[单项选择]Virginia Woolf was an important female ______ in the early twentieth century England.


A. poet
B. novelist
C. playwright
D. essayist

[单项选择]Virginia Woolf was an important female ______ in the early twentieth century England.
A. poet
B. novelist
C. playwright
D. essayist

[单项选择]Virginia Woolf was an important female （　） in the early twentieth century England.
A. poet
B. novelist
C. playwright
D. essayist

[单项选择]What do you know about Virginia Woolf


A. She is a successful musical novelist.
B. She earned her fame by The Waves.
C. She used some musical techniques in writing The Waves.
D. She used a lot of dialogues to evoke imagery.

[单项选择]In the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf a woman and her husband spend most of their time quarreling.
A. arguing on small matters
B. fighting for who is right
C. gossiping on their neighbors
D. teasing on each other

[单项选择]Both James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were ______writers.


A. Imagist
B. Critical Realist
C. Romantic
D. Stream-of-Consciousness

[单项选择]Very important people don't often have much free time as their work ______ all their time.
A. takes over
B. takes away
C. takes in
D. takes up

[单项选择]

Passage One
An important businessman was asked to give a twenty-minute speech in another city. He was too busy to write it himself, so he asked his secretary to put one together for him out of a large book of speeches which she had on her desk. She typed one out for him, and he picked it up just in time to rush off to his plane. But when he gave his speech, it ran on for an hour, and the audience (听众) was getting very tired of it by the end.
When the businessman got back to his office, he said to his secretary, "I told you it should be a twenty-minute speech !"
"That’s what I gave you ," she answered, "the original and two copies. The original for you to read at the meeting, and two copies for the files, after you have checked them."

Why was the audience getting restless and tired Because（）
A. the speech the businessman gave was too long
B. the businessman gave three different speeches
C. the businessman was giving the same speech once and again
D. the businessman gave a wrong speech

[单项选择]This exam isn't that important. Don't take it to heart.
A. 这次考试不那么重要，别往心里去。
B. 这次考试不是那种重要的，不要用心去记。
C. 这次考试不那么重要，不要往这里拿。
D. 这次考试不重要，别放在心里。

[单项选择]Important people don't often have much free time as their work occupies all their time.
A. takes away
B. takes over
C. takes up
D. takes in

[单项选择]In paragraph 2, "the most important four" refers to ______.


A. military position
B. business
C. cabinet posts
D. Kikuyus

[单项选择]______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.


A. Jane Eyre
B. Emma
C. Wuthering Heights
D. She Walks in Beauty