[单项选择]I ______ asleep because it took me a long time to realize that the telephone was ringing.
A. could have fallen
B. should have fallen
C. must have fallen
D. mustn’t have fallen

[单项选择]It took me a long time to（）the disappointment of losing the match.
A. get through
B. get off
C. get over
D. get down

[填空题]It took a long time for Shanghai to realize industrialization and urbanization.

[单项选择]Mary and John took a long time in saying good night in order to postpone the ______ of parting.
A. jealousy
B. relief
C. anguish
D. appreciation

[填空题]It took a long time to arrive at Green Park.

[单项选择]It took us a long time to mend the house.
A. build
B. destroy
C. design
D. repair

[单项选择]It took them a long time to（）the fire because of the strong wind.
A. put off
B. take off
C. put out
D. take out

[填空题]Clocks through Time
It took human being a long time to invent diverse ways for telling time. About
3000 years ago people first made a circle with a stick in tile center of it to (1) [1] ______
______ the passage of time by noticing various marks on the circle the shadow of
the stick fell across.
Since these kinds of circles that are called (2) ______ did not work without [2] ______
the sun, men had to find other ways to keep track of time, including a (3) ______ [3] ______
candle on which each stripe took about one hour to melt, a water clock which had a
line with a number beside it for every hour and an (4) ______ which followed tile [4] ______
invention of glass blowing.
The first clock with a face and an hour hand was invented about 600 years ago
for few people. With the gradually (5) ______ use of clocks, they were beautiful- [5] ______
ly (6) ______, though they could not keep correct time. S