[单项选择]______ a good beginning is made, the work is half done.
A. As soon as
B. While
C. As
D. Once

[单项选择]Don't ______ your work half-done. You are supposed to finish it alone.
A. remain
B. make
C. set
D. leave

[单项选择]Don't ______ your work half-done. You're supposed to finish it alone.
A. remain
B. make
C. set
D. leave

[单项选择]The result made me ______.It was not half so good as I had expected.
A. disappointing
B. disappointed
C. disappoint
D. be disappointed

[单项选择]He wants to finish his work in half an hour. It is ______ impossible.
A. fairly
B. very
C. almost
D. yet

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Passage Two
Can animals be made to work for us Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs that are now done by human beings. They point out that at a circus, for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing quite skillful things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may notice that the trainer always gives the animal a piece of candy or a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many different animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get a reward for doing them. Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and soldiers in both old and modem times have used geese to give warning by making a lot of noise when a stranger or an enemy comes near. But it may be possible to train animals to work in factories. In Russia, for example, pigeons which are birds with good eyesight, are being used to watch
A. Scientists consider apes may drive trains some day.
B. Apes have worked in some factories.
C. Apes may one day be used to gather crops.
D. An ape is not a large monkey.

[单项选择]Now about half of the women who work in social welfare are part-time, as compared to 38% in the private sector.
A. guarantee
B. farewell
C. well-off
D. well-being

[单项选择]It was at the very beginning __ Mr. Fox made the decision ______ we should sendmore firefighters here.
A. when, which
B. when, that
C. then, so
D. that, that

[单项选择]（） to make a good beginning,these new comers did all that they could to get themselves wellprepared.
A. To be determined
B. Determined
C. Being determined
D. Determining

[单项选择]—It took them more than half an hour to work out the chemistry problem. —Really It（）be an easy one.
A. can't
B. needn't
C. mustn't
D. won't

[单项选择]His personality, rather than his good looks, made him popular with others.
A. enlisting
B. enduring
C. enhancing
D. engaging

[单项选择]During the famine, the couple made ______ on half a loaf of bread and some leaves for three months.
A. up
B. with
C. off
D. do

[单项选择]He put up a large notice made of good strong wood in order ______.
A. to tell the children not to throw stones at the notice
B. to warn the boys not to throw stones
C. to attract the boys to throw stones at the notice
D. to warn them whoever threw stones would be punished

[单项选择]Every _______ was made to intensify all the work connected with the movement.
A. effort
B. strength
C. attempt
D. force