[单项选择]Why were they worrying all the evening [A] Because they were afraid that someone might steal their paintings. [B] Because they didn’t know who to thank for the tickets. [C] Because the streets were wet and it was dangerous to drive.

[单项选择]Why were the couple detained
A. Because of gem theft.
B. Because of robbery.
C. Because they are spy.
D. Because of money cheating.

[填空题]Why did Ann think she would be frightened
Because she ______ of being in high places.

[单项选择]Why were the three on hunger strike
A. They were beaten up by the police guard.
B. They were not given enough food to eat.
C. They were put in solitary confinement.
D. They were charged without any evidence.

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There were many reasons why the whole character of the twentieth century should be very different from that of the nineteenth. The great wave of vitality and national expansions, which, during the Victorian Period, swept both England and America to a high wa-ter-mark of national prosperity, left in its ebb a highly developed industrial civilization and a clear path of all the currents of scientific and mechanistic thought which were to flood the new century. But literature, which had been nourished by the general vigor of the time, and not at all by the practical interests of the period, declined as the spirit itself dispersed.
The great age of groups and "movements" began. The eighteenth century poets did not call themselves classicists, nor the nineteenth century poets call themselves romanti-cists; their poetic coloring was simply the quality of their whole response to the whole of life. But the literary history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent
A. growth.
B. warfare.
C. depression.
D. literary corruption.

[填空题]Why is it necessary for glass to cool slowly Because this would ___________.

[单项选择]Why were people hurrying to the shoes department [A] The shoes and boots were sold at reduced prices. [B] There was a greater variety of shoes and boots than usual. [C] The colors of the shoes and boots were very attractive (吸引人的，迷人的).

[单项选择]Why is John interested in the hamburgers [A] Because they are hot. [B] Because they are ready-made. [C] Because they are made by the microwave.

[单项选择]Why were these Chinese sorely needed at this time
A. The work was strenuous.
B. The work was dangerous.
C. The railroad company couldn’ t find other laborers for the job.
D. All of the above.

[单项选择]Why were female cats usually employed by the Post Office
A. They could work for 24 hours a day.
B. They were worse hunters.
C. They were more persistent hunters.
D. They worked the whole night.

[填空题]Why were the Americans in 1910 thinner than today Because they worked __________________________ physically.

[单项选择]Why were cars consider the problem in colonial towns （　）.
A. Carts scared the pigs away
B. Carts injured a large number of people
C. Carts often moved too slowly
D. Carts broke down too easily

[填空题]Why did Mr. Zhao Qiang write to Mr. Green Because he wanted to _____________________.

[填空题]Why couldn’’t the traveler get near the fire Because the room was very ( ).

[单项选择]Why did all the other residents agree to move
A. Because they could move into new flats with more rooms than their old ones.
B. Because they liked to move into new flats.
C. Because they could move into new flats not far from their old homes.