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—Was it not until last week （）he decided to give up smoking

—No. He began （）he saw the news film last month.

A. when as soon
B. that immediately
C. did that
D. that till

[单项选择]Last week he promised that he （） today, but he hasn't arrived yet.
A. will come
B. would come
C. would have come
D. is coming

[单项选择]It was until last year had he ______.


A. left his hometown for a new start
B. came to realize the importance of learning English
C. worked as an English teacher at a middle school
D. set out to build a new house of his own

[单项选择]Who will remain in jail until next week


A. Many students.
B. 41 people.
C. Prof. Mesfin Woldmariam and Prof. Berhanu Nego.
D. Those workers on hunger strikes.

[单项选择]My father isn't __________ as he was last week.


A. busier
B. so busier
C. so busy

[单项选择]______resigned last week.


A. The speaker of Parliament
B. The national security minister
C. The interior minister
D. The deputy speaker of Parliament

[单项选择]Last week Jeffrey Dunn, president of Coca-Cola Americas, made an important decision to ______.
A. defend its red logo on a still larger scale
B. agree to negotiate with Pepsi over new terms
C. modify its sales engineering at high schools
D. give up its exclusive "pouring rights" on campus

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Text 1
Nothing approaching last week’ s toll of death and destruction has visited European or U. S. shores, but that doesn’ t mean they are invulnerable. Large tsunamis are not that rare and, every now and again, they crash into familiar ports of call, sweeping away people and property. In 1960, for example, a tremendous earthquake in Chile unleashed an armada of giant waves that killed 61 on the island of Hawaii before moving on to kill at least 100 on the Japanese island of Honshu. Four years later, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Alaska resulted in more than 100 deaths there.
The worst European tsunami in recorded history occurred in 1755, when an earth quake off Portugal’ s Atlantic coast sent gigantic waves crashing into Lisbon. Together, the quake, the waves and fire took 60,000 lives in the city at a time when it was the cap ital of an empire. Similar death tolls were recorded in towns along Italy’ s Stra
A. a tremendous earthquake in Chile.
B. the Cumbre Vieja volcano.
C. an underwater landside off Norway.
D. an Alaskan earthquake.

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Text 3
Last week, Utah federal Judge Paul G. Cassell handed a 22-year sentence to a man who beat an elderly woman to death with a log. A few hours later, Judge Cassell sentenced a 25-year-old first-time drug offender to 55 years.
If you think Judge Cassell liked sentencing a small-change drug dealer to more time than a violent killer, guess again. The judge had no choice. Federal law demanded the sentence, despite Judge Cassell’s pointed questioning if there was a "rational basis" for sentencing Weldon H. Angelos, the father of two young children, to more time than he could sentence a hijacker, murder or rapist.
Blame federal mandatory minimum sentencing rules. A jury found Angelos guilty on three separate charges of possessing a firearm while he sold a half-pound of marijuana for ＄ 350. The first charge of possessing a gun during a drug transaction brought a five-year sentence--the second two charges brought 25 years each. That adds
A. unreasonable.
B. totally wrong,
C. appropriate,
D. too heavy.