[单项选择]The new students in Class One intended to visit Mr. Tai（　）the weather got worse.
A. lest
B. unless
C. providing
D. until

[单项选择]The new students in Class One intended to visit Mr. Tai ______ the weather got worse.
A. lest
B. unless
C. providing
D. until

[单项选择]We expect Mr. Smith will （） Class One when Miss White retires.
A. take to
B. take up
C. take off
D. take over

[单项选择]We expect Mr. White will ______ Class One when Ms Jenny retires.
A. take over
B. take up
C. take off
D. take to

[单项选择]Providing first-class service is one of the tactics the airline adopts to attract passengers.
A. methods
B. attitudes
C. thoughts
D. solutions

[单项选择]Which is ______ , the new one or the old one


A. better
B. the better
C. best
D. the best

[单项选择]Mr. Dodds was surprised to see a policeman visit him.

[单项选择]What is NOT the purpose of Mr. Laurence's visit


A. To vacation.
B. To visit friends.
C. To give concerts.
D. To give private lessons.

[单项选择]One day Mr. West went to buy his wife a present ______.


A. during the lunch hour
B. after work
C. after his lunch in a restaurant

[单项选择]Mr Smith is coming to visit us soon. We’d better get everything ready before he _______. 　
A. arrives
B. arrive
C. will arrive
D. arrived

[单项选择]Last April, on a visit to the new Mall of America near Minneapolis, I carried with me a small book provided for the reporters by the public relations office. It included a variety of "fun facts" about the mall, such as: 140,000 hot dogs are sold each week, there are 10,000 full time jobs, 44 sets of moving stairs and 17 lifts, 12,750 parking places, 13,000 tons of steel, and $1 million is drawn weekly from 8 ATMs. Opened in the summer of 1992, the mall was built where the former Minneapolis Stadium (体育馆) had been. It was only a five-minute drive from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. With 4.2 million square feet of floor space -- twenty two times the size of the average American shopping center -- the Mall of America was the largest shopping and family recreation (娱乐) center under one roof in the United States.
I knew already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers, not merely as a marketplace, but as a national tourist attraction. Eleven thousand
A. near an old stadium
B. close to an airport
C. higher than the Eiffel Tower
D. bigger than most American parks

[单项选择]One time while on his walk George met Mr. Cattanzara coming home very late from work. He wondered if he was drunk but then could tell he wasn’t. Mr. Cattanzara, a stocky, bald-headed man who worked in a change booth on an IRT station, lived on the next block after George’s, above a shoe repair store. Nights, during the hot weather, he sat on his stoop in an undershirt, reading the New York Times in the fight of the shoemaker’s window. He read it from the first page to the last, then went up to sleep. And all the time he was reading the paper, his wife, a fat woman with a white face, leaned out of the window, gazing into the street, her thick white arms folded under her loose breast, on the window ledge.
Once in a while Mr. Cattanzara came home drunk, but it was a quiet drunk. He never made any trouble, only walked stiffly up the street and slowly climbed the stairs into the hall. Though drunk he looked the same as always, except for his tight walk, the quietness, and that his eyes
A. showed a wide interest.
B. was fond of drinking.
C. often worked overtime.
D. liked to gossip after work.

[单项选择]

Passage One
"Congratulations, Mr. Jones, it’s a girl."
Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and bring forth a different response from every man who hears these words. Some feel pride when they receive the news, while others worry, wondering whether they will be good fathers. Although there are some men who like children and may have had considerable experience with them, others do not particularly care for children and spend little time with them. Many fathers and mothers have been planning and looking forward to children for some time. For other couples pregnancy (怀孕) was an accident that both husband and wife have accepted willingly or unwillingly.
Whatever the reaction to the birth of a child, it is obvious that the shift from the role of husband to that of father is a difficult task. Yet, unfortunately, few attempts have been made to educate fathers in this resocialization process. Although numerous books have been wri
A. some parents are not prepared to have a child
B. young couples do not like children at all
C. working couples do not have much time to take care of their children
D. many parents look forward to having a boy as their first child