[单项选择]It was the first time that such a ______ had to be taken at a British nuclear power station.
A. presentation
B. precaution
C. preparation
D. prediction

[单项选择]Last week, for the first time in many years, I had a big, shouty, stand-up row with a colleague at work. It started off quite small, as these things often do. But then he accused me of being sloppy. I accused him of trying to cover something up. The two of us stood in the middle of a large, open-plan office.
The conventional view is that rage at work is bad, as well as being mad and dangerous. A Gallup poll in the US showed that one in five office workers has been so furious with a colleague in the past six months that they would have liked to hit the other person.
But the true picture is more complicated than that. There is good rage and bad rage. Someone who gets angry all the time is impossible to work with. But for the rest of us, occasional bursts of anger, have much to be said for them.
My rage attack had two advantages. First, it was a gift to everyone else. Boring office life was briefly interrupted with a little drama. Eyes popped, and suddenly there was somethi
A. He was arguing some issues of the work with him.
B. He was irritated by his colleague’s shout at him.
C. Pie felt intolerant of him without special reasons.
D. He felt that his colleague concealed something from him.

[单项选择]This was the first time ______ I had serious trouble with my boss.
A. since B. that C. with
B. when

[单项选择]It was the first time that such a ______ had to be taken at a British nuclear power station.
A. presentation
B. precaution
C. preparation
D. prediction

[单项选择]The first time I tried shark-fin soup was at Time Warner’s annual dinner in Hong Kong. Shark-fin soup is a luxury item ($100 bowl in some restaurants)in Hong Kong and Mainland China, its biggest consumers; it’s a dish that embodies east Asia’s intertwined notions of hospitality and keeping (or losing) "face". "It’s like champagne", says Alvin Leung, owner of Bo Innovation, a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong. "You don’t open a bottle of Coke to celebrate. It’s a ritual. "
Unfortunately, this gesture of hospitality comes with a price tag much bigger than that $ 100 bowl. All told, up to 70 million sharks are killed annually for the trade, despite the fact that 30% of shark species are threatened with extinction. "Sharks have made it through multiple mass extinctions on our planet, " says Matt Rand, director of Pew’s Global Shark Conservation division. "Now many species are going to go the way of th
A. It has a price tag much bigger than $ 100 bowl.
B. It carries rich cultural meaning.
C. It tastes like champagne.
D. It is expensive for its high nutrition.

[单项选择]When did they meet the first time
A. One evening.
B. One morning.
C. In the evening.

[填空题]documents show in Britain for the first time reveal.______

[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