[单项选择]（　）, the amount left in my pocket is little.
A. Having paid my taxes
B. Paying my taxes
C. My taxes having been paid
D. My taxes have been paid

[单项选择]（）, the amount left in the bank is hardly worth mentioning.
A. Having paid my taxes
B. Paying my taxes
C. My taxes having been paid
D. My taxes had been paid

[单项选择]Passage 2 One evening I went out and left my 17-year-old son in charge of his 8-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister. On this occasion, the chore was made less troublesome by the presence of his girlfriend. I left with complete confidence that the older children would do a wonderful job of babysitting the younger children and the younger children would do a wonderful job of accompanying the older ones. Later, I discovered that complete confidence was the last thing I should have left home with. I had decided to return home earlier than planned so that my son and his girlfriend could go out. I called home with this happy news. But instead of hearing his cheerful, grateful voice on the other end of the line, all I heard was the sound of a telephone ringing. It was, I should point out, after 10 p.m., when the two younger children should have been in bed, and when the two older children should have been answering the phone. “I’ll give him a lesson,” I said. I decided they
A. she knew that his girlfriend was a good baby-sitter
B. she could not find a baby-sitter on that winter night
C. the older children and the younger ones would get along well
D. she believed he was old enough to take care of the younger ones

[单项选择]I have left my watch in the living-room. Would you please （　） it for me
A. take
B. bring
C. to carry
D. fetch

[单项选择]—Why did you go back to the shop—I left my friend （） there.
A. waiting
B. to wait
C. wait
D. waits

[单项选择]I left my pen on the desk and now it's gone; who （　） it
A. took
B. has taken
C. will take
D. had taken

[单项选择]Passage Two Even before my father left us, my mother had to go back to work to support our family. Once I came out of the kitchen, complaining, “Mom, I can’t peel potatoes. I have only one hand.” Mom never looked up from sewing. “You get.yourself into that kitchen and peel those potatoes,” she told me. “And don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!” In the second grade, our teacher lined up my class on the playground and had each of us race across the monkey bars, swinging from one high steel rod to the next. When it was my turn, I shook my head. Some kids behind me laughed, and I went home crying. That night I told Mom about it. She hugged me, and I saw her “we’ll see about that” look. The next afternoon, she took me back to school. At the deserted playground, Mom looked carefully at the bars. “Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She stood by as I struggled to lift myself with my right hand until I could hook the bar with my other elbow.
A. Cruel.
B. Serious.
C. Strict.
D. Cold.

[单项选择]Where is my key I forgot ______ it in my pocket when I locked the bike.


A. to put
B. putting
C. put

[填空题]–Where is my pocket computer - _____.

[单项选择]I arrived at the shop______to find I'd left all my money at home.
A. only
B. just
C. hence
D. thus

[单项选择]Danny left this ______ message on my answering machine: "I must see you. Meet me at twelve o'clock." Did he mean noon or midnight
A. ambiguous
B. responsible
C. implicit
D. thoughtful