When I reached London, it had one of
the thickest fogs in years. I could hardly see my hand in front of my face; cars
and houses ran very slowly with their lights on. When evening fell (落下;下降), it
got worse (更坏的,更差的).All traffic (交通) came (来,出现) to stop. Because I had an
important meeting on the other side of Lon-don, I had to walk. Minutes later (后来,过一会儿), I was lost. Then I heard a young woman’ s voice (声音,发言权) out of the fog. "I think you are lost. Can I help you " I could hardly see her, but I was very glad to find another person out in the fog. I told her where I wanted to go and she said she knew very well how to get there. When I walked after her through the streets, I said "How can you find the way so easily (容易地) " "I know this part of London very well," she answered. "But in so thick (厚的,浓的) a fog it’s hard to see anything," I said. [单项选择]I stopped () in London when I realised it was time for me to move on.
A. live B. lived C. to live D. living [单项选择]Miguel knocked on one of the doors. When no one answered, he pushed the door open. He immediately realized his mistake. He’d blundered into another dressing room. Miguel knew he should leave the room immediately, but he couldn’t help staring at the guy in the room. He seemed to be taking to himself. No one in the room was talking back. Yet there was someone else there. A girl. Most of her was hidden behind the speaker’s broad-shouldered body. Miguel saw a flash of slender hands reaching up, fussing with the front of the guy’s light brown hair.
"Glenn, hold still!" the girl’s voice suddenly cut through the speaker’s monologue, "If you don’t stop wriggling. I might burn you with this curling iron!" Miguel’s blood turned to boiling acid. Leanna! She hadn’t wasted any time getting a new boyfriend. Miguel had to see what this loser looked like. "Excuse me," Miguel said, walking toward the couple. "Can you tell me the supply closet" "This isn’t the supply closet," Gle A. honesty, diligence and the same color in skin B. sense of humor and his family C. honesty and his money D. broad and profound knowledge [单项选择] Radio and cinema had one novelty in common: they were forms of communication which dispensed with the written word. The written word had gone hand in hand with civilization from the beginning. Now, theoretically, an illiterate could be as well-informed about the world as the best-read man. Reading might have been expected to decline as a result, but this did not happen. Perhaps the habit was too inbred. Besides, primary education, now almost universal in Europe, made literacy also universal, which had greatly increased their circulation during the First World War, continued to do so after it. In Great Britain, which carried the process furthest, the press by 1930 ranked twelfth among British industries, ahead of shipbuilding. Newspapers now counted their readers by millions where they had previously counted their readers by thousands. They had bigger headlines, shorter paragraphs, simpler writing. They derived their incomes mainly from advertisements, not from the halfpennies or pe
A. said they were broad-minded B. were afraid of new tendencies C. did such useful and progressive jobs D. threatened modern artists and art form such as films 我来回答: 提交
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