[单项选择]He was about forty years old, ______ , industrious, and made a living from the little farm which is now overgrown with weeds.
A. frugal
B. careful
C. economic
D. thrift

[单项选择]He was about forty years old,______, industrious, and made a living from the little farm which is now overgrown with weeds.
A. frugal
B. careful
C. economic
D. thrift

[单项选择]Though he was almost ninety years old, he was still alive and ______.
A. alert
B. grave
C. elegant
D. persistent

[单项选择]When he was 15 years old, he started going on the______ and gradually became a little star.
A. stage
B. platform
C. shortcut
D. alien

[单项选择]Though he is only seven years old, he has a ______ imagination.
A. faithful
B. fertile
C. frank
D. furious

[单项选择]A man is 48 years old. He asks the other man how old he is. The other man answers: "I am twice as old as you were when I was as old as you are today." How old is the other man
A. 32
B. 48
C. 64.
D. 80

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He landed in this country when he was 4 years old without a word of English, and there he has recently graduated with honors from Loyola Academy. An immigrant kid whose family rents an apartment in a city two-flat, lie attended the North Shore School with full scholarship. All the aunts and uncles were so proud that they made their way from the old country or from various comers of this country to celebrate his graduation. A debate is raging about whether immigrant children should first be taught English, then their other subjects; or whether they should be taught other subjects in their native tongue as they are more gradually introduced to English over two to three years. California voters recently banished the gradual approach--bilingual education--in favor of immersion in the English language. The Chicago public schools in February put a three-year deadline on moving into all English classes in-most cases. But that was never an issue for this graduate, and it never came up fo
A. From different parts of the country.
B. From the old country.
C. From many streets of the country.
D. From a lot of houses of the country.

[单项选择]______ of 70 years old, he decided to sail single-handed across the Pacific Ocean.
A. On the verge
B. At the risk
C. In the course
D. For the sake

[单项选择]Forty years ago people were indifferent to the health of the ocean because ______.

[单项选择]He ______ working till he was seventy years old.
A. kept up
B. kept on
C. kept to
D. kept out

[单项选择]By the time he was ten years old,Beniamin Oliver Davis Jr. had already decided his career would be in the air force.


A. uniform
B. vocation
C. education
D. rank

[单项选择]The United Nations was ______ forty years ago and held a special conference in November 1985 to celebrate.
A. established
B. set
C. completed
D. settled