[单项选择]He politely refrained himself ______ saying what he thought of her hat.


A. against
B. by
C. from
D. out

[单项选择]He added a ______ to his letter by saying that he would arrive before 8 pm.
A. presidency
B. prestige
C. postscript
D. preliminary

[单项选择]He added a （　） to his letter by saying that he would arrive before 8 pm.
A. presidency
B. prestige
C. postscript
D. preliminary

[单项选择]—— Where is Tom．9 ——HeS left saying that he has something important to do．
A. an excuse
B. a sentence
C. news
D. a message

[填空题]What did he himself call such a foreign policy

[单项选择]Does he remember what he was doing（　）
A. by the time
B. just in time
C. in no time
D. at the time

[单项选择]He was a person who would stand up for what he thought right, ______.
A. whatever the cost to himself
B. what the cost to himself might be
C. no matter whatever the cost is to himself
D. however the cost to himself is

[单项选择]When he came to himself, he found himself （　） in bed.
A. lie
B. lay
C. laid
D. lying

[单项选择]He is rich （） he does not know what he is worth.
A. so much so that
B. so much as
C. not so much as
D. so much

[单项选择]When I asked him to pay me what he owed, he went purple with （）.
A. rage
B. anger
C. indignation
D. resentment

[单项选择]Frank realized fully what he had dreamed about could not（）have happened in real life.
A. likely
B. certainly
C. doubtfully
D. possibly

[单项选择]What he expressed as a mere supposition was taken by others as a positive statement.


A. suspect
B. surmise
C. suspicion
D. surrender

[单项选择]
Ask an American schoolchild what he or she is learning in school these days and you might even get a reply, provided you ask it in Spanish. But don’t bother, here’s the answer: Americans nowadays are not learning any of the things that we learned in our day, like reading and writing. Apparently these are considered fusty old subjects, invented by white males to oppress women and minorities.
What are they learning In a Vermont college town I found the answer sitting in a toy store book rack, next to typical kids’ books like "Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy Is Dysfunctional." It’s a teacher’s guide called "Happy To Be Me", subtitled "Building Self-Esteem."
Self-esteem, as it turns out, is a big subject in American classrooms. Many American schools see building it as important as teaching reading and writing. They call it "whole language" teaching borrowing terminology from the granola people to compete in the education
A. Self-criticism has gone too far.
B. Communication is a more comprehensive category than language skills.
C. Evaluating criteria are inappropriate nowadays.
D. This column does not meet the demanding evaluating criteria of today.

[单项选择]He spoke so quickly that I did not ______ what he said.
A. catch
B. accept
C. take
D. listen

[单项选择]Jack told Mary that he ______ what he was doing during the vacation.
A. had just been asked
B. has just asked
C. was just asked
D. just asked

[单项选择]Bob won't stop trying ______ he gets what he wants.


A. as
B. that
C. till