[填空题]A young man had a new girl friend. He invited her to go to a (11) restaurant with him one evening. They dined wonderfully and had numerous drinks; they danced until midnight. The girl enjoyed the (12) evening, and was suitably (13) by everything she saw, including several film stars. Then the waiter brought the bill at the end of the evening, and when the young man saw how much he had to pay, he was so (14) by the total that he went as white as a sheet. Watching his face, the waiter thought he might be going to (15) , so he quickly poured out a glass of ice cold water and emptied it over the young man’s head. Then he took the bill back and added to it: "Iced water: 50p".

[填空题]A young man had a new girl friend. He invited her to go to a (11) restaurant with him one evening. They dined wonderfully and had numerous drinks; they danced until midnight. The girl enjoyed the (12) evening, and was suitably (13) by everything she saw, including several film stars. Then the waiter brought the bill at the end of the evening, and when the young man saw how much he had to pay, he was so (14) by the total that he went as white as a sheet. Watching his face, the waiter thought he might be going to (15) , so he quickly poured out a glass of ice cold water and emptied it over the young man’s head. Then he took the bill back and added to it: "Iced water: 50p".

[单项选择]Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book," Uncle Tom’s Cabin". But neither she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success. (78) The publisher was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress.
But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England. For a while it outsold (销得比…多) every book in the world, except the Bible.
Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America’ s most popular play for 80 years.
(79) It might appear that" Uncle Tom’ s Cabin" was universally popular, but this was certainly not true. Many people during those pre-Civil War days—particularly defenders of the slavery system-condemned it as false propa
A. Harriet knew that it would be a great success
B. the publisher wanted Harriet to publish it at her own expense
C. nobody knew that it would become a very popular book
D. no publisher wanted to publish this anti-slavery book

[单项选择]The old man had no child so he suffered a lot from （）.
A. lonely
B. loneliness
C. along

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