[单项选择]My boss asked me to answer the phone, to take all messages, and{{U}} {{/U}}some letters.
A. to type
B. typing
C. type
D. typewrite

[单项选择]My boss asked me to answer the phone, to take all messages, and ______ some letters.
A. to type
B. typing
C. type
D. typewrite

[单项选择]Our boss told me my plan was still ______ discussion.
A. in
B. under
C. of
D. with

[单项选择]Our boss told me my plan was still ______discussion.
A. in
B. under
C. of
D. with

[单项选择]My boss has failed me so many times that I no longer place any （） on what he promises.
A. assurance
B. probability
C. reliance
D. conformity

[单项选择]All my family join with me in sending you hearty greetings on your birthday.
A. 我们全家衷心祝你生日快乐!
B. 我代表我们全家衷心祝你生日快乐!
C. 我代表我们全家对你的生日表示亲切的问候。
D. 我们全家对你的生日表示亲切的问候。

[单项选择]My boss won' t pay me ______ I work harder.
A. if
B. in case
C. unless
D. lest

[单项选择]Why didn't the driver answer the question asked by the man when they passed the door [A] Because it was too difficult for him to give the answer. [B] Because it was answered by Einstein. [C] Because it was too easy.

[单项选择]He orders me about ______ my boss.
A. as he is
B. as if he be
C. as if he were
D. as if to be

[单项选择]I am afraid that his phone number has slipped my ______ for the moment.
A. head
B. brain
C. mind
D. sense

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As everyone knows, words constantly take on new meanings. Since these do not necessarily, nor even usually, take the place of the old ones, we should picture this process as the analogy of a tree throwing out new branches which themselves throw out subordinate branches. The new branches sometimes overshadow and kill the old one but by no means always. We shall again and again find the earliest senses of a word flourishing for centuries despite a vast overgrowth of later senses which might be expected to kill them. When a word has several meanings historical circumstances often, make one of them dominant during a particular period. Thus "station" is now more likely to mean a railway station than anything else; "speculation" more likely to bear its financial sense than any other. Until this century "plane" had as its dominant meaning "a flat surface" or "a carpenter’s tool to make a surface smooth", but the meaning "an ae
A. only old words take on new meanings
B. a tree throws out new branches as the words pick up new meanings
C. words obtain new meanings from time to time
D. it is possible for the old words to lose their old senses