[单项选择]After spending some time on the island they became ______ to the hardships.
A. scathed
B. sniggered
C. inured
D. outreached

[单项选择]It was only after some progress ______ in the use and development of electric current that men began to realize the importance and possibilities of magnetism.


A. had been made
B. would have been made
C. has been made
D. was made

[单项选择]Anyone who has spent some time with children must be aware of the difference in the way boys and girls respond to ______ situations.


A. same
B. alike
C. similar
D. likely

[单项选择]I have worked with him for some time and have found that he is ______ than John.
A. more efficiently a worker
B. a more efficient worker
C. more an efficient worker
D. a worker more efficiently

[单项选择]We had to wait some time before the menu was brought to us and our orders ______.


A. taken
B. given
C. done
D. made

[单项选择]A: Let's meet again some time early next week and see what each of us comes up with.
B: ______

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Most boys, and many girls too, have at some time or other started a stamp collection. Stamp-collecting, or, to call it (21) its correct name, philately, (22) an increasing popular hobby from as (23) as 1854 -- for less than two decades (十年) after postage stamps (24) . Today the hobby numbers (25) are not only boys and girls, but also men and women from all ranks (阶层) in society. So rapidly (26) the interest in stamp-collecting increase in the United States of America (27) in 1921 the United States Post Office found itself (28) set up a special department to (29) the needs of collectors. At present the yearly (30) of this department total over three hundred thousand dollars.

21（）
A. is
B. has been
C. was
D. had been

[单项选择]It took Joan some time to ______ the grief at her father's death.
A. get over
B. do without
C. pass away
D. deal with

[单项选择]It seems oil ______ from this pipe for some time. We'll have to take the machine apart to put it right.
A. had leaked
B. is leaking
C. leaked
D. has been leaking

[单项选择]We had to be patient because it ______ some time ______ we got the full results.
A. has been; since
B. had been; until
C. was; after
D. would be; before