[单项选择]Britain is proud of her great poets and dramatists,（）Italy is proud of her painters and sculptors, and Germany of her composers.
A. so that
B. just so
C. just as
D. so as

[单项选择]Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of______
A. Piers Plowman
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales

[简答题]The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome (it was before the time of railways) and on a bad piece of road south of Siena they had broken down, and had been forced to pass the night in a little house by the road-side. The accommodation was wretched of course; she had spent a sleepless night, and rising early had stood, wrapped up, at her window, with the cool air blowing on her face, to watch the dawn. She could still, after all these years, remember the blue mountains with the bright moon above them, and how a far-off town on one of the peaks had gradually grown whiter and whiter, till the moon faded, the mountains were touched with the pink of the rising sun, and suddenly the town was lit as by an illumination, one window after another catching and reflecting

[单项选择]（　） she has made great progress, her Chinese is still poor.
A. Even if
B. If
C. No matter
D. When

[填空题]She (proud)（）herself on her skill as gardener.

[单项选择]She was extremely lucky; when her great-uncle died, she（）a fortune.
A. came by
B. came over
C. came into
D. came about

[填空题]Ellen was pleased to hear people praise her great tan skin.

[填空题]Jane performs her office duties with great (efficient) ______.

[单项选择]Her great dream of becoming a writer has finally become __________
A. practice
B. event
C. duty
D. reality

[填空题]I admire her achievements a great deal, but as a person I loathe her.
Much ______.

[填空题]Her (ambitious) ______ was to be a great actress.

[单项选择]Her address made a great impression ______ the audience.
A. at
B. of
C. in
D. on

[填空题]Her(ill) __________ has caused great anxiety in the family.

[填空题]Her (ill) ______ has caused great anxiety in the family.