[单项选择]It was raining hard, but by the time class was over, the rain（）
A. had stopped
B. stopped
C. was being stopped
D. had been stopping

[单项选择][Since] it’s raining [hard] now we [had better] to put off our sports meet [till next week].
A. Since
B. hard
C. had better
D. till next week

[单项选择]Though it was raining hard, but the children practiced football on the playground.
A. Though
B. but
C. practiced
D. the

[单项选择]It’s raining hard will you give me a （）
A. ride
B. trip
C. travel

[填空题]It was raining hard outside and John was _____.

[单项选择]It’s raining hard, will you give me a______
[A] ride [B] trip [C] travel

[单项选择]City residents have a hard time trying to avoid contact with hazardous chemicals in daily life.（　）
A. dangerous
B. prevalent
C. novel
D. invasive

[单项选择]

Suzan Fellman had a hard time with Laura Bush’s redo of the famed guest quarters named for President Lincoln: "Looking at it, I thought I was in a Radisson lobby somewhere in the Midwest long ago. I could not imagine spending a night in that space."
Done up with Victorian furnishings, the Lincoln Bedroom is one of the residence’s least-changed spaces, said Betty Monkman, formerly chief curator of the White House for nearly 40 years. "It’s a quasi-museum room," she said, "with a lot of objects, such as the bed, that have symbolic importance."
The elaborately carved bed bought for Lincoln is the centerpiece of the room.
According to historian William Scale, the president was furious that his wife, Mary, spent so much money redecorating the White House during a time of war. He never slept in the bed, and the ornate piece eventually was moved to a spare room.
Los Angeles designer Fellman saw parallels, ca
A. evaluated
B. imagined
C. understood
D. praised

[单项选择]Man: I had a hard time getting through this novel.
Woman: I share your feeling. Who can remember the names of 35 different characters
Question: What does the woman imply（　）.
A. She has learned a lot from the novel.
B. She also found the plot difficult to follow.
C. She usually has difficulty remembering names.
D. She can recall the names of most characters in the novel.

[单项选择]A. Because they had had a hard time finding a parking lot.
B. Because the park was closed before they reached there.
C. Because they had jammed into a crowded parking lot there.
D. Because the park was crowded with too many people.