[单项选择]My new glasses cost me （　） the last pair that I bought.
A. three times
B. three times as much as
C. three times as much
D. three times much as

[单项选择]My new glasses cost me______the last pair I bought.
A. three times more than that
B. three times as much as
C. as much three times as
D. as three times as much

[单项选择]My mother bought me a new pair of pants on my birthday ______ she had promised.
[A] which
[B] what
[C] with
[D] as

[单项选择]Last night, my parents brought me to the ______.
[A] the Smiths’
[B] Smith’s
[C] Smiths’

[填空题]A new shirt was bought for me by my mother for my good grades in the exam. → My mother ______ for my good grades in the exam.

[单项选择]I got a new battery for my recorder only last week, but it seems to have（）already．
A. worn out
B. run down
C. knocked off
D. gone off

[单项选择]Not until my mother told me the sad news last night did I knew that our neighbor Dr. Li was killed in a car accident the week before.（　）
A. Not until
B. the sad news
C. did I knew
D. was killed

[单项选择]The qualities of my hometown, ______ on me as a boy, had a profound effect on the philosophy that directed my career.
A. having impressed
B. impressed
C. impressing
D. to be impressed

[填空题]My boy friend prefers coffee to orange juice.
My boy friend likes ______ than orange juice.

[单项选择]

Last year, my classmate Jane and I graduated from an ordinary normal university. Like most of the students who had just stepped out of university, we had to (21) . The first tough test——job hunting to (22) a passport to society. And the most (23) part was the job interview. The (24) was very fierce. Dozens of my classmates, Jane (25) , sent our resumes(简历) to a key middle school for a teaching post, making the chance of success as low as 1 to 20.
Before the job interview, I (26) through preparations, including a formal suit, a new ly-done hair, a few (27) on job interviews, and even some ancient Chinese poems (28) I encountered a learned interviewer. On that day everything went off (29) . I answered all the questions fluently. I felt very (30) . Jane was still there waiting for her turn. I made a "V" (31) to her. She smiled at me, looking a little worried. I (32) she
A. thought
B. expected
C. suggested
D. advised