[单项选择]Short dresses and long boots were all the ______ last year.
A. surge B. tide C. rage D. tidings

[单项选择]When the car accident happened, we were all horrified.（　）
A. take out
B. take place
C. take in
D. take away

[单项选择]Although his many examples were all right, the remainder________not quite exact.


A. is
B. was
C. are
D. were

[单项选择]We were all there when the accident occurred.（　）
A. happened
B. broke
C. spread
D. appeared

[单项选择]The employees were all very exhausted, but ______ of them would stop to take a break.


A. neither
B. none
C. nor
D. no

[单项选择]The houses in this area were all erected in ______ of housing regulations.
A. compliance
B. defiance
C. alliance
D. obedience

[填空题]We were all surprised at Mary’s rare (able) ______ to imitate other people.

[单项选择]Long long ago, there were ______ people in the world.


A. a lot of
B. many
C. only a few

[单项选择]The film was very ______ and we were all ______ in it.
A. interesting; interesting B. interested; interested C. interesting; interested

[单项选择]The police were searching all the places for the ______ prisoner.
A. escaping
B. escaped
C. escape
D. being escaped

[单项选择] The symptoms of Alzheimer’’s disease were long dismissed as normal consequences of human aging, but in the 1980’’s the disease came to be recognized as the most common cause of intellectual deterioration in the elderly and middle-aged. It is characterized by the death of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex -- the part of the brain involved in complex function. The major debilitating symptoms of Alzheimer’’s disease include serous forgetfulness -- particularly about recent events--and confusion. At first, the individual experiences only minor and almost imperceptible symptoms that are often attributed to emotional upsets or other physical illnesses. Gradually, however, the person becomes more forgetful, and this may be reported by anxious relatives. The person may neglect to turn off the oven, may misplace things, any recheck to see if a task was done, may take longer to complete a chore that was previously routine, or may repeat already-answered questions. As the disease progress
A. In the past, Alzheimer’’ s disease has often been mistaken as normal human aging.
B. Victims of Alzheimer’’ s disease rarely need to be institutionalized.
C. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’’s disease.
D. The primary symptoms are serious forgetfulness and confusion.

[单项选择]Tunas migrate long distances over all the world’s oceans and occupy tropical, temperate, and even some the cooler waters.

[单项选择]A lot of people were ready to work long hours because high unemployment meant that they could easily be （　）.
A. separated
B. appointed
C. transferred
D. replaced