[单选题]The new colleague__________ to have worked in several big corporations before he joined our company.
A.confesses
B.declares
C.claims
D.confirms

[单选题]Bilateral relations have entered a new stage of development both in terms of_____and breadth.
A.profundity
B.dimension
C.implication
D.innovation

[单选题]The older New England villages have changed relatively little ___________ a gas station or two in recent decades.
A.except for
B.except
C.in addition
D.besides

[单选题]The new large passenger jets have made the traffic problems at airports_______．
A.more bad than it was
B.the worse than before
C.worse than ever before
D.more bad than they were

[单选题]When you do something new exciting，you have________.
A.a symbol
B.an adventure
C.a job
D.a trip

[单选题]--Have you moved into the new house? --Not yet．The room__.
A.is being painted
B.are painting
C.are painted
D.are being painted

[单选题]Brunel worked only on shipping, bridge-building and railway construction.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned

[单选题]Only those who worked here for more than five years are eligibie for the special payment.
A.encouraged
B.enforced
C.expected
D.entitled

[单选题]Tom had once worked in a city office in London,but now he is out of work.He had a large family?to support,so he often found himself in difficulty.He often visited Mr.White on Sundays,told him about?his troubles,and asked for two or three pounds. Mr.White,a man with a kind heart,found it difficult to refuse the money,though he himself?was poor.Tom had already received more than thirty pounds from Mr.White,but he always seemed?to be in need of some more. One day,after telling Mr.White a long story of his troubles,Tom asked for five pounds. Mr.White had heard this sort of thing before,but he listened patiently to the end.Then he?said,"I understand your difficulties,Tom.I′d like to help you.But I′m not going to give you five?pounds this time.I′11 lend you the money,and you can pay me off next time you see me." Tom took the money,but he never appeared again. Mr.White decided to lend,not to give Tom five pounds in order to__《》（）
A.encourage him to come again
B.get all his money back
C.get rid of him
D.thank him for his stories

[单选题]Mr. Joe has worked very hard in the past two years and has paid all his debts （ ）the last penny.
A.by
B.to
C.until
D.with

[单选题]Had he worked harder,he__the exams.
A.must have got through
B.would have got through
C.would get through
D.could get through

[单选题]If he had worked harder at his lessons, he___________able to pass the college entrance examination now.
A.will be
B.would be
C.has been
D.would have been

[单选题]Last year, 33 percent of the____worked in secondary industries and 48 percent worked in the tertiary sector.
A.populate
B.population
C.popularize
D.popular

[单选题]Family members worked hard__________sure that they had enough food.
A.making
B.make
C.made
D.to make

[单选题]It was just at the moment __________he worked out the problem that he had long been puzzled about.
A.since
B.Which
C.because
D.that

[单选题]The harder they worked,____________．
A.they seemed to do less
B.the less they seemed to do
C.they were doing less
D.they did less