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W: Tom’s been looking after his mother in the hospital. She got injured in a car accident two weeks ago and still in a critical condition.
M: Oh, that’s terrible. And you know his father passed away last year.

What can we know about Tom（）
A. He nearly died in a car accident.
B. He lost his brother a couple of weeks ago.
C. He has been having a difficult time.

[填空题]Half a year after his 60th birthday, Forbes had his prostate and lymph nodes removed and his bladder to his urethra reattached(尿道).

[填空题]His services have been ______ by his employers, they have not properly rewarded him. (look)

[单项选择]It was 1985, and Rafe Esquith was beginning his third year of teaching in Los Angeles public schools. He faced a class of 40 sixth-graders from low-income homes where English rarely was spoken, and the best reader among them was two years below grade level.
So, what the beck, he decided to teach them Shakespeare.
Five families agreed to let their children play "Macbeth" for two hours after school. This proved to be so much fun that, within weeks, Esquith had 28 kids happily soaking up the drama of blood and betrayal in medieval Scotland. They were learning many words they had never heard before.
But when Esquith asked a school district supervisor for official approval, he received this note: " Mr. Esquith, it is not appropriate that you stay after school to teach Shakespeare. It would be better if you did something with the children that is academic. "
It would not be the last time that the narrow thinking of bigcity school administration got in Esquith’s way. Yet t
A. enjoyed the traditional teaching better
B. were mainly from immigrant families
C. had relatively lower intelligence level
D. refused to cooperate with the new teacher

[单项选择]The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by modem living conditions.
This important change in women’s life-pattern has only rece
A. would be healthy enough to take up paid jobs
B. was usually expected to die fairly soon
C. would expect to work until she died
D. was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one