After （ ）seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager’s office.

A.that B.it C.what D.there

He knows little of mathematics, and （ ）of chemistry.

A.even more B.still less C.no less D.still more

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I am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we would prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. I have managed to convince myself that if it weren't for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village buried in the county. But how realistic is the dream?Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population lives in massive tower blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a community tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your window is sky, or other blocks of flats. Children become aggressive and nervous-cooped up at home all day, with nowhere to play; their mothers feel isolated from the rest of the world. Strangely enough,

The girl tried many times to sneak across the border to a neighboring country, （ ）each time.

A.having been caught B.always being caught C.had been caught D.only to be caught

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Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by scientists but their form and function, their structures and appearance, were determined by technologists, artisans, designers, inventors and engineers using nonscientific modes of thought.Tillie Olsen's fiction and essays have been widely and rightly acknowledged as major contributions to American literature, and her work has been particularly valued by contemporary feminists.That sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted.Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they knew little, to cure diseases of which they knew less, in human beings of whom they knew nothing.This was the dilemma of the rotten ruling class whose ideology had been discredited and whose power rested on lies and brute force.Being born female and black were two handicaps Gwendolyn Brooks states that she faced from her birth, in 1917, in Kansas.When he catches a glimpse of a potential antagonist, his instinct is to win him over with charm and humor.We must cheek the conclusion in practice, and should not blindly rely on such as was reached merely by calculation.She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door.Americans who would be patriots must try to learn what it is that they have in common, what it is in the public that is worth cherishing and preserving; until they know that, their patriotism will have no more content than a bright, loud afternoon parade.

The reason why James Bond movies are (A) so popular is (B) because (C) they combine the appeal of traditional spy (D) stories with the appeal of technological devices.