[单项选择]Marissa speaks Spanish （）native
A. as well as  
B. better     
C. the best

[单项选择]Marissa just （）twenty this year.
A. seemed
B. looked
C. turned
D. remained

[简答题]Person a friend who speaks another language

[填空题]

APPOINTMENTS
YOUNG Italian girl, student, speaks English and French, seeks post in a school or family, giving lessons or looking after children. --Write Box L. 1367, The Daily--, London, E. C. 4.
YOUNG man, once an officer, tired of uninteresting office work, is willing to go to any part of the world and to do anything legal; speaks several languages; drives all makes of cars; exciting work more important than salary. --Write Box F. 238, The Daily--, London, E.C.
MARRIED couple wanted Gardener; country house 2 miles from Oxford, good bus service; family three adults, five children; wages ￡ 9; comfortable rooms with central heating. -- Write Box S, 754. The Daily--, London, E.C.

What kind of work is suitable for the Italian girl？
Teach classes or （）.

[单项选择]He speaks English（）an Englishman.
A. so fluently as
B. as fluently as
C. fluently as
D. as fluently

[简答题] In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty. He points out that he always experienced much difficulty in expressing himself clearly and concisely, but (46)【he believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations.】He disclaimed the possession of any great quickness of apprehension or wit, such as distinguished Huxley. (47)【He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.】His memory, too, he described as extensive, but hazy. So poor in one sense was if that he never could remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry. (48)【On the other hand, he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his

[单项选择]Lucas speaks Russian （）anyone in his class
A. better  
B. well
C. better than
D. the best

[填空题]My father was born in Germany and still speaks English with a German _____.

[单项选择]Carolina is American, （）she speaks French well
A. for   
B. so   
C. but   
D. as

[单项选择]A quarter of the world’s population now speaks English. If you want to 16 your products, or yourself, you have no choice 17 to do it in English. Politicians and business people must speak English if they want to make their mark 18 the world’s stage. Writers of minority languages can 19 hope to sell their books unless they write in English. As English is spoken all over the world, it means that no individual country can really exercise a 20 influence over it. In the past, it was the mother tongue 21 who controlled the future of the language. Now, indeed for the last few decades, the mother tongue users are in a significant 22 . This means that the character of the language could well 23 with new words, new rhythms, and new pronunciations. It isn’t going to be British and American English anymore- that’s 24 . All over the world education authorities are struggling to find the resou
A. as a result
B. as a rule
C. in addition
D. in fact