[单项选择]______ the distance was too long and the time was short, we decided not to drive to Florida.
A. Discovering
B. To discover4
C. To have discovered
D. Discovered

[单项选择]（　） the distance was too long and the time was short, we decided not to drive to Florida.
A. Discovering
B. To discover4
C. To have discovered
D. Discovered

[单项选择]The defense attorney contemplated a long time before finally making his decision to （） the accused in court.
A. attend
B. represent
C. express
D. perform

[单项选择]They really have a great time too, designing everything, drawing the blue prints, （）the angles and so on.
A. looking out
B. taking out
C. finding out
D. figuring out

[简答题]Although machines have been around for a long time and people have adapted easily to living with most of them, they haven’t yet learned how to live in harmony with the newest of these: the personal computer.(76) This is so because the widespread use of the personal computer is a relatively new phenomenon. There was the widely publicized case of a family man who became so absorbed in his computer that he spent long hours with it. (77) Of course, if he was spending long hours with his computer, he was spending less time with his family.And if his wife needed to see him, he was unavailable. She became so upset by this state of affairs that she delivered an ultimatum (最后通牒), declaring that unless he spent fewer hours with the machine and more with her and the family, she was going to divorce him. This issue became so serious that the couple had to go to a doctor to resolve it. (78) The fortunate result was that the husband reduced the time he spent with the computer, and the marriage was

[单项选择]Why does the man wait for a long time
A. Because there are fewer workers on duty.
B. Because the man comes late.
C. Because the bank opens late.

[单项选择]The child （）alone for a long time.
A. had
B. stayed
C. listened to
D. ordered

[单项选择]Measles （　） a long time to get over.
A. spend
B. spends
C. take
D. takes

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Passage One
Long time ago, the ancient people could not travel to any faraway places for they had no instruments to carry them across the wide oceans, the deep valleys, long rivers or the high mountains.
Nowadays men take advantage of steamships, trains, airplanes for modern bridges. Airplanes can carry us to the far countries in a short time; steamships can travel across the wide oceans. It is convenient to the modern people.
Travelling is a good idea to us because we can get more knowledge about, such as the custom, the geography of other countries. And the people could travel among the different countries in the world. For it is easy to travel from the land by trains, or from the sea by ships.
We learnt that the Italian who made the world larger was Mr. Christopher Columbus. He was a brave man. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the people were afraid of travelling because they believed it was a dangerous thing.
There is a sayi
A. it is interesting
B. it is cheaper than to go in any other way
C. it can cross the wide oceans
D. it takes less time