[单项选择]The salesman’’s ______ annoyed the old lady, but finally she gave up.
A. endurance
B. assistance
C. persistence
D. resistance

[单项选择]The salesman’’s ______ annoyed the old lady, but finally she gave up.
A. endurance
B. assistance
C. persistence
D. resistance

[单项选择]The salesman’s （　） annoyed the old lady, but finally she gave in.
A. endurance
B. assistance
C. persistence
D. resistance

[简答题]She noticed the old lady’’s hand _________constantly during the talk.

[单项选择]It was the lady’s view that the country’s problems had been exacerbated by foreign technocrats, so to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
A. so inviting
B. so invite
C. so that to invite
D. so that inviting

[单项选择]What was the purpose of U.S. first lady’s visit
A. To promote mutual trust between the U.S. and the Islamic countries.
B. To strengthen the trading partnership between the U. S. and the Islamic countries.
C. To speculate on her future plan.
D. To obtain more political support.

[单项选择]A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for pedestrians, but she replied: ’I’m going to walk where I like. We’ve got liberty now.’ It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the pedestrian to walk down the middle of the road, then the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everybody would be getting in everybody else’s way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.There is a danger of the world getting liberty-drunk in these days like the old lady with the basket, and it is just as well to remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means. It means that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the policeman,say, at Piccadilly Circus steps into the middle of the road and puts out h
A. do not walk in the middle of the road
B. follow the orders of policemen
C. do not behave inconsiderately in public
D. do what you like in private

[填空题]The old lady was greatly relieved to find her son coming back from the war safe and sound.
(relief) ____________________.

[单项选择]

Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking(搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming dark ness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper. "Thank you dearie—I’m just going to Brockbourne."
Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn’t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, some thing odd, something.., dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous It was absurd.
Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with the thick black hairs... Thick black hairs Hairy arms Andrea% blood froze. This wasn’t a woman
A. the hitchhiker was an old woman
B. she was curious about the old lady
C. the lady had a heavy bag
D. she knew the old lady

[简答题]The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome (it was before the time of railways) and on a bad piece of road south of Siena they had broken down, and had been forced to pass the night in a little house by the road-side. The accommodation was wretched of course; she had spent a sleepless night, and rising early had stood, wrapped up, at her window, with the cool air blowing on her face, to watch the dawn. She could still, after all these years, remember the blue mountains with the bright moon above them, and how a far-off town on one of the peaks had gradually grown whiter and whiter, till the moon faded, the mountains were touched with the pink of the rising sun, and suddenly the town was lit as by an illumination, one window after another catching and reflecting