[单项选择]The American policeman asked an English reporter some questions because he was strange.

[单项选择]The American policeman asked an English reporter some questions because he was strange.

[单项选择]What is the reporter’s impression of Britain
A. Most of the Britons try very hard in their work.
B. Britons do their work in an unhurried way.
C. The pace of work in other countries in Europe is much slower than in Britain.
D. Tea breaks can’t affect the intensity of work in Britain.

[单项选择]The reporter's behavior in the computer office was ______.


A. suspicious
B. nervous
C. confident
D. awkward

[单项选择]A {{U}}reporter{{/U}} from the local paper asked for details of the accident.
A. typist
B. typewriter
C. correspondent
D. doctor

[单项选择]The senator was offended by the reporter's silly questions.
A. insulted
B. rejoiced
C. defended
D. rejected

[单项选择]The author thinks that a reporter's duty on the scene of an accident is to ______.
A. stand by and be an observer
B. save the life of victims
C. feel reluctant to accept the job
D. set aside his human sympathy

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Passage 4
In her 26 years of teaching English, Shannon McCuire has seen countess misplaced commas, misspelled words and sentence fragments.
But the instructor at US’s Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge said her job is getting harder every day.
"I kid you not, the number of errors that I’ve seen in the past few years have multiplied five times," she said.
Experts say e-mail and instant messaging are at least partly to blame for an increasing indifference toward the rules of grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
They say the problem is most noticeable in college students and recently graduates.
"They used to at least feel guilty (about mistakes)," said Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington, D.C. "They didn’t necessarily write a little better, but at least they felt guilty."
Ironically, Baron’s latest book, "Alphabe
A. It was poorly edited.
B. It failed to come out.
C. It was renamed "Whatever".
D. It caused her to lose her jo

[单项选择]The director has been asked to state the company's position, but so far he has refused to _________himself on this issue.


A. perform
B. assign
C. commit
D. undertake

[单项选择]The Students Union's secretary and monitor（）asked to make a speech at the meeting.
A. is
B. was
C. are
D. were

[单项选择]Peter's father asked him to spend his time on something _________ researching into instead of playing all the time.


A. worthy
B. valuable
C. worth
D. previous