[单项选择]—Mum, I've been studying English since 8 o'clock. ______ I go ont and play with Tom for a while
—No, t'm afraid not. Besides, it's raining outside now.

[单项选择]______ English, she is studying Japanese and French.


A. Except
B. Except for
C. Beside
D. Besides

[单项选择]Since my childhood I have been always taught that it is very ______ to interrupt others.


A. rude
B. rough
C. crude
D. coarse

[单项选择]Since we have never been here before, we do not know which bus（）
A. should we take'
B. to be taking
C. to take
D. should take

[单项选择]

Text 4
Since October 1, it has been illegal for any business to discriminate against disabled people, either during the recruitment process or at work, and disability rights campaigners says that employers must make better use of new technology to help them fulfil their new obligations.
Amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) require all Businesses, not just those with more than 15 employees as previously, to make "reasonable adjust ments" to workplaces to accommodate the disabled. Such adjustments include buying new equipment or modifying existing systems so that disabled people can use them.
But many employers are failing to investigate potentially useful changes or upgrades to systems. They are also failing to claim generous Access to Work grants from the Government, designed to cover ’the cost of adapting or re-equipping a workplace, extra training or hiring human assistants like sign language interpreters.

A. making the office light brighter for the deaf to lipread.
B. acquiring useful information through the voice recognition system.
C. using screen readers to tell them the telephone numbers.
D. running office telephones via a conventional exchange.

[单项选择]I've worked here since I（　）Harvard Business School.
A. leave
B. left
C. have left
D. had left

[单项选择]You've been talking with David all evening when you ought to be ______ with other guests.
A. blending
B. integrating
C. mingling
D. incorporating

[单项选择]You've been overworking recently, and you would find a holiday ______.


A. healthy
B. appropriate
C. valuable
D. beneficial

[单选题]We’ve been informed ( ).
A. of the cancellation of Flight JL62
B. to know the change of the schedule
C. that the complete itinerary of our journey has been typed out.
D. about the news that the plane has been diverted

[单项选择]Since the father died a year ago, there has been ______ in the family about the division of the estate.


A. distinctions
B. discord
C. disadvantages
D. disappointment

[单项选择]A: How about the food I ordered I've been waiting for nearly twenty minutes.
B: Sorry. ______

[单项选择]Ever since he （　） his job, Allen has been much happier than before.
A. has changed
B. had changed
C. changed
D. changes

[单项选择]A: I've been on business trip abroad last month.
B: ______.
A: Oh, pretty good, thanks. What about you
B: Just can't complain.

[单项选择]I have been doing much better ______ English since the teacher came.


A. in
B. with
C. about

[单项选择]Since the middle of this century ______ has been learned about space than in all human history before that time.