[单项选择]It will take us twenty minutes to get to the railway station,（）traffic delays.
A. acknowledging
B. affording
C. allowing for
D. accounting for

[单项选择]It will take us twenty minutes to get to the railway station, （）traffic delays.
A. acknowledging
B. affording
C. allowing for
D. accounting for

[填空题]It took him only twenty minutes to get the machine (run)______again.

[单项选择]Since you take a rest every twenty minutes, how can you expect to make others work for three hours without any stop（）
A. 虽然你可以每二十分钟才休息一次，但怎么才能使别人持续工作三小时不休息呢
B. 由于你二十分钟休息一次，所以不要希望别人持续工作三小时不休息吧
C. 你每二十分钟就休息一次，又怎么能指望着让别人连续工作二小时不休息呢
D. 既然你自己每二十分钟就休息一次，你再怎么希望让别人连续工作三小时不休息呢

[单项选择]A. Twenty minutes. B. Twenty-five minutes.
C. Fifty minutes. D. Fifty-five minutes.

[单项选择]A. Twenty minutes. B. Fifty minutes.
C. Half an hour. D. Eighty minutes.

[单项选择]Not all workers are trained sufficiently to get used to the new production method.
A. 所有的工人都未得到充分的培训来使用新的生产方法。
B. 并非所有的工人都得到了充分的培训来适应新的生产方法。
C. 并不是所有的工人都得到了适当的培训来习惯新的生产方法。
D. 工人们都接受了培训，但却并未充分掌握新的生产方法的使用。

[填空题]For years, youth sports pushers tried to get us hooked: organized sports, they said, offered a natural high and would build character in our children. (71) But there are high-functioning cokeheads, too. Like every American, I have close friends whose families struggle with a youth sports addiction. So let’s talk about the dark side of the youth sports epidemic.
First off, when they’re spending every spare second at soccer practice, children lose that crucial downtime they need for exercising their imaginations, as well as their limbs. And Dr. Lenny Wiersma, co-director of tile Center for the Advancement of Responsible Youth Sport, warns that when kids miss out on "the old sandbox and informal games," they also lose opportunities to develop peer interactions that are "organized and regulated by themselves."
(72) The Michigan study cited above also found a sixfold increase in the time children spent on "passive, spectator leisure," as more and more kids found the

[单项选择]（　） a major disaster will get us to realize that we can’t go on destroying the rain forests of the world.
A. Anything but
B. But that
C. Nothing but
D. Everything but