[单项选择]Cars moved very slowly in the 1930s, but they ______ move more quickly than in the 1920s.
A. were to
B. did
C. will
D. can

[单项选择]Cars moved very slowly in the 1930s, but they ______ move more quickly than in the 1920s.
A. were to
B. did
C. will
D. can

[单项选择]Newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s offered their readers gifts to increase their __________.


A. circulation
B. contribution
C. configuration
D. complication

[单项选择]During the 1920s and 1930s, （） was one of the fastest growing segments of the international tourism industry.
A. train tourism
B. coach tourism
C. cruise tourism
D. air tourism

[填空题]You walk very slowly, and you won’t catch up with the others.
You walk ______ slowly to catch up with the others.

[单选题] It was not until the general introduction of ( ) for transport, such as the Douglas DC-3, during the late 1930s that extensive takeoff and landing distances were needed.
A. Cargo planes
B. heavy monoplanes

[单项选择]According to the passage, slowly rising birthrate perhaps is good for ______.


A. a developed nation
B. every nation with a high population
C. a developing nation
D. every nation with a small population

[单项选择]Midori moved to the United States to


A. live a more comfortable life
B. give performances
C. be a pupil of a famous violinist
D. enter a famous university

[填空题]Sales started slowly in 1999, before recovering in the third quarter, in contrast to the previous year when sales declined steadily.

[简答题]These people slowly traveled east and south, searching for areas where hunting was good. (passage1)

[单项选择]A large fish was slowly swimming through the water, its tail （　） back and forth like the pendulum of a clock.
A. swung
B. was swinging
C. was swung
D. swinging

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It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class English home with the inconveniences of the equipment of an Alexandrian writer, and one realizes the enormous waste of time, physical exertion, and attention that went on through all the centuries during which the library flourished.
Before the present writer lies half a dozen books, and there are good indices to them. He can pick up any one of these six books, refer quickly to a statement, verify a quotation, and go on writing. In contrast with the tedious unfolding of a rolled manuscript, close at hand are two encyclopedias, a dictionary, an atlas of the world, a biographical dictionary, and other books of reference.
However, there were no such resources in the world in 300 B.C. Alexandria had still to produce the first grammar and the first dictionary. The present writer writes a book in manuscript; then the book is typed
A. encyclopedias are close at hand.
B. he can refer to a biographical dictionary.
C. he may recopy every word he wrote.
D. he can ask a copyist to help him to write.

[单项选择]How big is the house he moved in
A. As big as the old one.
B. Twice as big as mine.
C. As big as mine.
D. Twice bigger than mine.

[单项选择]

M: Running slowly every day is good for our health.
W: That’s right.

What does the woman mean （）
A. She doesn’t agree with the man.
B. She agrees with the man.
C. She usually does some running.
D. She seldom does any running.