[单项选择]It cost them ______ to spend the night in a hotel.


A. plenty of money
B. a little money
C. little money
D. nothing

[单项选择]It cost them ______ to spend the night in a hotel.


A. plenty of money
B. a little money
C. little money
D. nothing

[单项选择]The blunder of Argentina' s goalie cost them the game in the match against Brazil.
A. triumph
B. beat
C. mistake
D. struggl

[单项选择]The blunder of Argentina's goalie cost them the game in the match against Brazil.


A. triumph
B. beat
C. mistake
D. straggle

[单项选择]"How did you spend the night " "We had a very hard time ______ some of the problem."


A. discussing
B. to discuss
C. of discussing
D. on discussing

[单项选择]Cost of quality is the total cost of all efforts to achieve product/service quality，and includes all work to ensure conformance to requirements．All of the following are costs that are incurred EXCEPT （）．
A. cost of poor quality
B. opportunity cost
C. external failure cost
D. appraisal cost

[单项选择]How much did Brown spend on books

[单项选择]How will Ann probably spend the summer


A. Collecting information about the bacteria.
B. Working on a cattle ranch.
C. Writing a paper about extinct animals.
D. Analyzing buffalo behavior.

[单项选择]How did the woman spend last weekend


A. Relaxing at the seashore.
B. Visiting her parents.
C. Sailing on a boat.
D. Preparing for a rac

[单项选择]Manufacturing companies spend millions of pounds trying to convince customers that their products are ______ to those of others.
A. better
B. best
C. super
D. superior

[单项选择]Why does VOIP cost less


A. Because it uses separate service providers.
B. Because it needs less working stuff to offer service.
C. Because service is provided through e-mail.
D. Because service is charged monthly.

[单项选择]

Passage Three
We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep, and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet.
To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-minute and the great efficiency smiles.
We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy; when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it, But that
A. how to make the best use of leisure time
B. planning our time scientifically
C. the modern pace
D. our interest in shortened operas