[填空题]When will Ms. Cao become a permanent member of staff After ______ of six months.

[单项选择]
Where were Mr. Smith’s children when the storm started

[填空题]What will Ms. Cao be expected to do before she starts her work as a clerk To undergo ______ in two different offices of the company.

[单项选择]Junichiro Koizumi thought（）to become a permanent member of the UN.
A. there was no opportunity for Japan
B. it was not difficult for Japan
C. it was Japan’s business
D. there should be a reform in UN Security Council to get Japan

[单项选择]He could hardly （　） his temper when he saw the state of his office.
A. hold in
B. hold up
C. hold off
D. hold out

[单项选择]When people print a stamp, any error made on a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.
More than one hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean, the mistake was made. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer—Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.
Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius’s Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the design for the stamps.
He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the several hundred stamps that be printed.
Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left—fourteen One Penny Orange-Reds and twelve Two Penny Blues. Because of the Two Penny Blues’ rareness and age, collectors h
A. was an independent country
B. was a small island in the Pacific Ocean
C. belonged to India
D. was one of the British colonies

[单项选择]When a member of an ethnic minority group acquires the behavior patterns, lifestyles, values, and language of the mainstream culture we say that he or she has become culturally assimilated. Since the dominant group controls most of the social, economic, and political institutions in a society, members of ethnic minority groups must acquire its cultural traits to move up the social and economic ladder. When studying this concept, it is important to learn that although non-White ethnic minorities may become totally assimilated culturally, they will still be victims of discrimination and racism because of their different physical characteristics.
A widespread myth is that Mexican Americans and Afro-Americans experience discrimination because they often have meager educations and live in ghettos. Even though it is true that many Blacks and Mexican Americans are members of the lower socioeconomic classes, and that all lower-class individuals are treated differently than middle-a
A. still treated unfairly
B. still the victims of violence
C. accepted by the dominant group
D. having better education and happier lives