[单项选择]The days when the only fender a businessman needed to stave off a midlife crisis was on the end of a Ferrari are gone.
A. shorten
B. better off
C. keep away from
D. strive for

[单项选择]The days when the only fender a businessman needed to stave off a midlife crisis was on the end of a Ferrari are gone.
A. shorten
B. better off
C. keep away from
D. strive for

[单项选择]"Restricted activity days" are days when ________.
A. sick people have to stay in hospital for further treatment
B. one takes a long holiday away from work
C. sick people have to keep from their normal activities
D. one is restricted in his freedom of action

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Forget about the days when banks lured customers with offers of "free" toaster. In the harsh new world of consumer banking, it’s the account holder who may get burned.
Over the past few years, banks have systematically raised their old fees and invented new ones -- as many as 100 different kinds. The size of these charges jumped more than 50 percent on checking and savings accounts since 1990, according to Bank Rate Monitor, an independent provider of financial data. Meanwhile, interest rates paid on passbook savings and negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts failed to keep pace with inflation, let alone with other low-risk investments. And technologies like automated teller machines (ATMs) have truly turned into cash machines -- for the bank.
Checking Profits. According to a report by the Federal Reserve Board, fewer than eight percent of all commercial banks now offer tree checking. In some big cities, such as Los Ang
A. the slowdown of economy.
B. low-interest bank accounts.
C. the decrease of the number of bank investors.
D. the increase of the number of credit-card holders.

[单项选择]（　） are the days when teachers were looked down upon.
A. Gone
B. Go
C. To go
D. Going

[单项选择]It was one of those days when it looked at first something interesting could happen, but then later, when you didn't expect anything, almost everything happened.（）
A. nothing
B. anything
C. everything
D. all things

[单项选择]Your letters ______ those pleasant days when we worked together, I'll remember forever.
A. call out
B. call for
C. call up
D. call on

[单项选择]______ are the days when teachers were looked down upon.


A. Gone
B. Go
C. Togo
D. Going

[单项选择]When only a small boy, （）
A. my father took me with him to France
B. I went with my father to France
C. my father went with me to France
D. my father took me to France

[单项选择]She is so ______ that she cried for days when her pet rabbit died.
A. sensible
B. sensational
C. sentimental
D. senseless