[单项选择]When I saw the vase in the shop window, I knew it was exactly what I （　）.
A. look for
B. am looking for
C. had been looking for
D. have looked for

[填空题]When she returned home, she found the window open and something (steal) ______

[单项选择]

M: Dave hurt his arm when he broke the window.
W: Did he feel any pain

What has happened to Dave（）
A. He’s broken his arm.
B. He’s broken a window.
C. He’s not feeling well.

[填空题]When I walked past his window, I heard him (sing) ______ the song.

[填空题]What wonderful design the vase is.

[单项选择]Why do the buyers balk at the vase
A. It’s expensive.
B. It’s hard to make.
C. It’s too small.

[单项选择]The large vase in which he kept his umbrella for many years ______ to be a valuable piece of Chinese pottery.
A. came round
B. turned up
C. turned out
D. figured out

[单项选择]A. He saw many lakes. B. He saw many mountains.
C. He saw different kinds of plants. D. He saw the flat land and even nothing for miles.

[单项选择]The flowers in the vase （）because they had no water.
A. withered
B. wrinkled
C. ripened
D. prospered

[单项选择]A. A bowl. B. A lamp. C. A vase.

[单项选择]Lisa: I’’m awfully sorry, but I broke your vase. ______. James: Nonsense, I won’’t hear of it.
A. Let me pay for it.
B. I do apologize.
C. What a beautiful vase it is.
D. It was very careless of me.

[单项选择]The vase is ______ by him.
[A] break [B] broke [C] broken

[单项选择]Who saw the man doing this

[简答题]Until recently, scientists knew little about life in the deep sea, nor had they reason to believe that it was being threatened. Now, with the benefit of technology that allows for deeper exploration, researchers have uncovered a remarkable array of species inhabiting the ocean floor at depths of more than 660 feet, or about 200 meters. At the same time, however; technology has also enabled fishermen to reach far deeper than ever before, into areas where bottom trawls can destroy in minutes what has taken nature hundreds and in some cases thousands of years to build.
Many of the world’s coral species, for example, are found at depths of more than 200 meters. It is also estimated that roughly half of the world’s highest seamounts — areas that rise from the ocean floor and are particularly rich in marine life — are also found in the deep ocean.
These deep sea ecosystems provide shelter, spawning and breeding areas for fish and other creatures, as well as protection from st

[填空题]The first time anybody knew about Dutchman Frank Siegmund and his family was when workmen tramping through a field found a narrow steel chimney protruding through the grass. Closer inspection revealed a chink of sky-light window among the thistles and when amazed investigators moved down the side of the hill they came across a pine door and a brass knocker set into an underground building. The Siegmunds had managed to live undetected for six years outside the border town of Breda, in Holland. They are the latest in a clutch of individualistic homemakers who have burrowed underground in search of tranquility.
Most, falling foul of strict building regulations, have been forced to dismantle their individualistic homes and return to more conventional lifestyles. But subterranean suburbia Dutch- style, is about to become respectable and chic. Seven luxury homes cosseted away inside a high earth-covered noise embankment next to the main Tilburg city road recently went on the market fo