[单项选择]Fireworks, （）originated centuries ago in China, were brought to Europe by Marco Polo.
A. which
B. what
C. that
D. it

[单项选择]Fireworks, ______ originated centuries ago in China, were brought to Europe by Marco Polo.
A. which
B. what
C. that
D. it

[单项选择]Several centuries ago, Spaniards and Portuguese came to the Amazon River area to _________.


A. plant trees
B. help the native Indians
C. colonize the area.
D. look for new residential places

[单项选择]Centuries ago in Europe, it was considered of great beauty to have ______.


A. pale skin
B. light—colored skin
C. dark—colored skin
D. a suntan

[单项选择]I first met Lisa three years ago when we（）at a radio station together.
A. have worked
B. had been working
C. were working
D. had worked

[单项选择]I first met Lisa three years ago when we ______ at a radio station together.


A. have worked
B. were working
C. had worked

[单项选择]I first met Mary three years ago when we ______ in a middle school together.


A. have worked
B. had been working
C. were working
D. had worked

[单项选择]I first met Lisa three years ago when we ______ at a radio station together.


A. have worked
B. had been working
C. were working
D. had worked

[单项选择]We produced ______ we did two years ago.

[单项选择]Two months ago, we were very bearish, but ______ then we have switched our strategy to the bullish side.
A. yet
B. still
C. already
D. since

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Passage Two
A hundred years ago, the game we now call football did not exist. American football started during a game between two colleges. The teams had got together to play what they called "football", but each team played by different rules. One team played what we now call soccer. The other played what we now call rugby (橄榄球).
Both games had been invented a thousand years before. In the first kind of football game ever played, all the men from one village tried to kick a ball into another village. The men of the second village tried to kick the ball into the first. Hundreds of people joined in, running everywhere, running crops and knocking down fences. In time, people agreed on some rules to keep order, but many roles were left open to change. Different rules developed in different places.
When the two colleges met to play football, each followed its own rules. They mixed the games together and invented a new game. A hundred years lat
A. soccer
B. rugby
C. both soccer and rugby
D. neither soccer nor rugby

[单项选择]We visited the factory a week ago; all the furniture ______ in China.


A. is made
B. are made
C. will be made
D. made

[单项选择]We had a really bad time about six months ago but now things are （　）.
A. looking up
B. coming up
C. making up
D. turning up