of a newspaper; and there is something litterly degrading about seeing one’s name carelessly distorted. I have mentioned the matter to my newsagent several times, but it makes no difference. He is a surly, militant, independent devil, a monopolist of the worst kind.
He does not realise of course that his carelessness causes me endless trouble and no little embarrassment. I take my newspaper to the office, I read it on the train, and the people with whom I travel mispronounce my name because they have only the newsagent’s written instruction to go on. When I fail to recognise my spoken name they look at me suspiciously —— as though I
A. desperate and disgusting
B. depressed and grieving
C. evil and curing
D. embarrassing and hopeless

[单项选择]-I am still working on my project.
-Oh, you'll miss the deadline. Time is ______.

[填空题] Television now plays such an important part in so many people’’s lives that it is (36)_________for us to try to decide whether is a (37)_________or a curse. Obviously television has both (38)_________and disadvantages. But do the former (39)_________ the latter In the first place, television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a (40)_________cheap one. They just sit comfortably at home and enjoy (41)_________series of programmes rather than to go out in search of (42)_________ elsewhere. Some people, however, (43)_________ that this is precisely where the danger lies. The television viewer needs to do nothing. (44) __________________. Secondly, television keeps one informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in science and politics. Yet here again there is a danger. The television screen itself has a terrible, almost physical fascination for us. (45) __________________. There are many other arguments for and against