[单项选择]Two years ______ passed already.
A. has
B. have
C. are

[单项选择]Nearly two thousand years have passed since a
census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part
of the greatest story every told. Many things have
Line changed in the intervening years. The hotel indus-
(5) try worries more about overbuilding than over-
crowding, and if they had to meet an unexpected
influx, few inns would have a manger to accom-
modate the weary guests. Now it is the census
taker that does the traveling in the fond hope that
(10) a highly mobile population will stay put long
enough to get a good sampling. Methods of gath-
ering, recording, and evaluating information have
presumably been improved a great deal. And
where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to
(15) obtain a simple head count as an adequate basis
for levying taxes, now batteries of complicated
statistical series furnished by governmental agen-

A. a journal of biblical studies
B. an introductory college textbook on statistics
C. the annual report of the American Statistical Association
D. a newspaper review of a recent professional festivity
E. (E) the current bulletin of the census bureau

[单项选择]Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of the greatest story ever told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry worries more about overbuilding than overcrowding, and if they had to meet an unexpected influx, few inns would have a manger to accommodate the weary guests. Now it is the census taker that does the traveling in the fond hope that a highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get a good sampling. Methods of gathering, recording, and evaluating information have presumably been improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to obtain a simple head count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now batteries of complicated statistical series furnished by governmental agencies and private organizations are eagerly scanned and interpreted by sages and seers to get a clue to future events. The Bible does not tell us how the Roman census takers made out, and as regar
A. mobility
B. wealth
C. population
D. census takers

[单项选择]Two years had passed and I found she had ______.
A. a little white hair
B. much white hair
C. some white hair
D. a few white hairs

[单项选择]A) She passed away years ago. C) She has been working at a clinic.
B) She used to work as a model. D) She has been seriously ill for years.

[单项选择]Fifteen years have passed since we graduated from the middle school.I have found she has（）
A. some white hair
B. much white hair
C. a few white hairs
D. a little white hair

[填空题]Tens and thousands of years passed before wheels were used to make a vehicle.

[单项选择]Though eight years have passed, I still remember（）to Mr. Ma during my visit there.
A. introducing
B. being introduced
C. to be introduced
D. introduced