[填空题]

A. During
B. every
C. steamboat
D. were

(During) the holidays, (every) train and (steamboat)（were）crowded.

[单项选择]Widespread wage reductions were imposed during the recession of 1906--1909 and price inflation thereafter impeded the recovery of real wage levels.
A. convoluted
B. belied
C. encumbered
D. stoked

[单项选择]Altogether how many people were injured during the violence


A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 13.
D. 14.

[单项选择]Two substitutes were used during the basketball games.
A. players
B. centers
C. referees
D. replacements

[单项选择]During the famine, many people were to begging food and money far away from their homes.


A. forced
B. reduced
C. inclined
D. obliged

[单项选择]—Were you showed around the Forbidden City during your visit in Beijing
—No, but I wish I （　）.
A. was
B. am
C. had been
D. would be

[单项选择]During half way to the project execution, you were assigned as a project manager. After careful reviewing of the project, you found that the project might take double the time that the previous manager estimated. However, the upper management has been told that the project is on schedule. The previous manager is an old friend of yours, what will you do ？（）
A. Report your evaluation to the upper management
B. Have a team meeting to find the alternatives to meet the project schedule
C. Meet the previous project manager and turn the project back
D. Execute the project as planned by the previous manager

[单项选择](During) the holidays, (every) train and (steamboat) (were) crowded.
A. During
B. every
C. steamboat
D. were

[单项选择]During our stay in Paris we were splendidly ______ by the Italian Ambassador.
A. sustained
B. maintained
C. retained
D. entertained

[单项选择]______ people were killed during the air crash.


A. 61
B. 51
C. 41
D. 10

[单项选择]Plenty of families were ______ from their homes during the war.


A. evaporated
B. evacuated
C. evaluated
D. elevated

[单项选择]________ people were injured during the accident.
A. 17
B. 20
C. 37
D. 57

[单项选择]By the 1820’s in the United States, when steamboats were common on western waters, these boats were mostly powered by engines built in the West (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, or Louisville), and of a distinctive western design specially suited to western needs. The first steam engines (21) practical use in England and the United States were (22) low-pressure design. This was the type first (23) by James Watt, then manufactured by the firm of Boulton and Watt. Steam was (24) in a large, double-acting vertical cylinder, but the steam reached only a few pounds of pressure per square inch. It was low-pressure engines of this type that (25) first introduced into the United States by Robert Fulton. He (26) such a Boulton and Watt engine from England to run the Clermont. But this type of engine was ,expensive and complicated, (27) many precision-fitted moving parts.
The engine that became standard on western steamboats was of a dif
A. finance
B. economy
C. money
D. cost