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[单项选择]Preparations are being made for the important meeting ______ soon.
A. held
B. holding
C. to be held
D. to hold
[单项选择]Preparations are being made for the Olympic Games ______ in Beijing in 2008.
A. held
B. holding
C. to be held
D. to hold
[单项选择]When they finished playing, the children were made to ________ all the toys they had taken out.
A. put off
B. put out
C. put up
D. put away
[单项选择]"Fingers were made before forks" suggests that people ______.
A. believed that eating with forks was womanlike
B. believed that eating with fingers was clean and tidy
C. ate food with their fingers long before they used fork
D. invented fingers long before they did with fork
[单项选择]()of the machines on display were made in China.
A. Second-fifths
B. Two-fifth
C. Two-fifths
D. Second-fifths
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Passage 5
"Fingers were made before forks" when a person gives up good manners, puts aside knife and fork, and dives into his food, someone is likely to repeat that saying.
The fork was an ancient agricultural tool, but for centuries no one thought of eating with it. Not until the eleventh century, when a young lady from Constantinpole brought her fork to Italy, did the custom reach Europe.
By the fifteenth century the use of the fork was widespread in Italy. The English explanation was that Italians were averse to rating food touched with fingers, "Seeing all men’s fingers are not alike clean." English travelers kept their friends in stitches while describing this ridiculous Italian custom.
Anyone who used a fork to eat with was laughed at in England for the next hundred years. Men who used forks were thought to be sissies, and women who used them were called show - offs and overnice. Not until the late 1600’
A. brought to Europe from America
B. begun when forks were invented
C. brought to Europe from Asia
D. invented by Italians
[单项选择]Not having made adequate preparations, they thought it better to______the excursion till next week.
A. take
B. remain
C. proceed
D. postpone
[单项选择]If you had made good preparations before, you ______ about the coming examination now.
A. would not be worried
B. would not have worried
C. could not be worried
D. could not have been worried
[单项选择]The prime minister tried to act but her plans were ______ by her cabinet.
A. frustrated
B. discussed
C. embellished
D. overlooked