[单项选择]I shall take an umbrella with me lest it（）
A. should rain
B. rains
C. will rain
D. may rain

[单项选择]I shall take an umbrella with me lest it（）
A. should rain
B. rains
C. will rain
D. may rain

[单项选择]– Would you do me a favor and take me the box upstairs – _____.
A. My pleasure
B. Never mind
C. With pleasure
D. I’m glad to hear that

[单项选择]One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ______.
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. need not worry about food for her children
D. can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty

[单项选择]Man: Will this take very long I have to get back to work in an hour.
Woman: Well, you need to have your teeth cleaned and a cavity filled.
Question: Where does this conversation probably take place

[单项选择]The film brought me to the times ______ I was taken good care of in that small village.


A. when
B. how
C. that
D. where

[单项选择]I'll take ______ wants to go with me.


A. anybody
B. who
C. whoever
D. whom he

[单项选择]______ he gave that we should take more exercise in our spare time!
A. what a good advice
B. How a good advice
C. What good advice
D. How good advice

[单项选择]Take down what I have told you ______ you should forget it.


A. so as to
B. lest
C. suppose
D. unless

[单项选择]I took the glass very carefully lest it______.


A. should damage
B. would damage
C. had damaged
D. should be damaged

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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 &qu
A. we were advised not to accept it
B. we were getting a new edge for a different purpose
C. we saw an example of a good word being misused
D. we saw a word serving for a different purpose