He spoke English so well that I took it ______ that he was an American.A.for grantedB.as t
He spoke English so well that I took it ______ that he was an American.
A.for granted
B.as true
C.for certain
D.as such
He spoke English so well that I took it ______ that he was an American.
A.for granted
B.as true
C.for certain
D.as such
Sixteen-year-old Maria was waiting in line at the airport in Santo Domingo. She was leaving her native country to join her sister in the United States. She spoke English very well. Though she was very happy she could go abroad, she was feeling sad at leaving her family and friends.
As she was thinking all about this, she suddenly heard the airline employee asking her to pick up her luggage and put it on the scales (称).
Maria pulled and pulled. The bag was too heavy and she just couldn't lift it up. The man behind her got very impatient. He, too, was waiting to check in his luggage.
"What's wrong with this girl?" He said, "Why doesn't she hurry up?" He moved forward and placed his bag on the counter, hoping to check in first.
He was in a hurry to get a good seat.Maria was very angry, but she was very polite. And in her best English she said, "Why are you so upset? There are enough seats for everyone on the plane. If you are in such a hurry, why can't you give me a hand with my luggage?"
The man was surprised to hear Maria speak English. He quickly picked up her luggage and stepped back. Everyone was looking at him with disapproval.
1. Maria's story happened on her way back to Santo Domingo.
A: T B: F
2. You believe that the work of the airline employee mentioned in the story is to check people's luggage at the airport.
A: T B: F
3. "Why are you so upset?" Maria said to the man. She wanted to tell him that he should not be unhappy and worried.
A: T B: F
4. "Everyone was looking at him with disapproval."This sentence means that the people around felt sorry for Maria's manners.
A: T B: F
5. The author mentioned Maria's age at the beginning of the story in order to show that she was young but behaved properly.
A: T B: F
A.as
B.while
C.if
D.since
In the fall of 1924 Thomas Wolfe, fresh from his courses in play writing at Harvard joined the eight or
ten of us who were teaching English composition in New York University. I had never before seen a man
so tall as he, and so ugly. I pitied him and went out of my way to help him with his work and make him
feel at home.
His students soon let me know that he had no need of my protectiveness. They spoke of his ability to
explain a poem in such a manner as to have them shouting with laughter or struggling to keep back
their tears, of his readiness to quote in detail from any poet they could name.
Indeed, his students made so much of his power of observation that I decided to make a little test and
see for myself. My chance came one morning when the students were slowly gathering for nine o‘clock
classes.
Upon arriving at the university that day, I found Wolfe alone in the large room which served all the
English composition teachers as an office. He did not say anything when I asked him to come
with me out into the hall, and he only smiled when we reached a classroom door and I told him
to enter alone and look around.
He stepped in, remained no more than thirty seconds and then came out. “Tell me what you see.”
I said as I took his place in the room, leaving him in the hall with his back to the door. Without the
least hesitation and without a single error, he gave the number of seats in the room, pointed out
those which were taken by boys and those occupied by girls, named the colors each student was
wearing, pointed out the Latin verb written on the blackboard, spoke of the chalk marks which the
cleaner had failed to wash from the floor, and pictured in detail the view of Washington Square from
the window.
As I rejoined Wolfe, I was speechless with surprise. He, on the contrary, was wholly calm as he
said, “The worst thing about it is that I‘ll remember it all.”
What is the passage mainly discussing?
A. Thomas Wolfe‘s teaching work.
B. Thomas Wolfe‘s course in playwriting.
C. Thomas Wolfe‘s ability of explaining.
D. Thomas Wolfe‘s genius.
(56)
A.hot
B.warm
C.cool
D.heated
He spoke so quickly that I didn' t ______ what he said.
A.receive
B.accept
C.listen
D.catch
He spoke so quickly that I did not ______ what he said
B.catch
C.accept
D.take
E.listen
A.make over
B.make out
C.make for
D.make sure
The teacher spoke so fast that it was hard for the students to ______ what he was saying.
A.take in
B.take out
C.take up
D.take over
He spoke so quickly that I didn’t _____ what he said.
A.receive
B.accept
C.listen
D.catch