[单项选择]When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it______
A. breaks
B. has broken
C. were broken
D. had been broken

[单项选择]When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it（　）.
A. breaks
B. has broken
C. were broken
D. had been broken

[单项选择](Would) you mind (give) me (a glass of) water and (some) aspirin
A. Would
B. give
C. a glass of
D. some

[单项选择]Water, when boiled, always _________ steam.


A. give in
B. gives up
C. gives off
D. gives away

[单项选择]What happens when sea water touches different elements（）another subject of study.
A. are
B. is
C. have been
D. was

[填空题]The glass will _____ if you pour boiling water into it.

[填空题]When water freezes, it becomes larger instead of (small) ______ in amount of space.

[单项选择]When we walked (past) the theater, there were a lot of people (waited) (in) a long line outside the (box office).
A. past
B. waited
C. in
D. box office

[简答题].(1). When we talk about the danger of romantic love, we don’t mean danger in the obvious heartbreak way -- the cheap betrayals, the broken promises -- we mean the dark danger that lurks when sensible, educated women fall for the dogmatic idea that romantic love is the ultimate goal for the modem female. Every day, thousands of films, books, articles and TV programs hammer home this message --that without romance, life is somehow barren. However, there are women who entertain the subversive notion, like an intellectual mouse scratching behind the skirting board, that perhaps this higher love is not necessarily the celestial highway to absolute happiness. (2). Their empirical side kicks in and they observe that couples who marry_ in a haze of adoration and sex are, ten years later throwing china and fighting bitterly over who gets the dog. (3). But the women who notice these contradictions are often afraid to speak them in case they should be labelled cynics. Surely only the mos

[单项选择]When you get a minor burn, pour some cold water on it, which will help _________ the pain of the burn.


A. relieve
B. relax
C. reveal
D. release

[单项选择]Water always ______steam when boiled.
A. gives out
B. gives up
C. gives off
D. gives in

[单项选择]When a rue ______ at the National Exhibition in London, at least ten priceless paintings were completely destroyed.
A. broke off
B. broke out
C. broke down
D. broke up