It is high time he ______ （在这个大选年履行早先的承诺).

It seems to he high time that this argument______ to an end.

A．will put

B．was put

C．put

D．have been put

If a ruler follows other authors suggestion, he might______.

A．try his best to be a good egg all the time

B．understand the importance of an authoritative statement

C．try to gain great fame and high prestige

D．know when to be kind and when to be cruel

What made Joseph give up his dream of buying the Lego Death Star？

A．The extremely high price of the toy.

B．The denying attitude of the father.

C．The time he needs to save up the money.

D．The change of his focus of interest.

All the following sentences indicate a subjunctive mood EXCEPT

A．Jack wishes that he had studied business in university.

B．I think it"s high time that she made up her mind.

C．I had finished my homework when he called me.

D．Take your raincoat in case it rain.

听力原文： Mrs. Jones was very fond of singing. She had a very good voice, except that some of her high notes tended to sound like a gate which someone had forgotten to oil. Mrs. Jones was very conscious of this weakness, and took every opportunity she could find to practice these high notes. As she lived in a small house, where she could not practice without disturbing the rest of the family, she usually went for long walks along the country roads whenever she had time, and practiced her high notes there. Whenever she heard a car or a person coming a long the road, she stopped and waited until she could no longer be heard before she started practicing again, because she was a shy person, and because she was sensitive about those high notes.

One afternoon, however, a fast open car came behind her so silently that she did not hear it until it was only a few yards away from her. She was singing some of her highest and most difficult notes at the time. As the car passed her, she saw an anxious expression suddenly come over its driver's face. He put his brakes on violently, and as soon as the car stopped, he jumped out and began to examine all his tyros carefully.

Mrs. Jones dared not tell him what the noise he had heard had really been, so he got back into his car, and drove off, as puzzled as he had been when he stopped.

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A．Taking notes.

B．Oiling the gate.

C．Singing high notes.

D．Overcoming her weakness.

died for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns, The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do other violent attacks. Murder, moreover, is more than seasonal, it is a weekend crime. It is also a night-crime 62 percent of murders are committed(干，犯) between 6 p. m. and 6 Am.

Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, robbing has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2am. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. The month with least crimes of all is in May except for one strange fact. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.

Clearly our seasonal cycles of knowledge are completely different from our tendencies for crimes. Professor Huntington made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings and get highest results on examinations. In all cases, he found a spring high and autumn high separated by a summer low.

Possibly, high temperature and high humidity(湿度)cause our strange and violent summer actions, but police officials are not sure. "There is, of course, no proof of a connection between humidity and murder," they say," Why murder's high time should come in the summer time we really don't know."

A good title of the passage would be ______.

A．Crime Cycles

B．Summer Crimes

C．A Time for Murder

D．The Most Peaceful Month

countries know the names Washington, Kennedy and so on. However, many men who have served as president of the United States have not been famous in other parts of the world. One example is J. Q. Adams, the sixth man to serve as U.S. president.

Very little happened while Adams was president. It was an unhappy time for him, and he wasn't very effective, when his term ended, he went back to the Congress and served as a representative (众议院议员). White he was in Congress, people began to respect him more than they had done while he was president. Adams was strongly against slavery and tried to outlaw it in Washington D. C. People began to look hack on his presidency with a different view. Now they saw that he was an independent man with high ideal who loved his country and hated slavery. Adams died in 1848 while speaking in the House of Representative.

When Adams served as the sixth U.S. president, ______.

A．his people didn't regard him as a great man

B．he tried a lot of means to get rid of slavery

C．his high ideal made an impression on American people

D．he did a lot of things against laws

first time in his life. He's never been in trouble until this point, but now he faces first-degree murder. In shackles, showing no emotion, Mclean stands up. "This is an interesting case. It's all I can say." Interesting but most of all tragic for those involved, Mclean's mother wipes away tears. Her son will remain behind bars from now. "During the headlights, just sitting and stunt, in sigh. He really doesn't comprehend what's happening right now." Defensive attorney Bruce Parkston could lay out the case as a crime of passion. Jason's family says Erin Mclean, an intern-teacher at West High, was having an affair, an affair with Senior Shean Paul, a student at West High. Police say Mclean shot Paul in the head as he sat inside a vehicle outside Mclean's home.

Why Mclean killed Shean Paul？

A．Paul was not polite to him.

B．Paul had an affair with his wife.

C．Mclean found Paul was stealing his car.

D．Paul killed his wife Erin Mclean.

f building upwards, that is to say, of accommodating a considerable proportion of its population in high blocks of flats. It is said that the English man objects to this type of existence, but if the case is such, he does in face differ from the inhabitants of most countries of the world today. In the past our own blocks of flats have been associated with the lower-income groups and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot water supply, electrically operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as such details, important notwithstanding (然而), as easy facilities for disposal of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages in the ground floor, playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washing. It is likely that the dispute regarding flats versus (对，对抗) individual houses will continue to rage on for a long time as far as Britain is concerned. And it is unfortunate that there should be hot feelings on both sides whenever this subject is raised. Those who oppose the building of flats base their case primarily on the assumption (设想) that everyone prefers an individual home and garden and on the high cost per unit of accommodation. The latter ignores the higher cost of providing full services to a scattered community and the cost in both money and time of the journeys to work for the suburban resident.

We can infer from the passage that ______.

A．English people like most people in other countries, dislike living in flats

B．people in most countries of the world today are not opposed to living in flats

C．people in Britain are forced to move into high blocks of flats

D．modem flats still fail to provide the necessary facilities for living

听力原文： Washington Irving was America's first man of letters to be known internationally. His works were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in either country, delighting a large general public and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the US.

The respect with which he was held was partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his gracious manners, his pleasant spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New. Thackeray described Irving as "a gentleman, who, though himself born in a very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty, socially the equal of the most refined Europeans." In England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford—an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation— and he received the medal of the Royal Society of literature; America made him ambassador to Spain.

Irving's background provides little to explain his literary achievements. A gifted but delicate child, he had little formal schooling. He Studied law, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously. He was immune to his strict Presbyterian home environment, frequenting both social gatherings and the theatre.

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A．Harvard University.

B．Oxford University.

C．Cambridge University.

D．Yale University.