[单项选择]The heavy rain and floods were responsible for all of thc following except ______.
A. displacement of people
B. transit stoppage
C. serious injuries
D. airport delays

[单项选择]The heavy rain and floods were responsible for all of the following except
A. displacement of people
B. transit stoppage
C. serious injuries
D. airport delays

[单项选择]They were completely （） by the heavy rain.
A. drenched
B. drowned
C. parched
D. merged

[填空题]All flights (delay)（）because of the heavy rain, they had to cancel the arrangement.

[单项选择]After the heavy rain, a builder was called to repair the roof, which was______.
A. leaking
B. trickling
C. dripping
D. floating

[单项选择]（　） the heavy rain, we might have arrived there at midday.
A. If it were not for
B. Hadn’t it been for
C. Had it not been for
D. But with

[单项选择]Because of heavy rain, the sports meet will be ______until next week.
A. postponed
B. pulled
C. cancelled
D. pushed

[单项选择]

M: It was a heavy rain last night, wasn’t it
W: It certainly was. The wind broke several windows. I’ll have to pay for a lot of glass. What weather !
M: Do you remember the small garden in front of my house
W: Yes, that beautiful garden with so many roses. What happened
M: Many flowers were damaged by the rain.
W: Really What a big loss!
M: My mother felt very sad at the sight of it.
W: Will you plant more next year
M: Maybe. But we want to plant some pine trees there.
W. Then I will see another lovely garden next year.
M: With some pine trees.

What will the woman pay for（　）.
A. Garden.
B. Wind.
C. Glass.
D. Roses.

[填空题]There was a heavy rain last night．
It ______ heavily last night．

[单项选择]We were all there when the accident occurred.
A. happened
B. broke
C. spread
D. appeared

[填空题]

If good intentions and good ideas were all it took to save the deteriorating atmosphere, the planet’s fragile layer of air would be as good as fixed. The two great dangers threatening the blanket of gases that nurtures and protects life on earth-global warming and the thinning ozone layer--have been identified. Better yet, scientists and policymakers have come up with effective though expensive countermeasures.
(2)
41._________________.
(3) CFCs-first fingered as dangerous in the 1970s by Sherwood Rowland and Mario M01ina, two of this year’s Nobel-prizewinning chemists--have been widely used for refrigeration and other purposes.
(4) If uncontrolled, the CFC assault on the ozone layer could increase the amount of hazardous solar ultraviolet light that reaches the earth’s surface, which would, among other things, damage crops and bring disasters to environment.
(5) Thanks to a sense of urgency triggered by the 1985 detection