[单项选择]I became a teacher because I preferred books and people（）politics.
A. than
B. to
C. rather
D. against

[单项选择]I became a teacher because I preferred books and people（）politics.
A. than
B. to
C. rather
D. against

[单项选择]Embroidery depicting scenic views became popular in the United States toward the end of the eighteenth century.
A. stating
B. relating
C. portraying
D. celebrating

[单项选择]I tried to relax because I knew I would use up my oxygen sooner, ______.


A. the more excited I got
B. I got excited more
C. and more I got excited
D. and I got more excited

[单项选择]Nancy became a taxi driver because

[单项选择]Intelligence testing became unpopular because ______.

[单项选择]The doctor was happy because every day I was getting______.
A. better and better
B. more and more better
C. well and well

[单项选择]-- Would you mind picking up the books I bought from the bookstore
-- Not at all. ______ , walking will do me good as well.


A. Besides
B. Still
C. Yet
D. Therefore

[单项选择]You （　） a mosquito here, because the temperature is far below freezing and any mosquito here has been frozen to death.
A. can't have seen
B. must not have seen
C. shall not have seen
D. need not have seen

[单项选择]I don’t know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet’s Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration, Grey’s Elegy, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all
He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grow stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc, and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still th
A. made an important contribution
B. insisted that he choose writing as a career
C. opposed his becoming a writer
D. insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

[单项选择]She became angrier as the years went on because she saw that they were doing to other youngsters.（　）
A. angrier
B. on
C. that
D. other

[单项选择]Gallup became famous because______.


A. his system was much cheaper than the customary mass inquiries
B. he promised to refund the entire cost of the investigation if it failed
C. he succeeded in predicting better presidential election result
D. he was showered with money and commissions