[填空题]The house is too（）(cost) for us to buy.

[填空题]The house is too（）(cost) for us to buy.

[填空题]The car is too ______ (cost) for us to buy.

[单项选择]Why did the man think it would cost him too much
A. Because he wanted to buy a car.
B. Because he didn’t have a good job.
C. Because their car needed repairing.

[单项选择]The changes in the city will cost us a lot of money, ______ they will save us money in the future. ( )
A. or
B. since
C. for
D. but

[简答题]19. The house they put us in was ugly,with an ugly yard and a few ugly bushes.
20. Yet our guardians’ efforts to punish us were not always effective.
21. And the clothes we wore were continually pieced;the food we ate was terrible.
22. After our parents’ death, our comfortable life came to an end and we were kept well below the poverty line by our guardians.
23. No more could they put a halt to it than they could keep us.
24. They could keep books out of our hands, restrict our communication with the neighbors’ children by penning us within a wire-net fence.
25. The passionate pleasure we got from soap bubbles, rainbows, holy pictures and spider webs was beyond our guardians’ power of prevention.
26. However, they could not stop us from using our eyes.